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2019/2020 Season at The New Center
Join us for our 2019/20 Inaugural Season at The New Center! Now offering Choose Your Own Packages: Pick 3 Get 5% Off, Pick 5 Get 10% Off.
Open Studios 2019
- Tour: October 12 – 13 & 19 – 20 | 10AM – 5PM
- Opening Reception: October 10 | 5PM – 8PM
A FREE, self-guided art tour of Nevada County’s Western Region
T-Shirt Design Contest
Submission Deadline: October 15, 5pm
The Center for the Arts is renovating it’s building and anticipating an exciting opening season this Winter! We need YOU to submit a t-shirt design for the opening of The New Center and the chance to win $500!
FREE: Family Fun Day
Sat. October 26, 10am – 2pm
Offered four times a year, these are free all-day events geared toward families and introduces many young children in our community to their first-ever arts experience. We offer families the opportunity to participate in healthy art-based activities together, such as face painting, crafts, and a balloon artist and other fun entertainment.
Rodney Crowell
Saturday, November 9
Join us for The Center OnTheGo Series presenting Rodney Crowell. The revelations are in the reveling, and in Crowell’s joyful ownership of songs that have become dear companions. We arrive as honored guests, here to listen to an artist’s true self.
Chris Perondi’s STUNT DOG EXPERIENCE
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
Matinee: 1:00 PM
Second Show: 7:00 PM
Amazing tricks, big air stunts, comedy antics, dancing dogs, and athletic feats. It is the most entertaining show of its kind!
Gallery Exhibition: Supernatant
December – February
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 5:00 PMSculpture and installation mainly constructed with paper and metal. Mintz utilizes geometric shapes to create organic forms that reflect on how human-made forces shape our perception of the world.
Storm Large
Sunday, December 8, 2019
Doors 6:30 PM | Show 7:30 PMStorm Large is a musician, actor, playwright, and author with ties to San Francisco and Portland, OR. She was also a 2006 finalist on the CBS show Rock Star: Supernova. $30-$40 Members, $35-$45 Regular, $60-$65 Table Seating
Mark O’Connor Band
Saturday, December 14, 2020
Doors 7:00pm | Show 8:00pmGrammy winner Mark O’Connor blends American fiddling with French jazz into a new American classical music. An Appalachian Christmas is a wondrous mixture of Christmas carols, fiddling, bluegrass and other traditional music.
Windham Hill’s Winter Solstice
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Doors 6:30 pm | Show 7:30 pmWill Ackerman, Barbara Higbie and Todd Boston celebrate the 35th anniversary of Windham Hill Records’ Winter Solstice acoustic album series.
Irish Christmas in America
Friday, December 20, 2019
Doors 12:00pm | Show 1:00pmIn its 14th season, the Irish Christmas in America show features top Irish music, song and dance in an engaging performance rich in history, humour and boundless energy. $35-$45 Members, $40-$50 Regular
John McCutcheon
Saturday, January 11th 2020
Doors 6:30 PM | Show 7:30 PMStrings Concerts Presents: John McCutcheon in a Fundraiser for KVMR with Red Tail Ring opening.
Family Fun Day
Bubbles, Magic & Fun! A FREE quarterly event. Fun for the whole family!
Gallery Exhibition: The Greenberg Collection
February – April
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 5:00 PMThe Greenberg Collection: Selections from Hindi Greenberg’s art collection from many years of supporting artists. Hindi personally owns over 400 pieces of artwork, many of them created by artists in Nevada County.
After School Theater Program
- Tuesdays, 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
- 9 Sessions: 2/04 – 3/31/2020
$195 includes all nine sessions.
9 Sessions, Tuesdays (2/4 – 3/31). Taught at Off Center Stage in Grass Valley. $195 for all nine sessions.
Terry Riley, Gyan Riley, & Kronos Quartet
Saturday, February 8, 2020
Doors 7:00 PM | Show 8:00 PMInternationally renowned American composer Terry Riley celebrates his 85th birthday with San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet.
Riders in the Sky
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Doors 6:30 PM | Show 7:30 PMPurveyors of “Comedy & Western!” For more than thirty years Riders In The Sky have been revitalizing Western music, while branding the genre with their own legendary wacky humor and way-out Western wit.
Paula Poundstone
Saturday, February 15th
Doors 7:00 PM | Show 8:00 PMKnown for her smart, observational humor and legendary spontaneous wit, Paula is recognized in innumerable lists, documentaries, and literary compendiums noting influential standup comedians of our time.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Doors 6:30 PM | Show 7:30 PMAs South Africa’s Cultural Ambassadors to the World, Ladysmith Black Mambazo sings of peace, of love and for people to live in harmony. The Tony Nominated and Grammy winning group was featured on Paul Simon’s “Graceland’ among many other film and music projects.
1000 Kisses Deep – The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Saturday, February 29th, 2020
Doors 6:30pm | Show 7:30pmPaul Emery presents A Thousand Kisses Deep: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, a reprise of his triumphant tribute to one of the most fascinating and enigmatic singer/songwriters of the late 60s, according to a press release.
B – The Underwater Bubble Show
Saturday, March 7, 2020
Doors 6:00 PM | Show 7:00 PMInspired by “Cirque du Soleil”, the show is rich in stage effects including soap bubbles to bring to life a performance of drama, dance and magic.
Tinsley Ellis
Friday, March 13, 2020
7:00 PM Doors | 8:00 PM ShowFeral blues guitar with Southern roots and British Invasion inspiration. Tinsley Ellis always digs deep and plays as if his life depends on it.
Tom Papa
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Doors 7:00 PM | Show 8:00 PMTom Papa is one of the top comedic voices in the country finding success in film, TV, radio and podcasts as well as on the live stage.
The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Doors 6:30 PM | Show 7:30 PMThe most popular and sought after big band in the world. With its unique jazz sound the Glenn Miller Orchestra is considered to be one of the greatest bands of all time.