The Ashland School District middle school choir will sing “Hej Sokoly” in Ukrainian at the “Minka’s Sleigh Ride Benefit Concert” starting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, in the gym at Ashland Middle School, 100 Walker Ave.
Reader Photo: The internationally recognized chamber music ensemble the American Brass Quintet (ABQ), visited Ashland last week, giving a master class at the South Medford High School on Friday afternoon, and performing holiday music for all Ashland from The Brickroom’s outdoor balcony on Friday night.
Broadway singing star Steffanie Garrard Leigh will be joined by Rogue Valley musicians, including other singers, during a gala fundraiser to help rebuild and restore Ashland’s Ukrainian “sister city” Sviatohirsk from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10, at the Historic Ashland Armory.
Review: This month a good part of the English-speaking world celebrated the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, the First Folio. Rounding off this month’s First Folio series of events at the Ashland Public Library are a talk Tuesday and concert Thursday.
‘OLLI Abroad’ is a hit. The original musical comedy sold out and made a fundraising haul for OLLI at SOU.
An Ashland High School graduate who went on to play Mary Poppins in a Broadway musical will come home for the holidays to perform with the Rogue Valley Symphony in its pops concert Dec. 15-17 at Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Angus Bowmer Theatre.
Southern Oregon Repertory Singers Executive Director Jessica Bailey comes from a leadership post at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she was assistant vice provost. Her predecessor, Richard Seidman, is resigning in order to pursue full-time opportunities.
Before wrapping up a week of local events with a landmark reunion concert Sunday, Nov. 5, members of the Uptown String Quartet and two special guests took part in a public discussion Friday at the Ashland Elks Lodge about contributions of Black and Native women to American music, past and present, and connections between the Black and Native communities.
An all-Black, all-woman quartet of conservatory trained string musicians known for incorporating jazz elements to the highest levels of classical music — not to mention being featured in a 1997 episode of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” — will reunite in Southern Oregon after a two-decade hiatus.
Applications are due at 5 p.m. Friday for $3,500 grants to help preserve and pass along cultural heritage. Ashland hula teacher Andrea Luchese received one of the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) grants last year — an award made after making an exception to the usual guidelines.
Dozens of area residents ushered in a spirited first night of Hanukkah on Thursday, gathering on the Ashland Plaza late Thursday afternoon to light the first flames on the menorah.
Charles “Al” Huth: We can expand our potential to build true knowledge by altering what we spend time focusing on in our daily lives. In short, search for the Truth.
Herbert Rothschild: Apparently, Kissinger insisted on recording practically every word he said. His aides later commented that he needed to keep track of which lie he told to whom.
On a 4-2 vote, the Ashland City Council on Tuesday approved the first of two required readings of an ordinance to control time, place and manner of camping in Ashland. The ordinance will control occupation of public spaces and enforce behavior, rather than status, and does not seek to punish those who are homeless, the acting city attorney told the council.
Andrew Gast, general manager of the Mt. Ashland Ski Area, had hoped that this Saturday would be opening day for skiing this season, but he admitted defeat on Thursday, despite the latest snowstorm. Things are now day to day, while he, a couple hundred employees and untold numbers of skiers wait for more snow.
Oregonians who packed a legislative hearing on the state’s addiction crisis and flooded the Legislature with passionate testimony this week have vastly different viewpoints, but on one thing they agree: The status quo is not working. Some want to repeal Measure 110, the state’s voter-approved drug decriminalization law. Others say it needs to be tweaked.
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