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Lisa Haley closes Summer Concert Series
Lisa Haley and her Zydekats close the 14th Idyllwild Summer Concert Series. Wildly popular with Idyllwild audiences, Haley and her trademark blue fiddle return on Thursday, Aug. 21, to raise the musical temperature, heighten the humidity and spread the contagion known as zydecosis — an infectious inability to refrain from dancing, from smiling and from…
Students learn mechanics of bagpipes
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Jazz fest 2014 going forward
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Sports: Volleyball
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New director Terri Sena guiding Spirit Mountain Retreat
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