Saturday, January 18, 2014

Celebrated Fado Singer António Zambujo Appears At Harris Center In Folsom

A leading voice in the revival of male fado singers, António Zambujo brings his distinctive style to Harris Center for the Arts for just one performance on January 27.

With his earthy songs, honeyed tones and sensitive interpretation, Zambujo has emerged as one of the best modern fado artists. According to Le Figero, he has “The most beautiful male voice of fado today.” One night at a Zambujo’s concert a female audience member was overheard to say “If boys could express themselves like that, how easily we would be won over!”

Fado, the legendary Portuguese tradition that evolved in the port cities in the early 19th century, has a place on UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage. Unlike rural forms of folk music where a single culture is often responsible for the evolution of the genre, fado is an urban folk music, originating in the port city of Lisbon, where many cultures met and merged over centuries.

The expression of fado is beautiful and melancholy, characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics, often infused with a characteristic sentiment of resignation, fatefulness and melancholia or saudade—a Portuguese word meaning longing for something that is eternally lost and will never come back. Fado combines elements of Portuguese country folk music with Moorish and African influences, among others.

António Zambujo will perform on Monday, January 27, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are priced at $19-$29; Premium $39; Students with ID $12. Tickets are available online at harriscenter.net or from Harris Center Ticket Office at 916-608-6888 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and two hours before show time. Parking is included in the price of the ticket. Harris Center is located on the west side of Folsom Lake College campus in Folsom, CA, facing East Bidwell Street.

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Friday, January 17, 2014

Placer County Barnyard Hoedown February 1st

The Placer County Barnyard Hoedown is coming up February 1!

Join them for a kick your boots off good time at the Placer County Fairgrounds.

For your entertainment Branded band will perform along with Hank Biggs.

Ticket includes BBQ dinner with all the fixin's. Also look forward to a full sized mechanical bull, OV Cornhole, Cow Chip Bingo and more!

Buy your tickets online now and save $5 off your adult admission ticket.

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Contact the fair if you would like to help or volunteer at lindsay@placercountyfair.org

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Jazz Piano Virtuoso Brings Musical History To Harris Center

Jon Weber, a spectacular solo pianist, whose brilliantly crafted spontaneous orchestrations easily place him in the rarefied company of today's elite jazz musicians, has been praised by All About Jazz as “ a virtuoso - pure and simple.”

Harris Center for the Arts will serve as the venue for Mr. Weber as he presents From Joplin to Jarrett: 100 Years of Piano Jazz in Folsom beginning January 23rd.

Joplin to Jarret serves as a concise history of jazz piano with an emphasis on the earlier composers from the first half of the 20th Century. Over 100 years of music interspersed with musical excerpts with Weber’s insights and anecdotes reveal a lifetime's worth of impassioned research. His extraordinary facility for recall and analysis allow him to form fascinating and unexpected connections between artists of different eras, their development and influences in jazz piano.

Jazz pianist Jon Weber has recorded and toured all over the world, winning numerous honors for performance and composition – scoring extensively for television since 1987. Gary Burton, Roy Hargrove, Niels-Henning, Ørsted Pedersen and Avishai Cohen have all recorded Jon’s music, and his newest critically-acclaimed release, Simple Complex, rose to #1. “Brilliant,” acclaims the New York Times.

Weber fell in love with jazz music at age three, listening to his father's records and mimicking them on a toy organ. When he was five, his grandmother gave him her old pianola, along with 2000 piano rolls. By the time he was six, he had learned all 2,000 tunes. Now Weber has a storehouse of more than 20,000 tunes at his disposal.

Weber shared some of his early memories that helped prepare him for his current success. “When I was a child, my father invented simplified versions of Scott Joplin rags for me to play on the piano. As I grew older, I started struggling with the original versions, replete with complex syncopation, double octave stretches and break-­‐neck tempos. Several decades later, I'm still wrestling with those rags. It takes an enormous amount of skill to play them well-­‐ to give each note the clarity and weight it deserves, and maintain the beat with precision at any speed.”

By age 19, Jon’s jazz quintet had opened up for Pat Metheny, Buddy Rich, Freddie Hubbard, and Stanley Turrentine. Now a favorite at New York’s 92nd Street “Y” jazz series, performing piano duos with Dick Hyman, Cyrus Chestnut, and Bill Charlap, Jon Weber—a true original—is rapidly emerging as a singular personality in jazz. CNN, BET, CNBC, Bravo Arts, NPR, Voice of America, Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Birdland, The Blue Note, Lincoln Center, Sirius Jazz Radio and the BBC have profiled Jon Weber’s unique musical depth and vast knowledge of his craft. UK’s Jazz Journal International writes; “Jon Weber is a virtuoso pianist with outstanding technique plus boundless imagination and enthusiasm who is bound to make a big impression on the international jazz scene.”

Jon Weber - From Joplin to Jarrett: 100 Years of Piano Jazz will be performed on Thursday, January 23, 2014; 7:30 p.m., Friday, January 24, 2014; 7:30 p.m., added performance Saturday, January 25, 2014; 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, January 26, 2014; 2:00 p.m.. Tickets are priced at $29-$39, Students with ID $12. Tickets are available online at harriscenter.net or from Harris Center Ticket Office at 916-608-6888 from 10 am to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and two hours before show time. Parking is included in the price of the ticket. Harris Center is located on the west side of Folsom Lake College campus in Folsom, CA, facing East Bidwell Street.
 
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Vendor Opportunities & Registration For Diva Night 2014

Save the date for Diva Night 2014!

Bicycles Plus created Diva Night to say thank you to all of their women clients. Their goal was to create a friendly, fun, unintimidating environment where women could learn and explore the world of cycling.

This FREE annual event will be held on May 18, 2014!

Thousands of women have attended Diva Night over the years, and Bicycles Plus in Folsom is making a difference in the cycling community because of this event! This year 100% of donations will benefit the PHTC/Women & Children Transition Center.

At Diva Night you will enjoy:
  • Factory Cycling Reps
  • Swag Bags
  • Free T Shirts
  • Women Cycling Vendors 
  • Cycling Fashion Show
  • Great Raffle Prizes
  • Store Wide Discounts
  • Wine Tasting
  • Appetizers & Deserts
  • How To Clinics
  • New Rider Presentations
  • Fun, Laughter & More!
If you are in interested in becoming a vendor, please click here. Hurry, spaces are filling up quickly!

Registration has opened at bpdiva.com. The event is free, but you must preregister to attend!

For more information about Bicycles Plus, please visit onlinecycling.com.

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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Sacramento Sports Hall Of Fame To Induct Special Olympics Athlete

A local Special Olympics athlete will join the ranks of Dusty Baker, Kevin Johnson and Summer Sanders as a member of the Sacramento Sports Hall of Fame. Donald Schendel, who has been a Special Olympics athlete for more than 40 years, is set to be inducted in the Class of 2014.

Donald will be joining Tedy Brushchi, Jeff Float, Leron Lee, Debbie Meyer and Steve Sax at annual celebration and induction ceremony on Jan. 25. Donald was selected out of a pool of five finalists to be the first-ever Special Olympics inductee into the Sacramento Sports Hall of Fame.

Donald joined Special Olympics when he was just 10-years-old, and has won more than 215 medals in his 40 plus years of competing. A Placer County athlete with Special Olympics Northern California, Donald has played nearly every sport Special Olympics has to offer including basketball, bocce, bowling, cross country skiing, golf, softball, snowshoe racing, swimming, track & field and weight lifting.

At the pinnacle of his swimming career, Donald won every race in which he competed for ten straight years. A lifetime Special Olympics athlete, Donald is the epitome of good sportsmanship and serves as a leader to the younger athletes.

"His tenure with Special Olympics and everything that he's accomplished made him a perfect selection," Sacramento Sports Hall of Fame founder TC Martin said.

Tickets for the celebration event, which will be held at Thunder Valley Casino Resort, are available for purchase now at sacsportshof.com or at Thunder Valley. Part of the proceeds will benefit Special Olympics
Northern California.

About Special Olympics Northern California
Special Olympics Northern California is a free year-round sports training and competition program for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. There are 16,000 athletes who compete in 152 competitions
throughout the region in 11 sports. This requires the extraordinary support and time of 15,100 volunteers and volunteer coaches. Financial support comes almost exclusively from individuals, organizations, corporations and foundations. For more information on Special Olympics Northern California, please visit SONC.org or socialize with them at Facebook.com/SONorCal and Twitter.com/SONorCal.

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Monday, January 13, 2014

Who Do You Think Is The Cutest? Voting Open Now For Cutest Kids's Contest!

Who's the cutest? Voting is NOW open for Style Media Group's Cutest Kids Contest!

The voted winners (one boy and one girl) will be featured in Style Magazine's May 2014 issue of Folsom, El Dorado Hills and will receive a family pack of gift certificates, including a $30 gift certificate to Starlight Starbright! Photos by K Walker Photography.

Vote once a day, every day until March 1st at stylemg.com/Style/Cutest-Kids-2013.

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