Free Movies, Concerts Nearly Every Night at CA's Lakefront Summer Festival

Another great summer of movies, concerts and much more is beginning with the return of Columbia Association’s (CA) annual Lakefront Summer Festival. The schedule of movies and concerts at this year’s Lakefront Summer Festival includes completely free, family friendly offerings nearly every evening of the week.

A full schedule can be found at ColumbiaAssociation.org/LakefrontFestival or at bit.ly/lakefrontfestival2015.

Movies will be screened at Lake Kittamaqundi under the stars on Mondays and Fridays, starting on June 15 through Aug. 21. Films shown on Mondays are appropriate for even young audience members, with G- and PG-rated selections such as “How to Train Your Dragon,” “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water,” “Rio,” “Finding Nemo” and “101 Dalmatians.” The Friday movies are rated PG and PG-13, with selections such as “Frozen,” “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1,” “Interstellar,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Big Hero 6” and “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.”

And then, from Aug. 22 through Sept. 12, CA will show movies every Friday and Saturday. These titles include both “Sleeping Beauty” and “Maleficent” on back-to-back nights; Disney’s classic version of “Cinderella” and Disney’s 2015 version of “Cinderella” on back-to-back nights; plus “The Avengers,” “Furious 7” and the Disneynature documentary “Monkey Kingdom.”

All showings will begin at dusk, about 8:30 p.m. Movie nights have been hosted by Tom “Mr. B” Brzezinski for the past 44 years and are sponsored by Columbia Association with a generous grant from the Columbia Film Society. Select movies are sponsored by Horseshoe Casino Baltimore.

Also, more than 40 nights of music are scheduled for Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays on almost every evening from June 16 through Aug. 16 — and for the first time, on every Sunday in September. Artists span a variety of genres. Learn more about the performers at ColumbiaAssociation.org/LakefrontFestival.

Concerts will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and at 6:30 p.m. on Sundays through Aug. 16. The Sunday concerts in September will begin at 3 p.m. Concerts are sponsored by Columbia Association, Clyde’s of Columbia and Sushi Sono, with host and entertainment coordinator Jeff Good and sound engineer Daryl Beard.

On Tuesdays from June 30 through July, come out to see talented youth musicians perform at CA’s Teen Open Mic nights. Sign-up begins at 6:45 p.m. and performances are first-come, first-served. No bands with drumsets will be allowed. For more information, please email CALakefrontFestival@gmail.com. Teen Open Mic Nights are hosted in partnership with Collision Music.

And, finally, CA’s annual “Dancing Under the People Tree” free dance lessons will be hosted every Friday from June 19 through September 11. Instruction with music will be held under the People Tree from 6:30 to 8 p.m., with Tatia Zack leading dances that are fun both for beginners and those with experience. And when the dance session ends, the movie begins. More information on that program can be found online at bit.ly/dancingpeople.

About Columbia Association

Columbia Association (CA) is a nonprofit service corporation that manages Columbia, MD, a planned community that is home to approximately 100,000 people and several thousand businesses. Additional information about CA is available at ColumbiaAssociation.org.