Labor Day weekend is always a festive, family time in Greater Cincinnati and the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra. The KSO will present three free, local outdoor concerts — Saturday through Monday evening, offering a nostalgic, participatory, and fitting close to Summer 2025 with a program dubbed: Primitive Pop – Transistor Radios to the Walkman.

Popular music didn’t become truly portable until the hand-held transistor radio in the 1960s-70s, and the Walkman in the 1980s. The KSO will celebrate these decades — and the tech of the day — with its 21-piece studio orchestra and eight vocalists authentically covering hits by Three Dog Night, Chubby Checker, Wham, Queen, The 5th Dimension, Barry Manilow, Yes, Rick James, Chicago, The Eurhythmics, The Carpenters, Percy Faith, The B52s and many more.

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