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Piano man and arranger Keith Droste and jazz chanteuse Sherry Williams wrap the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series’ 13th edition with some sounds sweet, stirring and swinging. Chicago native Droste, Berklee School of Music graduate and Oscar Peterson student, covers all the musical bases from jazz to Dixieland to Broadway. With Williams fronting the group,…
By Christian ChalifourContributed After a hiatus this past year, the Idyllwild Small Orchestra group will start rehearsals again at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14 at Idyllwild Center for Spiritual Living, located in the Courtyard Building, 54240 Ridgeview Dr. Rehearsals will be every Tuesday. The group is open to all string, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments….
The Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema (IIFC) enters year seven with over 300 films in submission. “Last year we had 160,” said festival founder and director Stephen Savage. “This year is almost double from last year. “Our reputation for quality independent films is growing. The Hollywood Reporter article naming the festival one of the ‘new…
By Idyllwild Arts AcademyContributed The publication this month of Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) twelfth-grader Rome Smaoui’s short story, “Days of Summer,” in Narrative (www.narrativemagazine.com/) is a startling achievement for a high school student. Narrative is a top-tier literary journal and it is free to register. The number of Narrative pieces appearing annually in the prestigious…
Editor’s note: Johnny and Halie Wilson of Life Writers are son-in-law and daughter of the Town Crier’s co-publishers and editor. Longtime Idyllwilder Phil Thompson has completed and published a memoir focused on his globe-spanning career as a commercial deep-sea diver, “Where No Human Has Walked Before.” Locals may know him for his 20 years volunteering…
In our March 31 edition, we noted that a number of anonymous group meetings had decided to move their meetings from the Idyllwild Spiritual Living Center to other locations. Incorrectly noted was that the center was closing on April 1, according to a representative of one of the anonymous groups. We have since learned that…