Events
Concerts
Bowling for Soup
September 22, 2026 - 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm at Val Air Ballroom
301 Ashworth Rd
Bowling For Soup are pop punk legends. Celebrating their 30th anniversary as a band, the Grammy nominated Texan four piece smashed their way into the public consciousness at the start of the millennium and have stayed there ever since. With hits like Girl All The Bad Guys Want, 1985, High School Never Ends and the Disney powered Today Is Gonna Be A Great Day (from Phineas and Ferb), there’s a good chance most people you know will know at least one “BFS” song. Their 2022 album Pop Drunk Snot Bread was hailed as their best album in 15 years, a tribute to their enduring ability to put out great songs all the way through their career.
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Des Moines Symphony Season Debut: UNITY – American Mosaic & West Side Story
September 26, 2026 - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm at Des Moines Civic Center
221 Walnut Street
| Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary in this unforgettable evening! Kevin Puts’ Heartland and Iowa’s Linda Robbins Coleman’s reflective In Good King Charles’s Golden Days set the stage for Peter Boyer’s sweeping American Mosaic, complete with historic narration and dramatic images of American life on a giant screen above the Orchestra. The Harlem Quartet brings Michael Abels’ Urban Legends to life before Bernstein’s electrifying Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. |
Des Moines Symphony Season Debut: UNITY – American Mosaic & West Side Story
September 27, 2026 - 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm at Des Moines Civic Center
221 Walnut Street
| Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary in this unforgettable evening! Kevin Puts’ Heartland and Iowa’s Linda Robbins Coleman’s reflective In Good King Charles’s Golden Days set the stage for Peter Boyer’s sweeping American Mosaic, complete with historic narration and dramatic images of American life on a giant screen above the Orchestra. The Harlem Quartet brings Michael Abels’ Urban Legends to life before Bernstein’s electrifying Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. |
Des Moines Symphony: Beautiful Monsters – John Williams & Symphonie Fantastique
November 1, 2026 - 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm at Civic Center of Greater Des Moines
221 Walnut Street
| Revel in the fantastic and magnificent over Halloween weekend. John Williams’ Devil’s Dance crackles with energy before Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain conjures supernatural frenzy. Prodigy Derek Wang dazzles with Liszt’s virtuosic Totentanz. Finally, Berlioz’s famous and feverish Symphonie Fantastique descends into hallucination and a haunting and visceral finale like no other. |
