Orange County Regional History Center is celebrating the run of its “Figurehead” exhibit with concerts, a Sunday brunch and a limited-capacity walking tour of downtown Orlando sites with ties to back in the day.

“Figurehead: Music & Mayhem in Orlando’s Underground” opened at the museum last September with the intention of a roughly yearlong run. Its stay now has been extended through the end of 2023.

The exhibit looks at Orlando’s music scene of the late 1980s and 1990s told through the lens of promoter Figurehead, which was headed up by Jim Faherty. It features underground bands, the club circuit and the concert-going community. Eye-catching concert posters of the era are a big part of the history center’s presentation.

There also are musical bits, explanations of how concert promoting works, Jim Leatherman photos, props and references to acts such as Jonathan Richman, Sonic Youth, Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20, Guided by Voices and Jason Ross of Orlando-based Seven Mary Three.

History center: What to see, hear at new ‘Figurehead’ exhibit

“I think that it allows people to kind of recontextualize what sort of counts as history in some ways in that this really great, interesting, vibrant thing happened in our town,” Jeremy Hileman, curator of the exhibit, said.

Figurehead Encore Weekend is scheduled for Sept 8-10. Its showy centerpiece will be a Saturday-night concert dubbed Figurehead Night Out, a name borrowed from showcases of local acts in the late ‘80s.

“They really tried to make it a special event. There was a poster for the show, there was a T-shirt for the show,” Hileman said of the original Figurehead Night Out events. “They wanted to make it something unique and memorable for people.”

For this year’s Night Out, “we got some really great acts that I think represent some different facets of the sort of rock-music scene here in Orlando at that time,” Hileman said.

There will be live performances by Steven Foxbury, The Riddlers, Greg Reinel and The Tremolords.

Sunday morning will be the Morning After Brunch, a buffet with a performance by Orlando’s Terri Binion, an Americana artist. She previously participated in one of the Coffee and Conversation sessions that helped expand the scope of the exhibit. There have been panels on hip hop, dance music, folk music, independent clubs and venues.

“We know that Figurehead isn’t representative of the entirety of the music scene in Orlando. It would be impossible to do justice to that whole sort of story in an exhibit, but we were able to cover some different facets of music that people are interested in,” Hileman said.

Tickets for the Saturday concert are $25; admission to the Sunday brunch is $45. There are a limited number of all-access tickets for $100 that include both of those activities (each held at the history center) plus a Friday night walking tour of downtown Orlando led by Faherty.

Tour participants will be “hitting some of the spots where Figurehead promoted shows and hearing some of the stories about the happenings downtown in the ‘80s and ‘90s,” Hileman said.

For tickets or more information, go to thehistorycenter.org.

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