Each Thursday at 7:30pm you will be treated to a different jazz group in the intimate space known as "The Merc". The Mercantile, located at 42051 Main Street, is one of Temecula's original buildings and has been beautifully restored. We want to take advantage of this venue and bring you straight ahead jazz there every Thursday evening in this acoustically inspired space.
Performances:
Thursdays at 7:30pm
May 8: Lenore Raphael May 15: Pamela York Trio with Kristin Korb and Steve Barnes May 22: The Keith Droste Trio May 29: The Dave Tull Trio
June 5: The Jacques Lesure Trio June 12: Debbie Voltura June 19: Peter Sprague
July 17: Doug MacDonald, Marty Harris and Harvey Newmark July 31: Guitarist Jeff Linsky
Tickets:
$15
Click on the link below for a sample of Jazz at the Merc.
If you missed this ITL Ensemble Award Winner last year, don’t make the same mistake again! Three actors performing 37 plays in less than two hours may seem a bit of a challenge, but the Shakespeare in the Vines Company pulls it off beautifully! This is one of the funniest, most clever productions around, bringing a hip, edgy feel to the plays while remaining surprisingly true to the stories. Eric Ruiter, Mike Tubman, and Brandon Dean demonstrate a marvel of timing and rhythm. Best of all, whether you know Shakespeare inside out or have yet to read a word of him, The Complete Works will have you doubled over in laughter.
"Intellectual vaudeville" - The New York Times. "Inspired American spoof merchants...slings and arrows of outrageous comedy" - Daily Telegraph.
"This trio of modern Marx brothers will leave you in stitches" - Boston Herald.
Life is short. The complete works of Shakespeare are long. To the rescue: Shakespeare in the Vines!
Prelude to the play includes a mini-Renaissance Fest beginning at 6:00 pm featuring flower wreaths from the Temecula Rose Society, Vintage Singer Madrigals, Celtic harp Choir, Southwest Youth Chorus Madrigals, wine pouring by our host wineries, Wiens and Frangipani, and the Queen will greet and meet her loyal subjects as her knights battle for her honor, before leading them into the Theater at 7:00 pm. Performance: Thursday, May 15, 2008 from 6pm-7pm in the Courtyard for the Renaissance Fest! Thursday, May 15, 2008 from 7pm-9pm in the Theater
The look, the voice, a phenomenal likeness to the King. Audiences everywhere are in awe! From a young teen winning awards for his wonderful voice throughout the valley and now as "Elvis", Travis Allen's charm and charisma will make you feel as though ELVIS LIVES ON! Raised here in Temecula Valley, Travis began impersonating Elvis last summer. Just in that short time, he has won four major Elvis competitions.
Travis recently entered the Elvis Ultimate contest, sponsored by Elvis Presley Enterprise (EPE) in Arnold, MO., where he won second place. He currently lives in Las Vegas, where he is the #1 requested young Elvis. He makes women swoon and grown men cheer. You won't want to miss his upcoming show. His talents include playing guitar, piano, bass guitar, mandolin and drums. This spectacular show will take you back to the past with Elvis's early years through the beginning of the jumpsuit era.
Performance: Friday, May 16 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $40 Adults $36 Seniors/Students/Military $32 Children 12 and under
The chorus, now in its eighth year of providing quality choral music to its members and audiences, has selected a theme that affects everyone. Passion abounds in religion, in love, in self-worth, in caring for others, and in espousing causes, be they political, human rights, and many others. This concert truly has something for everyone. In religion, the program includes classical, bluegrass and gospel. Love songs go from folk music to Broadway to 50's rock and roll. If you want to hear a sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning done in full doo-wop, this is your concert!
Performances: Saturday, May 17 at 7:30pm Sunday, May 18 at 2:00pm
Tickets: $16 Adults / $12 Seniors, Military / $8 Youth under 18
This will be an exciting concert featuring the winner(s) of The Young Artist's Concerto Competition.
Musical program selections include:
Franz von Suppe (1819-1895) Light Cavalry Overture
Hans Zimmer Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Youth Concerto Contest Winner(s)
Modest Moussorgsky (arr. Ravel) (1839-1881) Pictures At An Exhibition
Performance: Monday, May 19, 2008 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $18.00 for adults $15.00 for students and seniors $3.00 for children 12 and under **Individual concert tickets are not refundable
TEMECULA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL BAND: THE COMPOSERS CONCERT
The "Composers Concert" will feature the music of Jonathon Ortega, former Temecula Valley High School student who is now preparing to graduate from USC in composition.
Mr. Ortega was commissioned to write two pieces of music for the Temecula Valley High School Band which will have their world premier on May 20th. The first piece is entitled "Elementals for 12 percussionists" and the second selection is entitled "Rambunctions for Timpani Soloist and Wind Ensemble."
The remainder of the concert will feature the music of Richard Saucedo and Brian Balmages.
Performance: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 7:00pm
Tickets: $10
SKYLER DAY AND FRIENDS
Skyler started performing at age 6 in musicals, weddings, church solo performances, holiday events, county fairs and talent showcases. She also had the opportunity to film several TV commercials and radio voice over spots.
At age 10, she wrote & recorded her first song, “Granddaddy’s Love”.
By age 11, her acting career started with a bang when she landed the role of Ociee Nash in “The Adventures of Ociee Nash.” (available at Blockbusters or at www.ociee.com)
The following year, at age 12, she recorded “Somebody’s Hero”, a tribute to the American soldier, for a songwriter and friend in Atlanta, Georgia.
Skyler’s family relocated to Temecula in 2004 and she has since filmed a CBS pilot with director Brett Ratner, an ABC pilot “Hollis & Rae” in Savannah, Georgia with director Callie Khouri and more.
She continues to pursue her music and acting careers with great excitement and expectation.
Skyler has more than 15 original songs that she will debut in Temecula on May 21st 2008.
You can find out more about Skyler at: www.myspace.com/skylerday
All proceeds will benefit the "Let the Little Children Come" orphanage in Maneadero, Mexico.
Performance (on the Mercantile Stage): Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 7:00pm
Presenting the third annual incorporation of music and art, the California Chamber Orchestra once again collaborates with a local elementary school and its art students as they express their artistic response to selected music. The program opens with Mendelssohn's Sinfonia # 2, a classical Baroque piece, and ends with his Sinfonia # 12, a dramatic, theatrical piece; both were written by the time he was 14 years old. In between are two trombone concertos with string accompaniment, the first written by Albrechtsberger, one of Beethoven's composition teachers, and the other by the 20th century Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson.
Program: Mendelssohn - Sinfonia No. 2 in D major Albrechtsberger - Concerto for Trombone in B flat major Larsson - Concertino for Trombone and Strings Op. 45 No. 7 Mendelssohn - Sinfonia No. 12 in G minor Soloist – Toby Oft, trombone California Chamber Orchestra, Warren Gref, Conductor & Artistic Director www.goldenvalleymusicsociety.org
Click here for a selection of music samples from the Temecula Presents Classical Music Series.
Singer/songwriter Karla Bonoff grew up in Los Angeles and briefly attended UCLA. Emerging from the Monday night hootenanny scene at the Troubadour nightclub, she was a member of Bryndle, a folk-rock group also featuring Wendy Waldman, Andrew Gold, and Kenny Edwards, that formed in 1969, signed to A&M, and cut an album that was never released. Edwards, a former member of the Stone Poneys (a band featuring Linda Ronstadt), and Gold were later part of Ronstadt's backing band, and they brought Bonoff to her attention. Ronstadt recorded three of Bonoff's songs on her 1976 album, Hasten Down the Wind, leading to a recording contract for Bonoff and the release of three albums on Columbia Records, the last of which, Wild Heart of the Young (1982), featured the Top 40 hit "Personally." As Ronstadt was scoring hits with Karla Bonoff songs, Karla herself was signed as a solo artist to Columbia Records in 1977. There, she not only recorded the three songs Linda had done, but also the hit single "I Can't Hold On" and the tune "Home," which later wound up on one of Bonnie Raitt's albums. Bonoff worked on movie soundtracks during the '80s, notably on Footloose (1984) and About Last Night (1986).
Karla's legacy as a performer and writer was summed up in a review of her "All My Life" recording in Billboard Magazine: "Long before Alanis and Jewel, there was a breed of singer/songwriters whose earthly anthems of soul-searching, heartache and joy touched souls in a way few can muster today."
