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Washboard Joey and The Muddy Boots played traditional jazz Saturday night at Cafe Aroma during the 10th-annual Aroma Spring Jazz Festival. From left, Joey “Washboard” Sellers, trombone; “Blind” Doug Mattocks, banjo; Willy “Lips” McGee, trumpet; John “Bigs” Noreyko, tuba; Paul Carman, saxophone; Kendall “Sweets” Kay, drums; and Sydney “Bad” Badeaux, clarinet. Photo by Jenny Kirchner


Santa’s helpers (from left) Sherry Kaufman, Kelsi Lehman and Christina Edwards help Kaysa Garcia-Lande (front) send her letter to Santa.
By Mary KnabIdyllwild-area resident Editor’s note: This column, to run occasionally, is writtten by new resident Mary Knab, a bibliophile. This book was offered free on my Kindle app, and it sounded like it was in my fiction wheelhouse, so I gave it a try. A pregnant woman 40,000 years ago, Rebaa is left alone…
Art aficionados and friends of Carol Mills attended the evening opening of her retrospective artwork at the Courtyard Gallery on July 20. Dr. Evan Mills, Carol’s son, spent many months consolidating his mother’s lifetime of art through purposeful and thorough displays of 75 pieces of her many art forms which appear in a beautifully done…
Idyllwild Arts Academy Theatre Department breaks new ground with an original musical based on Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Heather Reba, IAA theater faculty and professional musical theater actor, wrote book, music and lyrics for “Welcome to Sleepy Hollow” and orchestrated her score for the IAA pit band. Reba is the…
The Red Hot Rhythm Rustlers, Arizona imports, are award-winning practitioners of Western music — the music of the American West, composed by and about the people who worked and settled the western United States and Canada. The five-piece group appears next, Thursday, July 23, for Ken Dahleen’s Idyllwild Summer Concert Series. Directly related musically to…
International musical group Ebb & Flow will present a choral workshop for experienced and aspiring singers followed by a concert of original songs and seasonal music at the Rustic Theatre. “The concept [of the Idyllwild appearance] is a fusion of instruction and performance,” said Gabby Gordon, singer, songwriter and pianist. Gordon is a Danish American…