Baton Rouge Gallery opens 2024-‘ 25 Movies & Music season on Sept. 21

Baton Rouge Gallery — center for contemporary art, 1515 Dalrymple Drive,  has announced its first two events in Movies & Music on the Lawn’s 2024-’25 season.

The series is once again presented with free admission and complimentary “bottomless” popcorn.

Since 1998, the series has engaged contemporary Louisiana-based musicians to compose and perform original scores for silent-era classic films while they’re projected on a towering inflatable screen under the stars.

The 2024-’25 series will include four events in September and October, then picking back up in the spring with April and May events inside BREC’s City-Brooks Community Park.

The series kicks off on Sept. 21 at 8 p.m. — or sundown, whichever comes last — with Baton Rouge’s own Michael Foster Project performing alongside a truly iconic comedy from the silent era of cinema, 1923’s “Safety Last!” starring Harold Lloyd.

The Michael Foster Project is the capital region’s longest-running brass band. Covering multiple genres of music, from traditional jazz to Latin, pop to hip-hop, this group has been entertaining audiences since the late ’90s.

On Oct. 26, in honor of Halloween, Movies & Music will screen the 1928 silent film that brought Edgar Allan Poe to the big screen, “The Fall of the House of Usher.”

Performing an original score alongside the film will be local metal heavyweights Woorms. The band describes itself as “extra crispy Sludge/noise rock” and have called Baton Rouge home since its beginnings in 2017.

Details on Movies & Music on the Lawn’s annual Kids Night on April 19 and the series finale on May 24 will be announced early next year.