By MinTze Wu

Redstone Review

Lyons

The High Street Concert Series presents Sarah Siskind and Travis Book and Slipstream on Saturday, March 13^th at Rogers Hall. Sarah Siskind is seen as one of today’s most eclectic songwriters with songs covered by artists such as Alison Krauss, whose rendition of “Simple Love” was nominated for Grammy in 2008. Travis Book is a bassist and vocalist in the acoustic-powerhouse group, the Infamous Stringdusters, winner of IBMA’s Emerging Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year Awards in 2007. The show is at 8 p.m., doors at 7 p.m. at Rogers

Hall, 442 High St. Tickets are $12 in advance, $14 on the day of the show, available on-line at www.highstreetsconcerts.com or at the Stone Cup Café three weeks prior to the show. For more information, please call 303-823-6433 or email info@highstreetconcerts.com.

The Stone Cup Café will be exhibiting the works of Wanda Plimmer and Diane Bergstrom. Plimmer’s passion for painting was rekindled after withdrew for 40 years. Since 2007 she has found great inspiration and solace in painting. Bergstrom is a Colorado mask-maker, photographer, poet and writer, inspired by the beauty in wilderness, where she collects experiences and items: a stick, a piece of bark or a strand of seaweed, Each mask is original and one-of-a-kind. 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 and call 303-823-2345 about the show.

The two-day music festival Sounds of Lyons is inviting students to submit stories for the “Greet Myth Contest,” with new deadline of March 25. In your own words create a short story from one of the following Greek Myths, Pygmalion, Arachne, Io, Narcissus, Daphne, and Hyacinthus. Focus the language on expressing the beauty, horror, and suspense of the transformation. Try to capture the dream-like, playful, and fantastical quality of these ancient tales using 400-650 words. Each contestant can submit up to three entries. Please go to www.soundsoflyons.com for contest information under News and details on the programs. The winners will be featured at a unique collaboration with music at the festival and receive two festival passes along with a $20 gift certificate good for any purchase at select local stores. Please email your entry(ies) to the director, MinTze Wu, at mintzewu@hotmail.com, or mail to P.O.Box 476, Lyons, CO 80540. Good Luck.

Oscar Blues Cajun Grill and Brewery, 303 Main St., hosts a great variety of live music almost every night. Highlights for this month include blues Informants Band on February 26, country rock Angie Stevens Band on February 27, rock and Americana Romano Paoletti Band on March 6, swing, jazz, and bluegrass Flexigrass on March 13. Every Tuesday evening starting at 8 p.m. is the popular open bluegrass jam session. All levels are welcome. Oscar Blues is proud of its great beer and food, exceptional bands, and Dixie-meets-the Rockies hospitality. For the complete listing, visit www.oscarblues.com or contact 303-823-6685.

On the Rocks Southern Bistro features singer/songwriter concerts every Saturday night from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., and open mic night on the first and third Wednesday of the month from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The restaurant is at 228 Main St. For more information, visit www.ontherocksbistro.com.

The Lyons Itinerant Poetry Society, LIPS, will share readings from the Dead Poets at 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 18 at the Lyons Town Hall. All itinerant poets are invited to pick several favorite poems from the extant literature to share. Readings on love, winter and spring are especially appropriate for this session. Dig out those poetry books and find some good things to read. All Lyons poets are featured for this special session. Feel free to R.S.V.P. if you plan to come and read, although that is not necessary. Join us and help to support live poetry in Lyons. There will be a snack gathering at Coco Gordon’s home across the street from Town Hall after this event. Please contact facilitator Sapan Rinpoche at 303-823-6477 or email at SapanRinpoche@sapanrinpoche.com for more information. All are invited.

The Lyons Arts and Humanities Council will host an art show titled Self Portraits at the Lyons Town Hall, starting in March. This will be a mixed-media show with photography, painting and other media used in the portraits. There will be a reception for the artists from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Saturday March 13 at the Lyons Town Hall. For more information, call Jul Swann at 720-220-0311 or email jul@ohmsalonplusgallery.com. These artists’ receptions where everyone gets to meet the artists are always a huge success.

Hygiene

Give your children the opportunity to express their creativity. Children ages five to 13 will have the opportunity to feed and play with the chickens and goats, collect eggs, work in the garden, harvest and eat the vegetables, and observe nature.  These experiences will be the inspiration for their art. The classes will be held Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cost is $195 per week. Mary Magdalena is a licensed art teacher who loves to bring out the best in her students. Her farm is a wonderful environment in which to learn, play and create offering a summer experience to remember. For information and to register, call 303-652-4004 or mary@marymagdalena.com.

Boulder

Boulder Bach Festival kicks off its 2010 season with an organ recital on February 27 at First Congregational Church, and Bach Symposium on February 28 at Atonement Lutheran Church in Boulder. Topics include “Johnny Bach in Avatarland: Immersion and Distance in Music and Liturgy,” and “Layers of Meaning and Spiritual Longing: the Motets.” The festival concerts will be held on March 5 and 6, featuring Boulder Bach Festival Chorus and guest artists violinist Krista Bennion Feeney, oboist Joseph Robinson, soprano MeeAe Nam, and bass-baritone Nikolas Nackley, in celebrated masterworks such as the Wedding Cantata, Jesu Meine Fraude Motet, Brandenburg Concerto, and Violin Partita no.3. Both concerts are held at 7:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder. Tickets are $25 with student and senior discount, available at the door and on-line at www.boulderbachfestival.org. For more information, please contact 303-776-9666 or visit the website.

CU Presents will feature 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Gold Medalist Haochen Zhang on February 18. The youngest participant in the 2009 Cliburn Competition, Zhang impressed the audience and panel with depth in musical understanding and subtle expressive nuance. The program will include works by Chopin, Brahms, Mozart, and Stravinsky. On February 28, Luna Negra Dance Theater joins the bold and ingenious Turtle Island Quartet and legendary composer and performer, Grammy winner Paquito D’Rivera in the program In Danzón (the official dance of Cuba).  Also featured by CU Presents from March 12 through 14 is Mozart’s masterpiece, the seductive and comic Don Giovanni. Performances will be sung in Italian with English subtitles. All CU Presents concerts are held at Macky Auditorium at University of Colorado campus. Tickets are from $12 to $52. Tickets and more information are available at the CU Presents Box Office at 303-492-8008 or on-line at www.cupresents.org.

Dairy Center for the Arts will host two events at its Performance Space. On Feb 24 at 7 p.m., KGNU Independent Community Radio will present a special screening of the critically acclaimed and award-winning documentary The Cove, produced by Boulder’s own Oceanic Preservation Society. The film details the horrific dolphin captures and kills in Taijii, Japan and the filmmakers’ cloak-and-dagger efforts to document the fishermen’s clandestine activities. Recommended for ages 13+, this event will benefit KGNU. On February 25 at 7:30p.m. Roadwings Entertainment will feature Happiness Is, a cinematic road trip that explores the myths and the truths of the pursuit of happiness in America. The film journeys through history, without boundaries or prejudices, in an attempt to understand what happiness truly is.  This special screening benefits the Colorado Coalition to End Hunger. Dairy Center for the Arts is at 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. For extensive event calendar and ticket information at the Dairy Center for the Arts, please call 303-440-7826 or visit www.thedairy.org.

Louisville Center for the Arts will present Coffeehouse Concert with the Jayme Stone Band on February 19 at 7:30 p.m. From the music of Bill Monroe and beyond, to Bach and its African origins, Stone explores the unique possibilities of the banjo. His latest album, The Utmost, won the 2008 Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year. Louisville Center for the Arts is at 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for seniors and youth under 15. For more information please contact 303-666-7400.

Boulder Public Library Canyon Theatre will present Celtic Celebration in honor of St. Patrick’s Day on March 16 at its Lunchtime Concert Series. The event is hosted by artist-in-residence and founding member of Boulder Acoustic Society, Kailin Yong. The event is free. Boulder Public Library is at 1001 Arapahoe Ave. For information please call 441-4492.

Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates the 200^th anniversary of Chopin’s birth on March 17 with a musical homage to this ambitious composer written by Polish composer Panufnik, and Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto. Featured soloist is Angela Cheng. A free 30-minute pre-concert talk by Don Campbell, world-renowned author of The Mozart Effect, precedes the show. The lecture is at 6:30 p.m. and the concert at 7:30 p.m. at Macky Auditorium of CU campus. For ticket information, please go to www.boulderphil.org or call 303-449-1343.

Boulder Theatre welcomes the Banff Mountain Film Festival on March 2 and 3 featuring short films celebrating mountain culture across the globe. Tickets are $18.95 for general admission. On March 12 and 13, Celtic Events presents Canadian Celtic-rock band Great Big Sea. Emerged from the unforgiving streets of St. John’s in Newfoundland, their album has sold cumulatively over one million copies in Canada.  The shows are at 8 p.m. Reserved tickets are $34. For tickets and more information, please visit www.bouldertheatre.com, or call 303-786-7030.

Boulder Dinner Theatre opens Chicago on February 19. In roaring 20s Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap, until he finds out he’s been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another merry murderess, Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the American dream: fame, fortune and acquittal. This sharp-edged satire features a dazzling score that sparked immortal staging by Bob Fosse. Tickets range from $35-$55. Boulder Dinner Theatre is at 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. For information and tickets, please contact 303-449-6000 or visit www.theatreinboulder.com.

Denver

Denver Art Museum currently exhibits Face to Face, exploring one of the oldest forms of art-the portrait. The 30 drawings featuring works from 16^th through the late 20^th century illustrate the short evolution of portrait drawing. While the earlier portraits reflect an eye for correctness of physical appearance, later examples show a looser, more relaxed approach with an interest in portraying the psychological as well as the physical.  The exhibition of Shape and Spirit: Selections from the Lutz Bamboo Collection continues, showcasing the wonder of bamboo through more than 200 objects, woven baskets, carved figures, and everyday tools, that capture the spirit and cultural character of their makers. Also on view through March 28 are works by Colorado artist, Allen Tupper True, Allen True’s West. His decades as an artist spanned illustrating and painting, and his reflections on the American West punctuate our everyday lives in the city of Denver and beyond. DAM is located on 13^th Avenue between Broadway and Bannock Streets in downtown Denver. Please call 720-865-5000 or visit www.denverartmuseum.org for more information.

Haiti Benefit Concert will be held on February 20 at 7:30 p.m. at St. John’s Cathedral in response to the recent devastation in Haiti. The program includes Fauré’s Requiem, Barber’s Adagio for Strings, and Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus.  Conducted and directed by Cynthia Katsarelis, musicians across Colorado come together in this collective effort of Colorado Haiti Project. General admission tickets are available for a donation of $40. A free-will offering for Haiti will also be collected during the concert. Corporate and individual sponsorships will be offered at the $100, $250, $500, and $1000 level. St. John’s Cathedral is at 1350, Washington St., Denver. For further information, please contact 303-577-7723 or visit www.sjcathedral.org.

MinTze Wu is a classical violinist, music arranger and a mother of a new baby girl. If you have a listing for the Redstone Arts and Entertainment column, please call MinTze Wu at 303-249-7135.

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