4th Fest is Pasadena’s largest city-sponsored event! Celebrate the 4th of July with us at the Pasadena Convention Center (7902 Fairmont Parkway) from 4 p.m. – 10 p.m. There will be a 20 minute long fireworks show, live music, a car show, kidzone, new attractions,  USMC Toys for Tots BBQ Cook-off, games, prizes, vendors, water balloon war zone, sports and other entertainment. If you would like to become a food or novelty vendor, please call the Parks and Recreation Department at: 713-475-7048. If you are interested in sponsoring this event, Pasadena offers great sponsor benefits. A special thanks goes out to all of our wonderful sponsors: Capital Bank, Lansdowne Moody, Sunbelt, Volunteer Pasadena, Pasadena Fire Department, Pasadena Police Department, Dairy Queen, Sage Dental, Nestle Waters, Bass and Meineke and Waste Management.

Brian Evans dreams of hearing his music on the radio; as an up and coming country music talent, this is to be expected. Oddly enough though, when he was only six, his only dream was to run a radio station.

“I used a Singalodeon karaoke machine to record shows onto cassette tapes. I arranged CD's by song tempo, wrote up transitions based on the lyrics and just started recording,” Brian recalls. “My parents and the neighbors complained a lot about the noise.”

Growing up in Deer Park, Texas, a town 20 miles south of Houston, Brian was exposed to a heavy dose of country music. Whether it was his grandfather pickin’ the guitar on Saturday mornings or his brother playing George Strait to coerce him to sleep at night, Brian came to appreciate the art of country music.