COLORADO ARTS CONNECTION
Colorado Arts news - Part 1 of 2
Send your information and copy for the next CAC
Arts News to Editor and Publisher Paul Saunders at artsnews@lpbroadband.net
THANKS!
Editor's Note:
The
wind blows and the snow is here and if you are lucky, your event will be packed
After that you can curl up at home with a good book, DVD or CD - and believe it
or not, a great radio station. I know - the are so many TV channels and perhaps
you will get lucky and find one that keeps you in a mellow mood. Oh - and
talking with friends and family is good. But please stay off current events,
religion and politics!
Cheers
and give thanks for those blessings we have,
Paul
Saunders
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AND NOW FOR SOME GREAT COLORADO ARTS NEWS
UNC/Greeley
Jazz Festival Announces Artist Lineup
(Greeley,
CO) The University of Northern Colorado is pleased to announce the artist
lineup for the 36th Annual
UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival, to be
held April 20-22, 2006, in downtown Greeley, Colorado.
The festival is the largest event of its kind in the nation, the
longest-running jazz festival in Colorado, and a cultural cornerstone in
Northern Colorado.
This
year's festival proudly presents the Colorado debut of the Grammy-winning Maria Schneider Orchestra;
New York Voices (another
Grammy-winner, performing with Colorado's own USAF Falconaires);
the Cedar Walton Quintet
featuring Steve Turre; Jim McNeely;
Nancy King; and the Jazz Festival All-Stars (short bios follow). Concerts are 7:30pm each
evening at the Union Colony Civic Center, 701 10th Avenue; tickets are $22-35 and are available by calling 800-315-2787 or
970-356-5000, or online at www.ucstars.com. A limited number of student discount tickets
($15) are available.
In
addition to the main stage concerts, the festival presents hundreds of hours of
educational activities plus late-night jazz sessions (see "Educational
Activities" and "After-Hours Sessions" below).
For
more information, visit www.uncjazz.com or call 970-351-2577.
UNC/Greeley
Jazz Festival is a university/community partnership offering outstanding jazz
artists and educational activities in pursuit of the mission and vision of the
University, as well as the festival's partners and sponsors. The festival
is made possible by its Cornerstone Partners: the UNC Jazz Studies Program, the
City of Greeley, and the Greeley Tribune, and is supported by the Colorado
Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Colorado General Assembly,
and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, "because a
great nation deserves great art." For a complete list of sponsors, visit
www.uncjazz.com.
Educational
Activities
Each
day, student groups from
throughout the U.S. perform for enthusiastic audiences and
nationally recognized artist/clinicians. In all,
300 groups will perform in five venues
throughout downtown Greeley. The 2005 festival welcomed middle school,
high school, college, and semi-professional groups from 12 states. In addition, the clinicians and main stage
artists will present
educational workshops on a
variety of topics. All daytime activities are free and open to the public. For more information, workshop schedules,
or to register to participate, visit www.uncjazz.com or call 970-351-2577.
After-Hours
Sessions
Friday
and Saturday evening, from 10:30pm-1:00am, after-hours sessions are presented in an intimate, non-smoking club atmosphere. These performances feature the outstanding
talent of some of the many artist/clinicians who travel to Greeley to work with
our participating students and educators. After-Hours Sessions are free and open to all ages on a first-come, first-served basis; no
reservations are accepted. For more information, visit www.uncjazz.com or call
970-351-2577.
Artist
Bios
Thursday,
April 20
New
York Voices with the USAF Falconaires
Nancy
King
New
York Voices is the Grammy Award
winning vocal ensemble renowned for their excellence in jazz and the art of
group singing (like great groups such as Manhattan Transfer and Take 6). They
will perform with the outstanding big band, the USAF Falconaires.
www.newyorkvoices.com
www.usafacademyband.com
Nancy
King has been called "one
of America's top jazz singers." King has been earning praise from critics
and audiences for over forty years and is featured with the great bassist Ray
Brown on the Telarc label as well as on many of her own recordings.
www.nancykingjazz.com
Friday,
April 21
Cedar
Walton Quintet featuring Steve Turre
Jim
McNeely with UNC Jazz Lab Band I
Cedar
Walton is widely regarded as one
of the finest jazz pianists of the last 40 years. His energetic and creative
playing has contributed to numerous historically important recordings including
John Coltrane's "Giant Steps."
Steve Turre is one of the most
in-demand trombonists on today's music scene and is known as a longtime member
of the Saturday Night Live band.
For
more on Cedar Walton, visit
www.uncjazz.com
For
more on Steve Turre, visit
www.steveturre.com
Grammy-nominated
pianist Jim McNeely has earned a reputation as an outstanding
composer and performer whose music is full of personality, emotion, and wit.
www.jim-mcneely.com
UNC
Jazz Lab Band 1 is the
university's top student jazz ensemble and won the 2005 Down Beat Student Music
Award as "Best College Big Band."
For
more on UNC Jazz Lab Band 1, visit
www.uncjazz.com
Saturday,
April 22
Maria
Schneider Orchestra
The
Jazz Festival All-Stars
The Maria Schneider Orchestra is regarded as one of the finest big bands in
jazz and features some of today's best players, including Tim Ries, Greg
Gisbert, and Clarence Penn, among others. The Orchestra's four recordings have
all been nominated for Grammy awards and their most recent, "Concert in
the Garden," won the 2005 Grammy for Best Large Ensemble Recording. The
group is led by composer Maria Schneider who has won awards, commissions, and
praise throughout the world.
www.mariaschneider.com
The Jazz Festival All-Stars is the professional big band in residence.
Comprised of some of the festival's nationally respected artist/clinicians,
their repertoire includes music by its members as well as newly commissioned
works. The All-Stars will be conducted by
Gene Aitken, UNC professor
emeritus and former Director of Jazz Studies.
www.uncjazz.com
www.geneaitken.com
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Colorado Theatre Guild
From:
Gloria Shanstrom <shanstrom@comcast.net>
Wow!
Twenty-two
Christmas shows, seventeen musicals and twenty-one comedies and dramas (and
those are just the ones I know about). Let's not forget about the Children's
shows, staged readings and all the wonderful improv.
With
so many of you working so hard on shows this year I wish you good health, time
for family and friends (and plenty of butts in seats).
If
you're cooking this year, feeling adventurous and in need of extra calories,
check out the figgy pudding!
http://www.cooksrecipes.com/dessert/figgy-pudding-
with-custard-sauce-recipe.html
More
soon,
Gloria
Shanstrom, Editor
Shopping
to Benefit Colorado Theatre Guild
It's
time for Holiday shopping and we know how easy it has become to shop online.
Why
not shop online while simultaneously donating to a cause? Eh?
The
Guild is now listed at two web sites where your shopping experience also gives
a donation to CTG.
All
the online favorites are listed
plus many unique stores.
Shop
at I Give at www.igive.com
or
Buy For Charity at www.buyforcharity.com.
Use
the list to shop or find participating merchants and raise money for the
Colorado Theatre Guild. The donations listed are the amounts that go directly
to us - click them to view any special rules or exceptions.
Both
web sites offer just about all the popular on line stores from iTunes to Ebay,
The Gap to Omaha Steaks!
There
are over 650 stores in these malls.
The
web sites are listed below in the Quick Links.
Just
click, choose Colorado Theatre Guild and shop!!
Items
of Interest
0.
AMAZING
DEALS ON TUXEDOES AND ALL THEIR PARTS!
0.
Varsity
Formalwear, located at 70 Broadway in Denver, is going out of business, and
their sale is spectacular. You can purchase jackets, tails, pants, vests,
cumberbunds, ties, and shoes for such prices as $1.00 to $10.00 If you tell
Sandy that you are with a theatre group, she will direct you to a large
selection of items that are yours for a pittance. Furthermore, if you wanted to
purchase a tux for your personal use, you could get a brand new tux fitted for
a song--$50-$150. They are trying to clear the place by the end of the year,
and it's huge. Finally, as of January 2nd, they plan to GIVE AWAY all remaining
items for the following 3 weeks, particularly to theatre folk. These are very
nice people, and their inventory is enormous and good. Be sure to appreciate
them properly, and tell them that Lynn from Coal Creek Community Theater sent
you!
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Boulder
County Arts Alliance
"BCAA
Community Opportunities" <bulletin@bouldercountyarts.org>
Providing
leadership, resources, and advocacy for the arts
Community
Opportunities Bulletin - Updated 12/1/2005
To
receive a LINKS ONLY version of this email, please reply and let us know.
Welcome
to the Boulder County Arts Alliance (BCAA) Community Opportunities Bulletin
which lists opportunities to help you promote or sustain your arts career or
organization, including:
Auditions
Call
for Entries
Classes/Workshops
Job
Openings
Other
Space
Available
BCAA
is a non-profit, membership-based organization, providing leadership,
resources, and advocacy to the arts community since 1966. Please see below for
more information about BCAA membership, submitting events, and subscribing and
un-subscribing to this list.
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Hello!
The
Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art is accepting applications for
the
2006 Rocky Mountain Biennial in Fort Collins, Colorado. The attached
"Call
for Entries" form is available to all artists living in any of the
seven
Rocky Mountain States of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah,
Arizona
and New Mexico.
If
you are an artist, news organization or arts organization here's how you
can
help us to spread the word about this important exhibition that
highlights
regional artists and provides a signpost of new directions in
contemporary
art:
1.
Post the following announcement in your newsletter, community calendar
or
bulletin board:
"The Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art is accepting applications
for
the 2006 Rocky Mountain Biennial in Fort Collins, Colorado. The
prospectus
and application is available at www.fcmoca.org from the
exhibitions
page. Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2006. Exhibition
dates
are May 30 - August 19, 2006."
2.
Forward this email with the attachment to artists and arts organizations
in
your community.
3.
Download the application and make it available to artists in your
community.
Thank
you!
Jeanne
Shoaff
Director
of Programs
Fort
Collins Museum of Contemporary Art
201
S. College Ave.
Fort
Collins, CO 80524
Phone:
(970) 482-2787
Fax:
(970) 482-0804
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The Holiday Season begins at Augustana Arts with The Colorado Choir
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In
this issue
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Augustana Arts - More than a great concert series
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To open the festive Holiday Season, Augustana Arts presents the Colorado
Choir,
Randolph ÒCaseyÓ Jones, conductor, in its annual Christmas Concert,
entitled
ÒLove Came Down at Christmas.Ó
*
Community Partner Event: Augustana Lutheran - Augustana Christmas Vespers
*
Augustana Arts Presents "Christmas-Baroque and Beyond"
*
Season Partner: Denver Center Theatre Company
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Season Partner: Mizel Center for Arts and Culture
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Community
Partner Event: Augustana Lutheran - Augustana Christmas Vespers
Saturday,
December 11, 7:00PM
Augustana
Lutheran sets the mood for Christmas as their choirs, handbell choir, and the
Musica Sacra Chamber Music present a special Vespers Service: "An
Augustana Christmas Collage" , a tapestry of Advent and Christmas music.
Message from Pastor John Pederson
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Augustana
Arts Presents "Christmas-Baroque and Beyond"
DECEMBER
17& 18 (SAT/SUN) 7:30 PM SAT/3:00 PM SUN
What:
Christmas music, from the Baroque to the
ContemporaryÑ
Charpentier, Midnight Mass for Christmas; Torelli, Christmas Concerto;
Manfredini,
Christmas Concerto, and the Carols of John Rutter, performed by the Augustana
Chamber Choir, the Colorado WomenÕs Chorale, guest soloists, and the
Musica
Sacra Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Guest Conductor Michael Shasberger,
Conductor Emeritus of Musica Sacra.
When:
Saturday, December 17, 2005, 7:30 PM and Sunday, December 18, 2005, 3:00 PM
Where:
Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 East Alameda Avenue, Denver
Tickets:
$15 Adult / $10 Senior / $5 Student
Advance
tickets are available at TicketWest.com, by phone: 1-866-464-2626,
and
at all King Soopers
Information:
303-388-4678
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Season
Partner: Denver Center Theatre Company
more
information and tickets -
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bbs5vqbab.0.7ivcwqbab.sc4v6obab.891&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denvercenter.org%2Fevent_calendar%2Fseason.cfm%3Fid_season%3D76047679%26CFID%3D749882%26CFTOKEN%3D85095867
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Season
Partner: Mizel Center for Arts and Culture
Don't
miss Steven Roberts (Cokie's husband) and Samuel G. Freedman talking about
their new memoirs; an imaginative program on Anne Frank; Nuremberg court
reporter Vivien Spitz; a luncheon with James Beard Award-winning Rabbi Gil
Marks; and a kids' event with Eric Kimmel. For information, call
303-316-6360
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Augustana
Arts - More than a great concert series
Augustana
Arts is more than just a great Concert Series. The programs of Augustana
Arts include City Strings, a program that provides twice weekly Suzuki string
instruction on an on-going basis to children in Aurora who otherwise would not
be able to have that experience;
The
Augustana Institute of Music, a community music school that offers individual
and group instrument and voice lessons to students of all ages and abilities;
the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, one of the metro areas only
semi-professional chamber orchestras; The Colorado Women's Chorale, a chamber
choir that celebrates the rich tradition of women's choral music; and AVE, a
professional acappella vocal quartet.
Augustana
Arts is an
independent
501(c)(3) organization, funded by individual and corporate donations, grants,
ticket sales, and tuition.
Augustana
Arts provides outreach to the Denver Public Schools and provides 100 free
tickets to every event to Senior Centers, halfway houses, and other social
service agencies through Artreach. To find out more, contact Donald Tallman,
Executive
Director
at 303.763.9638
Visit
our website -
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Alpine
Quilt Guild Show
Showing
at the Rotary Gallery at Center Stage in Evergreen
Contact:
Lorene Joos, Director
Tel:
303-674-0056
Email:
evergreeneaca@aol.com
www.evergreenarts.org
ALPINE
QUILT GUILD SHOW AT THE ROTARY GALLERY AT CENTER STAGE IN EVERGREEN:
Showing
at the Rotary Gallery at Center Stage in Evergreen. The show will
run,
January 6 to February 13, 2006. An artist reception will be on Friday,
January
6 from 6 to 8pm. This event is free and open to the public.
The
Alpine Quilt Guild began in 1992 to create a forum for anyone interested
in
quilting and needle arts in the mountain community. Members work on
individual
as well as charitable projects. The Guild meets at the
Rockland
Church
on
the third Monday of every month from January through November at 7pm. For
more
information on the Guild, please call 303-526-0177.
The
Rotary Gallery at Center Stage is open Monday through Friday, 9am to 12
noon,
and during performances, on Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at
2pm.
Directions, take Highway 74 to Meadow Drive to Iris Drive and Right to
Firewood
Drive.
For
further information, please call the Evergreen Arts Center at
303-674-0056
or Center/Stage at 303-670-9182.
WINTER
/ SPRING ART CLASSES: The
Evergreen Arts Council presents Fall Art
Classes
at the Evergreen Arts Center. Classes take place January through May
2006.
For class information and registration, call 303-674-0056, go to
www.evergreenarts.org
or stop in at the Arts Center for a class Brochure.
Fulfill
your new year‰*ªs resolutions and get to your creative adventurous
side!
The
Center is located next to the Buchanan Park Recreation Center, 32003B
Ellingwood
Trail, and is open Noon to 5pm Tuesday through Sunday.
The
Evergreen Arts Council is a non profit 501 C3 Tax Id No. 84 0718563.
For
further information please call the Arts Hotline at 303-674-4625 or the
Evergreen
Arts Center at 303-674-0056.
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SWALLOW
HILL
MUSIC ASSOCIATION
Denver's
Home for Folk, Roots & Acoustic Music
PRESS
RELEASE
For
Immediate Release
Thursday,
December 1, 2005
Contact:
RJ Betancourt
rudy@swallowhill.com
| 303.765.2488
Celebrate
Hanukah early with Los Lantzmun
WHAT:
Concert by Los Lantzmun
WHEN:
Sunday, December 18, 2005. 7 p.m.
WHERE:
71 East Yale Ave., Denver, CO 80210
TICKETS:
$12 in advance, $15 day of show
INFO
& TICKETS @ Swallow Hill: www.swallowhill.com, 303.777.1003
PHOTO
(GREG): www.swallowhill.com/images/artists/highrez/LosLantzmun001.jpg
Denver,
12/1/05 - After past sell-out concerts, Los Lantzmun returns to Swallow
Hill on Sunday, December 18 at 7 p.m. with its high-octane Jewish-world-beat
music that the band calls "Jewish World Fusion." The seven-piece band
of Colorado locals Hal Aqua, Alan Greenberg, Sherman Jacobs, Naviella Lapidot,
Michael Mendelson, Miriam Rosenblum, and Ira Sherman plays a toe-tapping fusion
of Eastern European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern music, sung in Hebrew,
Yiddish, English, and Ladino (a Judeo-Spanish dialect) and fueled by driving
percussion. They will be performing songs from their critically acclaimed new
release Lantzville, hailed by
Tikkun Magazine's music critic
Rabbi Jack Gabriel: "What I love about Lantzville
is the versatility, musicality and sense of pleasure that the gang gives
me."
The
name "Lantzmun" comes from Yiddish meaning "someone from your
town," or "kinsman." They perform Klezmer tunes to mystical
Middle Eastern trance chants to salsa-tinged Spanish ballads fusing traditional
songs with modern style and a wide range of instrumentation that includes oud,
mandolin, button accordion, dumbek, djembe, congas, upright bass, messenger
bass, guitar, pennywhistles, recorders and more. Don't miss this pre-Hanukah
celebration!
For
tickets and information, visit us online at www.swallowhill.com or call
303.777.1003. Discounts available for Swallow Hill members.
About
Swallow Hill Music Association:
A
Colorado non-profit organization with twenty-five years of grassroots advocacy
for folk, acoustic and roots music, Swallow Hill Music Association is one of
the largest institutions of its kind in the United States. With more than 2,000
members-some of whom are also volunteers, Swallow Hill provides a place to
celebrate music that is rarely heard elsewhere in the Rocky Mountain Region.
Three concert venues house more than 150 performances a year, featuring some of
the world's great artists as well as up-and-coming new talent. Swallow Hill
provides a valuable and affordable extra-curricular educational resource to the
community with more than 50 music instructors involved in more than 240 adult classes
and 70 children's classes annually.
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year
end opportunities.........
The
NUTCRACKER has a few versions, but if you need to know how the
Nutcracker came to be, then the collaboration of Ballet Arts Theatre and Ballet
Ariel
at
the Cleo Parker Robinson Theatre 119 Park Ave. West ( 20th & Washington
St.)
in
Denver. Featuring Paul Noel Fiorino as the Cavalier, partnering the Sugar Plum
Fairy, Kate Brogen; This production is affordable for the entire family.
$14 Adults
$11 Students & Seniors $7 Children 12 & under.
Group
rates are available. 303-282-9828
Directed
by Ilena Norton, Paul Noel Fiorino and Patricia Renzetti
December
16 & 17 at 8pm Sunday Matinee December 18 @ 2pm
Sponsored
in part by SCFD and Denver Office of Cultural Affairs
A
special fund raiser is offered in association with Colorado Arts Consortium
Peter
MAX painting your portrait is being offered, along with 2006 Winter Olympic
Posters and other drawings, paintings and lithographs. Call 303-825-7570
The
Denver Musicians Association www.dmamusic.org has launched a CD Album of
Singer/Songwriter
Paul Noel Fiorino, to benefit Ballet Arts and the many programs
the
31 year nonprofit organization in the Golden Triangle Arts District presents.
This
first
release is premiering on the website of the DMA Music Store dedicated to local
talent
and members of the Union. Please mention BAT as a reference. Thank you.
Thanks
for Giving.
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Newsworthy... Denver, Utah Tourism Funding Jumps... Denver
voters approved a one percent increase in the lodgers tax, from 13.85% to 14.85
%. The initiative, supported by two thirds of the voters, will add $4 million
to the coffers of the Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau for
marketing the city as a leisure and convention destination. Web Site:
www.denver.org. Thanks to a generous appropriation from its state legislature
last spring, the Utah Office of Tourism will be taking a giant leap forward in
its tourism marketing efforts, including special attention to be given to
cultural and heritage tourism. From a $900,000 annual budget, the Council will
have $10 million in the current fiscal year ending in 6/30/06 and $8 million in
the following fiscal year.
