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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
September 16, 2009
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Get ‘in the mood’ with Ron
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Jazz band featuring faculty to perform at DANA benefit
By Travis Bland • Editor
By Daniel Irving Staff writer
The old Dana Adobe will light up with the popping sounds of jazz Sunday, Sept. 27. The Cuesta Night Band is playing a concert at the historic site in Nipomo as the finale for a long running series of performances at the historic site. There will be a reception at 3 p.m., and the concert begins at 4 p.m. Tickets are $20 general and $15 for students. The Cuesta Night Band is a swinging 18 piece group comprised of professional musicians from Santa Maria to Paso Robles. The band is under the direction of Ron McCarley, director of the jazz studies program in the performing arts department. It also includes members of the jazz studies faculty.
The band will be playing classic and modern arrangements of big band tunes from Glen Miller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson, and Stan Keyton. The other acts on the bill include Inga Swearingen, who was first place winner of the Montreaux Jazz Festival Shure Vocal Competition, and Duo Nu Monet featuring pianist Jim Barnett and vocalist Deanna Delore. Barnett toured worldwide with Johnny Mathis as the singer’s arranger, conductor and pianist. The concert will be held at a historical site in the county. Dana Adobe is a 13 bedroom adobe residence that began construction in 1839 and finished in 1851. The site is the most
Wednesday, Sept. 16, 8 p.m. FREE Sea Caves (Folk) Linnaeas Café
historic private residence in the county and was at one time the only stopping point between Mission SLO and Mission Santa Ines. D a n a A d ob e Nip omo Amigos was organized in 1999 as a private, nonprofit public benefit corporation. Their purpose was to create a historical park that reflects historical significant and everyday life of Anglo-Americans, Mexicans, Chumash and other native peoples. DANA wants to showcase the adobe’s natural and cultural history with preservation as a fundamental component to the organization. DANA plans to make the adobe a historical park and plan the construction of a museum and visitor center. The concert helps with this goal.
Thursday, Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m. (All Ages) $8 in adv., $10 at door Public Defendaz (Hip Hop) Downtown Brew Monday, Sept. 21, 7 p.m. (All Ages) $20 in adv., $22 at door Mason Jennings (Pop/Rock) Downtown Brew Saturday, Sept. 26, 7 p.m. (All Ages) $13 in adv., $15 at door Rx Bandits (Alt. Rock) Downtown Brew Sunday, Sept. 27, 7 p.m., (All Ages) $13 in adv., $15 at door SOJA (Reggae) Downtown Brew Wednesday, Sept. 30, 8 p.m., (All Ages) FREE Curtis Marsh (Punk/Country) Linnaeas Café
Cuesta Night Band, led by Ron McCarley, practices for the coming benefit performance at Dana Adobe in Nipomo.
Saturday, Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m. (All Ages) FREE Fall Festival of Choirs SLO Campus. Building 5401
Photo courtesy of Jay Thompson
Thursday, Oct. 8, 8 p.m., (All Ages) FREE Jazz Jam Linnaeas Café Friday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m. (All Ages) $13 in adv. State Radio (Indie) Downtown Brew Every Tuesday, 8 p.m. (All Ages) FREE Cuesta Jazz Linnaeas Cafe
Staff Writer
Tim Anderson, art gallery director, was given notice that his position could cease to exist after forty-eight days. Several students and staff rallied at a recent Board of Trustees meeting to plead on behalf of Anderson’s job. “Art programs are frequently considered frills,” said art major Ruth Turner. “But they are intrinsic.” Anderson spoke as well. He said if his position were eliminated, the gallery would close, and the Gallery Management class would be lost. That class is required for all arts majors, and without it, Cuesta wouldn’t
be able to offer a transferable Associate’s Degree in art. In the end, the Board voted to keep Anderson, though his hours might be cut. The gallery remains open and currently features artist Linda Carriero, with work including wall pieces and sculptures revolving around literary and nautical themes. Her gallery show, “Carried Across” consists of six unique pieces which bend the use of text to create marvelous metaphorical masterpieces. The artist intends boats, waves, and altered text to represent the origin, movement, and translation of text. Her art boldly proves, a book is not just a book; paper is not just paper.
Above: A paper Spanish galleon sails across the classic “Don Quixote.” Below: Little bees, which represent inspiration, pollinate “Dr. Faustus.” TR AVIS BLAND CUESTONIAN EDITOR
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