Making hip-hop into high art | By Dan Taylor of The Press Democrat
When the music, dance and art of the hip-hop culture rose up from the streets of New York City in the 1970s, its creators operated well outside mainstream American pop culture. Since then, hip-hop has moved steadily, straight to the center of American life. If CD sales in the millions and sold-out concert tours aren’t [...]
Master class with North Bear a real eye — and ear — opener for JC students
Music students at Santa Rosa Junior College got an authentic dose of the American West on Friday. Members of North Bear, a Native American drum and song group from the Northern Plains, presented a master class for the students. One of the pow-wow trails hottest young groups, North Bear shared the history and cultural background [...]
Los Tigres del Norte wins the Grammy® for Best Banda or Norteño Album
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 [...]
Website maintenance scheduled, Sunday at 12:30am
Website maintenance scheduled for this Sunday, February 26 may result in service interruptions between the hours of 12:30 – 3:30am. If you are unable to access the Center’s website or complete service requests such as online ticketing during this time, please check back after 3:30am on Sunday. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience.
Principle Pops Conductor Michael Berkowitz on his upcoming concert with Rich Ridenour…
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 [...]
‘Don’t Fence Me In’ celebrates America’s wide open spaces / By Sarah Linn of The Tribune, San Luis Obispo
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 [...]
Box Office and administrative offices closed Monday, February 20
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).
Good vs Evil: Anthony Bourdain & Eric Ripert By John Beck for The Press Democrat
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),” [...]
Arts Center receives prestigious world-wide ranking
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 [...]
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