

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Brown Bag Luncheon 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 18 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Guest Speaker: Melissa Dightman

Topic: "The Music of Maud Cuney Hare"

Make plans to join us at Nia Cultural Center while we celebrate our history through our "Looking Back" Brown Bag Lecture Series, which will feature Melissa Dightman to highlight, "“The Music of Maud Cuney Hare.”

A native of Galveston, TX. Melissa is a proud alumnus of Prairie View A&amp;M University where she received a B.A. in Music and the University of Houston where she received a Master in
Music Education with a concentration in choral conducting.

Melissa began her music educator career in Early Childhood and elementary in LaMarque, TX.  She then later became the assistant choral director at Eisenhower HS in Houston, TX.  While she served at Eisenhower as the assistant, she received multiple Sweepstakes awards with her junior varsity choir.  She later was promoted to be the head choral director at Nimitz Sr. High School and continued to receive the same achievements with her varsity level choirs.

Melissa served as the interim choral director at her alma mater Prairie View A&amp;M University
and music director at Westminster United Methodist Church in Houston, TX.  She is currently
serving as co-director at Klein Oak High School in Spring, TX.  She is a member of TMEA,
TCDA, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/galveston/brown-bag-luncheon/200029801238114
- **Event Categories**: music, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029801238114?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=galveston-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Galveston
- **state**: TX
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 2217 The Strand, Suite 101, Galveston, TX
- **lat**: 29.30704
- **long**: -94.79384
- **full address**: 2217 The Strand, Suite 101, Galveston, TX, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Nia Cultural Center, Inc (https://allevents.in/org/nia-cultural-center-inc/18657818)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 18 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 2217 The Strand, Suite 101, Galveston, TX, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Nia Cultural Center, Inc
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** music, entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Brown Bag Luncheon  ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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