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Concert Sunday celebrates women composers
A concert featuring more than 1,000 years of musical works by female composers is coming to Southern Oregon University Sunday, March 12.
March 7, 2023
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A concert featuring more than 1,000 years of musical works by female composers is coming to Southern Oregon University Sunday, March 12.
Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University has launched an ambitious season of plays and concerts for the winter and spring terms in celebration of the university’s 150th anniversary.
A concert Saturday at First United Methodist Church in Ashland was a landmark night for local fans of folk music. The show, featuring the Michal Palzewicz Trio and world music band Malinka, was the last to be promoted by Ashland Folk Collective founders Jacqui Aubert and Dan Sherrill before they move to the Philadelphia area.
Inspired by the work of the former Eve Ensler, Ashlander Lynne Pethtel is organizing “Break the Chain of Violence,” an evening of music and dance performances and a debut performance on Feb. 14.
Music fans can enjoy an afternoon of favorite classical piano pieces and jazz performed live by outstanding piano teachers from the Rogue Valley starting at 3 p.m Saturday, Feb. 4, in the historic sanctuary of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church at 140 N. Oakdale Ave. in downtown Medford.
Megan Alder & the Woods, a power trio on tour from Portland, perform at Oberon’s Restaurant in downtown Ashland from 7 to 9 pm. Saturday, Feb. 4.
As the music world mourns the loss of David Crosby, 81, on Jan. 18, one Ashland musician says the loss was deeply personal. Jeff Pevar was a longtime friend who played guitar in Crosby’s bands for more than three decades.
Ashland’s 24th Community Labyrinth Walk to New Year returns this Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, in Wesley Hall at Ashland First United Methodist Church, 175 N. Main St., Ashland. The free, public event runs from 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31, through 1 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 1, then resumes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 1.
Through 146 years, through thousands of concerts, a man has always been the Ashland City Band director. Until now.
The Havurah Synagogue will host a benefit concert featuring renowned pianist Alexander Tutunov, the Siskiyou Violins, and concert violinist Faina Podolnaya on Thursday, Dec. 15. Proceeds will benefit Ukrainian refugees now living in the Rogue Valley.
If passed as is, an ordinance put forward by the Rogue Action Climate Team on Tuesday would prohibit the construction of any new buildings with fossil fuel infrastructure in Ashland. If passed, the ordinance would require the city to deny any permit applications that include piping for fossil fuels, primarily natural gas.
As a bipartisan $200 million package intended to help hundreds of homeless Oregonians find housing heads to Gov. Tina Kotek for her signature, state lawmakers say they’re shifting focus from triaging a homelessness emergency to building more homes.
The Rogue Valley Times has filled two important roles with the hiring of a publisher and an advertising sales manager. Long Beach Post publisher David Sommers will take the helm as the first publisher of the Times, while Cheryl McKenzie, a former advertising executive with the former Mail Tribune, will build the ad department “from the ground up.”
Ashland New Plays Festival will launch its 31st season with spring workshops of two new plays Saturday and Sunday, March 25-26 and April 29-30, at Southern Oregon University’s Main Stage Theatre, 491 S. Mountain Ave. in Ashland.
Following a presentation of the budget realignment plan by Southern Oregon University President Rick Bailey on Friday at SOU, the university’s governing board questioned him on details of the plan, which he says will eliminate a multimillion-dollar structural deficit and change the fiscal model for the university moving forward.
Reader photo: Rain, rain go away, so we can play pickleball another day. Douglas R. Smith captured this photo of the courts in Lithia Park between February storms.
(It’s free)