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Ken’s Big Band Staff returns to Idyllwild Thursday, Aug. 15. Led by Ken Dahleen, the creator and producer of the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series, the Big Band Staff will sweep you off your feet with luxurious harmonies and rhythms beyond 3/4. The heyday of big bands was the 1930s and 1940s. But they are neither…
Amy Finley, author of “How to Eat a Small Country: A Family’s Pursuit of Happiness One Meal at a Time” will talk about her family’s six-month moveable feast odyssey through the French countryside as the next author in Eduardo Santiago’s Idyllwild Authors Series. Finley’s account of that journey, is not just about food …
The Idyllwild Nature Center has recently received a grant to enlist middle school and high school students for summer paid internships. Those accepted will help design and implement the Junior Naturalist Program for ages 7 to 12. Six seventh and eighth graders and two high school students will be selected. Once selected, the interns will…
Always a highpoint of the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series (ISCS), the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Band stationed at 29 Palms returns as the closing act for the 12th season, on Thursday, Aug. 18. The 51-member band has been such a popular part of Ken Dahleen’s series that its annual appearance is almost synonymous…
‘Inspiration by the Human Voice’ showcased on Nov. 11 Oleh Krysa explains that he “became a musician because of Ukrainian folk music” sung to him by his mother decades ago. That bottomless well of personal and popular memory will spill over Krysa’s audience in William M. Lowman Concert Hall on Nov. 11, when he brings…
Southern Californians dream of a white Christmas as they move about in a palm-tree-studded holiday landscape. The decorations are there — giant snowflakes, Santa in a sleigh, Christmas trees on street corner lots, but the temperatures are warm and snow is out of the question. But in Idyllwild, in most years, a Currier and Ives…