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Barnaby Finch and friends explore the hip highs and humorous lows of jazz and country music in their annual concert to benefit the Associates of Idyllwild Arts Foundation Scholarship Fund. Tickets for the Sunday, May 31, event are $40 and are inclusive of the 11:30 a.m. brunch, at the Fireside Room in Nelson Dining Hall…
Dwight “Buzz” Holmes is part of a distinguished lineage in Idyllwild’s musical history, part of a legacy begun when his father, Robert Evans Holmes, began conducting the Festival Choir at Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts in 1957 and formed the Idyllwild Master Chorale in 1975. Holmes Amphitheatre at Idyllwild Arts, the successor to…
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild stages its first double-feature art event on the weekend of June 13 and 14. Called the Sizzling Summer Plein Air and Working Artist Gallery Tour, the event pairs events previously held on separate weekends. Visitors and residents may view artists painting outdoors from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday…
The family of James Bachmann, 12, expressed gratitude to all who contributed to and participated in the Saturday, May 16, benefit golf tournament. Organized by James Wiesen and his wife, Michelle Adler, Idyllwild School teacher, the tournament, held at the Golden Era Golf Course in San Jacinto, attracted more than 50 golfers and raised more…
Photos of events and goings on last week.
The Idyllwild Community Fund is planning to assume full responsibility of the local Youth Grantmakers program for 2015-16. The Community Foundation of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, in conjunction with ICF, initiated the program in 2013 but decided it has successfully nurtured it and has withdrawn its financial and staff support. The foundation had funded…
Anna Ancheta teaches voice and how to project when singing, yet her own voice is quiet. Her accomplishments as a musician, conductor, educator and multi-discipline artist and intellect are stellar, and yet Ancheta is modest. Her contributions to community life, both in Idyllwild and in the Hemet/San Jacinto Valley, create civilizing influences that make…
“It will be fabulous,” said author Cherry Vanilla of her upcoming interview with Eduardo Santiago. She will be talking about her life with rock and roll royalty as recounted in her memoir, “Lick Me, How I Became Cherry Vanilla (by way of the Copacabana, Madison Avenue, the Fillmore East, Andy Warhol, David Bowie and the…
Jacqueline “Jackie” Rodriguez is the new recreation director at Town Hall. “I hope to bring Town Hall back up to the standards for which it was originally built — as a meeting place to bring the community together, with recreation programs for all,” she said. Rodriguez spent the previous three years working in a similar…
Paws for Rhythm and Brews, the first Animal Rescue Friends of Idyllwild beer festival, is Saturday, June 6, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Idyllwild Nature Center. Thirteen craft beer and cider brewers will be featured that day. During the festival, results of a home brewers competition will be announced. Submissions may be…
