Photos: Music in the Garden in Fairbanks

The steel drum band Cold Steel Drums performs in the Georgeson Botanical Garden. Photo by Vadim Bledsoe.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer Sessions hosts the annual “Music in the Garden” in the Georgeson Botanical Garden on campus. 

People from Fairbanks and the surrounding communities turned out for the event — to sit in the Gardens and listen to the wide array of music for this weekly event. 

The event happens every Thursday until August 15.

Attendees listen to music performed by Coldsteel. Photo by Vadim Bledsoe.
A staff member with Music in the Garden operates the soundboard. Photo by Vadim Bledsoe.
Attendees listen to the performance. Photo by Vadim Bledsoe.
Cold Steel Drums drummer Sean Bledsoe plays in the back, boosting the main player’s tempo. Photo by Vadim Bledsoe.
Music in the Garden always draws a crowd to the botanical gardens. Photo by Vadim Bledsoe.
The Georgeson Botanical Garden hosts a variety of research and educational programs in subarctic horticulture as well as events such as Music in the Garden. Photo by Vadim Bledsoe.
The band “Marc Brown and the Blues Crew” performs in the Georgeson Botanical Garden for the Music in the Garden event. Photo by Vadim Bledsoe.
Attendees listen to Cold Steel Drum’s performance of Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds.” Photo by Vadim Bledsoe.
Alaska Railroad northbound coal train passes by at the end of the event. Photo by Vadim Bledsoe.
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