Wyoming Arts Council

Rousing concert series in Evanston in 2008


The 2008 Uinta County Concert Series begins Friday, January 25 and runs through Friday, May 23. The Young Musicians Festival, also held during this time on March 7 and 8, encourages musicians of all ages and abilities, from young beginners to adults and teachers to perform. Each performance is evaluated by visiting clinicians and open to the public. Some outstanding performers, high school age and younger, will be selected to perform that night at a formal Honors concert for the community.

Registration ffee ($15 by February 8, $20 February 9-22) includes the Molly’s Revenge concert on March 7, the achievement day performance, and unlimited workshops. Workshops include Celtic Style session, piano technique, woodwind, voice and brass fundamentals, string workshop, and symphony orchestra workshop.

Dates and performers in the concert series:

Caboose — Friday, January 25, 7:00 p.m. at Davis Middle School. A band that takes out all the stops, drives each tune home, with smooth, hot vocals, an insistent bass, catchy guitar, and a fiddle that won’t quit!

Great Basin Street Band — Friday, February, 22, 7:00 p.m. at Davis Middle School. Great Basin has created a solid reputation at a number of recognized jazz and music festivals including the Snowbird Jazz & Blues Festival. The band is entertaining and musically outstanding, promising and exciting experience for any audience.

Chris Proctor — Thursday, March 6, 7:00 p.m. at Mountain View High School. Critics call Chris’s acoustic guitar playing “breathtaking,” “haunting,” and “rich.” Chris gives the guitar sole responsibility for a piece’s rhythmic, melocic, and harmonic components.

Molly’s Revenge — Friday, March 7, 7:00 p.m. at Davis Middle School. Celebrate Irish with a classical combination of highland bagpipes, uilleann pipes, whistles, fiddle, mandolin, guitar and bouzouki, with an occasional rousing chorus song mixed in.

Fry Street Quartet — Friday, April 4, 7:00 p.m. at Davis Middle School. Hailed as “a triumph of ensemble playing.” This classical music group explores the medium of the string quartet and its life-affirming potential with “profound understanding.”

Paul Rosenthal — Friday, April 25, 7:00 p.m. at Davis Middle School. Mr. Rosenthal began playing the violin at age three. He has played with orchestras from Alaska to New York and overseas as well. He performs on a Joseph Guarnerius violin made in 1706.

6 Miles Ahead — Friday, May 9, 7:00 p.m. at Davis Middle School. Molded in the tradition of other great vocal groups such as Manhattan Transfer, they perform music arranged for 4-6 part mixed voices with rhythm section accompaniment and some a cappella. They perform a wide range of muscial styles.

Blue 4 Trio — Friday, May 23, 7:00 p.m. at Machine Shop in Evanston. This extra event is a 1930s theme dinner with live vintage jazz. Dinner begins at 6:30. Wear 1930s apparel and be served by Evanston “celebrities.” New Deal era photo display presented by the Uinta County Museum. Blue 4 Trio performs music that swings. Its music from the ’20s to the ’60s, all happening at the same time, woven into a seamless, beautiful whole.

Season tickets are various prices and include all concerts except the extra event. FMI call (307) 679-2348 or go on-line at http://www.youngmusicians.net/. Can purchase tickets in person at the Evanston Chamber of Commerce, Mt. Music, Home Decor, and Maurices.

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