The Valley Sun

Michael Franti & Spearhead

The Sun Valley Center for the Arts presents: Michael Franti & Spearhead at River Run Lodge Monday, August 15, 2011. Tickets available only through the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. This is an outdoor concert.

Sun Valley Resort is offering a special package that includes concert tickets and a one night stay on August 15. Double occupancy: $219 / Single Occupancy $184
For concert & hotel package info call: 800-786-8259

Michael Franti is the creator and lead singer of Michael Franti & Spearhead. For over two decades, The Bay Area born Franti has been bringing our world exceptionally powerful, deeply felt music. His latest release, The Sound of Sunshine, is a kind of musical sun shower, a bright, beautiful and often buoyant song cycle created to bring all kinds of listeners a sense of hope during rough and rainy times. The album marked the highest chart debut of Franti’s career on the Billboard Top 200 and continues to find success on the charts with singles "The Sound of Sunshine", "Hey Hey Hey" and his latest release "I’ll Be Waiting". Franti’s impressive series of recordings have vividly reflected his status as a musical citizen of the world as he continues to bring his unique sound and inspiring message to fans everywhere.

"To play for people and share your songs with them is to make a real connection," says Franti. "And as a musician I was on tour with put it recently, ‘Our fans didn’t come to us from a reality show. They came to us from reality.’ And so, we mean something in their lives. We’re the music they put on when they drive their little kids to school, or hang out with the person they love at night. So they have an investment in the music. And that means so much because this music is very personal to me too."

"Known for mixing rock, rap, reggae, soul and other styles into a musical gumbo all his own, Franti delivers songs that will force the listener to stand up and ‘Shake It’" – Associated Press

Rickie Lee Jones

The Sun Valley Center for the Arts presents: Rickie Lee Jones at River Run Lodge on Tuesday night, August 2. Tickets are available only through the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. This is an outdoor concert.

Sun Valley Resort is offering a special package that includes concert tickets and a one night stay on August 2. Double occupancy: $249 / Single Occupancy $214
For concert & hotel package info call: 800-786-8259

Grammy Award winner for Best New Artist in 1980, Rickie Lee Jones has spent her career challenging her listeners and the establishment with an absorbing musical vision that defies border and classification. She rocked the culture of singer-song writerdom with her refusal to conform to the staid and careful eloquence of the folk rock generation that came before her. Neither punk nor pop, she wove a thread of her own devising, jazz – the old musical kind, and R&B – the Motown thread that permeates her work.

The Avett Brothers

The Sun Valley Center for the Arts presents: The Avett Brothers in the Sun Valley Pavilion Wednesday, July 13, 2011.
Tickets available through the Sun Valley Center for the Arts only. Pavilion and lawn seating available.

Sun Valley Resort is offering a special package that includes concert tickets and a one night stay on July 13. Double occupancy: $219 / Single Occupancy $184
For concert & hotel package info call: 800-786-8259

The Avett Brothers (pronounced eh-vitt) is a folk rock band from Concord, North Carolina. The band is made up of two brothers, Scott and Seth Avett, who play the banjo and guitar respectively, and Bob Crawford who plays the stand-up bass, Joe Kwon, cello, and Jacob Edwards, drums. The Avett Brothers combine bluegrass, country, punk, pop melodies, folk, rock and roll, honky tonk, and ragtime to produce a sound described by the San Francisco Chronicle as having the “heavy sadness of Townes Van Zandt, the light pop concision of Buddy Holly, the tuneful jangle of the Beatles, the raw energy of the Ramones.”

Signed by legendary producer Rick Rubin (Johnny Cash, Tom Petty and the Dixie Chicks to name a few) in 2008, the Avett Brothers’ 2009 release “I and Love and You” reached #16 on Billboards’ chart of bestselling albums. Known for their rowdy, infectious live performances, the Avett Brothers’ concert coincides with Sun Valley’s hosting of the National Mountain Bike Championships which is July 14-17.

Colin Hay

The Sun Valley Center for the Arts presents: Colin Hay at the Sun Valley Opera House on Sunday, September 18 at 7pm. Tickets available only through the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.

You may know the name, you likely know the voice, but you have not seen a show like the troubadour-style solo performance by Scottish-born, Australian-raised, California-dwelling, Men at Work frontman, Colin Hay. He’ll bring a guitar and his distinctive voice to Sun Valley and will intersperse his classic and new songs with hilarious, poignant, and downright surreal stories drawn from his often unbelievable experiences over the past three decades. Please note: Colin Hay’s shows contain adult language and material that may not be suitable for all ages or audience members.
"Hay’s charm and reputation as a raconteur on stage also endear him to audiences." The Age – theage.com.au

De Temps Antan

Since 2003, Eric Beaudry, Andre Brunet and Pierre-Luc Dupuis have been exploring and performing time-honored melodies from the stomping grounds of Quebec’s musical past. Using fiddle, accordion, harmonica, guitar, bouzouki and a number of other instruments, our three virtuosos blend boundless energy and joie de vivre found only in traditional Quebec music.

De Temps Antan concert starts at 6:30pm, Saturday, March 12, 2011 at the Sun Valley Opera House located in the Sun Valley Village.

Tickets are $20 & $30 (non members) available only through the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.
Call (208) 726-9491 for tickets and more information.

Bring your March 12 concert ticket to a Sun Valley Resort Restaurant the same day as this show and receive 10% Off dinner.
*Offer good only at Gretchen’s, The Ram, Bald Mountain Pizza, The Duchin Lounge and The Inn Lobby Lounge. (Alcoholic beverages not included / one discount per ticket)

Sweet Plantain

Sweet Plantain, a string quartet that specializes in genre-blurring, original compositions and arrangements as well as contemporary works by Latin American composers. Their unique style fuses Latin, classical, jazz and improvisational forms.

Concert starts at 6:30pm, Friday, March 4, 2011 at the Sun Valley Opera House located in the Sun Valley Village.

Tickets are $20 & $30 (non members) available only through the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.
Call (208) 726-9491 for tickets and more information.

Bring your March 4 concert ticket to a Sun Valley Resort Restaurant the same day as this show and receive 10% Off dinner.
*Offer good only at Gretchen’s, The Ram, Trail Creek Cabin, Bald Mountain Pizza, The Duchin Lounge and The Inn Lobby Lounge. (Alcoholic beverages not included / one discount per ticket)

Raul Midn performs his heady fusion of old-school soul, Latin jazz and folk-pop in the Sun Valley Opera House Friday, December 3 at 6:30pm. Tickets are $20 for members and $30 for non-members on sale now only at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. www.sunvalleycenter.org

New York based vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Raul Midn has always experienced the world differently than most. Born prematurely in a rural hospital in Mexico, he and his twin brother, Marco, were accidentally blinded as infants after spending time in an incubator without eye protection. Midn followed a musical path inspired by his father, a professional Argentine folkloric dancer. Midn studied jazz at the University of Miami and after graduating became a backup singer, working primarily in the Latin-pop world for such artists as Julio and Enrique Iglesias, Shakira, Ricky Martin and Alejandro Sanz. In 2002, Midn walked away from his lucrative work as a back-up singer to pursue a career as a solo artist. Since striking out on his own Midn has produced three solo albums and received accolades for his music’s heady fusion of old-school soul, Latin, jazz and timeless singer/songwriter folk-pop.

Singer/Songwriter Crystal Monee Hall grew up singing in the church choir and went on to perform with Disney Entertainment and as a soloist in the Tony Award winning musical "Rent."
On Friday November 19 at 6:30pm Crystal Monee Hall will smoothly combine the sounds of folk, gospel, jazz and blues in the Sun Valley Opera House. Tickets are $20 for members and $30 for non-members on sale now only at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. www.sunvalleycenter.org

The Sun Valley Center for the Arts Presents:
Sir Salman Rushdie
Friday September 10, 2010 at 7pm (rescheduled from original February 11, 2010 date)
Sun Valley Pavilion
$30 / $40 nonmembers
Tickets are ONLY available through the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.

Raised in India and Pakistan and educated in England, Sir Salman Rushdie is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors and critics of our time. His novel The Satanic Verses provoked a fatwa (religious edict) by Ayatollah Khomeini calling for his death, as a result of which he spent nearly a decade “underground,” seldom appearing in public. A leading proponent for free speech, Rushdie was knighted by the British government in 2007.

Tickets are ONLY available through the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.

Lecture Sponsors:
Martine and Dan Drackett, Wodecroft
Foundation & Judith and Richard Smooke

The Sun Valley Center for the Arts Presents:
The Campbell Brothers
Saturday, December 12 at 7:30pm
Sun Valley Opera House
$20 / $30 nonmembers
The Campbell Brothers present “Sacred Steel”: African American gospel music with electric steel guitar accompanying the vocals. This tradition is just now emerging from the House of God Keith Dominion Church, where for sixty years it has been an integral part of worship. As the music moves from sanctuary to concert hall-the group has appeared at the Hollywood Bowl, the Kennedy Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music-secular audiences are able to appreciate a performance both devotional and rocking. The Campbell Brothers present a rich variety of material from the African American Holiness-Pentecostal repertoire with a new twist: the growling, wailing, shouting, singing and swinging voice of the steel guitar, played as you have never heard it played before.
A part of the 2009/2010 Winter Performance Series, sponsored by Gail and Jack Thornton.

Tickets available ONLY through the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.