Apr 25 Thursday
Join us for the 12th Annual Oregon Fringe Festival! April 24-28, 2024.
Each spring, the Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University produces the Oregon Fringe Festival, a multi-day event celebrating bold, innovative, and outrageous creativity in the arts. The festival is first and foremost a crossroads for emerging artists and professional practitioners to engage with each other’s creative work. Our roster includes music, theatre, visual art, film, physical theatre, dance, circus, spoken word, and more, as well as panels and workshops for students and the greater community. Now in its eleventh year, the Oregon Fringe Festival is aligned with the rich history of The Fringe, an international movement exploring our innate creative spirit.
Mission Statement
The Oregon Fringe Festival is a boundary-breaking platform for free expression. We celebrate unconventional art and unconventional space. We work to secure a tolerant space for the sharing of ideas through the arts.
Take some time out of your Thursday to listen to music in the library. Musicians from Rogue Valley Symphony will fill the main floor of the library with music. Enjoy it in passing or sit for a while and listen. All ages are welcome
This series is presented in partnership with Rogue Valley Symphony.
Join singer/songwriter Alice Di Micele and her accompanist fingerstyle guitarist Andy Casad (the Fret Drifters) for an evening of acoustic Americana, folk, and folk-rock. "Alice's music has that great combination of earthiness and groove that keeps it funky from the inside out. She's for real." says Bonnie RaittKS Wild will be on hand with a table and a raffle to support their important work!
Apr 26 Friday
SunFolk Dancers!Easy and fun dances to live music (mostly from Eastern Europe).No experience needed.No partners required.11:00-ish to 1:00 PM every Sunday dancing to live music Come and join the fun at The Bellview Grange!
The Bellview GrangeEvery Sunday through Dec 29, 2024.
Vocalist Vanessa Finney & Seven-string Guitarist Mark Hamersly perform live music together as LoveNotes. The duet covers great 20th century composers from the U.S, Brazil, and Europe (think Duke Ellington, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Kurt Weill…) as well as songwriters like Melody Gardot, Leonard Cohen, Sting, and Stevie Wonder — all in a jazz style.
Alice Di Micele with guitarist Andy Casad. “Alice’s music has that great combination of earthiness and groove that keeps it funky from the inside out. She’s for real.” ~ Bonnie Raitt
The Cal Poly Humboldt Department of Dance, Music, and Theatre presents a joint concert of the Humboldt Wind Ensemble and Mariachi de Humboldt. Join us Friday, April 26th at 8:00 p.m. at the Fulkerson Recital Hall. Concert tickets are $10 General, $5 Children, and Free for Cal Poly Humboldt students with ID. Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance at centerarts.humboldt.edu From the "All Events" drop down menu select "Department of Dance, Music, and Theatre" and select your event.Mariachi de Humboldt celebrates its first year as an official Cal Poly Humboldt university performance ensemble, and will present favorite rancheras such as Cielito Lindo, Arboles de la Barranca, and De Colores. You will hear the upbeat Los Laureles, the heart wrenching Volver, Volver, and the stirring Tata Dios.The Wind Ensemble portion of the program includes La Malagueña de Salerosa featuring Pablo Murcia, tenor. La Malagueña de Salerosa is a well-known Son Huasteco or Huapango song from Mexico. The song is that of a man telling a woman (from Málaga, Spain) how beautiful she is, and how he would love to be her man, but that he understands her rejecting him for being too poor. Scenes from the Louvre, by Dello Joio, comes from a 1964 television documentary produced by NBC News called A Golden Prison: The Louvre, for which Dello Joio provided the soundtrack. The documentary tells the history of the Louvre and its world-class collection of art, which is in many ways inseparable from the history of France. This band version of Scenes from The Louvre is adapted from the 1965 Emmy Award winning original film score. The five movements of this suite pay tribute to the development of the museum and feature thematic material from the Renaissance time period.The ensemble will also perform All Those Endearing Young Charms by Mantia. “Like many virtuoso soloists of his era, Mantia was also a composer and often wrote the solos that served as the vehicle for his prowess on the instrument. Many of these solos took the form of a theme and variations, frequently featuring popular melodies of the time. Perhaps the most enduring of these classic solos is Mantia’s variations on the Irish tune For All Those Endearing Young Charms.” The piece features Nate Heron on euphonium.Grainger's Irish Tune from County Derry has stood the test of time for a number of reasons: colorful sonorities, straightforward accessibility, and a memorable climax.The Wind Ensemble Program finishes with Symphonic Dance No. 3 "Fiesta" by Clifton Williams. Fiesta was originally one of Clifton Williams’ five Symphonic Dances, commissioned by the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra to celebrate their 25th anniversary in 1964. In the original suite, each of the five dances represented the spirit of a different time and place relative to the background of San Antonio, Texas. Fiesta is an evocation of the excitement and color of the city’s numerous Mexican celebrations. The modal characteristics, rhythms, and finely woven melodies depict what Williams called “the pageantry of Latin-American celebration – street bands, bull fights, bright costumes, the colorful legacy of a proud people.”
Apr 27 Saturday