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Summer Stars, Actor's Lab, Christmas Carol
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR VOTES FOR BEST OF THE A-LIST 2009.
We WON BEST INDEPENDENT THEATRE FOR 2009!! THANKS TO YOU!!
Our 5th Annual Summer Stars Theatre Camp will run two 3 week sessions this year, June 8-26 and June 29-July 17, this year presenting "The Jack Tales" Please see our main calendar or "coming soon" for details.
We are running another Actor's Lab, Tuesdays, July 21-Sept 8. Details, click more information below in this box or see our main calendar by clicking at the bottom of the page.
Christmas Carol will run Fri Nov 20-Sun Dec 13 - Auditions will be in September. More to come later!
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| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 7:30 pm |
5th Annual Summer Stars Theatre Camp
The Jack Tales
This season we proudly present students with a unique creative journey. Our adventure takes us deep into the Blue Ridge Mountains where we encounter - THE JACK TALES - These marvelous folktales center around Jack our teenage hero, the universal underdog who outwits the likes of some mighty big players such as giants, witches, robbers, and big brothers! This folk comedy by Rex Stephenson will be performed with live music, dance, singing, acting and puppetry!
For youth 8-18 years old
Session One: June 8 - 26, 2009
Monday - Thursday: 9:00 a.m. - noon
Performances: June 25 & 26 • 7:30 p.m.
Session Two: June 29 - July 17, 2009
Monday - Thursday: 9:00 a.m. - noon
Performances: July 16 & 17 • 7:30 p.m.
Registration Fee
Prior to May 29: $245.00
After May 29: $265.00
Registration is on a first come first served basis!
The Jack Tales Production - Co-Directed by Monica MacLean & local artist Barbara Alexander and we are pleased to announce Geff Crawford as Musical Director
Registration is on a first come, first served basis and class size is limited to 25 students for each session!
Don’t miss the fun - register today! Or call Monica at 209-257-0709!
Mail your registration and payment to:
Monica MacLean
P.O. Box 1422
Jackson, CA 95642
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| Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 8:00 pm |
Jeffrey Halford & the Healers
Roots rock & country fried blues with soul!
Halford just won "Songwriter of the year" at the Southbay music awards in Los Angeles in May 09. He has shared the stage with Robert Earl Keen, Taj Mahal, Dave Alvin, Los Lobos (David Hidalgo called him one mean guitarist). His live show cooks! Searing slide guitar work. His last cd "Broken chord " reached #8 on the Americana Charts.
This San Francisco troubadour serves up a rough and tumble assortment of swampy rockers and lazy, reflective R&B, all sung from the vantage point of someone who's lived life with a street-side view. Imagine Willie Nelson fronting Creedence Clearwater Revival and you get a hint of Halford's visceral perspective.
“Introspective, country-informed ballads, slashing-riff rockers, and Creedence-worthy swamp blues, all infused with Halford's evocative, hard-life lyrics and blazing slide guitar work, combine to maintain his status among the outstanding, essential voices in Americana today.”– San Diego Union-Tribune, Buddy Blue
"Smoking riffs add a nice hitch to this disc. Halford and band blow the roof off with the rollicking "Rent to Own" and approach genius with the touching "Railbirds."
What's Up Magazine, December 2005
“Halford is probably one of the finest slabs of roots rock and country fried blues and soul you’ll hear in this or any other year. Halford is the total package: an engaging singer with razor-sharp guitar chops who writes catchy songs loaded with storied lyrics—it’s almost frightening how good this guy is.”
Bill Frost
Salt Lake City Weekly
"Jeffrey Halford: Soulful blues-influenced storyteller and songwriter with a tight delivery. Halford and crew go well beyond a mastery of their instruments. They're performers, storytellers, and entertainers. Their impeccable improvisational skills make listeners feel that each moment of their performance is unique and special, and their energy could make you want to jump out of your chair and shake."
— Paula Munoz / Music Connection (Live show review)
"After five critically acclaimed albums, Jeffrey Halford has little to prove at this point. He's got a crack band in the Healers, he plays viseral guitar with slinky abandon and writes rootsy swampy blues songs that sting and soothe equally. Halford continues his quality streak with 'Broken Chord.'"
- Brian Baker, HARP MAGAZINE
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| July 21 -- Sept 8 |
Actor's Lab
Where:
The Historic
Sutter Creek Theatre
When:
July 21 - September 8, 2009
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Fee:
9 week session
Register by July 20 – $225
Day of Class – $250
Contact:
To register or for more information, please call
Monica MacLean at 209-257-0709
The Actor’s Lab An improvisation and acting workshop for all levels –
from the beginner to the veteran performer.
Monica MacLean, a professional actor for the last 30 years and in Theatre Education for the 18 years, Monica MacLean brings a rich background to the historic Sutter Creek Theatre’s new Conservatory. Ms. MacLean is a member of all the performing arts unions. She was awarded a scholarship to study with Lee Strasberg at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles in 1972. Ms. MacLean founded the San Carlos Children’s Theatre where she was Artistic Director from 1990-2000. There she received recognition and grants from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, and The Peninsula Foundation. She was given the California Oak Leaf for her outstanding work with children and young adults. Ms. MacLean moved to Amador County in 2005 and taught drama at rgonaut High School. In the summer of 2005 she became Artistic Director of the Sutter Creek Theatre (SCT). Her dedication to theatre education led her to offer the annual Summer Stars Theatre Camp. She also produces and directs an annual community theatre production of A Christmas Carol. In 2008 she created
an SCT production of The Velveteen Rabbit to allow local schools to enjoy live theatre within their own community.
The Actor’s Lab is a safe, nurturing place to work on all aspects of the craft of acting. This workshop is designed to improve your abilities while gaining
con!dence and having fun in a creative atmosphere – including relaxation
techniques, sense memory work, and acting exercises to increase concentration, improvisation and scene work.
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| Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 8:00 pm |
Jessica Fichot and Fishtank Ensemble
Two Bands playing French chanson, Gypsy jazz, flamenco, and more!
Two great bands with an international flavor you just have to hear to believe.
Jessica Fichot appears with her band, and the Fishtank Ensemble appears as well.
Jessica Fichot, a chanteuse, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is a lot like her hometown of Paris: French at heart, but with a soul that's truly international. Drawing from her multi-ethnic French / Chinese / American upbringing, and backed by an amazing quartet of clarinet/sax, upright bass, guitar, and drums, her music fuses styles and languages, taking the listener on a twisting journey out of the French chanson tradition, into the lands of gypsy jazz, Chinese and Latin American folk music, and into the wilderness of her imagination.
Heavily laced with the graceful sounds of clarinet, cello and accordion, her recently released CD "Le Chemin (The Path)" swirls with cabaret style and elements of Paris street chansons, Chinese folk and gypsy jazz. But when combined with her sweet, clear soprano which warbles in French, English, Chinese and even Spanish (on the saucy traditional tune "Los Peces en el Rio") all that ultimately serves to underscore a wide-open sense of childlike wonder at the heart of her songs. It also gives her an oddly hip edge. Whether bemoaning the loss of innocent childhood in "Le Grenier," murmuring the seductive "Le Velours et la Soie" or reinventing the pop standard "Dream a Little Dream of Me" as "Dream/Les Yeux Ouverts," she sounds simultaneously sophisticated and schoolgirlish. Which, come to think of it, is a very American combo.
Fishtank Ensemble offers a unique musical experience--and a rollicking good time! From the smokey cafes of Bucharest to the Gypsy caravans of yesterday, this band evokes the spirit of a past age and the sounds of tomorrow.
“For those in need of having their dervish whirled, the Bay Area's Fishtank Ensemble are the rompin', stompin' leaders of cross-pollinated Gypsy music. French fiddler Fabrice Martinez paid dues gigging Europe in a mule-drawn caravan, including stints in Romani villages. El Douje is the master of 21st-century flamenco guitar, while Aaron Seeman is the king of punk accordion. Audience eyes tend to focus on Ursula Knudson, not only for her virtuosic saw playing and a voice that sings in octaves not yet invented, but also for her sensual beauty. The mix includes a Japanese shamisen player and a rock-bottom upright bassist, and we have a young band that is one of the most thrilling live acts on the planet.”
— Michael Simmons, LA Weekly
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