

Photo by John Drake





Photo courtesy Idyllwild Library

Photo by John Drake


Photo courtesy Annamarie Padula

Photo by Tom Kluzak

Photos by Peter Szabadi


Photo by Tom Kluzak



Photo by Peter Szabadi

Photo by Peter Szabadi
PHOTOS: This week in Idyllwild: May 4, 2017
By Idyllwild Town Crier


















As a special treat to the community, “The Idyllwild Summer Concert Series has added a ninth concert this summer,” Ken Dahleen, series producer, announced last week. “John King and Change Required will perform on Friday, Aug. 24.” Just as the last concert of the 2017 ISCS, this will be a dance party dedicated to all…
The Idyllwild Master Chorale presented “Nocturnes” Saturday evening, April 1, at the Idyllwild Arts’ Lowman Concert Hall. Dwight Holmes conducted the chorale, which was accompanied by Edwin Hansen. The first piece was Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo.” Later, they put music to poems from a variety of authors.
Dwight “Buzz” Holmes is part of a distinguished lineage in Idyllwild’s musical history, part of a legacy begun when his father, Robert Evans Holmes, began conducting the Festival Choir at Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts in 1957 and formed the Idyllwild Master Chorale in 1975. Holmes Amphitheatre at Idyllwild Arts, the successor to…
Pete “Pedro” Anderson, a much-loved Idyllwild musician, storyteller and artist, died suddenly and unexpectedly from the rapid onset of massive pneumonia. According to his sister Sue Anderson, Pete had played local gigs only days before he died. Friend Rick Barker said he was in fine voice and ebullient spirits at a recent Higher Grounds engagement….
Lindsay Crater started third grade at Idyllwild School, finished eighth grade and, like many, went on to Hemet High. This August, she returned to her alma mater to teach fourth grade. “I grew up here,” said Crater. “It’s still the same magical place, as open and beautiful as it was when I was a child.”…