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The Stirring Renditions

The Sun Valley Center for the Art’s 28th Annual Wine Gala was, as usual, as a swimming success. The weekend of wine is done and gone, but what it left behind is some $700,000 in funds raised for Sun Valley Center’s scholarships and programs. It was an all-fun event for an all-good cause. With this accomplished, all we have to concern ourselves with is music: chamber, reggae, rock, flamingo, country, theatrical, folk and jazz. I kid you not. The Valley is aflutter and it’s inspiring to see (and listen to) such a civic and civilized bustling. Next week we may have to see an ear specialist.

 

Monday, July 27

• The Edgar M. Bronfman Chamber Music Series begins 6:30 pm., Monday, July 27, at the Sun Valley Pavilion. It’s the second year for the stately outdoor music structure, a perfect house for the best outdoor symphony in the country. The free hour-long chamber concerts begin Monday, and continue Wednesday and Friday. Tonight’s repertoire features Jon Nakamatsu on piano performing Handel, Halvorsen and Brahms, as well a stirring rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. For more information visit www.svsummersymphony.org.
   

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Tuesday, July 28

• Ketch’em Alive gets grooving in the Forest Service Park in Ketchum at 7 p.m. Jackson Hole-based reggae band Chanman Roots will play and the event is free and picnics are welcome.
   
• The Sun Valley Brewery in Hailey will host the Trevor Green Duo, at 7 p.m. The LA-based twosome is fresh off the weekend’s Sawtooth Music Festival.
   
• Company of Fools presents "110 In The Shade" by N. Richard Nash, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, during The 2009 Summer Fools Festival, which also features “Steel Magnolias” and “Welcome Home Jenny Suttor” in rotating repertory. Directed by John Glenn and with musical direction by R.L.Rowsey, the play will be staged at 7 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. Also Friday and Saturday, and Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Liberty Theatre in Hailey. www.companyoffools.org.
   

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This weekend

• This coming weekend is the 32nd annual Northern Rockies Folk Festival. Wristband passes are available online at www.nrff.net, Notes music, and Chapter One in Ketchum.