FOLSOM — Now in its 12th year, the idea behind International Guitar Night is simple. Four guitarists share their compositions, the stage and their ideas in a special evening of solos, duets and quartets — all highlighting the virtuosity and diversity within the world of acoustic guitar. Founded by guitarist Brian Gore, International Guitar Night [...]
At this season’s opening concert for the Folsom Symphony, Maestro Michael Neumann conducted a brief experiment with the audience. “Listen to this passage from Tchaikovsky’s ‘Symphony No. 4′,” he told them before the symphony performed a few brief phrases of the piece. The music was beautiful. “Now, close your eyes,” Neumann said. “And this time, [...]
SACRAMENTO — “Forbidden Broadway,” New York’s longest running musical comedy revue, opens Jan. 27 at the Cosmopolitan Cabaret for a limited eight-week engagement through March 14. Parodying the beloved songs and characters from Broadway’s biggest hits such as “Wicked,” “Phantom of the Opera” and “Les Misérables,” this show has been entertaining audiences all over the [...]
Aspiring Artist Debut 2012 — a free art exhibit open to new artists who have never shown in a juried exhibition — is sponsored by Northern California Arts Inc., located at Sacramento Fine Arts Center, 5330B Gibbons Drive in Carmichael. All media accepted — drawing, mixed media, oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, photography, and sculpture. The [...]
FOLSOM — The human fascination with light is universal. Using dark as a canvas and light as the brush, Luma blends physical movement with hi-tech illuminated objects to paint a very human story about light. In an afternoon performance suitable for the entire family at Three Stages, fireflies dance, shooting stars flash across the stage, [...]
It was red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach and … a Broadway classic and favorite. “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” will be presented five times by the middle and high school youth at Lakehills Church in El Dorado Hills, Jan. 27-29. The five show schedule is [...]
It is an annual gathering dating back 1991—Mark Hummel assembles some of the finest blues musicians and, in a tribute to the mighty harmonica, takes them out on the road. This year the Blues Harmonica Blowout comes to Three Stages on Jan. 21 and features Charlie Musselwhite, Curtis Salgado, Billy Boy Arnold and Sugar Ray [...]
