Friday night the band SoulStrum wrapped up the final Hot Summer Nights concert of the 2022 season.
SoulStrum won the Battle of the Bands contest earlier this summer and one of the prizes was to perform at the last Hot Summer Nights.
Local artists supported the final concert of the season with an arts festival featuring mediums such as ceramics, painting, printmaking and glass ware.
Many music fans, young and old enjoyed the music and time spent at the Noel Heritage Plaza during a break in the summerlong heat.
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SoulStrum, 2022 Battle of the Bands winners, takes the stage to wrap up the final Hot Summer Nights concert of the season. (Photo Courtesy of Bobby Joe Smith)
As the sun starts to set, Weston Jordan and SoulStrum keep the music going as the crowd enjoys the sounds and the cool of the approaching evening. (Photo Courtesy of Bobby Joe Smith)
Zeke Stroope keeps the beat for SoulStrum on the final Hot Summer Nights concert for the 2022 season. (Photo Courtesy of Bobby Joe Smith)
SoulStrum guitarist and bassist Erick Van Curen holds down the groove as the 2022 Hot Summer Nights season wraps up. (Photo Courtesy of Bobby Joe Smith)
Stephen Stroope belts out the vocals Friday night at the Hot Summer Nights finale at the Noel Heritage Plaza. (Photo Courtesy of Bobby Joe Smith)
As most adults looked at the art on display at the Noel Heritage Plaza Friday night, one-year-old Aine Talley seemed happy just to be people watching. (Photo Courtesy of Bobby Joe Smith)
Two of the daughters SoulStrum bandmembers, Lille Beyers, 11, and Elisabeth Van Curen, 7, play at little Giant Jenga while waiting on the band to start. (Photo Courtesy of Bobby Joe Smith)
Two-year-old James Mathis lets the music move him Friday night at the Hot Summer Nights show at the Noel Heritage Plaza. (Photo Courtesy of Bobby Joe Smith)
SoulStrum guitarist Weston Jordan and Stephen Stroope team up on an acoustic number Friday night. (Photo Courtesy of Bobby Joe Smith)
As the sun gets lower in the sky Friday evening Brianne Wynne and Luker have a little playtime at the Noel Heritage Plaza. (Photo Courtesy of Bobby Joe Smith)
Sunlight shines through decorative circles cut from the walls of a bowl during an art festival hosted in part with Hot Summer Nights Friday evening at Noël Heritage Plaza. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)
Paige McGuire, left, talks to her daughter Isla, 2, before the start of Hot Summer Nights Friday evening at Noël Heritage Plaza. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)
Nayeli Bracamontes, left, talks with Mike Giroir, center, and Sherrie Keating as they browse stalls at an art festival hosted in part with Hot Summer Nights Friday evening at Noël Heritage Plaza. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)
People mill around an art festival hosted in part with Hot Summer Nights Friday evening at Noël Heritage Plaza. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)
Odessa College ceramics student Nathaniel Jordan, left, talks to Raymond Haynie during an art festival hosted in part with Hot Summer Nights Friday evening at Noël Heritage Plaza. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)
West Texans listen to a performance by Battle of the Bands champions Soulstrum for the final Hot Summer Nights concert of the year Friday evening at Noël Heritage Plaza. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)
Odessa College’s Adriana Moreno, right, gives a tour of the Mobile FabLab to Ruben Payen, left, and his wife Brieanna during an art festival hosted in part with Hot Summer Nights Friday evening at Noël Heritage Plaza. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)
Odessa College Assistant Professor of Art Daiken Asakawa forms a work on a pottery wheel as he demonstrates the medium to shoppers during an art festival hosted in part with Hot Summer Nights Friday evening at Noël Heritage Plaza. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)
Odessa College Assistant Professor of Art Daiken Asakawa forms a work on a pottery wheel as he demonstrates the medium to shoppers during an art festival hosted in part with Hot Summer Nights Friday evening at Noël Heritage Plaza. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)
Artist Christine Gray of Stained in the Glass, right, hands one of her pieces to Meghan Bias after making a sale during an art festival hosted in part with Hot Summer Nights Friday evening at Noël Heritage Plaza. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)
Monti Colomo, right, chats with her sister Jamie while removing her roller skates during an art festival hosted in part with Hot Summer Nights Friday evening at Noël Heritage Plaza. Colomo is an artist from Odessa that sold her work alongside her partner Evan McCoy at Friday night’s art festival. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)
Laura Garcia, right, laughs with Sonja Wheeler as she purchases one of her paintings during an art festival hosted in part with Hot Summer Nights Friday evening at Noël Heritage Plaza. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)
Ariya Flores, 5, center, has her face painted by Ashley Larremore during an art festival hosted in part with Hot Summer Nights Friday evening at Noël Heritage Plaza. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)
Ariya Flores, 5, center, has her face painted by Ashley Larremore during an art festival hosted in part with Hot Summer Nights Friday evening at Noël Heritage Plaza. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)
SoulStrum wraps up the final Hot Summer Nights concert of the 2022 season. (Photo Courtesy of Bobby Joe Smith)
