


Photo by Cheryl Bayse

Photo by Cheryl Bayse

Photo by Cheryl Basye










PHOTOS: Idyllwild’s Tree Lighting ceremony
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The Children’s Choir enthusiastically belts out a carol at the Idyllwild Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony Saturday night. Photo by Peter Szabadi















Steve Perez, Idyllwild Nature Center ranger, confirmed last week the Lemon Lily Restoration Day will not be occurring this year.Butterfly Daze also will not be happening this year.Some good news is that Trail of the Acorn is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30.
Ken Young, educator, artist and actor, returns to the Idyllwild Community Recreation Council Speaker Series, as French impressionist Edgar Degas. Beginning in 2007, Young brought to life for Idyllwild audiences a number of great painters including Rembrandt, Picasso, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Diego Rivera. He takes the stage as Degas at the Rainbow Inn…
Han Xiao “Helen” Lai, an 11th-grade classical music student at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, is one of 111 semifinalists in the Los Angeles Music Center’s 2016 Spotlight Awards. More than 1,100 performing arts students from Southern California auditioned. This year’s semifinalists come from Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties. The Music Center program, now in…
By Donna ElliotArt Alliance of Idyllwild The Art Alliance of Idyllwild (AAI) Gallery and Visitors Center is closing Thursday, Sept. 1. Nam Park generously sponsored the property at 26364 Saunders Meadow Road since October 2020. It will now revert to a more commercial enterprise. Prior to this space, AAI ran the Courtyard Gallery, with Evan…
Next month’s Idyllwild Jazz in the Pines will feature many artists who are returning and familiar to the faithful audience. But one voice will make her inaugural visit to the mountain amphitheatre. Diane Schuur will step onto the Holmes Amphitheatre stage Saturday, Aug. 17, for the first time. Schuur, now living in Palm Desert, is…