Annette Schachner never forgets a face … at least not the ones she creates The 61-year-old El Dorado Hills jewelry artist incorporates faces into her beautiful silver jewelry — faces with calm looks and closed eyes, smiling faces surrounded by the sun, even dragon faces with fiery, red eyes — small, simple and detailed. Guests [...]
Tab Benoit brings his swampy blues to Three Stages Theater in Folsom on May 25. The Cajun bluesman was literally born on the bayou, or pretty close at least, in Houma, La., an hour’s drive southwest of New Orleans on I-90. He’s become Louisiana’s de-facto spokesman for the preservation of its wetlands. “This is my [...]
Step aside Tabasco, Cajun bluesman Tab Benoit is rapidly becoming Louisiana’s hottest export. In a rare west-coast appearance, Benoit brings his brand of swampy blues to Three Stages at Folsom Lake College in Folsom on May 25. Opening the show is local feel-good world music crew Mumbo Gumbo, who sound as fresh today as they [...]
Sometimes, when one grows up surrounded by greatness, it is easy to take it for granted – or not to recognize it for what it truly is. Take, for example, the Folsom Symphony. Eight years ago a “little local orchestra” was formed — the Folsom Lake Symphony Orchestra, as it was called at the time. [...]
The Folsom Symphony has announced it will begin offering its 2012-13 season tickets to new subscribers May 29. Season subscribers save up to 10 percent off the cost of individual tickets. The standard price for the full season of five performances ranges from $113 to $189, depending on the seat, and $90 to $167 for [...]
The first fiber arts show, Focus on Fiber, runs June 5-23 at Sacramento Fine Arts Center The local Fiber Arts group presents an open show including basketry, crochet, dyeing, fabric, felting, hooking, knitting, knotting, lace making, painting or printing on fabric, quilting, sewing, spinning, stitching, tapestry, thread, weaving, yarn and more. The Sacramento Fine Arts Center [...]
SACRAMENTO — What did three guys do in four minutes that got them barred from showbiz for life? Find out at “Triple Espresso,” a highly caffeinated comedy coming to Sacramento’s Cosmopolitan Cabaret for a limited eight-week engagement, June 1 through July 22. “Triple Espresso” is part improv, part musical and all comedy, with critics comparing [...]
