Jazz in the Pines, Art Alliance of Idyllwild, Idyllwild Arts and other arts and entertainment, theatre, live music and visual arts coverage. The most comprehensive arts and entertainment calendar covering the Idyllwild area.
Jazz as a form is delicious, surprising, exciting and inspirational — oh yes, and fun. This year’s menu, as crafted by festival gastronomists Marshall Hawkins and John Newman, has power, praise, passion and persuasion. And this musical mélange happens on all three stages — the main stage Holmes Amphitheatre for festival headliners, Stephens Hall for…
Grupo Bohemio returns to the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series serving up a variety of Latin musical beats and styles, including Spanish rock, Cumbia, Reggaeton and Tejano. Cumbia and Reggaeton have Caribbean and African roots, with Reggaeton taking a more contemporary form with hip-hop influences. Tejano was born fusing Mexican vocal traditions, and Czech and German…
The Dixie Machine, next at the Idyllwild Summer Concerts, are longtime veterans of Disneyland, having collectively logged 220 years of experience playing for the Walt Disney Company. The sextet, co-led by Rich Watson on drums and Brian Bettger on trumpet and vocals, played at all the Disneyland venues in many Disney iterations — the Disneyland…
“… I leave this stage tonight even more optimistic about this country than I was when we started… This generation coming up – unselfish, altruistic, creative, patriotic – I’ve seen you in every corner of the country… You’ll soon outnumber any of us, and I believe as a result that the future is in good…
Feature new jazz innovators and jazz legends Jazz in the Pines returns to its original roots, under the guidance of founder Marshall Hawkins and John Newman, Idyllwild Art Academy director of business operations. Gone are the days of smooth jazz headliners in Holmes Amphitheatre. From this point forward, producers intend to feature up-and-coming jazz innovators,…
Although there is a little more than a month left in the summer, the Idyllwild Nature Center still has many special programs for everyone. On the weekend of Aug. 5 and 6, butterflies will be making their annual appearance at Butterfly Daze both days from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. People can enter butterfly pavilions and observe Monarch butterflies at close range. Volunteers will be there to explain the life cycle of a butterfly and other pertinent butterfly facts.
Middle Ridge Winery Tasting Gallery is once again rotating the art exhibit in its 4,000-square-foot gallery with works to leave you feeling inspired and just a little groovier. Appropriately called “The Idyllwild Collection: Feeling Groovy,” the new exhibit features more than 150 works created by 26 artists from the Art Alliance of Idyllwild. “We are…
Local nonprofit Young Idyllwild has as its primary mission education — the mentoring and guidance of the young people of Idyllwild on how to become strong community leaders. Young Idyllwild was the vision of Kathy Sacher Wilson, who saw a need to coach and mentor Idyllwild young people though participation in projects that required cooperation…
Broadway veteran and triple threat Olsen covers all styles Any aspiring musical comedy performer must be a triple threat — able to sing, dance and act in order to be competitive and employable. And they must do all three very well indeed. Terri Olsen, who with her band The Perfect Blend, appears next at the…
Two stories to inspire and empower Susan Lake and Laura Meeks, both life coaches who focus on living one’s dream and personal empowerment, tell their stories at the Idyllwild Library. Lake is small and energetic, using her career as a writer/designer artist as a platform to coach her audiences about how to use their creative…
