The Opera Bell Band’s new album, A Salute to Corn, will be celebrated with a live performance of the album, a corn-themed potluck, a crash course in modern corn science from a botanist, and various corn-themed activities. YOU are cordially invited to gather together with us and salute the golden grain—the incomparable kernel—the most superlative of starches!
A Salute to Corn was born when the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Sachs Museum commissioned The Opera Bell Band to play at its exhibition Kernels of Culture: Maize Around the World. But it didn’t stop there. Attendees’ insatiable appetite for corn led to an encore performance of the show at the 2025 International Maize Conference. The joy of midwesterners and corn biologists alike was so great that it propelled us to the only rational course of action: to record the songs, to gather for a celebratory corn picnic, and to perform the show once more on June 28.
This is a free, family-friendly event. Bring your favorite corn dish and a big fat grin!