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Summer Concerts: Ethnic festivals, music in a mausoleum and more

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Memorial Day weekend is one of those times that St. Louisans can expand their ethnic heritage. Check out the St. Louis County Greek Festival at Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, 1755 Des Peres Road in Town and Country. Of course it has music that you can listen to for free, as does the St. Louis African Festival at the World’s Fair Pavilion in Forest Park. Ditto the Mississippi River Irish Festival  in Frontier Park, St. Charles.

For an event that is more in keeping with Memorial Day traditions of remembering those who have died, members of the St. Louis Symphony will perform two quintets by Mozart at 3 p.m. May 24 at the mausoleum of the New Mount Sinai Cemetery, 8430 Gravois Road.

Have concerts to add? We're are looking for music series that are free and outdoors. Send the information to dkorando@stlpublicradio.org

Donna Korando started work in journalism at SIU’s Daily Egyptian in 1968. In between Carbondale and St. Louis Public Radio, she taught high school in Manitowoc, Wis., and worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She was the copy editor and letters editor for the editorial page from 1973-77. As an editorial writer from 1977-87, she covered Illinois and city politics, education, agriculture, family issues and sub-Saharan Africa. When she was editor of the Commentary Page from 1987-2003, the page won several awards from the Association of Opinion Page Editors. From 2003-07, she headed the features copy desk.