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The Heat is On

When in doubt this week, embrace the heat. The Matsiko Children’s Choir from Uganda, a pretty hot place, plays tonight. The heat won’t be here for long, as we mountain dwellers well know. This week, there is more at hand than simple high temps and cool nights. Music and dance for good causes top the hit list for the next several days. The only problem in this heat is choosing which show to see and which cause to support. So get your buzz and make the call, it’s never too hot to help someone.

 

Wednesday, Aug. 19

• From Ugandan Matsiko Children’s Choir will perform at 5:30 p.m. tonight followed by Slow Children Playing at the Back Alley Party at the Wicked Spud in Hailey. The show is a benefit for the Hospice of the Wood River Valley and the Laura Evans Expedition Inspiration Fund for Cancer Research. Donations, and the sale of t-shirts, raffle tickets, beer and wine sales from the charity tent will go to the beneficiaries.
   
• There will be a “locavore” dinner at Sawtooth Botanical Garden, south of Ketchum, with food by Delicious Revolution.

The cost for the prix-fix menu is $38 plus 20 percent gratuity. Seating is limited. Call 208-720-5104 for reservations.
 

• Spend an evening at the Sun Valley Pavilion tonight in “An Evening at the Hotel California: A concert to benefit the Danny Thompson Memorial Leukemia Fund.” Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member and former Eagles lead guitarist, Don Felder, will perform with his band at 8 p.m.

For tickets and information go to: www.sunvalleypavilion.com or call 888-622-2108 or 208-622-2135.
 

• The Elkhorn Golf Club will present Molly Venter in concert at 8 p.m. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. There will be a full bar, tapas menu and drink specials.

Cost is $5. For more information call (208) 726-3800.

 

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Thursday, Aug. 20

• The Hailey-based Dirty Feet Dance Co. will present a three-night dance concert as a benefit for the Cordovano family, Thursday through Saturday, Aug 20—22. Greg Cordovano was in a motorcycle accident on July 31 and following brain surgery remains unconscious at a hospital in Boise. There will be raffle items each night. Silent auction items will be posted on the walls at Hailey Coffee until concert time for bidding and viewing.

Concert tickets are $20, available at Pure Body Pilates (at Carrie’s Hair Salon), Hailey Coffee, Blue Heron Frame or Big Wood Nutrition, all in Hailey. To donate goods and for event details call Pat Robinson 788-5030 or 720-1979 or Ann Winton at 788-9007.

• Hailey Words and Music at the Main Street Bistro in Hailey at 7 p.m. Open Stage for aspiring poets, musicians, storytellers, actors or performers follows (sign-ups during intermission) and program concludes at 9:30 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m.
   
• Up A Creek will play at 8 p.m. at the Sun Valley Brewery in Hailey. Wood River Valley based, the band plays a hugely fun meld of country, rock, blues, folk, and hillbilly music for the masses.

   

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Friday Aug. 21

• The Royal Larkspur Play Troupe will present a staged reading of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" at 7 p.m. at the nexStage Theatre in Ketchum. Suggested donation to the nexStage

Theatre is $10. Wine, drinks and food will be available.
 

• In Hailey, The Back Alley Party and Voci Ingenium will present Hoodwink in a benefit for the Papoose Club and the Notes Music Scholarships.