

Concertgoers enjoy Jeff Stover’s Mixed Bag
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Vocalist Diva Denise belts out a favorite melody as part of the performance by Jeff Stover’s Mixed Bag Orchestra during the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series on Thursday, July 28, at the Idyllwild Community Center site. Photo by Cid Castillo

Idyllwild jazz icon Marshall Hawkins, one of the founders of Jazz in the Pines, now in its 19th year, is adding venues and artists to his second jazz festival creation — Town Jazz. Entering its second year, Town Jazz is Hawkins’ effort to bridge a division between the Idyllwild Arts location of Jazz in the…
By Art Alliance of Idyllwild The Art Alliance of Idyllwild (AAI) is grateful to the Ruth & Joseph C. Reed Foundation for a $10,000 grant. This grant allows the AAI to benefit the youth of Idyllwild and beyond. This financial support will be used to offer fused glass and pottery workshops and an origami STEAM…
John Edward Marin was looking for studio space where he could paint andfound more: space for three painters and his Wylldwood Gallery. “Thiswas not anticipated, it happened all very spur-of-the-moment. I saw thespace in December, moved in Jan. 5.” Marin began painting relatively recently, in 2003. “I was told by apsychic my art would hang…
The nonprofit Mountain Disaster Preparedness (MDP) has donated two automated external defibrillator (AED) units to the Idyllwild Community Center (ICC) for placement at Idyllwild Town Hall and Butterfield Amphitheater. Before moving off the Hill, volunteer MDP board member and Co-Chair Medical Director Dr. Dick Goldberg contacted ICC in May 2022 about emergency preparedness needs ICC…
Annual lilac festival and Victorian Tea will not continue Idyllwild became a lilac tourism destination during the years that the late lilac hybridizer Reva Ballreich dedicated her energy and her family’s property to planting, hybridizing, cultivating and eventually displaying more than 887 lilac varietals. Each spring, Ballreich opened her garden to the public — her…
“Nunsense,” the durable musical that has spawned either four or eight sequels, depending on your math, returns to Idyllwild as “Meshuggah-Nuns!”