Tony Furtado, Slide Guitarist, Banjo Wizard, Songwriter. 2/25
Saturday, February 25, 2012 • 8pm
Tickets: $20/advance, $22/door, $10/teens 12-17,
children under 12 are free with paying adult.
Unitarian Fellowship, 4th and C Streets, Ashland
"He mixes bluegrass roots with a mainstream pop streak, easily holding the spotlight, thanks to his restrained virtuosity on acoustic and slide guitar and a warmly engaging voice reminiscent of T Bone Burnett, sans preachiness." - PASTE Magazine
"As a banjo virtuoso, Furtado is well-known for his envelope-pushing, progressive bluegrass stylings. His picking is rapid-fire quick, sharp and clear, and puts him in the school of Béla Fleck and David Grisman." - Katie Klingsporn, Telluride Daily Planet
If you've followed Tony Furtado's prolific music career at all you won't be surprised to know that his 15th album, Golden, is loaded with several impressive firsts. For the first time, he has self-produced and penned every track. It is also the first time his own artwork - a sculpture of a two-headed rabbit - has been featured on the cover. However, on what is arguably his most engaging recording to date, one first marks this album more than any other. After 20 years of recording, touring basically living on the road, it is the first time Furtado has ever recorded an album in the town that he calls home.
For more information, please go to St Clair Productions

Labels: Music

All the King's Men February 1 - 27, 2012

by Robert Penn Warren

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Set in Louisiana in the 1930’s, this powerful play examines the life of opportunist Willie Stark, a character based on Governor Huey Long, one of America’s most extraordinary politicians. The smart and manipulative Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes, tough-talking assistant Sadie Burke, newspaper reporter Jack Burden, Jack's elegant fiancée Anne and her idealistic brother Dr. Adam Stanton. The play confronts the question, does absolute power corrupt absolutely?

For more information on the Camelot Theater

Labels: theater

Saturday, January 21
With the exciting development of introduced legislation for protections of the Wild Rogue, this month is a great time to reengage with the Rogue and the campaigns for its protections. Join Lesley Adams, Program Director of Rogue Riverkeeper, and Shane Jimerfield, our new Siskiyou Wild Rivers Director, on the hike and discuss the history of the region, developments in the campaign, and to learn about important ways that you can play a role in protecting the public lands and tributary streams of the Wild Rogue.
Carpool will leave Evo's Coffee in Ashland at 9:30am (just downhill from the Chanticleer). Or, meet the group at the Grave Creek Boat Ramp at 11am.

Labels: Hiking

Grants Pass High School, Performing Arts Center
Friday, January 27th 6-9:30pm
Saturday afternoon, January 28th, 2pm
Saturday evening, January 28th, 7pm

Preview events held in Ashland, Cave Junction, Williams, Medford, and Grants Pass (details below).
Become inspired by international conservation efforts, plug-in to local groups, and support a regional, conservation-focused, community event! KS Wild's Siskiyou FilmFest features films on sustainability and critical issues that face our region and the planet - join us!
FilmFest Pass today for only $10.
The theme of the Festival is Sustainability: Community, Ecology, Economy. Films will focus on issues that affect us locally or globally with an eye towards solutions, as well as actions individuals and our greater society can take. Visit the website to see a sampling of films to be shown.

Labels: Festival, Film festival

Spotlight on: The USO January 12 - 22

From it‘s establishment during the big band era in the early 40‘s, through the years of change in the 60‘s and up until the present, the USO (United Service Organizations) brought America and the boys (and girls) overseas entertainment, hope and a “home away from home” during the most challenging of times. Celebrities offered their services often at great risk to themselves. Live performances, known as Camp Shows, attracted movie stars, comedians, musicians, singers and dancers, including Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, The Andrew Sisters, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Robin Williams and Willie Nelson.

For more information on the Camelot Theater

Labels: Musical theater

Guy Davis, Acoustic Blues and Storytelling
Saturday, February 4, 2012 • 8pm
Tickets: $20/advance, $22/door, $10/teens 12-17,
children under 12 are free with paying adult.
Unitarian Fellowship, 4th and C Streets, Ashland
We are so jazzed to be bringing Guy Davis back to Ashland. He appeared twice at the Rogue Valley Blues Festival. First time in 2003, he performed his one-man play "In Bed With the Blues: the adventures of Fishy Waters." The second time in 2005 when he performed on the main stage on Friday evening and also gave a children's presentation on Saturday.
Guy Davis (born May 12, 1952) is a blues guitarist and banjo player, actor, and musician. He is the son of actors Ruby Dee and the late Ossie Davis. Davis says his blues music is inspired by the southern speech of his grandmother. Though raised in the New York City area, he grew up hearing accounts of life in the rural south from his parents and especially his grandparents, and they made their way into his own stories and songs. Davis taught himself the guitar (never having the patience to take formal lessons) and learned by listening to and watching other musicians. One night on a train from Boston to New York he picked up finger picking from a nine-fingered guitar player. His first exposure to the blues was at a summer camp in Vermont run by Pete Seeger's brother John Seeger, where he learned how to play the 5-string banjo.
For more information, please go to St Clair Productions

Labels: Music

Workshops: Darol Anger Fiddle and Mike Marshall Mandolin
Saturday, January 21 • 10am-Noon
Tickets - $40
Place: Unitarian Fellowship, 4th and C Streets, Ashland • Cost: $40
Fiddle Workshop with Darol Anger
Mandolin Workshop with Mike Marshall
For intermediate to advance players. Workshops will take place in separate rooms.
For more information, please visit St. Clair Productions

Labels: Music, workshop