The Minneapolis-based jazz group, Story City returns to the Park Theater. Story City was put together to explore the music of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny and the late saxophone great Michael Brecker. The ensemble has now expanded its reach to include the Yellowjackets and most importantly, original compositions all their own. A wide variety of musical styles has been pursued by these composers in their conscious effort to promote, advance, and develop original musical voices. The music is so complex that its performance takes an incredible commitment and technique in its execution. Each member of the group was chosen because they posses this level of dedication to their instrument and to the music.
Specifically through this perspective, Story City ushers in its own new thoughts, ideas, and concepts to this ever-changing musical force we know as JAZZ. Prepare to experience a band that will remind you Music is melodic, vibrant, and complex at the same time.
Tickets are $25. Tickets are available in advance at Art Beat of Hayward, 15845 W. 2nd Street or may be purchased ONLINE.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Theater On The Green Golf Benefit for the Park Theater
The not-quite annual Theater on the Green golf benefit for the Park Theater is set for Sunday, Aug. 1 at Hayward Golf Club.
This popular golf and entertainment event, first held in 2007 and 2008, took a bye in 2009 due to the strained financial climate. This year it’s back, with proceeds again benefitting the Park Theater, the Cable Hayward Area Arts Council’s center for the performing and visual arts.
This year’s event promises more fun, prizes and goodies than ever, with an entry fee significantly less than past years’ fees. An entry fee of $75 per person or $300 per team includes 18 holes of golf with a cart, a steak dinner with wine, a live auction filled with amazing items, plus a raffle.
The four-person team scramble begins at noon with a shotgun start. There will be three divisions: men, women and mixed, with first and second prizes in each division. All participants begin playing at once, with team members playing the team’s best ball at every shot. Mulligans - the chance to redo a really bad shot - will also be offered for sale.
“You don’t have to be a great golfer to do this,” said Keith Thompson, a golfer and Park Theater volunteer who helps coordinate the benefit. “The shotgun start and scramble make it a social event and really fun day. Everyone has a chance to win something, and it benefits a great cause.”
Besides the unique format, additional challenges and awards on nearly every hole make the Theater on the Green event a golfer’s dream. This year’s biggest prize - a new car from South Lake Motors, a Jeep/Chrysler/Plymouth dealership in Rice Lake - could be awarded to a golfer lucky enough to hit a hole in one.
Prizes for other hole challenges include a bottle of Hookstone Winery’s Musky Merlot, works of art from ArtBeat of Hayward and more. A putting contest is sponsored by Schoolhouse Wines of Stone Lake.
All entrants receive gift bags filled with such goodies as water bottles and holders from Kinetico Water Systems and Park Theater gift certificates. Participants may enter as singles, doubles, triples or four-person teams, and can register by picking up an entry form or calling the Hayward Golf Club pro shop at 715-634-2760.
For more information about the event, call 715-634-4596.
The Park Theater is proud to present Michael Monroe in an intimate concert event. Michael Monroe lives in his log cabin and records his music on the North Shore of Lake Superior in his solar powered MisTree Studio. From vinyl to digital, performing his original acoustic folk, reggae and jazz, he blends rich vocals, guitars, bamboo and crystal flutes together... recycling his award winning music "live" using technology that's powered by creativity.
"With heartfelt sincerity and a poetic touch in both the lyrics and music, Monroe explores subtle, quiet places that spark the imagination." - Rick Mason in City Pages
He performs on Seaton Acoustic Guitars custom-made on the Gunflint Trail and recycled from rare North Shore woods including 200 year old salvaged wood from the bottom of Lake Superior. The guitars have names such as Snow Leopard, Soibahn and Flamenca Del Rosa.
Monroe's soundtrack is featured on National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg's "Chased By the Light" documentary on PBS and globally, for which he received several national awards as well as was shown at the Toronto Enviro and New York Indie Film Fests. Monroe received a regional Emmy for his documentary theme "Soaring On Mended Wings" and he has shared the stage with Michael McDonald, Paul Williams, Bernie Leadon (Eagles), Kathy Mattea, Shawn Phillips among many others.... He has been featured on MPR's Morning Show, KARE 11 and Jason Davis' ON THE ROAD, he has recorded 2 vinyls and 9 CDs using solar power with his most recent CD in 09, "LIVE at The Cedar."
Four brothers from the Hortonville, WI area, after playing together all their lives, formed the Twisters in 2002. Inspired by the music of Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard and other old-school honky tonkers, Brothers Bruce, Kevin, Richard and Tim Lohrenz fired up the Telecasters to create their own version of the classic “Bakersfield sound,” complete with old-school tube amplifiers, steel guitar and tight vocal harmonies. Soon the group began working on the classic material that needed to be heard again, while at the same time writing their own material. They recorded their debut CD "High Octwang" during the winter of 2004 - '05.
John and Pete Neuman are brothers in their early twenties from New Richmond, Wisconsin. Pete first picked up a guitar when he was about 8 or 9 years old and received his first electric in 7th grade. John, two years younger, got his first drum kit in 5th grade and has kept the beat ever since. Pete also would goof around with the harmonica from time to time.
After self-teaching, lessons and jam sessions, they formed the blues-influenced rock band, Pete Neuman and the Real Deal. The Neuman brothers borrowed it from a Stevie Ray quote. “It took me quite a while to realize that the real deal is to be able to be enough of a person on your own to know when somebody loves you and cares about you,” said Vaughan. “We thought it was cool and the name stuck,” Pete recalls.
From their beginnings as just a two-piece show, several bass players performed with them including James Holland, Matt Hagen and Justin Wirth. The brothers’ influences include: Rory Gallagher, Son Seals, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Tab Benoit, Chris Duarte and even Bob Marley.
Pete says, “Luther Allison might have said it best, ‘Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.’” If you like your music with a blues backbone - sit back, buckle up and enjoy the ride. No phony baloney gimmicks here, just genuine and honest music from the Real Deal.
Tickets are $18 and $5 for students under 18. Tickets are available in advance at Art Beat of Hayward, 15845 W. 2nd Street or may be purchased ONLINE.
Friday, September 10, 2010 - 7:30 pm
WOJB Fall Concert Series: Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials bring their authentic West Side Chicago Blues to Hayward's Park Theater, September 10 to kick off WOJB's Fall Concert Series.
According to The Chicago Tribune, “[Lil' Ed] Williams represents one of the few remaining authentic links to the raucous but pure Chicago Blues.” Lil' Ed boasts a direct bloodline to Chicago blues history - his uncle and musical mentor was the great Chicago blues artist J.B. Hutto. “J.B. taught me everything I know,” says Williams. “I wouldn't be where I am today without him.”
A master slide-guitarist, a gritty, soulful vocalist and an incredible showman...Lil' Ed and his blistering, road-tested band, The Blues Imperials, have been tearing up clubs and festival stages all over the world for more than 30 years.
This is your chance to catch the real deal!
Co-sponsored by The Man Cave and Cigar Shop on Dakota Avenue in Hayward.
Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 day of show.
Tickets available at www.wojb.org
or call 800-776-3689 with your Visa/MasterCard.
Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 7:30 pm
Claudia Schmidt WOJB Concert Series
Ticket information is available at WOJB: www.wojb.org
715-634-2100
Saturday, October 9, 2010 - 7:30 pm
Prudence Johnson with Dan Choinard and Randy Sabien
Prudence, Dan and Randy will return to the Park Theater stage for what promises to be the highlight of the fall season. Prudence Johnson’s career has taken her from honky-tonks to Carnegie Hall, from the theater stage to the Silver Screen, from the Midwest to the Middle East. She is a regular guest on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the country, and appears as one of the “regulars” in Robert Altman’s 2006 A Prairie Home Companion movie. Her film credits also include Robert Redford’s A River Runs Through It in a role she was born to play—a singer!
With her roots in folk and country music, Prudence developed a passion for jazz and the work of the 20th century’s great songwriters when she met guitarist Tim Sparks, with whom she co-founded the vocal jazz group Rio Nido. A decade and three albums later, she ventured out on her own and turned again to the music of her roots, making three records for the folk label Red House including Songs of Greg Brown and Little Dreamer, a collection of international lullabies.
In the 90’s she could be found on the concert circuit, in the jazz clubs, on the theater stage and in the classroom—she graduated summa cum laude from Hamline University in 1998. If the collision of her artistic and academic interests left her looking a bit dazed, it all came into focus when she turned her attention to the music of Hoagy Carmichael and was awarded a McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians, enabling her to record Moon Country, a collection of Hoagy’s songs.
With a renewed appreciation for the Great American Songbook, she found an ideal collaborator in pianist Dan Chouinard. They released ‘s Gershwinin 2004 and appear together on concert stages across the country, performing the music of Carmichael, Gershwin and other greats, and taking side trips to the café music of France and Italy with Dan on accordion. They co-wrote and perform together Another Song About Paris, a loving look at the City of Light through stories and songs.
Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 7-9:30 pm
Northwoods Pregnancy Resources Center A film and then live music. For youth, no admission.
At first glance, the very idea of a blues band without a guitar player strikes the mind as a daring if not totally outrageous concept. But, DATV, a Minneapolis-based quintet driven by New Orleans horns and the campy purr of vocalist/pianist Davina Sowers, carry it off with such aplomb that you won't miss the usual six-string histrionics on bit.
"Davina is the hardest-working Blues woman in Minnesota, but two things remain consistent at all her shows: her throaty but cushiony voice, which has a sort of hard-mattress comfort to it that's part Bonnie Raitt, Etta James and a little Amy Winehouse, and her band's rollicking New Orleans flavor, driven home by dueling horn players and a bayou-thick standup bass." - Chris Riemenschneider, StarTribune.
Tickets are $18. Tickets are available in advance at Art Beat of Hayward, 15845 W. 2nd Street or may be purchased ONLINE.
November 11, 2010 - 7:30 pm
In recognition of Veteran's Day
the Park Theater is proud to present the 1955 movie: "To Hell and Back"
The true-life account of the military career of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in WWII. A native of Texas, he was placed in charge of his many younger siblings on the death of his mother and decided to join the military at the age of 18 to provide for them. His many acts of bravery and heroism during the US military advance through Italy, France and into Germany earned him increasing rank and responsibility as well as the respect of his comrades in arms. Eventually he received two dozen of the highest medals the US and France can bestow, culminating in the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
There is no charge for this event although donations are gratefully accepted. The Park Theater, the Cable Hayward Area Arts Council’s center for the performing and visual arts, is located at 15791 Highway 63, Hayward.
Saturday, December 11, 2010 - 7:30 pm
Randy Sabien Holiday Show
More info to come
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Bobby Bullet-St. Germaine Concert
Sponsored by Black Scotty Records. More information to come
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