

Askim educates Idyllwild audience on contemporary classical music
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Guitarist Bob Boss is a familiar presence in the Idyllwild jazz scene. The San Diego-based musician plays in many Idyllwild events, often with Idyllwild jazz icon Marshall Hawkins at his side. Boss brings his Latin-focused jazz quintet to the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series on Thursday, Aug. 18, for an evening of bossa-nova melodies, poppin’ percussion…
Living Free, the local no-kill animal sanctuary that rescues cats and dogs, is holding its fourth-annual “Howl and Yowl” fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30. Lisa Haley and the Zydecats will highlight the afternoon. Also returning are Honey County and Jason Powers. Haley and the Zydecats are well-known and popular on…
Steven Reigns, poet and next presenter at Eduardo Santiago’s Idyllwild Author Series, is from St. Louis. And although place of birth does not necessarily define one, it can inform one’s choices and determine how one navigates the world. Reigns’ poetry has been called plainspoken. In fact his poems, though difficult of subject matter, are sparse,…
The Idyllwild Arts Academy Adult Arts Center presents a spring poetry workshop/retreat featuring noted poet Suzanne Lummis. Lummis’ poems have appeared in the Hudson Review, Antioch Review, The New Yorker and the American Journal of Poetry. Lummis edited “Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond” (Beyond Baroque Books, 2015) noted in the Los Angeles…
Planning for the seventh-annual Lemon Lily Festival is underway, according to Amanda Allen, Idyllwild Nature Center park interpreter, who is organizing the two-day festival for the weekend of July 9 and 10. The whole event will kick off Friday night when heads and eyes will tilt upward to the skies rather down at the ground….
Many talented musicians played for hours Sunday during the first ever Midsummer Music Festival in Idyllwild at the Quiet Creek Inn. Proceeds from the event benefited the Earthwitness Foundation.