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The Dixie Machine, next at the Idyllwild Summer Concerts, are longtime veterans of Disneyland, having collectively logged 220 years of experience playing for the Walt Disney Company. The sextet, co-led by Rich Watson on drums and Brian Bettger on trumpet and vocals, played at all the Disneyland venues in many Disney iterations — the Disneyland…
Sherry Williams (left), Conductor Dwight “Buzz” Holmes (right) and the Idyllwild Master Chorale perform “Sigh No More Ladies” by John Dankworth last Saturday night at Stephens Hall on the Idyllwild Arts campus.
Outdoor barbecues are a Labor Day tradition on the Hill and this year provided a feast. Rotarian Barney Brause, foreground, serves deep-pit barbecue pulled pork while Rick Foster, background, ladles out the beans during the 4th Annual Idyllwild Rotary Labor Day Barbecue on Sunday, Sept. 4.
As Idyllwild Pizza Company nears its 30th anniversary, the Crier sat down with founder Ken Dahleen, and his daughter and present owner Kenna. The Dahleens opened the business Nov. 13, 1993, with a “soft” opening on the 12th, Kenna’s sister Windeen’s birthday. Ken and wife Cheryl got married there on Valentine’s Day, three months later….
In an effort to incorporate local businesses and the business district into the third annual Lemon Lily Festival, organizers are planning to add an in-town Bluegrass Festival for Saturday, July 21. Idyllwild had a Bluegrass Festival from 1974 to 1979, and at the time it was the only Bluegrass Festival in Southern California. In a…
Robert Ferguson is a contemporary impressionist painter in the mode of Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne. He is opening a studio in Pinyon Pines that backs onto national forest land with an unobstructed view of the mountains and a light-enriched environment. Ferguson’s paintings are rich with color, as were those of the old…