Sedona News – Chamber Music Sedona is proud to present the final concert of its 41st season with “Star of the Saxophone” on Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 3 p.m. at the Sedona Performing Arts Center. Performed by the versatile and charismatic saxophonist Steven Banks and brilliant pianist Xak Bjerken, the concert will feature a program that combines classical works with arrangements and original compositions. In celebration of the season finale, “Star of the Saxophone” will be preceded by a spring salon featuring pianist Adam Golka on Tuesday, April 23 at 5:30 p.m. in the intimate setting of a private…
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Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present Stand-Up Comedy Night live onstage at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Sunday, March 17 at 7 p.m. The show will feature headliner Manny Hernandez with Jamie Anderson opening the evening. MANNY HERNANDEZ Hernandez has been honing his comedy craft since the age of 18, and he has been clawing his way to the top ever since. Having his first TV appearance 3 years later on Telemundo’s Loco comedy jam and Que Locos. He has worked in clubs all over the country. Manny uses his Latino upbringings to…
Twenty-four years into his career, impressionistic wildlife sculptor Joshua Tobey has begun to reflect on where he started and where he wants to go. The son of renowned sculptor Gene Tobey received an incomparable art education while working side by side with his dad – who quickly taught him to find his own style. That style, characterized by a smooth-as-glass texture and vibrant proprietary patinas, continues to evolve. Joshua will return to Sedona on Friday, April 5, from 4 to 7 p.m., and Saturday, April 6, from 1 to 4 p.m., for his annual one-man show at Rowe Fine Art…
Sedona News – The father/son duo of Robin and Eric Miller will be performing their live in concert on Saturday, March 16 at 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. There is a certain and undeniable magic that is experienced by audiences when attending a musical performance by the father/son duo of Robin and Eric Miller. With shining vocals, and beautiful harmonies, these two seasoned performers transport their audiences into deeper levels of inspiration and fun. Both Father and Son are remarkable songwriters with numerous CD’s as well as extremely accomplished guitarists. …
By Tommy Acosta Sedona, AZ –Former Glen Campbell bandleader Jeff Dayton plays a two-night weekend at Sound Bites Grill in Uptown Sedona starting Friday, March 15, from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, March 16, from 7 to 9 p.m. For his solo Friday show, Dayton, a songwriter and recording artist in his own right, takes you on a trip through time and his 15-years playing with Campbell, sharing insights only a true friend and insider can know. For his Saturday show Dayton brings on his band, comprised of Arizona veterans John Murray on acoustic bass; Ron Rutowski on fiddle…
… she has been getting a little restless lately and spending a lot of time looking at birds flying around the yard … she slipped out of the house for a while and I searched for her in vain … then I got a text from at the airport with a photo he had just taken of a very cool jet about to depart on runway 21 … sure enough Katie was at the controls and she had even changed the N number … must have been a good flight as she is now curled up in one of her…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Chamber Music Sedona for a special encore of “A Late Quartet” in celebration of the Chamber Music Season on Thursday, March 21 at 4 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “A Late Quartet” pays homage to chamber music and the cultural world of New York. The film features incredibly moving performances from a cast including Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Mark Ivanir and Imogen Poots. youtu.be/mcfNpaMxlP0 When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet receives a life changing diagnosis, the group’s future suddenly…
Sedona News – Join the City of Sedona, Oak Creek Watershed Council, and Arizona Water Company at Crescent Moon Picnic Site to celebrate World Water Day! Date: 03/22/2024 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Location: Crescent Moon Picnic Site 333 Red Rock Crossing Rd. Sedona, Arizona 86336 The goal is to provide water resource education to the public in a fun outdoor setting! Through hands-on activities, you will get a chance to survey macroinvertebrates in the Oak Creek, learn how water moves underground, and discover how stormwater flows through Sedona! Click here for more information about the event. Click here for event registration.
Sedona News – Keep Sedona Beautiful will hold its next Preserving the Wonder Speaker Series event on Wednesday, March 20 at 5:00 pm. This month’s speaker is Roxanne Holland, Director of Wastewater for the City of Sedona. Her topic will be “City of Sedona Treated Wastewater Quality and Management.” Please visit the KSB website, www.keepsedonabeautiful.org for details. Roxanne’s talk is the second part of a series on Sedona water quality and management. Hear from Sedona’s wastewater management expert on how the City of Sedona has treated wastewater and managed the quality of that water, disposed of treated wastewater (effluent), how…
By Tommy Acosta — Sedona, AZ — The recent killing of 11 legislative efforts to regulate short-term rentals proves one thing for sure: you can’t mess with the concept that “A man’s home is his castle.” Plain and simple, it’s unconstitutional for the state, feds, or local municipalities to tell homeowners what they can or can’t do with their homes. A tremendous amount of time and money has been spent to figure out how government can govern or curtail the operation of STRs… all for naught. Government can try as it might to control STRs. Telling a homeowner they can’t…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory It’s a puzzle and all puzzles have edges, the outliers of the mass of contradiction within. Within the puzzle of aliveness lies every possible imagining, and those quite unimaginable to the opposing edges. It’s cool that puzzles, like life, have edges all around, edges of the polarities, left and right, up and down, all across, all possibilities. Is there any one of us who sits in the middle of the puzzle without leaning towards one edge or another? We seem to scoop up bits and pieces of belief along the way. It’s not a flat earth,…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Accord Hospice and Palliative Care, Unify Sedona, PFLAG and Hospice Foundation of America to present a live theatrical performance of “Lily” and a discussion on Thursday, March 21 at 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Accord Hospice & Palliative Care is continuing their educational efforts by partnering with the Hospice Foundation of America (HFA) to marry theater and Advance Care Directive education through the AD Project – a series of 10-minute plays that feature different relationships and settings to illustrate the importance of putting your…
… a distinct lack of imagination in the caption tonight … but the images are blue or at least a significant portion of them is. The photo above was taken from SW of Rogers Lake on the Colorado Plateau looking towards the NE. Above the lake are the San Francisco Peaks draped with a a lot of snow … February so that is to be expected … clouds, blue sky and blue reflection of the sky on the lake. It was a wonderful day to be aloft! Below is a photo I took of a Great Blue Heron as he…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “New York Dog Film Festival 2024” showing March 15-19 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. https://youtu.be/VUJAdYP1laE?si=-kyqZ2wAatm6WcSp Join us for a family-friendly escape to the movies and celebrate everything DOGS! “New York Dog Film Festival 2024” is a joyous communal experience, only available in theaters, featuring 13 short films. Films featured in the 2024 lineup include: • MacGregor the Scot: A music video celebrating a Border Collie bred to run and herd sheep whose life path takes him in a different direction. • Deborah: A woman…
Verde Valley News – Signs of spring are in the air: warmer temperatures, budding flowers … and a brand-new OLLI catalog, ripe with opportunities for Verde Valley seniors to widen their world in a community of adventurous hearts and curious minds. Registration has begun for the Spring 2024 Session at YC’s Verde Valley Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), and it all begins with their new catalog, at www.yc.edu/ollisv. The new OLLI catalog is chock-full of courses – old and new – to stimulate seasoned adults in the Spring session, beginning April 1 and running through May 9. Classes in all…