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Music and art come together at Town Hall
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Music and art come together at Town Hall

Saturday June 17, the weather was perfect, everyone was rocking and many people left happy carrying art they had won at the “Eye of the Artist” and “Call of the Wyld” events. Town Hall’s outdoor stage was the venue for an art gallery and a concert. The “Eye” event is the Art Alliance of Idyllwild’s…

Art’s Corner
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Art’s Corner

Whatever the circumstances were involved in the delay of Idyllwild Master Chorale’s regular spring concert presentation to nearly two months after the Easter season were quickly mitigated by last Saturday night’s performance in Lowman Concert Hall and in the chorale’s subsequent follow-up on Sunday at St. Hugh’s Episcopal Church’s Labyrinth area. Artistic Director Dwight Holmes’s…

Native American Arts Festival starts June 18
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Native American Arts Festival starts June 18

Idyllwild Arts Foundation presents its annual Native American Arts Festival (NAAF) Week at the Idyllwild Arts campus from Sunday to Friday, June 18 to 23. The weeklong event, which has run each summer for over two decades, is designed to enhance and enrich the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program with Native American arts-based programming, including an…

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Art’s Corner

Whenever the occasion arises for a live music concert here in the various set locations in Idyllwild, hope issues forth for a glorious outpouring of sound which, given the opportunity, should be able to roll down the mountain ridges with the fluid ease of the many creeks and rivulets now in evidence. Thus, Monday, May…

Paul Carman talks about taking students to jazz fest
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Paul Carman talks about taking students to jazz fest

The Town Crier had the opportunity to catch up with Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) Jazz Faculty member Paul Carman this week. He and his students recently returned from one of the high points of their year, the trip to the Reno Jazz Festival. This tradition for jazz educators across the West is now in its…

Palm Desert gallery featuring IAA exhibition
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Palm Desert gallery featuring IAA exhibition

Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) debuts its spring 2023 off-site student exhibition with a reception from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 5, at Melissa Morgan Fine Art Gallery, 73-660 El Paseo, Palm Desert, a prestigious contemporary gallery in the heart of El Paseo The IAA Visual Arts students are excited to show their work once…

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Art’s Corner: Delirium Musicum

As always in the past, the specific contours of Idyllwild Arts’ Lowman Concert Hall prove more than receptively ideal for the projection and preservation of string sonority, whether in chamber music or in a full orchestral complement. Thus, the stage was set for the Idyllwild debut of that intriguingly-titled ensemble known as “Delirium Musicum” this…

Art Department offers much — for nonartists, too
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Art Department offers much — for nonartists, too

This week, the Crier met Marla Sparks, proprietor of Art Department, which shares with Mountain Pottery the newly remodeled building at the corner of Pine Crest Avenue and Maranatha Drive, one of local developer Shane Stewart’s projects. Together, the two businesses make up a “creative corner” where locals and visitors alike will find the unexpected,…