Internationally renowned Grammy Award-winning violinist Midori is the festival’s headlining soloist and artist-in-residence. The popular 2015 week-long festival has been expanded in 2017 to a 10-day festival inspired by Mozart’s life and music. The 2017 festival involves more than a dozen community partners and is a community-wide event including casual and formalContinue Reading
Melanie McNair Selections This February, I plan to celebrate the love that carries us through the disappointments and failures of romantic love. Friendships constitute some of the most central relationships in life, and yet they have no special day on the calendar. Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life, now outContinue Reading
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: The Wicker Man (1973) It is “singularly unfortunate” (to quote my son) that for most people the title of The Wicker Man conjures up the 2006 abomination featuring Nicholas Cage. This original version from 1973 is in a different league altogether. In fact there are several criticsContinue Reading
A Connection to the Land The artist For as long as I can remember, I have loved Nature, music and art as fundamental expressions of the human experience which expand our awareness and connect us to something larger than ourselves. I am moved and influenced by many artists past andContinue Reading
Beneath the Chatter: the wise self awaits – A Contemplative Photography Companion for the Journey Home. If ever a book could inspire you into a new way of viewing life, this is it. Beneath the Chatter is an engaging contemplative verbal and visual experience both wise and whimsical, with gentleContinue Reading
Seeing Through the Eyes into the Soul – Fine art exhibit for James Daniel opens at the Blackbird Frame & Art Gallery. Diversified and internationally refined local artist, James Daniel, is skilled in the techniques of figurative and portraiture art. He makes the effort to learn as much as isContinue Reading
