Performing Arts
The Acoustic Guitar Is Alive and Well Today in Concert Performances
If you are getting on in years, as I am, you will recall a period in American music when the acoustic guitar was a vital instrument in popular music. It was played extensively by hit […]
An Enchanting House Concert
Imagine, if you can, a large country estate, isolated, surrounded by vineyards, orchards and agrarian fields. Having a great room, with a vaulted ceiling and walls lined with original paintings, able to hold over 50 […]
Applications now open for Britt’s String Quartet Academy and pre-concert music series
Britt is now accepting applications for two summer programs: the returning String Quartet Academy, and the pre-concert music series on Britt’s Performance Garden stage.
“BElieve in YOUrself” A celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.
Central Point’s 2nd annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., will be from 6-7pm on Thursday, January 15th. King was the chief spokesman for nonviolent activism in the civil rights movement, which successfully protested racial […]
Siskiyou Singers Capture And Celebrate the Holiday Spirit
Siskiyou Singers performed their 2014 holiday season concert on December 12, 13 & 14 under the direction of Mark Reppert, at the SOU Music Recital Hall in Ashland.
Art Inspires Art in Season 4 Rising Stars
That a music competition of this caliber could happen in a small, historic town like Jacksonville, Oregon is a testament to the phenomenal commitment to the musical arts in the greater Rogue Valley. This coming […]
Unstoppable Force Makes Intangible Concept Real and the Result is Spectacular!
On Saturday, November 15, a Gala Celebration Concert and reception were held, commemorating the opening of the new Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University. It’s a grand sounding institution, but don’t go […]
“Why the Long Face?” – The Life of a Pelican
The Ashland Independent Film Festival presented two special benefit performances over Thanksgiving weekend of the new documentary film, Pelican Dreams, by Judy Irving, whose previous film, Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, won the Festival’s Audience […]
So You Want To Sing!
If you’ve been reading Jacksonville Review’s reviews of performing arts events in the Rogue Valley, you’d get the impression that our community offers top quality entertainment, performed by international touring virtuosos, skilled professional musicians, and […]
It Pays to Live in The Rogue Valley: A Rare & Historic Piano Concert
On Friday evening, November 14, the Oregon Center for the Arts’ Tutunov Piano Series presented for its second concert of the season, pianist extraordinaire, Francesco Nicolosi, to a packed house at the SOU Music Recital […]