By MinTze Wu

Redstone Review

Lyons

The Stone Cup Café will be showing imagery and fiber of Lisa Joyce for the month of December. The Taos-based artist and musician enjoys spending time in Lyons at the annual Song School. Her photography features semi-abstract compositions of nature, landscape, snow, sand, as well as unusual subjects such as mailboxes and barbed wires. Her fiber art also shows the artist’s sense of form, color, and fun, with stylish hats made from recycled wool felt scraps that are hand-dyed and sewn into freeform shapes. The cozy and environmentally conscious Stone Cup Café is located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and High Street. Visit www.lisajoycedesigns.com for more information about the artist; call 303-823-2345 about the show.

In January Kahlie Sue Pinello, daughter of Jake Pinello will display her art work at the Stone Cup. Her art work, her dream, her medium consists of found mirrors and anything else that tickles her fancy. “Different mirrors are asking for what comes next; paint, and then some humor, bright colors, mouse traps, dominos, marbles, stone, and more.  They are all as different as the beginning product,” she said. “My dad is the artist who opened the doors for my work. Together we paint murals, through good times and bad.  As family and teacher, we have painted together for 20 some years. We paint under the name Flat Rabbit Murals.” There will be a celebratory opening at 5 p.m. on Friday, January 8 at the Stone Cup at the corner of Fifth Avenue and High Street.

The next High Street Concert will be held on January 16 featuring the Long Road Home and Acoustic Mining Company. All shows start at 8 p.m. The doors open at 7 p.m. at Rogers Hall, located on 442 High St. Tickets are $15 in advance, available on-line at www.highstreetsconcerts.com or at the Stone Cup Café. For more information, please call 303-823-6433 or email info@highstreetconcerts.com.

Calling all student creative writers: all Lyons students ages 8 to 18 who live in the greater Lyons area or are currently in St. Vrain School District are eligible to participate. Students are asked to pen short stories from one of the following Greek myths, focusing the language on expressing the beauty, horror, and suspense of the transformation, and capturing the dreamlike, playful, and fantastical quality of these ancient tales using 400 to 650 words. Each contestant can submit up to three entries on Pygmalion, Arachne, Io, Narcissus, Daphne, and Hyacinthus. The deadline is March 15, 2010.

A panel will review the entries and announce the winners by March 25. The selected story will be featured at the 2010 Sounds of Lyons’ production Metamorphosis. Metamorphosis is an experimental ensemble piece that combines stories from Greek mythology and music of impressionist composers Satie, Szymanowsky and Ravel, woven together to portray the sonic world of transformation. Winners will have the opportunity to participate in the ensemble cast with the world-class musicians of Sage String Quartet, and to recite the story on stage, or listen to the interpretation of another reader, if desired. The writer of each winning entry will receive two Sounds of Lyons festival passes ($70 value), a $20 gift certificate good for any purchase at select local stores in Lyons, and the privilege of presenting artistic work to our community. For more information, contact mintzewu@hotmail.com, 303-249-7135. Please visit www.soundsoflyons.com for information.

Oskar Blues Cajun Grill and Brewery, 303 Main St., hosts live music almost every night. K.C. Grove and Friends will perform on December 19. Every Tuesday evening from 8 p.m. is the popular open bluegrass jam session. On December 18 Oskar’s welcomes Teresa Lynne Band, on December 19 Maynard Mills Band; on December 20 Cajun Brunch; on December 26 Bluez House and on December 31 Chris Daniels and the Kings. For the complete listing, please go to www.oscarblues.com or contact 303-823-6685.

Once in a Blue Moon, a Lyons-area art exhibit to celebrate the blue moon on December 31, 2009 will be held at the Lyons Town Hall. An artists’ reception will be held from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on January 23 at the town hall. The show will run for six weeks. The Lyons Arts and Humanities Council, LAHC, is inviting artists to submit artwork for this collaborative show. All artists are invited to participate. A 10-percent commission of any art sold will benefit LAHC projects. Please bring an appetizer to share. For more information contact Jul Swann at 720-220-0311 or e-mail jul@ohmsalonplusgallery.com before the end of this year. We will need the art no later than January 16, 2010.

Congratulations to Sounds of Lyons, which has been recognized as the top recipient of the Neodata Endowment Grant from Boulder County Arts Alliance. The BCAA is instrumental in promoting and facilitating cultural communities on the Front Range. There were many highly competitive applications, presenting a wide range of artistic endeavors and established non-profit art organizations throughout Boulder County. Along with Sounds of Lyons, those receiving the $1000 grant include Boulder Bach Festival, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Now or Never Theatre, Helander Dance Theatre, Boulder Ballet, Society for Creative Aging, Michelle Ellsworth, Square Product Theatre, After Hour Arts, and Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra. As a new festival stepping into its second season in June of 2010, Sounds of Lyons is quickly capturing the attention of the art scene with its refreshing, accessible, and innovative ways of presenting classical music.

Next season’s program will explore further the three directions characteristic of Sounds of Lyons: traditional chamber music, experimental ensemble piece, and musical journey. We will invite back the Sage String Quartet to collaborate with renowned clarinetist and CU professor Daniel Silver, and present two productions, Metamorphosis, inspired by Greek mythology and Passage: Finding Bach, built around Bach’s second violin partita. For detailed information on 2010 Sounds of Lyons and archives or recordings from 2009, please visit www.soundsoflyons.com.

MinTze Wu, director of the Sounds of Lyons, has announced the new website of Sounds of Lyons at www.soundsoflyons.com, with the exciting news on the upcoming season, as well as a wealth of archive from the last season, including audio recordings, photos, and a documentary of The Making of Death of the Pugilist.

From MinTze Wu: On a personal note, Jem and I are expecting our little baby girl, Adelaide, to arrive anytime now. She was there at the first Sounds of Lyons with all of us. We are just beyond excitement for the moment to arrive. Have a wonderful holiday season, and stay tune for Sounds of Lyons 2010.

Longmont

The Colorado Watercolor Society’s One Foot Show continues through December 19 at the Old Firehouse Art Center. In January, the art center will present an exhibit featuring the Studio Quilt Art Associates, an international art quilt group. This exhibit starts with an opening reception January 8 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and runs through February 20. Old Firehouse Art Center is at 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Paula Peacock is the art director for the Old Firehouse Art Center. For more information, call 303-651-2787 or go to www.firehouseart.org.

Boulder

MOMIX will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Friday January 29 at Macky Auditorium. MOMIX transports audiences from their everyday lives to a fantasy world through its trademark use of magical lighting and imagery. In an endless search for another gravity, Artistic Director Moses Pendleton combines athletic dance, riveting music, outrageous costumes, inventive props and pure talent to create an entertaining multimedia experience. The Best of MOMIX is a compilation of the company’s most famous and recognizable vignettes over 25 years of work. Single tickets cost from $15 to $60. Dance professor Erika Randall will hold pre-concert conversation at 6:45 p.m. in Macky Room 102.

Haochen Zhang will perform at 7:30 p.m. on February 18 at Macky Auditorium. The youngest participant in the 2009 Cliburn Competition, Haochen Zhang gave his debut recital at the Shanghai Music Hall at the age of 5, performing all of Bach’s two-part inventions, as well as sonatas by Haydn and Mozart. He made his orchestral debut at age 6, and moved to the United States at 15 to attend the Curtis Institute of Music. Tickets are from $12 to $52.

The shows are held at Macky Auditorium at University of Colorado campus. Tickets are from $12 to $52. Tickets and more information are available at 303-492-8008 or on-line at www.cupresents.org.

Boulder Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, now features the all-time favorite Singin’ In The Rain through February 14. Hollywood in the 1920s is the setting for this zany, light-hearted romantic comedy about the early days of sound film, when many a movie studio found itself scrambling to salvage the career of its chipmunk-voiced silent picture star. Tickets range from $35 to $55. Call 303-449-6000 or visit www.theatreinboulder.com.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s current exhibition includes The Surface and Beneath by California-based artist Heather Wilcoxon, whose paintings lie in the intersection between folk art, outside art and expressionism. Her work chronicles her view of misguided politics, greed, narcissism, power mongering, the military industrial complex, and the destruction of our planet. Fountain is a series of 24 photographs by Guggenheim fellow Andrea Modica’s focus on a slaughterhouse family of Fountain, Colorado. The city houses a community of families tied together by the realities of war and the business of government. Her work captures poignant images of children unfazed by the viewers who will analyze their existence, feel sympathy, and ask questions that cannot be answered. The current exhibitions run through January 17. BMoCa is at 1750 13^th St. For more information, visit www.bmoca.org or call 303-443-2122.

MinTze Wu is a classical violinist, music arranger and soon-to-be mother. If you have a listing for the Redstone Arts and Entertainment, please call MinTze Wu at 303-249-7135.

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