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Guest violinist Rachel Barton Pine will help kick off the 2012-2013 Boise Philharmonic concert season.
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strings BOISE PHILHARMONIC SEASON OPENER As the weather continues to cool down and you trade in your iced tea and flip flops for hot chai and boots, indoor activities suddenly become a lot more appealing. And while saying goodbye to summer in Boise can feel a lot like getting dumped, we know one way to ease your seasonal depression. Although the first performance will take place Friday, Sept. 28, at Northwest Nazarene University’s Swayne Auditorium, Boise Philharmonic will officially kick off its season Saturday, Sept. 29. In addition to starting another season of providing Boiseans with culturally rich nights outs, the phil will have a great big party. The third-annual Opening Night Celebration will take place at the Stueckle Sky Center prior to the evening’s performance. Cocktail hour begins at 5 p.m. and dinner will be served at 6 p.m. Guests are encouraged to wear semi-formal attire, and those in attendance can enjoy live music from the Boise Philharmonic Youth Orchestra as well as speeches from Music Director Robert Franz and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Steve Trott. After the party, guests will saunter over to the Morrison Center, where violinist Rachel Barton Pine will perform along with the phil. The evening’s musical agenda includes Arthur Honegger’s “Pacific 231,” Jean Sibelius’ violin concerto and Johannes Brahms’ First Symphony. In addition to a season of harmonious performances, philharmonic attendees can expect extras like Backstage With the Artist, where sack lunches accompany conversation with Franz and the featured guest artist, and Musically Speaking, a pre-concert lecture dealing with the stories behind the music. Opening Night Celebration: 5 p.m. $100 per person or $750 for a table of eight. Stueckle Sky Center, 1910 W. University Drive, 208-344-7849; Concert: Friday, Sept. 28, 8 p.m. $11.50-$43. Northwest Nazarene Swayne Auditorium, 707 Fern St., Nampa, 208-467-8790; Saturday, Sept. 29, 8 p.m. $11.50-$76.50. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, 208426-3980; boisephilharmonic.org.
SATURDAYMONDAY SEPT. 29-OCT. 1 fun
EVIL WINE CARNIVAL Last year’s inaugural Evil Wine Carnival wasn’t just a concert. It featured everything from bands to comedians to performance art to a blindfolded Wes Malvini—the event’s promoter—sitting
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against a wall with his hands behind his back so people who donated $1 to Radio Boise could throw onions at his crotch, Jackass-style. This year’s incarnation is shaping up to be no tamer. Evil Wine has teamed up with WavePOP and decided
Here’s a quiz: Where can you see pioneer blacksmiths, Civil War soldiers, Renaissance swordsmen, Irish dancers, classic cars and a giant potato? Unless you confuse the type of mushrooms you put in your salad, the best way is at the Idaho State Historical Museum’s Museum Comes to Life event. The annual hands-on celebration of history will fill the museum and a chunk of Julia Davis Park Saturday, Sept. 29, with family friendly demonstrations and performances from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. This is the 39th year for the event, which strives to give the public a chance to get a new take on history with firsthand peeks at life at various points in time. Living history re-enactors will be set up in and around the museum, offering demonstrations of crafts, arts and skills. It will be encampment central with Colonial, Civil War, Indian Lifeways, Renaissance, Pioneers and World War II groups set up throughout the day. The public will be able to check out things like wood carving, Navajo weaving, blacksmithing, pioneer games and various performances, including Medieval combat. This year there’s a special focus on the area’s cultural diversity through the performing arts, thanks to a grant from the City of Boise Department of Arts and History. Throughout the day, groups of dancers and musicians will perform around the museum, including Irish and Greek dancers, Ballet Folklorica, Marimba Boise and Boise faves Hillfolk Noir. If that’s not enough, there will also be displays of classic cars and motorcycles, as well as food vendors and roaming historic figures. Better yet, it’s all free. You have to love history. 9 a.m.-4 p.m., FREE. Idaho State Historical Museum, 610 N. Julia Davis Drive, 208-3342120, history.idaho.gov.
to spread the shennanigans across three days at Visual Arts Collective, Red Room and the Eyes of the World Imports’ parking lot. Dozens of bands will be playing both inside and outside Red Room and Visual Arts Collective, along with films including the Evil Wine Show special The Bible the Movie: Part 2, DJ battles, comedy performances and special contests like a dildo toss and “guess that smell” quiz. The event will be head-
lined by Hollywood craprockers Green Jello, who will take to the stage at Red Room Saturday, Sept. 29. Considering how long it has been since the band toured or recorded, don’t be surprised if you are scratching your heads and saying, “Who?” Perhaps you know the band by the name Green Jelly, which it had to take after being sued by Jell-O. Or maybe you know it as the band Maynard James Keenan was sort of in before
Tool. Or perhaps you don’t know the band at all. But what you probably will recognize is its metaltastic reboot of the Three Little Pigs story. Its sludgy riff, comic lyrics and claymation video were a stoner staple of MTV late nights. But, ultimately, Green Jello is a band to see live. Even if that doesn’t sound like your cup o’ tea, Meth House Party Band, Art Fad, The Useless, Sandusky Furs, Trinomikon, DJ Skape and Reflektion, Andy D., WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M