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Residents and visitors browse through the artwork of several local artists during the Artspresso Gallery Holiday Gift Show last weekend. Photo by Cid Castillo

Fourteen years ago, big band leader, clarinetist and Idyllwild resident Ken Dahleen saw a need for a summer concert series and persevered until he launched the first in 2000. Idyllwild is unincorporated, and in 2000 there were no civic budgets to provide summer concerts in the park. But Dahleen thought there should be free outdoor…
Steve Giove, retiring United States Marine Corps drummer and band leader, brings a septet of veteran USMC musicians to the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series. Whimsically named MCJAM, Marine Corps Jazz Alumni Musicians, the seven take stage at the Butterfield Commons at Strawberry Creek at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 28. Six are USMC veterans and one…
Besides great jazz, Bubba Jackson, artistic consultant for the 2012 Jazz in the Pines Festival, promises a two-day immersion in a jazz seminar …
Soboba Casino in San Jacinto hosts its 21st-annual Inter-Tribal Pow Wow from Friday, Sept. 15, to Sunday, Sept. 17, at the casino’s arena. Registration for a special contest begins at 4 p.m. Friday. The contest will be announced during the Pow Wow. Competitions also include dancing and drumming. A schedule of events includes Gourd Dancing…
Pamela Jordan, Idyllwild Arts Foundation president, announced that Mark Davis will join the Idyllwild Arts administration in a new position, director of Programs. Davis leaves a 24-year career at University of California Los Angeles in communications and marketing, with broad-based skill sets and areas of expertise that match the growing needs of the Idyllwild Arts…