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SUMMARY:Aimee Murray: Places & Spaces
DESCRIPTION:Artist Statement\n  \nIn many of my recent paintings the subject matter is the confluence of structure and nature—two incongruous aesthetics of our wonted surroundings. You need not have been there to be able to experience it again—a familiarity that resides in the far reaches of your consciousness\, one that we didn’t know we shared. Artist Website \n  \n \n \nBio\n  \nAimee J. Murray has been a resident of California for 30 years. Originally from New Jersey\, and the youngest daughter of three\, Aimee worked at her father’s graphic design agency throughout high school at a landmark time—when computer-assisted design changed the industry as we know it today.  \nIn 1992\, Aimee obtained a BFA in Printmaking from the University of the Arts\, Philadelphia\, PA. From there\, her professional career blossomed after relocating to San Francisco\, CA\, where she combined her education and design skills first in the printing industry\, and later as a project manager of commercial art for trade shows\, and photography for museum exhibits throughout the Bay Area.  \nIn 2000\, Aimee relocated to Nevada County where she purchased a home in the Sierra Nevada foothills. In 2007 she established BeelineDesign.net providing graphic design services—primarily in the healthcare industry—working closely with marketing professionals nationally. Aimee is in her 9th year of providing custom design for a multi-million-dollar annual non-profit fundraising event held in Contra Costa County.  \nSince 2017\, Aimee has dedicated her personal time to painting\, building a collection of fine art based on subject matter from her photographs.  \n 
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/aimee-murray-spaces-places/
LOCATION:The Granucci Gallery\, 314 West Main Street\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:_Visual Arts,*Featured
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SUMMARY:Summer 2022 Aerial Circus Camp
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nAerial Circus  \nAirAligned will teach you tricks and skills on Aerial bungees\, Aerial silks\, and Aerial hoops. Fly\, climb\, and swing in Aerial Circus! \nInstructors: AirAligned\, Joe Simms and Sophie Wingerd\nLocation: The Center for the Arts Main Stage | 314 W. Main Street\, Grass Valley\, CA 95945 \nMonday-Friday  9:00am to 12:00pm\nTuition: $250 \nAge 8 to 14  Class Limit 12 \nSession 1: June 13-17  \nSession 2: June 20-24 \nSession 3: July 26-30 \nSession 4: August 1-5 \nLimited scholarships are available.\nvisit our website for more information. \n  \nREGISTER\n\nAbout the Instructors \nAirAligned started in 2002 with support from The Center for the Arts. AirAligned’s Advanced programs are now being offered throughout the US and Internationally. AirAligned has a solid reputation in the industry and through that is able to provide many opportunities for professional performers\, workshop goers as well as dance organizations. Because AirAligned focuses on aerial movement as a professional performance art\, we are recognized by the state of California through Warehouse Artist Lofts in the growing Historic R Street District of Sacramento under the direction of Tresa Honaker who is a full time resident at WAL. All of our instructors and presenters are professional aerialists and dancers trained in multiple disciplines and injury prevention. \nMore Arts Education at The Center \nThe Center has expanded our arts programming and is proud to offer year round classes to our community. Most of our classes are for youth ages 8 – 17. Locations range from in-house to virtual depending on the program. The Center is committed to providing creative offerings to youth and adults. \nWe are currently seeking teachers. Do you have skills you’d like to share? Don’t have time to market classes on your own? Fill out this form for the chance to share your knowledge with others by partnering with The Center for the Arts!\n \n  \n  \n\n 
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/2017-summer-camps-at-the-center-2/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:_Performing Arts,_Youth Programming,Community Event,Summer 2022,Summer Camp
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SUMMARY:Summer 2022 Painting\, Book Making\, Watercolor & More!
DESCRIPTION:Visual Art Camps\n \nVisual Art Camp – Paint Like The Masters \, Altered Book Journals: Mixed Media & Collage\, The Magic of Watercolor\, Painting and Mixed Media Adventures.  \nDenise Wey\, Valerie Stuart\, Kyra Kelley\, Nancy Schaefer \nSession 1: June 13-17  \nSession 2: June 20-24 \nSession 4: July 25-29 \nSession 5: August 1-5 \nMonday – Friday\n9:00am- 12:00pm & 1:00-4:00pm\nAge 8 to 14\nClass Limit 10\nTuition: $200 \nREGISTER \n Scholarships are available.  \n\n“Paint Like the Masters”  With Denise Wey \n“Budding young artists paint in acrylics on canvas\, recreating their own versions of the works of great masters such as Van Gogh\, Monet & Picasso! Professional teaching-artist Denise Wey will provide the guided instruction. \n“The Magic of Watercolor” With Kyra Kelley \nA step-by-step class covering the basics of watercolor as well as additional\, more advanced techniques. We will begin with studies of materials\, color\, washes\, glazing\, planning & drawing\, brush techniques\, masking fluid and composition. An explanation of the Principles and Elements of design will be covered – and included in our works of Art! Bring your imagination and 3 ideas or inspirational photos for 3 subjects! Let the Magic Begin! \n“Altered Book Art Journals\, Album Covers and Mixed Media Collage on Canvas” With Nancy Schaefer \nEach week of this fun Collage Mixed Media camp will have entirely different projects\, so students who wish to repeat are encouraged. Using Miss Nancy’s extensive collection of vintage magazines\, picture books and unique ephemera from around the world\, students will collage and paint to create repurposed book art journals\, and explore blackout poetry as a means of self expression and healing. For the grand finale\, depending on the week\, students will design and create their own album cover art or personal mixed media collage on canvas! All skill levels are welcome. \n \n“Painting and Mixed Media Adventures” With Valerie Stuart \nOur young artists will create a number of artworks while experimenting with the use of mixed media which combines many materials such as paint\, collage\, charcoal\, chalk pastel\, printing\, found objects etc. In addition\, each child will create an altered book art journal\, where they can explore and express themselves. This fun camp is open to all levels. \n  \n\n  \nABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS\n  \nDenise Wey is a teaching-artist with 20 years experience\, who resides at ASiF Studios where she is a painting and drawing instructor and works at Forest Charter School teaching art and is part of the Artists in the Schools (AIS) program for the county. She believes that all children are artists and that they are already in touch with their creative nature. “I set the stage; provide good materials\, encouragement and keep the mood light & fun! With a little guidance\, they do the rest!” \n  \nNancy Schaefer \nNancy Schaefer provides our Family Fun Day crafts and is a regular summer camp art instructor here at the Grass Valley Center for the Arts. She holds a Bachelors in Art with concentrations in collage\, painting\, drawing\, printmaking\, ceramics and jewelry.  She has been a teaching artist with the ambitious Artists in the Schools program since its inception in 2016\, which brings art to hundreds of 1st-5th graders in Penn Valley and Grass Valley schools. Nancy brings her passion for teaching collage art to the impressive Middle School Elective program at Ready Springs Hilltop in Penn Valley. Her courses focus on the emotionally therapeutic benefits of collage art-making for 6th-8th graders. She is an enthusiastic art teacher who believes in giving young people a positive and nurturing place to learn\, experiment and express their unique inner artist! \n  \nKyra Kelley was born in Houston\, TX and has lived in 8 states before returning to California. She was a Fine Arts Major at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Following college\, Kyra began an apprenticeship in floristry. Five years later\, she purchased Comal Flower Shop on the Plaza in New Braunfels\, TX and a vintage 1927 building. Remodeling the building into luxury apartments and her florist\, she owned it for 25 years.  \n  \n  \n  \n\n 
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/2017-visual-art-camp-paint-like-the-masters/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:_Visual Arts,_Youth Programming,Arts Ed,classes,Community Event,Summer 2022,Summer Camp
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SUMMARY:Summer 2022 Theater Camps: Acting & Musical Theater
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nSession 1: June 13 – 17  (9am-12pm) \nSession 2: June 20-24  (9am-12pm) \nSession 3: July 25-29  (9am-12pm)      \nSession 4: August 1-5  (9am-12pm) \nAges 8 – 14 (no experience necessary; *younger children* accepted with previous class or performance experience\, or attendance to first session) \n \nSummer Theater Camp\n  \nBring your curiosity or passion for theatre and performing and come create an original show to perform for friends and family on the last day of camp. (No formal dance or singing training is necessary\, and is always welcome. Experienced actors have opportunities for leadership and advanced training) We start each day exploring the “principles of good acting and character development” thru theatre games and skill development exercises with mini-plays\, skits\, poetry\, and Broadway songs. We often throw in a bit of Improv to keep us all on our toes. We spend time each day learning music\, lyrics\, and choreography from Broadway musicals and movies. By mid week a story starts to emerge around the songs\, skits\, scenes\, and characters we have been developing and practicing. Sometimes we adapt an original scene from a Broadway play to be part of our final show. Everyone is onstage for the entire show and has the opportunity to create\, develop and sustain a believable character that is part of the story. Come PLAY with us! (The final production is at 11:30 on the last class of each camp and lasts approximately 25 minutes) * Younger children with two or more years of dance or theatre training will be considered for acceptance by the instructor into all sessions if there is space. \nInstructor: Dinah Smith \nTime: 9am – 12pm \nAges: 8 – 14 \nCost: $195 \n  \n REGISTER\n  \nWeek 1: Broadway Dramedy \nDates: June 13 – 17 \nCreate Your Own “Broadway Dramedy” with poetry from Alice in Wonderland\, a famous “Poetry Slam Artist” (the pre curser to Hip hop)\, and Songs from Sound of Music. \n\nWeek 2: Dorothy’s Adventure in Munchkin Land \nDates: June 20 – 24 \nTell the story and play all the parts\, sing all the songs in “Dorothy’s Adventure in Munchkin Land” with Glenda\, the Wicked Witch\, The Scarecrow\, The Tin Man\, and The Cowardly Lion. \n\nWeek 3: Romeo & Julliette \nDates: July 25 – 29 \nThe silliest\, shortest\, funniest version of Romeo and Julliette ever performed and it’s all in verse with songs from Grease\, 1960’ s Rock and Roll\, and Oliver. \n\n\nWeek 4: Little Miss Red \nDates: August 1 – 5 \n“Little Miss Red” – a play in verse and loads of fun!  What songs will we add?  This class does involve more memorizing of lines then the other camps.  It might be more suitable for kids with more experience. \n\n  \nDinah Smith (Teacher/Coach\, Choreographer/Director\, Actor) With a BA in Theatre\, a Masters in\nEducation\, and a California Certificated Teacher\, Dinah has been involved in the Entertainment Industry and Theatre Arts Education since the early 1970’s as a teacher\, director\, choreographer and performer on stage\, in film\, and on TV. She has worked professionally with children’s and community theaters throughout Southern California and Colorado. Locally\, she has worked with Sierra Stages\, LeGacy\, Paul Emery\, Sandra Rockman\, Lake Wildwood\, Center Stage Dance\, Synthetic Unlimited\, Placer Community Theatre\, and CATS. Dinah has taught Youth Theatre Classes at The Center For The Arts\, Colfax Elementary\, Yuba River Charter School\, Grass Valley Charter\, and The Miners Foundry. She directed the highly acclaimed premier holiday production of Sonja Weissman and The Miracle Play\, featuring 9 local youth ages 10 – 16 two years in a row\, December 2014 and 2013 at The Off Center Stage. \n 
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/theatre-camps-acting-musical-theater/
LOCATION:Off Center Stage\, 315 Richardson\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:_Performing Arts,_Youth Programming,Arts Ed,classes,Community Event,Summer Camp
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220729T160000
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SUMMARY:Summer Photography Camp 2022
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nWeek-Long Summer Camp for Ages 10 – 14 \nJune 13-17 & July 25-29 \nThe Center for the Arts\, Center Studios \n314 W. Main St. • Grass Valley\, CA \n  \nSkills You Will Learn: \n• Learn how to use your digital camera to take better photographs. \n• Understand aperture\, shutter speed\, and ISO \n• Learn lighting and composition techniques \n• Explore portraiture and landscape photography \nPrior experience in photography is not needed to enroll in this camp\, but all students must have their own digital camera with manual settings to use for the duration of camp. \nInstructor: Laksmi Greenberg \nDates: June 13-17 & July 25-29 \nTime: 1pm-4pm \nAges: 10 – 14 \nCost: $175 \n  \nREGISTER \n  \nSee More Arts Education \n\nABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR \nLaksmi Greenberg has been a photographer for over 20 years. She has been published in National Geographic and has had several gallery exhibitions. She is currently teaching photography at Nevada City School of the Arts. www.eyeoflaksmi.com    
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/summer-photography-camp-2022/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:_Visual Arts,_Youth Programming,Arts Ed,Summer Camp
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220829T170000
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SUMMARY:Adult & Teen Aerial Summer Jam
DESCRIPTION:An 8 week workshop.  \n5:30pm-7:00pm  \nDates June 27\, July 11\,18\, Aug 1\,8\,15\,22\,29 \nAerial Summer Jam  \nSophie & Haley Wingerd   \nAges 13+ \n8 Weeks of a full body workshop for adults and teens. Including conditioning\, stretching\, dance and creative expression on aerial silks\, hoops and MORE. 
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/adult-teen-aerial-summer-jam/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:_Performing Arts,_Youth Programming,Adult,adult-arts,Arts Ed
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220628T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220628T193000
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SUMMARY:Ani DiFranco
DESCRIPTION:The transcendent new album from Ani Di Franco\, Revolutionary Love (out January 29\, 2021)\, marks the latest proof of one of her most powerful gifts as an artist: a rare ability to give voice to our deepest frustrations and tensions\, on both a personal and political level. “My songs have always reflected an acute connection between my personal life and the life of my society\,” says the trailblazing musician and activist. “As I started to come out of years of dealing with marriage problems\, I saw my entire country in the same situation; the complete breakdown of communication and loss of empathy and connection. But after what seems like unforgivable damage\, then where do you go? You can’t kick each other off the planet\, you can’t change the past\, so what then?”    \n \nAs the 22nd studio album in an iconic career— a musical career which forged one degree of separation between Pete Seeger and Prince and the accompanying career of founding her own precedent-setting label\, Righteous Babe Records—Revolutionary Love began taking shape in the final weeks before the Covid 19 pandemic came to change the plans of everyone everywhere. Returning home to New Orleans from a West Coast tour in February of 2020\, with a new batch of songs written on the road\, Di Franco found herself without a path to recording those songs and lost in the creative abyss of the collective need for social isolation. “And then I decided I wanted to start pushing this new music out by fall… before the election\,” she recalls. “I felt very strongly that I needed a horse to ride to try to help get out the vote—to get people inspired and get them believing in democracy\, believing in each other and in themselves.” \nDi Franco began to explore using live recordings from the tour as the basis for the new album but then she reached out to her friend Brad Cook\, a Durham\, North Carolina-based producer/multi-instrumentalist known for his work with artists like Bon Iver and Waxahatchee. The two had kept in touch after crossing paths at the Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival (an event co-founded by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon\, who appeared on Di Franco’s acclaimed 2017 album Binary)\, where she became enamored with one of Cook’s guitars. “Brad let me borrow the guitar and I ended up writing half this record on it\,” says Di Franco. “I called him up and told him about the new pile of songs I’d pulled out of his guitar and about my recording predicament and he said to me\, ‘Give me a week. If you can get yourself to Durham\, I’ll take care of the rest.’” \nProduced by Di Franco and recorded mainly in two whirlwind days at Overdub Lane in Durham\, Revolutionary Love more than justifies the mad dash behind its making. As her first studio effort since the release of No Walls and the Recurring Dream (Di Franco’s widely praised 2019 memoir)\, Revolutionary Love arrives as an instantly transportive selection of songs. Rooted in her poetic lyricism and ever-commanding vocal work\, the album unfolds in an understated yet captivating alchemy of folk and soul and lushly textured jazz-pop. In sculpting that sound\, Di Franco and Cook assembled an eclectic lineup of musicians\, including percussionist Brevan Hampden (Hiss Golden Messenger\, Milton Suggs)\, horn/flute player Matt Douglas (The Mountain Goats\, Josh Ritter)\, keyboardist Phil Cook (Megafaun\, Shouting Matches)\, drummer Yan Westerlund (Quetico\, Mipso) and Di Franco’s longtime touring band Terence Higgins on percussion and Todd Sickafoose on bass.  \nThe finishing touches were added in Eugene\, Oregon with the inclusion of the Delgani String Quartet\, arranged by Todd Sickafoose\, and in Pensacola\, Florida with the soulful pedal steel playing of Sacred Steel aficionado Roosevelt Collier.  The instrumentation is rich but with many of the performances captured in one or two takes\, Revolutionary Love reveals Di Franco’s tremendous gift for seizing the moment of performance and transforming confusion into clarity\, pain into perseverance. \nRevolutionary Love opens on its luminous title track\, a profoundly resolute piece inspired by Sikh-American activist/filmmaker/lawyer/author Valarie Kaur. “A lot of the language in that song comes from Valarie’s book See No Stranger\,” says Di Franco\, who connected with Kaur after watching a talk she’d given in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election. “It’s about carrying the energy of love and compassion into the center of our social movements and making it the driving force. It’s about finding it within ourselves to stay curious about our opponents instead of shutting down.” \nOne of several songs Di Franco composed at Kaur’s request (“She approached me and asked\, ‘Can you write some songs for me?’” says Di Franco)\, “Revolutionary Love” wholly embodies the album’s defiant spirit of irrepressible hope. On lead single “Do or Die\,” Di Franco channels that spirit into a slow-burning but anthemic call-to-arms\, gracefully laced with falsetto vocals and finger-snapped beats. Centered on her incisive lyrics (“Cuz there’s foxes in the hen house/And bad news every day/And right there on Pennsylvania Avenue/The sheetless KKK”)\, “Do or Die” began as a poem Di Franco set to music on that early-2020 tour\, then underwent a major shift during her sessions with Cook and drummer Yan Westerlund. “Brad suggested I slow it way down\, to the point where it was almost at half-speed\,” says Di Franco. “At first I thought\, ‘This is the rallying cry of the record\, and now all the energy’s gone. I fucked it up.’ But what I discovered was that the very deliberate\, simple\, open approach to the drums left me with all the room in the world to dance around the pocket with my words and guitar. It was incredibly liberating.” \nThroughout Revolutionary Love\, Di Franco hits a potent balance of determination and dreamy reflection\, a dynamic that echoes one of the central lessons of Kaur’s maternal teachings: “If we don’t push\, we will die. If we don’t breathe\, we will die.” “I wanted to have these moments where\, after we engage with all the insanity and strife\, we step back and shake off the anxiety and the fear\,” Di Franco says. “We all need that quiet space to reconnect with ourselves and our hope.” On “Simultaneously\,” a softly spellbinding track lit up in lilting flute melodies\, Di Franco speaks directly to the challenge in navigating the disconnect between a visionary inner life and a chaotic outside world (“I live in two different worlds simultaneously/The one where we are fractured/And the one where we are free”). “I look around and everything’s crashing and burning all around me\,” says Di Franco\, “but in my mind I can see this alternate reality playing out—one where we are all fulfilling our potential.” \nElsewhere on Revolutionary Love\, Di Franco brings her nuanced storytelling to far more intimate narratives\, the impact of her personal revelation intensely magnified by the rawness of the recording process. “It’d been a long time since I sat in front of a microphone and recorded a whole record in a number of hours I could count on my hands\,” she says. “For years I’d been trying to piece records together by hook or by crook\, overdubbing different elements at different times\, lingering over all the details. But this thing was made more like it was 1968\, with people performing on instruments made of wood and metal\, laying down a few takes and moving on. It really brought out the prowess of the musicians involved and the immediacy of offering up a song to another human.” \nThe last word came from legendary producer\, mixer Tchad Blake (Black Keys\, Los Lobos\, Tom Waits) who mixed the album\, bringing both an old-school hard-pan aesthetic and a modern expressiveness to bare. Blake’s mixes are not retro 1968 but somewhere in the sonic landscape and in the songs we can hear the echoes of an era filled with the pain and possibility of change. We can hear the cyclical process of the labor of revolutionary love; the breathing and the pushing. \nIn looking back on the making of the album\, Di Franco recalls the daily texts she received from her friend and former tour manager Susan Alzner\, who lives in Flagstaff\, Arizona. “She’s an activist who really feels the weight of the world on her chest. She goes for walks every evening to decompress\,” says Di Franco. “The whole time I was making this record\, she’d send me pictures of the sky from when she was out walking\, and it always made me inhale more deeply.” So when it came time to choose artwork for Revolutionary Love\, Di Franco landed on a series of photos from her friend’s nightly texts. “When people hear this record\, I want them to get the same feeling I got from Susan’s sky pictures—that feeling of taking a minute to realize that the light is shining around us and through us\,” she says. “Like\, we can do this\, we just have to stay open. We have to look up.”
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/ani-di-franco/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Good Lovelies
DESCRIPTION:With nine critically acclaimed releases\, a #1 single\, a JUNO Award\, and a devoted fanbase blanketing the globe\, roots-pop combo The Good Lovelies are among Canada’s brightest musical lights. The hardworking trio of Caroline Brooks\, Kerri Ough\, and Susan Passmore — guitar-wielding songwriters all\, and queens of the goose bump–raising three-part harmony — enter 2020 at full steam\, with plans to write and record new material\, reduce their carbon footprint via multiple green initiatives\, and to build on their reputation as electrifying performers with extensive touring\, culminating in their highly anticipated annual seasonal concerts. \nNot to put too fine a point on it\, but the Good Lovelies are kind of having their moment.
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/good-lovelies/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Season Preview,Music
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SUMMARY:California WorldFest 2022
DESCRIPTION:  \nFOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FESTIVAL GO TO WORLDFEST.NET
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/california-worldfest-2022/
LOCATION:Nevada County Fairgrounds
CATEGORIES:*Featured,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220724T170000
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SUMMARY:The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:In the history of Jazz music\, there is only one bandleader that has the distinction of having his orchestra still performing sold out concerts all over the world\, with members personally chosen by him\, for over 30 years after his passing. Pianist and bandleader William James “Count” Basie was and still is an American institution that personifies the grandeur and excellence of Jazz. The Count Basie Orchestra\, today directed by Scotty Barnhart\, has won every respected jazz poll in the world at least once\, won 18 Grammy Awards\, performed for Kings\, Queens\, and other world Royalty\, appeared in several movies\, television shows\, at every major jazz festival and major concert hall in the world. Recent honors include their 2022 Grammy Nomination for Live At Birdland\, a 2019 Grammy Nomination for All About That Basie\, which features special guests Stevie Wonder\, Jon Faddis\, and Take 6 among others\, and the 2018 Downbeat Readers Poll Award as the #1 Jazz Orchestra in the world. \n2019 Grammy Nominee\, Carmen Bradford\, was born in Austin\, Texas and raise in Altadena\, California. It was only natural that Carmen would follow in the footsteps of her great family legacy being the daughter of legendary cornetist composer Bobby Bradford and renown jazz vocalist/composer/author Melb Joyce. Carmen’s grandfather big band vocalist Melvin Moore sang with Dizz Gillespie’s Band in the 1940’s\, making Carmen the third generation of incredible musicians. She has carved out a place in her own right\, and has played a unique\nrole in this American Art form called Jazz. Carmen Bradford is Jazz Royalty. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTHANKS TO OUR SHOW SPONSOR\n 
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/the-legendary-count-basie-orchestra/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Summer Dance Camp 2022
DESCRIPTION:Recommended Age 9-15 \nDance Foundations : This class will offer students an introduction to the world of dance and will include a combination of ballet\, jazz\, circus & contemporary techniques as well as a strong focus on rhythm\, musicality\, spatial awareness and expression. Elements of musical theater\, tumbling and choreography will be added as we build technique throughout the camp. This class will culminate in a performance in the studio for peers and family. \n  \nRegister online or contact our Box Office by calling (530)274-8384\, or emailing boxoffice@thecenterforthearts.org  Scholarships are available.\nRegister \nConsent & Release Form \n  \nBIO: Elizabeth Castaneda has been a dance teacher\, teaching ballet\, jazz\, modern and character styles as well as choreographing for over twenty five years. For the past ten years\, Elizabeth has been teaching the Youth and Teen program at ODC as well as the Musical Theater and Theatre departments at Ruth Asawa SOTA in San Francisco. She had the honor of being the choreographer for the school wide musical at SOTA for several years. Most prominently\, Elizabeth is the co-artistic director and choreographer for SISTER MAGIC\, a dance/circus company that has been making full scale works for the Burning Man festival since 2014. She plans to continue creating full length works for her company\, SISTER MAGIC\, as well as teaching and inspiring dancers of all ages.  \n\n  \n\n\n\nDetails\n\nFee: $150)\n(scholarships available)\n \nLocation:\nThe Center for the Arts • Studios\n314 W. Main Street\nGrass Valley\, CA [map]\n \nInstructor:\nElizabeth Castaneda \n\nDate / Time:\n\nWeek 1: July 25-29 1:00-4:00pm\nWeek 2: Aug 1- 5 1:00-4:00pm\nRegister\n\n \n \n\n \n\n \nScholarships Available\nThanks to our Youth Arts Sponsors and anonymous private donors\, we are proud to offer $10\,000 in Scholarships for Summer Camps and Classes in order to increase access to the arts for youth in our community. \nApply for a scholarship \n  \n\nQuestions?\n  \nContact Arts Education and Outreach Coordinator: aaronow@thecenterforthearts.org \n  \n\n \nThank you to our Youth Arts Sponsors\n  \n	    \n	        \n	            	            \n	            	            \n	            	            \n	            	            \n	            	            \n	            	        \n	    \n     \n\n  \n\n\n \nMore Upcoming Youth Classes at The Center\nSummer Dance Camp 2022Monday\, July 25th - Friday\, August 5th
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/spring-classes-dance/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:_Performing Arts,_Youth Programming,Arts Ed,classes,Spring Classes,Summer Camp
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SUMMARY:The MainStage Playmakers Present: The Emperor's New Clothes
DESCRIPTION:Presented by The Main Stage Playmakers\nA Youth Theater department of The Center for the Arts \nThe Center for the Arts | 314 W. Main Street\, Grass Valley\, CA \nEvening Show: \nFriday\, July 29th\, 2022 • Showtime 6:30pm | Doors 5:30pm • [Get Tickets] \nMatinee Shows: \nSaturday\, July 30th\, 2022 • Showtime 3:00pm | Doors 2:00pm • [Get Tickets] \nSunday\, July 301st\, 2022 • Showtime 3:00pm | Doors 2:00pm • [Get Tickets] \nGenre: Theater – Youth Arts \n•Audience Recommendation: Ages 4yrs+. \n•Runtime: Approx. 1hr. 30min with a 15 minute intermission\n•Performed by 26 amazing young actors\, ages 7-14 yrs.  \n \nA mischievous trio of “tailors” comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme to convince a vain emperor to wear their magic in clothes. They claim that only smart people can see these amazing garments. Will everyone just pretend to see the clothes? Will these three schemers get away with the jewels and gold? Is there anyone brave enough to tell the truth? Perfect for the entire family this two-act production will leave you in stitches. 
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/the-mainstage-playmakers-present-the-emperors-new-clothes/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:_Performing Arts,_Youth Programming,*Featured,Community Event,playmakers,The MainStage Playmakers
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SUMMARY:Dumpstaphunk
DESCRIPTION:New Orleans funk powerhouse Dumpstaphunk released their new album Where Do We Go From Here on April 23\, 2021 (via Mascot Label Group / The Funk Garage). The release marks the band’s first full length album in seven years\, and undeniably the most powerful and politically pointed of their career. Previously released singles include “Justice 2020\,” recently called one of the “Best Songs of 2020” by the New York Times\, and the contemplative title-track “Where Do We Go From Here.” The record is a sharply relevant statement\, even more-so than the group anticipated during writing and recording sessions just prior to the unprecedented events of the last year. \nDumpstaphunk released the album’s title track “Where Do We Go From Here” in August 2020\, to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina\, earning praise from the New York Times for its “slinky funk backbeat” and “gospel determination.” On the eve of the presidential election the band strategically released the single “Justice 2020” (featuring Chali 2na and Trombone Shorty)\, which became an unofficial anthem of the social justice movement. The powerful music video led the New York Times to name “Justice 2020” one of the “Top 20 Songs of 2020\,” in part due to the music video’s strong message alluding to social injustice\, systemic racism\, police brutality and the need for change\, while also demanding lyrically that as human beings “We Are All Beautiful.” Dumpstaphunk will release a remix of “Justice 2020” by Cut Chemist this Friday\, January 15th. \nThe band’s arsenal of classic and modern influences can be heard throughout the new album\, a distinctive mix of genuine New Orleans funk\, old school R&B and guitar fueled modern rock; from the slap-bass rave “Make It After All” to the band’s contemporary renderings of NOLA R&B rarities (the 1975 Blackmail gem “Let’s Get At It”) and early Seventies classics (Sly and the Family Stone’s “In Time”). One song with an unexpected genesis is the band’s urgent cover of Buddy Miles’ 1973 Hendrix inspired “United Nations Stomp\,” which features searing guitar solos from special guest\, rising blues guitar phenom Marcus King. \n“We hope people can hear the new songs and are inclined to dance\, and inspired to think at the same time\,” says Ivan\, speaking to the new album’s delicate balance between topic material and dance-floor rockers. \nOver the past 17 years\, Dumpstaphunk has earned its reputation as a highly respected next-generation New Orleans musical institution\, the type of band whose live performances have attracted sit-ins from legends like Carlos Santana\, Bob Weir\, George Clinton and members of Phish. Alongside original core members Tony Hall and Nick Daniels\, and the new additions of Alex Wasily\, Ryan Nyther and drummer Devin Trusclair\, Ivan and Ian Neville (the sons of Aaron Neville and Art “Poppa Funk” Neville respectively) have built upon their family’s iconic NOLA legacy as they’ve transformed Dumpstaphunk into the city’s pre-eminent 21st-century funk-fusion export\, resulting in recent career highlights like their July 2019 opening gig for the Rolling Stones on their home turf at the New Orleans Mercedes Benz Superdome. \nModernizing and reinvigorating the Neville/Meters family groove has been one of the driving forces of Dumpstaphunk since the band spontaneously formed during New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 2003. Where Do We Go From Here is perhaps the best evidence yet of Dumpstaphunk’s ability to strengthen and transform their singular Crescent City roots in combination with the deeper outside musical and philosophical influences on which the band is founded. \n“Obviously\, the New Orleans history is just embedded in us\, but we manage to incorporate all the other stuff we’ve listened to over the years\,” says Ivan. “We’re representing a legacy\, but we’re reimagining a lot of it\, too.
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/dumpstaphunk/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Season Preview,Music
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SUMMARY:Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
DESCRIPTION:It was after midnight when Trombone Shorty stepped offstage at the House of Blues in New Orleans\, but he wasn’t done playing yet. Not by a long shot. \n“I had an idea for a new song right after the show\,” says Shorty\, “so the band and I decided to go straight into the studio and record it that night. We were still sweaty and buzzing from the energy of the gig\, and we definitely carried that vibe into the session with us.” \nTake a listen to Lifted\, Trombone Shorty’s second release for Blue Note Records\, and you’ll hear that same ecstatic energy coursing through the entire collection. Recorded at Shorty’s own Buckjump Studio with producer Chris Seefried (Fitz and the Tantrums\, Andra Day)\, the album finds the GRAMMY-nominated NOLA icon and his bandmates tapping into the raw power and exhilarating grooves of their legendary live show\, channeling it all into a series of tight\, explosive performances that blur the lines between funk\, soul\, R&B\, and psychedelic rock. The writing is bold and self-assured\, standing up to hard times and loss with grit and determination\, and the playing is muscular to match\, mixing pop gleam with hip-hop swagger and second line abandon. Wild as all that may sound\, Lifted is still the work of a master craftsman\, and the album’s nimble arrangements and judicious use of special guests—from Gary Clark Jr. and Lauren Daigle to the rhythm section from Shorty’s high school marching band—ultimately yields a collection that’s as refined as it is rapturous\, one that balances technical virtuosity and emotional release in equal measure as it celebrates music’s primal power to bring us all together. \n“I think this is the closest we’ve ever gotten to bottling up the live show and putting it on a record\,” says Shorty\, whose audiences have grown exponentially in recent years. “Normally when I’m in the studio\, I’m trying to make the cleanest thing I can\, but this time around\, I told everybody to really cut loose\, to perform like they were onstage at a festival.” \nIf anybody knows their way around a festival\, it’s Trombone Shorty. Born Troy Andrews\, he got his start (and nickname) earlier than most: at four\, he made his first appearance at Jazz Fest performing with Bo Diddley; at six\, he was leading his own brass band; and by his teenage years\, he was hired by Lenny Kravitz to join the band he assembled for his Electric Church World Tour. Shorty’s proven he’s more than just a horn player\, though. Catch a gig\, open the pages of the New York Times or Vanity Fair\, flip on any late-night TV show and you’ll see an undeniable star with utterly magnetic charisma\, a natural born showman who can command an audience with the best of them. Since 2010\, he’s released four chart topping studio albums; toured with everyone from Jeff Beck to the Red Hot Chili Peppers; collaborated across genres with Pharrell\, Bruno Mars\, Mark Ronson\, Foo Fighters\, ZHU\, Zac Brown\, Normani\, Ringo Starr\, and countless more; played Coachella\, Bonnaroo\, Lollapalooza\, Newport Folk\, Newport Jazz\, and nearly every other major festival; performed four times at the GRAMMY Awards\, five times at the White House\, on dozens of TV shows\, and at the star-studded Sesame Street Gala\, where he was honored with his own Muppet; launched the Trombone Shorty Foundation to support youth music education; and received the prestigious Caldecott Honor for his first children’s book. Meanwhile in New Orleans\, Shorty now leads his own Mardi Gras parade atop a giant float crafted in his likeness\, hosts the annual Voodoo Threauxdown shows that have drawn guests including Usher\, Nick Jonas\, Dierks Bentley\, Andra Day\, and Leon Bridges to sit in with his band\, and has taken over the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’s hallowed final set\, which has seen him closing out the internationally renowned gathering after performances by the likes of Neil Young\, the Black Keys\, and Kings of Leon. \n“I owe all that to my mother\,” says Shorty. “She passed recently\, but she continued to inspire me right up until she transitioned\, and that’s why I put a picture of her holding me up at a second line on the cover of this album. She lifted me up my whole life.” \nAs if his New Orleans roots weren’t already deep enough\, Shorty decided to take over a recording studio in the Lower Garden District after the release of his latest album\, 2017’s Seefried-produced Parking Lot Symphony. Dubbing the space Buckjump in a nod to the second lines he grew up playing in\, Shortly immediately set about converting the studio into a freewheeling sonic laboratory\, one where he and his friends could push themselves creatively without any artistic or commercial restraints. \n“Having my own studio meant that the band and I could capture stuff in the moment any time we were feeling inspired\,” says Shorty. “It meant that we could take chances and experiment. I could call the guys up with an idea in the middle of the night and they’d say\, ‘We’ll meet you there in an hour!’” \nThat sense of excitement and liberation is palpable on Lifted\, which opens with the addictive “Come Back.” Fueled by a bottom-heavy rhythm section\, buoyant keys\, and bright flashes of brass\, the track pairs a hip-hop groove with hard rock energy as Shorty delivers silky smooth vocals that float effortlessly above the instrumental fray. As its title might suggest\, the song is a reckoning with loss and regret\, but like much of the album\, it refuses to surrender to disappointment\, keeping its chin held high as it presses forward and fights for what it wants. The effervescent “What It Takes” gets profoundly funky as it celebrates the strength and growth that can emerge from times of struggle\, while the bittersweet “Forgiveness” leans into the band’s R&B side as it works to move on from pain and betrayal\, and the blistering “I’m Standing Here” (which features a mind-bending guitar solo from Gary Clark Jr.) rushes headlong into the maelstrom. \n“I grew up watching wrestling as a kid\,” Shorty says with a laugh\, “and I if I was a wrestler\, ‘I’m Standing Here’ would be the song they played when I came into the ring. It’s all about standing tall no matter what life throws at you.” \nShorty makes sure to celebrate the good times on the album\, too\, reveling in the joy of love and friendship and family throughout. The spirited “Might Not Make It Home” commits to letting go and living in the moment; the playful “Miss Beautiful” embraces the thrill of desire while offering a twist on the second line tradition\, with an electric bass stepping in for the tuba; and the feel-good “Everybody In The World” (which features the New Breed Brass Band) finds common ground in our universal desire for love and acceptance. But it’s perhaps the electrifying title track\, which lands somewhere between Earth\, Wind & Fire and Shorty’s old tourmate Lenny Kravitz that best encapsulates the spirit of the album\, wrapping earnest emotion in a high-octane package that offers you no choice but to move your body. \n“The whole time we were making Lifted\, I couldn’t help but think about how much fun it would be to get onstage and play it for an audience\,” Shorty recalls. “Usually when I make an album\, I record the songs first and figure out how we’re going to present them live afterwards\, but with this record I was in the studio imagining the lights flashing on the hits and the audience singing everything back to us. I could see the whole thing in my head.” \nFor Trombone Shorty\, the show never ends. Not by a long shot.
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/trombone-shorty-orleans-avenue/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:*Featured,Music
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SUMMARY:Taj Mahal Quartet
DESCRIPTION:“The blues is bigger than most people think\,” Taj Mahal says. “You could hear Mozart play the blues. It might be more like a lament. It might be more melancholy. But I’m going to tell you: the blues is in there.” \nTaj is a towering musical figure — a legend who transcended the blues not by leaving them behind\, but by revealing their magnificent scope to the world. Quantifying the 77- year-old’s significance is impossible\, but people try anyway. A 2017 Grammy win for TajMo\, Taj’s collaboration with Keb’ Mo’\, brought his Grammy tally to three wins and 14 nominations\, and underscored his undiminished relevance more than 50 years after his solo debut. Blues Hall of Fame membership\, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association\, and other honors punctuate his résumé. Taj appreciates the accolades\, but his motivation lies elsewhere. “I just want to be able to make the music that I’m hearing come to me — and that’s what I did\,” Taj says. “When I say\, ‘I did\,’ I’m not coming from the ego. The music comes from somewhere. You’re just the conduit it comes through. You’re there to receive the gift.”
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/taj-mahal-quartet/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Season Preview,Music
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SUMMARY:Anders Osborne
DESCRIPTION:Between the potency of his richly detailed songwriting\, his intensely emotional\, soulful vocals and his piercing\, expert guitar work\, New Orleans’ Anders Osborne is a true musical treasure. He is among the most original and visionary musicians writing and performing today. Guitar Player calls him “the poet laureate of Louisiana’s fertile roots music scene.” New Orleans’ Gambit Weekly has honored Osborne as the Entertainer Of The Year. OffBeat named him the Crescent City’s Best Guitarist for the third year in a row\, and the Best Songwriter for the second straight year. Osborne also won Song Of The Year for his composition\, Louisiana Gold. \nOsborne’s latest released Flower Box\, his second full-length album of 2016\, recorded in his hometown of New Orleans late last year\, Flowerbox is a heavier\, guitar-driven follow-up to the acclaimed Spacedust & Ocean Views. \n“I love the way this record comes out stout and determined right out the gate\, a four-piece rock & roll band making beautiful and conquering noise\,” says Osborne.   “The producer\, Mark Howard\, has a way of making you play in the moment and being confident.  His sounds and engineering style is that of classic records\, with his own special sauce of ‘haunting’ on top of it.  The musicians on here are undoubtedly some of my absolute favorites in the world\, both as players and as people. Their contributions are invaluable.  Scott Metzger\, Brady Blade\, Carl Dufrene\, Chad Cromwell\, Marc Broussard\, David LaBruyere\, Rob McNelley & Justin Tocket. Bad boys!  I’ve been wanting to make this record for several years and I am stoked it’s finally here.”  \nA powerful live performer\, the musician has won over fans through non-stop touring as well as a heralded collaboration with the North Mississippi Allstars & Southern Soul Assembly. \nJambands.com said\, “Osborne finds a striking balance of muscle and grace that allows for the smaller moments of quiet to be just as resounding as the sonic booms.”  And USA Today has praised his music\, saying “The relentless approach amplifies the anguished lyrics\, which appear to be about the death of a loved one or a relationship torn asunder or perhaps a spiritual crisis.”  In a review of Spacedust & Ocean Views\, Boulder Weekly said the album “finds the guitarist in a (largely) reflective mood\, an extended meditation on place and moments in time\, memory\, passages through and exits from paragraphs in the non-fiction docudrama of life.  Through languid\, gently formed figures\, Osborne coaxes odes of gratitude and compelling imagery in what seems a little like a travelogue — like watching his kid chasing seabirds on the beach…” \nOsborne has earned hordes of new fans. He has toured virtually non-stop\, either with his own band\, as a solo artist\, or as a guest with his countless musical admirers\, including Toots and The Maytals\, Stanton Moore\, Derek Trucks\, Warren Haynes\, Keb Mo\, The Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh\, Jackie Greene and Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe. He’s produced and played on critically acclaimed albums by Tab Benoit\, Johnny Sansone and Mike Zito. \nSince his recording debut in 1989\, Osborne has written virtually all of his own material and contributed memorable songs to a wide variety of artists. Two tunes co-written by Osborne appear on Keb Mo’s Grammy-winning 1999 release Slow Down. Country superstar Tim McGraw scored a #1 hit with Anders’ song Watch The Wind Blow By. Osborne’s compositions have been covered by artists as diverse as Brad Paisley\, Tab Benoit\, Jonny Lang\, Edwin McCain\, Sam Bush\, Trombone Shorty and Aaron Neville and Kim Carnes. His songs have appeared in multiple feature films. He can also be seen performing in an episode of HBO’s New Orleans-based drama\, Treme.
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/anders-osborne-2/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Season Preview,Music
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SUMMARY:Lee Fields
DESCRIPTION:Soul music pours out of Lee Fields\, as free and unstinting as God’s love. \n\n\nIt was ever since the 1960’s\, when he was a teenager in North Carolina sweating it out on juke joint stages\, crumpled dollars hailing at his feet. It continues now that the living legend is in his late sixties\, ushering in the most successful and fruitful period of his career. \nLike any living legend worth their salt\, Fields has suffered despair\, obscurity\, defeat. Although he now tours stages around the world\, and although he helped fellow soul legends like Sharon Jones (who was once Fields’ backup singer) and Charles Bradley (whom Fields took on his first tour) get their first break\, he did not always have this position. There were years—they were known as “the 1980’s”—when Fields nearly gave up. His success these days\, then has a bittersweet tinge: His dear friends Bradley and Jones have both passed\, leaving Fields to outlive them and carry their legacy forth. \nWith all these years\, and all this life\, comes a sort of divine wisdom\, and Fields has it in spades. “I am a sinner\, just like everybody else\,” he says gravely. He is no “holier—than—thou guy\,” he adds. He just believes in people’s ability to love and be loved\, and he understands that music is the divine bridge to these places.
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/lee-fields/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Season Preview,Music
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SUMMARY:Merle Jagger
DESCRIPTION:It’s often said that when it comes to summing up a person’s stance\, it’s all in a name. If that’s the case\, then Merle Jagger says all that needs to be shared about alt-country\, rockabilly\, swing and retro-loving guitar-based band Merle Jagger. Helmed by Mark Christian\, whose own reputation as a top-notch axeman for hire provides considerable prominence\, the trio also includes drummer Johnny Ray and bassist Gabe Davis.  \nGiven their influences — specifically\, guitars greats Joe Maphis\, Jimmy Bryant\, Roy Buchannan\, Danny Gatton and Merle Travis — their signature style is readily apparent. These musicians galvanize a style of guitar playing that became a standard for country Music in the many years to come. \nThat was a sound that first became embossed in the band’s debut\, Rancho Los Angeles\, a series of classic country-flavored jams and instrumental offerings. Now\, with the band’s new album Trash Talking Guitars\, Christian steps into the dual role of both singer and guitarist\, while still retaining that instrumental acumen that inspired him and his colleague early on. Dubbing their new approach “Ranch Rock\,” the songs echo a classic country style flush with tears-in-the-beers ballads flush with loss and heartbreak. Not that they’ve forsaken their earlier emphasis on instrumentals entirely; the album’s final entry\, “Ranch Rock Revival\,” delivers a robust work-out that’s certain to leave listeners dazzled. \nHappily\, Merle Jagger’s reputation has expanded into mainstream realms as well. Their music was incorporated into the soundtracks for “CMT Party Down South” and “Duck Dynasty.” Christian himself was featured in Guitar Player Magazine’s  January 2009 issue as one of ten guitarists chosen to perform at the magazine’s “Guitar Superstar” show presented at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. \nSo what’s in a name? Quite a bit it seems. Nevertheless\, in the ultimate scheme of things\, it’s Merle Jagger’s music that matters most. \n \n 
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/merle-jagger/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Mac DeMarco
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URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/mac-demarco/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music,Rental
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220826T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220826T180000
DTSTAMP:20220626T223539
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SUMMARY:The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
DESCRIPTION:Described by Rolling Stone as “pure Americana heart and soul”\, The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash are the voice and vision of songwriter Mark Stuart. Since forming the band in 1995\, he’s performed with most every major artist in the Country and Americana music community. Stuart was personally given permission to use the band’s name by Johnny Cash himself. He was also honored by the Man in Black with an invitation to record songs at Cash’s own home in Hendersonville\, Tennessee. Two other iconic music legends\, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard\, were also early believers who were instrumental in helping Stuart get his start. \nWith the release of their critically acclaimed debut CD “Walk Alone” in 1999\, the Bastard Sons quickly proved they were no novelty act. With strong songwriting and great musicianship\, the Sons’ quickly jumped to the forefront of the growing Alternative Country scene. No stranger to the road\, their constant touring and hard work have built the band a loyal grass roots following both in the States and abroad. Their music has been featured in film\, television\, and compilation CDs around the world. \nWhether performing in front of thousands at a festival in the US or Europe\, or playing all night in a Texas dance hall\, for Stuart it’s all about respect. “The Bastard Sons never were\, and never will be\, a Johnny Cash tribute band. It’s always been about honoring the musical ideals of our heroes\, and paying respect to the originality\, integrity\, and independence that made those artists who they are. Our goal was always to find our own road\, and to continue to keep the sounds and traditions of American Roots Music alive.” \nStuart and the Bastard Sons have released five outstanding CDs: Walk Alone\, Distance Between\, Mile Markers\, Bend in the Road\, New Old Story\, and their latest\, Texicali Troubadour.
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/the-bastard-sons-of-johnny-cash/
LOCATION:North Star House\, 12075 Auburn Rd\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95949\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220910T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220910T200000
DTSTAMP:20220626T223539
CREATED:20220602T155233Z
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SUMMARY:Tia Carroll
DESCRIPTION:Award winning California native Tia Carroll has quietly accumulated one of the most impressive entertainment resumes in the Bay Area and has become one of the most sought-after female singers on the West Coast. Tia has headlined venues and festivals all over the world with her band as well as some very well-established host bands. She has shared stages with legends Ray Charles\, Jimmy McCracklin\, Syl Johnson\, Sugar Pie DeSanto and B.B King\, Tommy Castro\, Elvin Bishop\, Igor Prado and Eric Gales. \nShe has earned a reputation for her up-beat and engaging manner on stage and audiences around the world are treated to an unforgettable show. \n 
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/tia-carroll/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220914T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220914T200000
DTSTAMP:20220626T223539
CREATED:20220420T225514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T225616Z
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SUMMARY:Cat Power
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/cat-power/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music,Rental
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220916T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220916T200000
DTSTAMP:20220626T223539
CREATED:20210727T190204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220510T001230Z
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SUMMARY:Charlie Musselwhite
DESCRIPTION:*This show has been rescheduled for September 16\, 2022. Purchased tickets from the previous show will be honored for the new date.\n\n  \nCharlie Musselwhite’s journey through the blues was from his birth in Mississippi to Memphis\, Chicago and California. Arriving in Chicago in the early sixties\, he was just in time for the epochal blues revival. In 1966 at the age of 22 he recorded the landmark Stand Back! to rave reviews. A precipitous relocation to San Francisco in 1967\, where his album was being played on underground radio\, found him welcomed into the counterculture scene around the Fillmore West as an authentic purveyor of the real deal blues. 
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/charlie-musselwhite/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Season Preview,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220918T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220918T193000
DTSTAMP:20220626T223539
CREATED:20220510T002138Z
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SUMMARY:The Lone Bellow
DESCRIPTION:“I want it to bring comfort\,” The Lone Bellow guitarist Brian Elmquist says. “But it’s not all hard conversations. There’s a lot of light and some dancing that needs to happen.” Brian is reflecting on Half Moon Light\, the band’s highly anticipated new album. \nHalf Moon Light is an artistic triumph worked toward for years\, earned not by individual posturing\, but by collective determination and natural growth. With earthy three-part harmonies and songwriting as provocative as it is honest\, the trio made up of Brian\, lead vocalist Zach Williams\, and multi-instrumentalist Kanene Donehey Pipkin creates sparks that make a stranger’s life matter or bring our sense of childlike wonder roaring back. On Half Moon Light\, The Lone Bellow mix light and dark to muster a complex ode to memory\, a call for hope\, and an exercise in empathy. Anchored in the acoustic storytelling that first so endeared the band to fans and critics\, Half Moon Light also takes more chances\, experimenting with textures and instrumental fillips to create a full-bodied music experience. The result is The Lone Bellow’s most sophisticated work to date. \n“We try to invite as many people into the process to see what we can make together\,” Brian says. “I like that spirit and that freedom. Then\, the songs speak for themselves.” \nThat wholehearted embrace of collaboration defines Half Moon Light. The record marks a return to recording in New York with Aaron Dessner\, whom the band counts as both a hero and a friend. “We already had a friendship with Aaron and a strong\, shared understanding of our musical vision\,” Zach says. “It’s really important to us to be a part of a community of musicians. We like that way of making something. Aaron showed us a new way of trusting. His idea of bringing in Josh Kaufman and J.T. Bates was such a beautiful gift. The meekness that these friends brought to the table was something that we will never forget. A sense of controlled fury. Lightning in a shoebox.” \n“Aaron has a powerful quietness about him\,” Kanene says. “A lot of people I meet in the music industry have lots of bravado\, and it’s something I have trouble believing. Aaron doesn’t have that. He is a joy to work with. A true friend.” \nFor the first time\, the band stayed where they recorded\, sequestered from the world at Aaron’s studio in upstate New York. They fell asleep at night to the sound of coyotes howling and felt the freedom to fall into rabbit holes that would have otherwise been left unexplored. “We made this record in a place of joy with our friends. We were trying to do something bigger than ourselves\,” says Brian. “I think we’ve been wanting to make this record for a while now. It just hasn’t come together as perfectly as it did this time.”  \nA lone piano launches into a hymn as the album’s intro track. The pianist is Zach’s grandmother\, playing at the funeral of her husband of 64 years––Zach’s grandfather. The hymn returns as an interlude and outro\, underscoring The Lone Bellow’s intention for 12 songs to be experienced together\, as an album.  \nWonder––feeling it\, losing it\, finding it again––underpins the entire record. Pulsing with the trio’s signature harmonies\, the track “Wonder” is a loving call to reclaim the childlike awe and appreciation age takes away. Zach pulled from vivid childhood memories to craft the song\, which transports listeners to moments of breathlessness experienced in the everyday: cheap coffee\, backroad car rides\, pine-tree views\, and powerful songs.  \nJubilant “I Can Feel You Dancing” rolls into a cathartic celebration. The song pays tribute to “lionhearted” free spirits with horns and soaring vocals. With a winking jungle beat\, “Good Times” tells tales Zach has collected over the years. “Some stories were told on a boat I worked on in the Caribbean in the middle of the night. Some were in old Irish pubs in Manhattan. Some were in backyards down in my hometown. Some were in a hospital bed\,” Zach says. “I wanted to shine light on the fact that there are still people living with beauty and reckless abandonment.” Delivered over intimate acoustic guitar and hushed backing instrumentation\, “Enemies” is a self-contained call and response that reconnects life-defining moments with the frustrating or tenuous present that threatens to snuff out the magic. \nLead single “Count On Me” reminds us to lean on one another with soul-shouting intensity. Praise for deep friendships pops up again and again throughout the album: “Friends” celebrates the relationships forged after years together in the trenches––with a musical swagger that nods to David Byrne and Tom Petty. \nKanene takes the lead on tour-de-force “Just Enough to Get By.” Her inimitable voice––capable of grit and smoothness––pushes through line after line with steely purpose. The performance would saunter were it not for the rage bubbling underneath. Kanene wrote the song about her mother\, who was raped at 19\, then sent away to have the baby that resulted. When she returned home\, she never spoke of what had happened until 40 years later\, when Kanene’s half-sister––the baby––found them. “I’ve met my half-sister many times. She’s wonderful and lovely and an amazing story of something never being too broken to be fixed. But my mom had to work through the trauma\,” Kanene says. “This song was me putting myself in my mom’s place\, releasing a lot of complex emotions. Anger is definitely one of them. Hurt\, frustration\, sadness. We all have experiences that could be better if we could talk about them\, but we keep them hidden.” \nAlbum standout “Illegal Immigrant” also features Kanene’s vocals. Brian took the lead writing the song\, which tells the true story of a mother and child separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. The chorus’s “I promised I’d find you\, wherever you are\, wherever you are / Here I am” is equal parts haunting\, heartbreaking\, and reassuring––and the unfiltered words actually spoken by the immigrant mother into a press conference microphone. Kanene sings with weighty restraint––like a parent burying their own terror so they can be their child’s rock. “I was trying to tell her story the best I could\,” Brian says. “I wanted to keep myself as far out of the equation as I could and just try to connect––to help find some compassion.”  \nBrian also penned “Wash It Clean\,” which both Zach and Kanene point to as a favorite. Lilting with guitar and harmonica\, the song is a letter to Brian’s dad\, who passed away suddenly last year. The two had a strained relationship\, and Brian spent years trying to find some common ground. They did\, and then two months later\, his dad was gone. The band recorded the song on the one-year anniversary of Brian’s father’s death\, without Brian even realizing it at the time. “I feel like that means he was here––or in me\,” Brian says. “Working really hard to find understanding was probably one of the greatest gifts and lessons of my whole life.”  \nThe stories behind the songs matter––but they aren’t what matters most. In the end\, The Lone Bellow’s music needs no explanation. Just listening offers a salve and a shelter. “In my own perfect little world\, I would be able to put the music out and not talk about it––just\, Here. Bye. See you next time\,” Zach says\, then laughs softly. “I do hope someone will find this music in a peaceful moment\, when they can turn it on and get lost in the story and the sound.” 
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/the-lone-bellow/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Season Preview,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220922T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220922T200000
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SUMMARY:National Geographic Live feat. Alicia Odewale - Greenwood: A Century of Resilience
DESCRIPTION:GREENWOOD: A CENTURY OF RESILIENCE\n\nA native of Tulsa\, Oklahoma\, archaeologist Alicia Odewale is uncovering stories of resilience in the hundred years since the attack on Black Wall Street in the city’s vibrant Greenwood district. Considered one of the worst episodes of racial violence committed against Black people in American history\, the Tulsa Race Massacre left a devastating toll on generations of survivors and their descendants and impacted the very footprint of the district itself. \nJoin her to discover how archaeology can be used as a tool for recovering lost stories\, reclaiming a narrative\, and pursuing restorative justice. \nAbout Dr. Alicia Odewale\nDr. Alicia Odewale is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The University of Tulsa. Her research and teaching focuses on archaeological sites of African heritage in St. Croix\, U.S. Virgin Islands\, and Oklahoma. \nWhile she continues to research both urban and rural sites of enslavement in St. Croix\, her latest research project based in Tulsa\, Oklahoma\, seeks to reanalyze historical evidence from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre\, launch new archaeological investigations in the historic Greenwood district\, and use radical mapping techniques to visualize the impact of the massacre through time on the landscape of Greenwood\, utilizing a slow community-based approach. \nHer research interests include the archaeology of enslavement and freedom in urban contexts\, Caribbean archaeology\, rural and urban comparative analyses\, community-based archaeology\, ceramic analysis\, transferware studies\, mapping historical trauma from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre\, and investigations into different forms of cultural resistance. \nHer research has received awards and support from the American Anthropological Association\, the National Science Foundation\, the Society of Historical Archaeology\, the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission\, Tulsa Community Foundation\, SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program\, and the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS). \nIn addition to her role as faculty at The University of Tulsa (TU)\, she also serves as the director of the Historical Archaeology and Heritage Studies Laboratory at TU and serves as the co-creator of the Estate Little Princess Archaeological Field School in St. Croix that trains local students in archaeological methods and other STEM-related skills for free.
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/national-geographic-live-feat-alicia-odewale-greenwood-a-century-of-resilience/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:_Youth Programming,2022 Season Preview,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220924T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220924T200000
DTSTAMP:20220626T223539
CREATED:20220601T195638Z
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SUMMARY:Forejour - A Tribute to Foreigner & Journey
DESCRIPTION:FOREJOUR pays tribute to the music of ‘80s mega bands FOREIGNER & JOURNEY\,  recreating the soundtrack of a generation with stunning accuracy. Their multi-media show transports audiences back to the heyday of MTV as the band performs the live soundtrack to cherished videos on screen. \nThe group’s setlist includes the 20th century’s most down-loaded song\, “Don’t Stop Believing”\, as well as power ballads such as Foreigner’s “I Want To Know What Love Is”\, and Journey’s “Faithfully”. \n \n“Amazing…my favorite in the Bay Area!” – Carolyn McArdle\, 98.1 The Breeze \n“Incredible…Wow!” – John Young\, 95.3 KUIC \n“I’ve seen a lot of tribute bands…these guys are awesome!” – Roman Guzman\, 105.5 The River \n“Staggering talent!” – Greg Kihn\, 98.5 KFOX \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTHANK YOU TO OUR SHOW SPONSOR
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/forejour/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:_Performing Arts,Music,Rental
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221002T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221002T190000
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CREATED:20220510T003515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220510T003515Z
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SUMMARY:Lolo's Lounge ft. Jenn Knapp
DESCRIPTION:About Jenn Knapp\nBorn in Alleghany\, a small gold mining town in the Sierra Nevadas\, Jenn Knapp inherited her grandfathers 67’ Martin guitar and has been making sweet music with it ever since. As front woman and songwriter to rock bands the “Cheatin Buzzies” and “BuckStar”\, she has released 6 albums\, played hundreds of shows and inspired audiences throughout the region. Music and it’s power to tell a story and invoke true connection is her passion. Through the years she has become passionate to sing American  Roots Music spanning the early 19th century with artists such as The Carter Family\, the Singing Brakeman and grandfather of country music Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams  into more modern artists such a Willie Nelson\, Dolly Parton\, Bruce Springsteen and a growing repertoire of many others. \nLorraine and Jenn have sung together on many shows at the Center for the Arts including a Woman of Rock show\, a Fleetwood Mac tribute\, an Aretha Franklin tribute\, a celebration of all things Lou Reed\, and have sung in front of a 30 piece ukelele orchestra. (They also opened for Bill Cosby which was just really weird). Lorraine & Jenn also were the voice coaches for the Community Music Jam at the Center funded by a 2 year grant from the Irvine Foundation.  \nThey are looking forward to collaborating on yet another show bringing in both vintage & modern takes on American Roots Music.
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/lolos-lounge-ft-jenn-knapp/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:_Performing Arts,2022 Season Preview,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221008T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221008T200000
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CREATED:20220510T004439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220613T201007Z
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SUMMARY:Graham Nash: An Intimate Evening of Songs & Stories
DESCRIPTION:Legendary artist Graham Nash\, as a founding member of both the Hollies and Crosby\, Stills and Nash\, is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee who has seen rock history unfold at some of its seminal moments – from the launch of the British Invasion (that’s him on-screen in 1967\, eyewitness to the Beatles global broadcast performance of “All You Need Is Love” from Abbey Road studios) to the birth of the Laurel Canyon movement a year later. An extraordinary Grammy Award® winning renaissance artist – and self-described “simple man” – Nash was inducted twice into the Songwriters Hall of Fame\, for his work with CSN and his work as a solo artist\, beginning with two landmark albums\, Songs For Beginners and Wild Tales.   \nNow in 2022\, comes Graham Nash: Live\, a unique project arriving on May 6\, on which he revisits those first two classic solo albums in live concert settings recorded in 2019\, each in its entirety with their songs in familiar sequence.  Nash was joined on stage by a seven-piece band led by his longtime collaborators\, Shane Fontayne (guitar and vocals) and Todd Caldwell (keyboards and vocals)\, The album was mixed by Grammy Award® winner Kevin Killen and mastered by Grammy Award® winner Bob Ludwig. \nTowering above virtually everything that Graham Nash has accomplished in his long and multi-faceted career\, stands the litany of songs that he has written and introduced to the soundtrack of our lives for nearly six decades.  “The art of songwriting\,” he has said\, “to people who enjoy music but don’t write music\, is very mysterious. I’m not even sure how I can describe what I go through.  I wake up in the morning\, I’m alive\, I get on with my day\, I check the news from around the world\, I check the local newspapers\, I check what’s going on with my friends\, and I write about my life\, that’s all I’ve been doing all my life.”  \nNash’s remarkable body of work began with his contributions to the Hollies opus from 1964 to ’68\, including “Stop Stop Stop\,” “On A Carousel\,” “Carrie Anne\,” “King Midas In Reverse\,” and “Jennifer Eccles\,” and continues all the way to This Path Tonight (2016)\, his most recent solo album.  In 2018\, Over the Years… compiled Nash’s best-known CSN and post-CSN work\, along with more than a dozen unreleased demos and mixes\, on a 30-track\, 2-CD collection.   \nThe original classic union of Crosby\, Stills & Nash (& Young) lasted but twenty months.  Yet their songs are lightning rods embedded in our DNA\, starting with Nash’s “Marrakesh Express\,” “Pre-Road Downs” and “Lady Of the Island\,” from the first Crosby\, Stills & Nash LP (1969).  On CSNY’s Déjà Vu (1970)\, Nash’s iconic “Teach Your Children” and “Our House” (for Joni Mitchell) beseeched us to hold love tightly\, to fend off the madness that was on its way.   \nNash’s career as a solo artist took flight in 1971\, with the two aforementioned albums further showcasing the depths of his abilities as a singer and songwriter: his solo debut Songs For Beginners (with “Chicago/We Can Change the World” and “Military Madness”)\, and Wild Tales released in 1974 (with “Prison Song\,” “Oh! Camil\,” and “You’ll Never Be the Same”).   \nThree compositions on Songs For Beginners reflect back on the storied breakup of Nash and Joni\, “Better Days\,” “I Used To Be A King” (which recalibrates the Hollies’ “King Midas In Reverse”)\, and “Simple Man” (“I am a simple man\, so I sing a simple song/ I’ve never been so much in love\, and never hurt so bad at the same time”).  A third song\, “Wounded Bird” was about the aftermath of Stephen Stills’ breakup with Judy Collins.   \nBut the alpha and omega of Songs For Beginners are two chronicles of society’s frayed edges in the Vietnam-era: “Military Madness” (dedicated to Nash’s parents\, who quietly and bravely brought up their children in postwar England); and “Chicago/We Can Change the World” (a plea to CSNY bandmates Stills and Young to join him and Crosby at a benefit concert for the defense of the Chicago Eight\, “won’t you please come to Chicago/ just to sing”). Autobiographic context similarly weaves through “Sleep Song” (for his first wife Rose Eccles\, paradigm of “Jennifer Eccles”)\, and “Man In the Mirror” (written off the coast of Cuba\, aboard Crosby’s yacht the Mayan\, on their epic seven-week\, 3\,000-mile voyage from Florida to San Francisco\, through the Panama Canal). \n1974’s Wild Tales addressed (among other issues) unfair jail terms for minor offenses (with “Prison Song”)\, unfair treatment of Vietnam vets (“Oh! Camil\,” inspired by decorated Vietnam vet Scott Camil\, who became a founder of Vietnam Veterans Against the War)\, and the unfairness of fame (“You’ll Never Be the Same”).  Nash wrote “Grave Concern” in reaction to the lies and coverups of the Nixon/Watergate investigations\, “outraged that the administration’s leaders were lying to the American people and screwing with the Constitution.”  In his 2013 autobiography\, Wild Tales\, Nash described his second Lp as “a good collection of songs but dark and moody\, which was where I was at the time … in a deep emotional hole.” \nNash’s output of solo albums over the decades ahead\, while they exist in their own time and space\, are nonetheless informed to an extent by the presence in his life of his three dynamic musical partners in CSNY.  The most resilient\, long-lived and productive partnership to emerge from the CSNY camp was launched (before Nash’s Wild Tales) with the eponymously titled Graham Nash/David Crosby (1972)\, bookended by Nash’s “Southbound Train” as the opening track and “Immigration Man” as the closer.  The duo contributed further to the soundtrack of the ’70s on their back-to-back Lps\, Wind On the Water (1975) and Whistling Down the Wire (1976). \nOn the CSN reunion studio album (1977)\, Nash took top honors with “Just A Song Before I Go” (written in the space of one hour\, and a Top 10 hit single).  Lightning struck once more on CSN’s Daylight Again (1982)\, on which Nash penned the group’s second (and final) Top 10 hit\, “Wasted On the Way\,” lamenting the energy\, time and love lost by the group due to years of internecine quarrels.  There would be five subsequent album projects in the group’s canon\, up through the most recent CSN 2012 live double-CD/DVD package. \nNash’s passionate voice is frequently heard in support of peace\, and social and environmental justice. The No Nukes/Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) concerts he organized with Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt in 1979 remain seminal benefit events.  In 2011\, Nash was instrumental in bringing MUSE back to the forefront with a concert to benefit Japan disaster relief and groups promoting non-nuclear energy worldwide. That same year\, he and Crosby were among the many musicians who made their way to the Occupy Wall Street actions in lower Manhattan.  \nIn September 2013\, Nash published his long-awaited autobiography\, aptly titled Wild Tales\, which delivers an engrossing\, no-holds-barred look back at his remarkable career and the music that defined a generation. The book landed him on the New York Times Best Sellers list and was released in paperback in late 2014. \nIn recognition for his contributions as a musician and philanthropist\, Nash was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth. While continually building his musical legacy\, Nash is also an internationally renowned photographer and visual artist. With his photography\, Nash has drawn honors including the New York Institute of Technology’s Arts & Technology Medal and Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters and the Hollywood Film Festival’s inaugural Hollywood Visionary Cyber Award.   \nA photographer since the age of ten\, Nash’s photos have been shown in galleries and museums worldwide. His company Nash Editions’ original IRIS 3047 digital printer and one of its first published works—Nash’s 1969 portrait of David Crosby— is now housed in the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution. A collection of his photos is featured in the book A Life in Focus: The Photography of Graham Nash which was released in November 2021 by Insight Editions. \nNash’s lifelong commitment to his work is unwavering.  His inspiration is simple: “All the things we stood for\, that love is better than hatred\, that peace is better than war\, that we have to take care of our fellow human beings\, because that’s all we have on this planet – those things are still true today.  I need to know that I’ve brought something into the world that was positive and not negative.”
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/graham-nash-an-intimate-evening-of-songs-stories/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Season Preview,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221013T200000
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DTSTAMP:20220626T223539
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SUMMARY:Kittel & Co.
DESCRIPTION:“Some of the most engaging people I’ve ever worked with have a clear vision while still being willing to explore—following\, with a rare openness\, the creative energy.” — Jeremy Kittel \nThat ethos is central to the new release\, Whorls\, from Kittel & Co. The album’s title refers to patterns of spirals\, an apt metaphor for the undulation between the outsize skills and free-spirited instincts that drive its sound. A dazzlingly original work\, Whorls inhabits the space between classical and acoustic roots\, Celtic and bluegrass aesthetics\, folk and jazz sensibilities. \nPreviously of the Grammy-winning Turtle Island Quartet\, Kittel demonstrated similar scope as a composer-arranger- collaborator for such diverse artists as My Morning Jacket\, Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble\, and Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn. But for the last few years\, the Brooklyn-based artist has been diligently building his own repertoire of music for a wholly original new group. \nKittel & Co. includes mandolin phenom Josh Pinkham (named “the future of the mandolin” by Mandolin Magazine)\, genre-bending guitarist Quinn Bachand (a presidential scholar at Berklee College of Music)\, transcendent bassist Ethan Jodziewicz (as heard with Sierra Hull)\, and hammer-dulcimer wizard Simon Chrisman (acclaimed for bringing a new tonal flexibility to the instrument). “We met gradually over the years\, through festivals\, shows\, gatherings\,” Kittel says. “Each really struck me with their uniqueness\, for being a singular force on their instrument.” These musicians are as prodigious as they are world class: Most aren’t even 30 years old. \nTheir musical contributions to Whorls are visceral\, yet precise. “The guys have an incredible combination of skill and intuition. Says Kittel: “It’s been so moving to be part of a whole\, when the music starts taking off and everyone is supporting\, balancing\, breathing together. In those rare moments\, it’s as holy a thing as I’ve ever experienced.”
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/kittel-co/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Season Preview,Music
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SUMMARY:Aquila Theatre: Pride & Prejudice
DESCRIPTION:Two Showings:\nWednesday\, October 19th at 7:30pm \nThursday\, October 20th at 2:00pm \nAbout Aquila Theatre: Pride & Prejudice\n‘It is a truth universally acknowledged\, that a single man in possession of a good fortune\, must be in want of a wife.’\n\nPublished in 1813\, Jane Austen’s ultimate romantic comedy Pride and Prejudice has stood the test of time. Filled with unforgettable characters including Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy\, this sharp social satire has it all; wit\, love and lots of dancing!\n\nAs the Bennet sisters try to navigate their way toward love and marriage\, Austen humorously skewers the hypocrisies and absurdities of the English class system\, and puts the thoughts and feelings of her women characters front and center.\n\nAquila Theatre will bring this classic thrillingly to life with its signature passion\, energy\, and visual flair. The New Yorker says that “Aquila’s productions are beautifully spoken\, dramatically revealing and crystalline in effect\,” while DC Metro Arts described Aquila’s production of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility as ‘Delightful – one of the joys of Aquila Theatre\, a fun and lively version.’ Artistic director Desiree Sanchez’s adaptation of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was described by The New York Theatre Guide as ‘another piece of theatrical genius. Her direction is polished and laser sharp. She gets the maximum amount of potential out of every stage moment\, has exceptional attention to detail\, and is a demiurge of direction.’ \nAquila Theatre Company was founded in London by Peter Meineck in 1991 with a production of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon at the Bridge Lane Theatre in London before touring in the United States to a few universities. The company\, along with its founder moved to the United States in 1994\, and in 1998\, Aquila Theatre became a U.S. based non-profit theatre company. It went on to build up an extensive international touring circuit while becoming an established part of the New York City theater scene with its productions of Iliad: Book One at the Clark Studio at Lincoln Center\, followed by long running Off-Broadway productions of Comedy of Errors and Much Ado About Nothing. Aquila has also had the pleasure of working with the acclaimed Olympia Dukakis and Louis Zorich in its 2004 production of Agamemnon. \nAquila is now one of the foremost producers of classical theater in the United States visiting 50 – 60 American cities per year with a program of two plays\, workshops and educational programming\, and is under the Artistic Directorship of Desiree Sanchez since 2012. The company has been awarded numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, The National Endowment for the Humanities\, from which it received a Chairman’s Special Award\, the New York State Councils for the Arts and Humanities\, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Aquila has performed at the White House under the Bush and Obama administrations\, and has performed for the U.S Supreme Court and for the National Council on the Arts. Aquila was also recently invited by Lin-Manuel Miranda to perform at the U.S. Capitol in support of the National Endowment for the Humanities\, for its groundbreaking theatre and humanities program: The Warrior Chorus.
URL:https://thecenterforthearts.org/event/aquila-theatre-pride-prejudice/
LOCATION:The Marisa Funk Theater\, 314 W Main St\, Grass Valley\, CA\, 95945\, United States
CATEGORIES:_Performing Arts,_Youth Programming,2022 Season Preview,Theater
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