A team of local artisans and craft people have helped finish a 14-year effort to raise the curtain on the historic Holly Theatre in downtown Medford. The movie palace with its massive 1,008-seat auditorium will debut the first two acts next week, announcing the theater as a major performing arts center
The Brothers Reed have played a major role in the Rogue Valley music scene. After guitarist and singer Aaron Reed was diagnosed with a brain tumor, musicians and bands in town were looking for ways to help out. Doors to The Rally for Reed benefit concert open at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 2, at the Holly Theatre in Medford.
The combined forces of Southern Oregon University’s Concert and Chamber choirs, Medford-based Rogue Valley Chorale, a professional chamber orchestra, and four nationally known soloists convene for 3 p.m. performances of Verdi’s Requiem Saturday, March 15, and Sunday, March 16, at SOU Recital Hall.
Curtain Call: After university studies in Indiana and Colorado, and pursuing his career playing with several orchestras, Jerry Su returned to Southern Oregon in 2022 to audition for the second E-flat clarinet position with the Rogue Valley Symphony — and got the job.
Anima Mundi Productions presented internationally acclaimed Israeli cellist Amit Peled and leading Spanish concert pianist, Daniel Del Pino, in a memorable concert celebrating Jewish musical tradition presented through the Oregon Center for the Arts in the Southern Oregon University Music Recital Hall on Sunday.
Internationally acclaimed Israeli-American cellist Amit Peled, in town to perform a sold-out concert at Southern Oregon University Music Recital Hall on Sunday, Feb. 2, gave a lively, entertaining and highly instructive master class at Ashland High School on Friday, Jan. 31.
Stephen Bacon has been proprietor of Bellwood Violin on Hersey Street in Ashland since 1985. He just wrapped up 40 years of service to the community on his 70th birthday by selling his business to employee Will Scharen, a professional trombonist who is quickly learning the strings trade.
The Ulysses Quartet comes to Ashland to perform on the Chamber Music Concerts series at Southern Oregon University at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, in the Music Recital Hall at 450 S Mountain Ave. The program features Caroline Shaw’s “Plan & Elevation”; Prokofiev’s String Quartet no. 2 in F Major, Op. 92; and Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in D Major, Op. 44 no. 1.
While many eyes on Monday were focused on the transition of power in the halls of Washington, D.C., mid-day at the Historic Ashland Armory, attention was on a different transition, as the emcee role at Ashland’s annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration changed hands for the first time in over two decades, with Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Kamilah Long assuming hosting responsibilities from longtime emcee D.L. Richardson.
Residents from across Southern Oregon made the trip to Oak Knoll Golf Course in Ashland on Saturday, Jan. 18, for a “benefit concert for vulnerable communities” co-sponsored by Women’s March Southern Oregon and ORD2 Indivisible.
The Oregon Legislature is meeting this week to consider some major cuts to current spending levels as a large revenue deficit looms. That’s because the state’s tax code automatically replicates new federal tax cuts, including ones passed by Congressional Republicans this summer that will reduce state revenue
Michael O’Looney: Trump and the Texas Legislature are responsible for a partisan power grab that has unleashed bitterness and partisan vindictiveness, all in an effort to subvert an electoral system for partisan ends.
Councilor Bob Kaplan: While the cost of delivering kilowatt-hours to our homes has risen, Ashland Electric has been able to hold our rates steady with just one increase of 5.1% in 2021. I’m sorry to say we’re due for an increase, but fortunately it’s not likely to match recent increases elsewhere.
An estimate for the cost to abate asbestos found in the shuttered Lincoln School recently should be available as early as sometime this week, according to Steve Mitzel, operations director for Ashland School District. The cost to remove asbestos would be separate from the as yet-unknown cost for structural repair.
“We are still here” was the theme for Saturday’s Native American Heritage Celebration at Southern Oregon University, hosted by the SOU Native American Student Union (NASU) and SOU Native Nations Liaison Kenwanicahee (Kenwani) Kravitz (Madesi Bandi, Pit River Nation Winnemem, Nomtipom and Nomsus Bands Northern Wintu).
As Oregon lawmakers stare down a deficit of at least $373 million over the next two years — and brace for the possibility of a bigger shortfall in the state’s next quarterly revenue — they asked state agencies to create lists of ways to cut 5% of their approved budgets.
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