Named 2016 ‘Music Evangelist of the Year’ Johnny Rowlett is a gentleman country singer honored as “Music Evangelist of the Year” in 2016 and 2018 by the Inspirational County Music Association. He is a Nashville recording artist with four top-five singles. Two of his songs, “The Truth Is” and “Old Mustang,” hit number one on…

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…

By Sally Hedberg Special to the Town Crier Last month, two Idyllwild mothers were running a marathon in Yellowstone National Park. “We started talking about a classmate of one of our boys who has Medulloblastoma or cancerous brain tumors,” said Cheryl Vladika. The other runner, Myla Davis, had just told her about James Bachmann, 12,…

The Children’s Choir enthusiastically belts out a carol at the Idyllwild Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony Saturday night.