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MUSIC/FILM: Earth Day Celebration with music and short films. April 22 7 pm Join Gallatin Valley Earth Day for a special Earth Day Celebration with local musicians and short films featuring our kids! RSVP: https://bozemanarts-live. com/calendar-2/ The evening includes: a vocal duo of “This Pretty Planet” performed by Kate Bryan and Betsy Wise, Taylor Burlage will play “Deep Beneath” and short films about Earth Day hero kids. KATE BRYAN Kate Bryan is a singer/musician with Kate & The AlleyKats. Her life’s mission is to inspire creativity, community and connection through music for people of all ages. She is a teacher (Early Childhood Music Together Kids Classes, MusicTogetherBozeman.com), Summer Music Camp Director (Girlsing Singing, Songwriting & Art Camp, www.GirlSing.com) and Choir Director (Singing Souls Senior Chorus and Groovin’ Choir at Pilgrim Church). To book Kate & The AlleyKats for special events or to learn more about Kate’s community music offerings, visit https://www. KateBryanMusic.com.
EARTH DAY 2021 BETSY WISE Betsy Wise lives a life steeped in music, teaching, songwriting, and gigging, with a strong belief in the healing, connecting, and transformative power of music through Song Bird Studio and Montana Women’s Chorus. Betsy has 25 years of experience teaching, singer/songwriter gigging, and harmony singing in the long-standing Bozeman rock band Hooligans. Playing in a most recent endeavor Betsy and Johnny with John Sanders. Her new selftitled recording Betsy Wise was released in February 2020. For more details see https:// www.betsywisesongs.com/ CHELSEY TREVINO Chelsey Trevino is 29 years old and was born in Oklahoma. She moved to Montana in 2014 to attend college at Montana State University. She has been performing and writing acoustic songs for the last 14 years. Recently graduated from MSU in spring of 2020 with a bachelors in Environmental Science, she landed her dream job working for the City of Bozeman as a Water Conservation Technician in 2020. Her musical genre is hard to place but has a blues feel with meaningful lyrics to back up her unique acoustic sound filled with passion. TAYLOR BURLAGE Born and raised in Montana, Taylor Burlage has been playing and writing songs for 10 years now. Influenced by the likes of Justin Townes Earle, Josh Ritter, and Mandolin Orange, his songs are driven by simple lyricism and a deep reverence for the Montana landscape. As a student at Montana State University, he studies Film and Photography and is continuously in search of new places and opportunities to document the natural world. Taylor filmed our local children who shared their thoughts on Earth Day with us! CLAIRE VLASES Inspiring Young Heroes “Solar Makes Sense” video. Claire Vlases
tells her story in this short video, including how she came up with the idea, how they raised the money, and how the project has benefited the school and the community. The principal of SMS, Gordon Grissom, also talks about how Claire’s perseverance and hard work made such a difference in making her big dream a reality. BOZEMAN KIDS Throughout the evening, short filmed “vignettes” of the following children will be shown. In their own words, they will share with us their ideas and wishes on how we can make our earth a healthier and better place to live for both people and animals. A big thanks to Taylor Burlage (see above) for filming these vignettes and the wonderful kids who shared their thoughts and wishes with us. Thanks to our sponsors who underwrote this evenings production: Montana Mindfulness Project and Uphill Pursuits
commission by local composer Eric Funk. RSVP: https://bozemanarts-live. com/calendar-2/ With stunning cinematography by Thomas Thomas and a new recording by Montana’s premier choral ensemble, Roots in the Sky, Requiem for a Forest is a plaintive reflection on the Bridger forest fires, the state of our environment, and the inherent regrowth of a forest. This piece, premiered earlier this year by Intermountain Opera performers, will be broadcast in this new format on April 22 at 7 p.m. About Eric From 1994-2002, Eric was conductor of the Helena Symphony Orchestra in Helena, Montana. From 1994- 1999, he was also the conductor of the Gallatin Chamber Orchestra in Bozeman, Montana. Past performance venues for his works include Dvorak Hall [Prague], Lutoslawki Radio Hall [Warsaw], Symphony Hall [Riga], Carnegie Hall [NY], the Renda Theater, and the Gaudeamus International Interpreters of Contemporary Music Festival (Rotterdam). His 144 major works have earned him numerous awards and commissions, including 13 ASCAP Standard Awards, the 2001 Governor’s Award for the Arts (Montana), a 2011 Innovation in the Arts Award, a 2012 Humanities Hero Award (Humanities Montana, NEH), and three Arts Commission Fellowships. He currently teaches for the School of Music/Montana State University where he has won numerous teaching awards.
MUSIC: Requiem for a Forest April 22 7:00 pm Requiem for a Forest In celebration of Earth Day, Gallatin Valley Earth Day partner, the Intermountain Opera Company, presents a rerelease of their
