The Tower Theatre Foundation kicks-off its CenterStage Series with performers from Kenya, Zimbabwe and Tanzania staging pole acts and human pyramids, Egyptian limbos, South African gumboot dances, Gabonese tumbling and Ethiopian contortions—all accompanied by live music and percussionists. “This is the kind of event that defines the diversity and purpose of the Tower Theatre,”…
Sunday, October 26 attend the performance of C. Daniel Boling, 2014 winner of the Kerrville New Folk songwriter contest. Daniel shares experiences from a life well-lived in places as far ranging as Okinawa, Japan and Padre Island, Texas. Daniel plays his well- crafted story songs coast-to-coast in over one hundred shows a year. First time…
Sunriver STARS Community Theater has scheduled its season opener for October 24-26 at the SHARC. This play is an exciting murder mystery called, Murders In The Heir inspired by the board game, CLUE. This is a who dun it? that involves audience participation. Toward the end of the show, the audience votes on the killer….
BendBroadband’s Jazz at the Oxford is a monthly jazz series in the intimacy of Bend’s The OXFORD hotel, featuring three performances on one weekend each month beginning October 24, 2014 and running through March 21, 2015. This year’s series line-up features appearances by trumpet legend Randy Brecker, Brazilian guitar virtuoso Diego Figueiredo with acclaimed French…
February 15, 1964, News In Brief put it this way: “There are rumors abound that the [Beatles] are Britain’s revenge for the Boston Tea Party.” In mid-December 1964, I Want to Hold Your Hand began playing on U.S. radio stations. When the Fab Four played The Ed Sullivan Show two months later, captivating 60…
From writers of Weird Science, The Simpsons, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Desperate Housewives with music by Dan Studney and lyrics by Kevin Murphy, Reefer Madness comes to 2nd Street Theater October 24-November 8. The play will be directed by Tom Atkinson and Nancy Scher, musical direction by Rick Buckley. 2nd Street Theater/Stage…
The Friends of the Redmond Branch Library present its first annual C-Note Sale in the Redmond Branch Library. Visit the library until October 17 to purchase these fabulously-priced artworks on sale. No painting or photograph over $100. Artwork by DRCI is exempted from this sale. In conjunction with the C-Note Sale, the Friends of the Redmond…
The two person exhibition of photography by Gary Wing and Linda Ziegenhagen is featured through November 7 in the brewery’s taproom. Wing grew up in western Montana, and it was there in the Rocky Mountains he developed a love of the outdoors, either hiking or riding his horse in the mountains behind his house….
The Deschutes Cultural Coalition is a program of the Oregon Cultural Trust that distributes funding to local cultural organizations dedicated to program excellence and the delivery of arts and culture programs accessible to all. The 2015 grant application is available through the Arts Central website, www.artscentraloregon.org. The navigation bar labeled Cultural Trust takes…
October 19 at 7:30pm at Tower Theatre from their first down-beat in 2002, through tours with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, The Greencards have won hearts and acclaim for their multi-dimensional Americana vision. The Greencards recent GRAMMY nominated album, Sweetheart of the Sun produced by Gary Paczosa (John Prine, Alison Krauss, Sarah Jarosz) is…
