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With details still to be resolved, it appears Kathy Sacher Wilson’s popular Idyllwild Haunted Ghost Town will move to Town Hall for its 12th year. Wilson confirmed an agreement in principle with Riverside County Regional Parks and Open Space District. The month-long event, from Friday, Oct. 9. through Halloween night, Saturday, Oct. 31, would feature…
Memories — fond, good, great and loving — are all that remain of the 22nd-annual Jazz in the Pines. Once again, the Hill has been graced with rhythm, mirth, blues and improvisation of beautiful jazz music. The festival’s popularity continues to attract thousands to Idyllwild for the two special days and to depend on the…
The Idyllwild Summer Concert Series’ 16th season ends with great dancing music from one of pop music’s greatest eras — Harold Wherry and his Blue Breeze Band return with their high-energy Motown, R&B, soul, funk and jazz. This year, Wherry adds singer Laia Jones who will mix it up with some of the biggest hits…
Just a little taste of some of the events on the Hill last week …
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,…
For Kathleen O’Boyle Walker, soon to star in Stratford Players’ “The Lion in Winter,” acting was the beginning — of everything. “In school I was very shy,” she recalled. “There were problems at home and I just went into a shell.” And as it has been with many artists, personal demons and difficulties can be…
The Idyllwild Community Park is active every week, especially during the summer with a weekly concert series. With the playground, par course, pickle ball court and paths, the site provides opportunities to the community and visitors year round. More is coming and the Idyllwild Community Center board will soon be announcing the next step, “Let’s…
Saturday morning from 10:30 a.m., then 10:45 and finally at 11 a.m., the three venues for the 22nd Jazz in the Pines will come to life with exciting, bold and attention-grabbing sounds. The Euphoria Brass Band will be the first, their horns sharing a special “N’awlins” sound with the attendees at the French Quarter. Fifteen…
Jazz in the Pines weekend begins Friday with the delicious and entertaining Patrons Dinner. On Saturday and Sunday, Strawberry Valley is subsumed in clouds of wonderful and special music — jazz, a truly American genre. This year, the 22nd Jazz in the Pines also introduces something new, but not the performers. In 2015, Idyllwild Arts…
Popular R&B band City Beat, incorporating the six-member Main Street Horns section, returns to the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series determined to keep the music professional and up tempo. Leader Ed Riojas, guitar and vocals, talked about the band’s reorganization and its expanded horn section. In previous appearances, City Beat was an all law-enforcement band composed…
