Shows and Events

Here are comments on events and shows, usually music or the visual arts, most in the west, some farther afield. These tend to be smaller events. I rarely go to big-ticket concerts and I avoid "blockbuster" shows. (You can click on any picture to enlarge it. Use the back arrow on your browser to return)Click the comments count to leave a comment.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Fine Art in Las Vegas: What are the odds?

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If you live in Arizona, as I do, and drive north, you will find that eventually the road is blocked by the Grand Canyon. You have to go arou...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Tucson Glass Festival

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The Tucson Glass Festival was held from April 8-10, 2011 to celebrate art in glass. Originally the show was planned to be national but too ...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

T.S. Monk On Monk

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T.S. Monk, drummer and bandleader, is the son of renowned pianist and composer, Thelonious Monk. I think T.S. also stands for Thelonious S...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Joshua Redman

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I saw a great performance on an improbable Sunday afternoon by Joshua Redman’s quartet at Portland, Oregon’s Performing Arts Center. It was ...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Blues with Grace

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Abounding Grace Sanctuary, a Lutheran Church in Tucson, hosts local and regional music performances almost every week. Churches give me the...
Monday, January 10, 2011

The Ruins at Casa Grande

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This is not really a performing arts event, or if it is, it is one that occurred at least six hundred years ago. The Hohokam Indians of sou...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Gary Snyder, Zen Poet

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American poet Gary Snyder studied oriental languages in the mid ‘50’s at Berkeley, where he hung out with Beat writers such as Alan Ginsbur...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Native American Art in Santa Fe

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The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts recently had its grand re-opening in Santa Fe after a six month renovation. What I saw there was re...
Monday, July 12, 2010

Sunday on the Mountain

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Temperatures in Tucson are over 100 degrees F. for most of June, July, and August, so one hardly needs an excuse to visit Mt. Lemmon in the ...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Juneteenth at Arcosanti

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June 19 celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves, specifically, the slaves in Galveston, Texas, whose owners “did not...
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