Peter Feldmann honored
Peter Feldmann, director of Bluegrass West, has been chosen to
receive the “Music Legend Award” by the Topanga Banjo/Fiddle Assn.
He received the award at Paramount Ranch in Agoura during the 48th
annual Banjo-Fiddle Contest last Sunday.
Feldmann is a well-known Bluegrass artist who records and appears
live at various venues. He lectures at various educational institutions,
including, most recently, UCLA.
His most recent
recording was “Gray Cat on the Tennessee Farm,” named to the nation’s Top Ten
Bluegrass albums by the Chicago Tribune. He can be reached by e-mailing peter@bluegrasswest.com.
Poet Laureate Simic at UCSB
Poet Laureate Charles Simic will present the 45th annual Edwin and
Jean Corle Memorial Lecture at UCSB’s Campbell Hall this evening (May 22) at 8
p.m.
Simic will quote from his new releases, “That Little Something”
(April 2008) and “Sixty Poems” (January 2008). Simic was born in Yugoslavia and
has been the recipient of a Wallace Stevens Award, a Pulitzer Prize, two PEN
Awards and a MacArthur Fellowship.
Simic is being presented by UCSB Arts and Lectures and the UCSB
Libraries. There is no admission charge for his appearance.
“Lightning” at Live Oak Campground
The DoLaB will present the West Coast premiere of its green art
and music festival, “Lightning in a Bottle,” May 23-26 at Live Oak Campground.
The event will be powered almost entirely by solar energy and
bio-diesel. Acts expected to appear include Lucent Dossier Vaudeville Cirque,
West Indian Girl, Stanton Warriors, Bassnectar, Yard Dog’s Road Show and J
Boogie’s Dubtronic Science.
One environmentally-friendly practice will be the availability of
free water to anyone with a reusable water container. Tickets at $150 for the
entire four days, single day passes and information are available by e-mailing
lynn@greengalactic.com.
Sunshine Brothers head this way
A concert to welcome the summer will feature the Sunshine Brothers
on May 24 at 7 p.m. at the Solvang Festival Theater.
Arts Outreach and Solvang Theaterfest will sponsor the show, with
reggae-influenced music by Owen Plant and Christopher Tyng, the Sunshine
Brothers. Their music is a blend of pop, reggae and folk, with an emphasis on
acoustic work.
Opening the show will be Chris Pelonis, plus a performance by
singer-songwriter Natalie Noone, daughter of Peter Noone of Herman and the
Hermits.
Ticket information is available by calling (805) 688-8533 or
e-mailing Catherine@artsoutreach.com.
I Madonnari blooms at Mission
The annual I Madonnari Italian street festival will show its chalk
artworks at Mission Santa Barbara on May 24, 25 and 26 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The festival, celebrating its 22nd year, is sponsored by the
Children’s Creative Project, a non-profit education program of the Santa
Barbara County Education Office. Co-sponsors are Loreto Plaza Shopping Center,
the Berry Man and the Dreier Group.
An expanded area for children to create street paintings will be
situated at the left side of the Mission inside a private parking area.
Longtime contributing artists Laura Wilkinson and Blair Looker will create a
large painting at the base of the Mission steps.
Live music and an Italian market will be
featured on the Mission lawn throughout the festival.
Self-guided tours of the Mission will be
available from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Memorial Day with Bach
The West Coast Chamber Orchestra will observe Memorial Day on May
25 with its annual “Bach by Candlelight” concerts in the historic Presidio
Chapel.
Conducting honors will be shared at the 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
performances by Christopher Story VI, the orchestra’s music director, and Diego
Miralles. The Cielo Foundation is sponsoring the event.
Award-winning violinist Alexander Eisenberg will be featured, and
the program is the same for both performances. He will play J.S. Bach’s “Ode on
a G String” (BWV 1068), also known as Orchestral Suite No. 3.
Next up will be Bach’s Oboe and Violin Concerto (BWV 1060),
featuring Eisenberg and oboist Myka Miller, in her first appearance with the
West Coast ensemble. The first half will close with Jules Massenet’s Meditation
from “Thais.”
For the second half, Miralles will take the podium. The orchestra
will perform Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major, Sinfonia No. 3 (Nq 182-3) by
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the son of J.S., and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
in G Major (BWV 1049), Papa Bach’s masterwork. Soloists will be Eisenberg,
flutists Sheridon Stokes and Salpi Krakonian, and Yana Reznik, harpsichord.
Tickets are available at Arlington Ticket Agency, (805) 963-4408,
Trust for Historic Preservation, (805) 965-0093, and at the door. Seating is
limited.
Human Rights films on tap
The third annual Santa Barbara Human Rights Film Festival, with
international award-winning films, will take place May 27-29 at UCSB’s Campbell
Hall.
Features to be screened include the Cannes Film Festival
prize-winner, “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” about two Romanian college
students trying to arrange for an illegal abortion during their country’s last
days of communism.
Other films scheduled include Oscar winner “Taxi to the Dark Side
and “Persepolis,” another Cannes award winner.
Ticket
information is available by calling UCSB Arts and Lectures at (805) 893-3535 or
going online to www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.