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Rogue Valley Peace Choir performs May 16 & 18
The Rogue Valley Peace Choir — now celebrating its 22nd year — presents its spring concert, “Be a Light,” on May 16 in Medford and May 18 in Ashland.
May 9, 2025
The Rogue Valley Peace Choir — now celebrating its 22nd year — presents its spring concert, “Be a Light,” on May 16 in Medford and May 18 in Ashland.
Majkut, an accomplished pianist himself, envisions The Raven influencing future programming choices for RVS. “Once I get more intimately acquainted with its abilities and the sounds it likes to make, it will bring to mind concertos that would be the best fit for it,” he said. “It is an exciting prospect to have this dialogue with an instrument.”
Anima Mundi Productions’ creative team presented a festive and intimate dinner for supporters and subscribers on May 3 at Pascal Winery, an event intended to launch their 2025-2026 season “For Love of Nature.”
In addition to the Handel piece, other highlights of the coming season include Benjamin Britten’s ode to the patron saint of music, “Hymn to St. Cecilia”; Morten Lauridsen’s “Chanson des Roses”; and Britten’s “A Ceremony of Calls,” accompanied by harp.
The Britt Festival, or Britt, has a new brand and a new website.
The Rogue Valley Symphony recently revealed the lineup for its 2025-26 season and it starts out with a bang — a weeklong festival of three concerts in late August at Medford’s Craterian Theater, featuring the debut of the symphony’s newly acquired 9-foot Hamburg Steinway grand piano, the Raven.
Ashland’s historic Railroad District is turning up the volume and turning out the vibes this Earth Day as it transforms into a festive, foot-tapping celebration of sustainability and community. On Tuesday, April 22, from 4 to 7:30 p.m., an Earth Day A Street Block Party — hosted by Wild Thyme Productions — will fill the A Street neighborhood with live music, local eats and eco-minded energy.
The third and final round of performers appearing at this summer’s Britt Music Festival has been revealed. But that’s not all. Announced, too, are plans for Britt’s summer schedule of free kids’ concerts and the third annual free The Hill is Where the Heart Is: Neighborhood Kickoff Party.
Ashlanders who turned out for a Ukrainian Sister City fundraiser Sunday heard musicians play, listened to a talk about the importance of not taking a peaceful life for granted and saw a video featuring interviews with residents of the city that will have a water truck and generator, thanks in part to their presence and support.
The slate includes country artist Wynonna Judd, pop favorite Natasha Bedingfield and the pairing of Taj Mahal and Steve Earle. Among the notable first-timers performing on the Britt stage are Dirtwire with special guests Free Creatures, and a much-anticipated performance from Tash Sultana.
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After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
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Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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