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National Council for the Traditional Arts presents a show of yodeling, western swing, Native American drumming and Tex-Mex By Bill Watts Yahoo! yodeler Wylie Gustafson is one of several acts that will perform for ‘Don’t Fence Me In.’ By Sarah Linn | email Sarah Linn The Tribune, San Luis Obispo Poet Paul Zarzyski can trace [...]

Maestro Michael Berkowitz will lead the Santa Rosa Symphony in a special pre-Oscar night concert, Sunday, February 26 at 3 p.m.  “Great Movies, Grand Piano” is the second performance in the Symphony Pops Series and the concert features pianist Rich Ridenour, along with the Santa Rosa Symphony. Berkowitz recently sat down with us backstage to [...]

The Box Office and the Center’s administrative offices will be closed for the Presidents’ Day holiday on Monday, February 20 and will re-open Tuesday, February 21 at their regularly scheduled hours (noon for the Box Office and 9 a.m. for the administrative offices).

    News Release – ROGERS & COWAN- February 13, 2012  Los Tigres del Norte Wins The GRAMMY® For Best Banda or Norteño Album “The World’s Most Influential Regional-Mexican Band” Win Their SIXTH GRAMMY Award For Their Historic “MTV Unplugged: Los Tigres del Norte and Friends” THOUSANDS OF FANS ALSO CAME OUT TO SEE THE [...]

When celebrity chef Eric Ripert first heard of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, the year was 2000. Ripert’s Manhattan restaurant Le Bernardin was still a hard table to land several years after a glowing four-star review in the New York Times. “But everybody was talking about ‘Kitchen Confidential’ (Bourdain’s breakout book that was a gastronomic expose),” [...]

Santa Rosa’s Wells Fargo Center for the Arts Ranks #89 of Top 100 Theaters Worldwide Santa Rosa, CA (January 23, 2012)—Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, Sonoma County’s community arts center, today announced that it has been named among the top 100 theaters in the world and among the top 15 for theaters with 2,000 [...]

Sonoma County offered a warm welcome to the children of Spirit of Uganda earlier this week. The African children, aged 8-18, arrived at Wells Fargo Center for the Arts on Tuesday and were quickly whisked off to Safari West for a fun, complimentary visit to the wild animal park. On Wednesday, a pair of local [...]

Nearly 3,000 people, including more than 700 brides-to-be flocked to Wells Fargo Center for the Arts this past weekend for The Wedding Expo. It was the 15th Wedding Expo to be held at the Arts Center and the biggest turn-out ever for the twice annual event. Organizers say the line wound around the Center’s building, [...]

Unique troupe visits Wells Fargo Center as ambassadors of nation’s orphans By John Beck For The Press Democrat Thursday, January 26, 2012 SPIRIT OF UGANDA What: Program of dance, drumming, singing celebration of traditional African music When: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1 Where: Wells Fargo Center, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa Tickets: $30-$40/$10 [...]

On Wednesday, The New Shanghai Circus performed in Santa Rosa before approximately 2,700 students and teachers through the Center’s Education Through the Arts program.  The students learned about the ancient Chinese culture  and experienced first-hand the thrill of the Chinese circus arts, a tradition that dates back more than 2,000 years.  In addition to the [...]