Author: Staff@Sedona.biz

… it was beautiful down at the lake today … winds were calm, spring flowers are everywhere beautiful and life was everywhere. In one back bay we turned the engine off and just spent time listening to the sounds of nature … and we got some nice shots. Earth is still orbiting the sun and the sun continues to provide us with about 99% of our energy. It was warm on the lake today thanks to old Sol … still breathing and still loving this little planet we find ourselves on. I love the shot of the great blue heron…

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Sedona News – The Unauthorized Happiness Improv team is ROTFL for their April 18 comedy show at Mary D. Fisher Theatre. The month of April marks National Humor Month, and without it the troupe would not have an official excuse to giggle, chuckle, snort or spit-take. “Not that we need an excuse”, says UH Player, Carlo Habash. “We definitely would laugh either way, because we don’t need no stinking authorization!” Habash, who is known for laughing his signature belly laughs from off-stage at the players on-stage, is especially excited to show Sedona what humor means in the popular game, Town…

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… a fun thing I do when putting a program together is to revisit the photo galleries from prior years … I frequently find photos that have been overlooked or that are just so good I want to reshare them … start with the original raw file and process it anew with software that is generations ahead of where they were when the shot was taken. So above is an early morning shot looking north along SR 179 from just north of the Village of Oak Creek and heading into the wilderness area and quickly into Sedona proper. Dark skies…

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Sedona News – Sedona International Film Festival presents the Exhibition on Screen series with “Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition”. The event will show in Sedona on Tuesday, April 18 at 4 p.m. at the festival’s Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition” gives you exclusive access to the world’s biggest blockbuster exhibition of 2023. In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will open its doors to the largest Vermeer exhibition in history. With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous masterpieces including Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Geographer, The Milkmaid,…

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Sedona News – When you walk into the Sedona Library, you’re entering a vibrant community space where you’d have to get pretty wild to be shushed. Founded 30 years before Sedona became a city (so in 1958), our library has always been a welcoming place for the curious, eager to learn, avid readers, and hosts of other constituencies, like those needing computer help or wanting to nourish a love of reading in children and grandchildren. The Sedona Women pleased to present their monthly program, “Not Just A Quiet Place…The Sedona Community and The Library of the Future,” from library director…

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Sedona News – Renowned for his emotive performances and exemplary classical and flamenco guitar, the critically acclaimed Esteban will be performing multiple must-attend intimate concerts in Northern Arizona this spring. These include monthly performances at Sound Bites Grill in Sedona and two special Mother’s Day concerts in Prescott. Esteban’s Upcoming Concerts In Sedona: Everyone should experience Esteban’s residency performance at Sound Bites Grill in Sedona. This is an intimate dinner theater setting where you can enjoy a rare and unique experience of music mastery at its finest as Esteban blends his signature sounds with stories from his life and career. Performances…

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… restaurants always boast about the fresh catch of the day when touting their sea food … then there are those who actually catch their own on a daily basis, like our Western Grebe in the photo above. It is a tad on the large size for him as he swallows the fish whole fish head first (dorsal fins are a one way trip.) It was only moments before he had the fish down and on he went in search of more. I love the red eyes and the tufted hat he was wearing. Grebes spend almost their entire life…

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Sedona News – Renowned entertainer, Aspen Hall of Famer and former owner of the Crystal Palace Restaurant in Aspen, Colorado, Mead Metcalf — “The Music Man” — is performing his evening of song and satire one night only: Monday, April 17 at 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre in West Sedona — in celebration of his 91st birthday! For five decades, the Crystal Palace was known for cutting-edge political and social satire. Metcalf is planning on bringing a little of that and a whole lot of music to this very special show in Sedona. Metcalf’s show will feature…

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Verde Valley News – Award winning singer/songwriter Christy Fisher brings an evening of original to Camp Verde Community Library on Thursday , April 27 from 5-6:30. A multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and sound engineer, Christy crosses many musical genres from rock, pop, soul, groove , and electronica . Her 2022 album “Mixed Signals” won an album of the year award from the International Singer and Songwriters Association. She will be performing songs from her current albums along with previews of new releases that are upcoming in 2023. Switching between instruments, her performance will include guitar, 12 string, ukulele, Keytar, and piano …she will be showing…

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… life abounds on this little planet we call home and spring is the time of year when renewal of most species begins. Over the weekend I had the opportunity to catch up with a pair of red tail hawks that call the lower loop area home. The photo above shows one of the pair soaring along the cliff face near the nest … love the perspective on him as it is reminiscent of the air to air shooting I did of other planes … you do not get this view unless you are in another plane or in this…

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Sedona News – The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is honored to be the home for the Met Live Opera programs for the 2022-2023 season, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. The season continues with Richard Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier” live via simulcast on Saturday, April 15 at 9 a.m. and the encore presentation on Wednesday, April 19 at 3 p.m. Plan to come early as Ed Ingraham will lead a pre-opera talk one hour before the LIVE production on Saturday. A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aristocratic Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard…

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Sedona News – The Sedona Visual Artists’ Coalition (SVAC) is excited to announce the return of its annual Spring Open Studios Tour, taking place over the weekend of April 28-30, 2023 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Now in its 20th year, this beloved event – which is always free to the public – will feature 48  working artists across the Verde Valley who will open their private studios to visitors. Named one of the area’s top art events by the Sedona Chamber of Commerce, the self-guided Tour offers attendees an opportunity to visit with the artists in their…

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Arizona News – The Board of Directors of the Arizona Community Foundation has elected as chair Leezie Kim. Kim succeeds Robbin Coulon, Director of Legal Services for the Area Agency on Aging, Region One, who served as chair since 2021. A member of the Arizona Community Foundation Board of Directors since 2012, Kim served as vice chair, and chaired the Audit and Compliance and the Compensation committees. “Like me, Leezie is someone who grew up here in Arizona. She also led the CEO search that brought me to ACF,” said Anna María Chávez, ACF President & CEO. “In her role…

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Is Mercury in retrograde? Yes, it is, and Sedona’s only Second City-trained improv troupe is turning cosmic chaos into comedy gold. Join Zenprov Comedy on Saturday night at the Mary D. Fisher Theater for “Sedona in Retrograde!” The fun begins at 7:30 p.m. on April 29, and tickets are $15. “A few times a year, Earth’s orbit does this weird dance where Mercury appears to travel backward in the sky, which is referred to as ‘going retrograde’” said Derek Dujardin, director of Zenprov Comedy. “Astrologers say it’s a chaotic time when communication breaks down, and electronics seem cursed. Of course,…

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By Tommy Acosta Yes. Divorces can be painful but sometimes it’s for the better, as some survivors claim. The recent divorce between the Sedona Chamber of Commerce and the City of Sedona is bound to be painful, but in the end, it may turn out to be the best thing anyone can do for our town. Finally, the Chamber’s hands are untied, and they can go out there and advertise the be jeepers out of Sedona, making Sedona a household name from Madagascar to Alpha Centauri while drawing the kind of quality tourists this town badly needs. Sedona residents were…

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