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This Week
from Sept. 19, 2013
For a complete listing of this week’s events, visit newsreview.com/reno
WHEN YOU’RE HOT, YOU’RE HOT
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Stella Natura: The Light of Ancestral Fires
The neofolk/metal/experimental music festival is set in the heart of Tahoe National Forest’s Desolation Wilderness and features performances by Jarboe, Wardruna, Esoteric, Fire + Ice, StarGazer, Saturnalia Temple, Die Weisse Rose, Aldebaran, Munly & The Lupercalians and others on Sept. 20-22. The music begin at 3 p.m. on Friday and at noon on Saturday and Sunday. The gates open at 10 a.m. at Shinneyboo Creek Cabin Resort, 11820 Eagle Lake Road, Soda Springs, Calif. Tickets are $30-$175. Call (530) 401-3573 or visit www.ancestralfires.org.
Hot Jazz of San Francisco
The Hot Club of San Francisco presents Cinema Vivant, an evening of silent films accompanied by live gypsy swing, as part of the University of Nevada, Reno’s Performing Arts Series. The quintet, a.k.a. Le Jazz Hot, plays “le jazz manouche” music of guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli, who pioneered the sound with their ensemble the Quintette du Hot Club de France during the 1930s. HGSF—featuring band leader/guitarist Paul Mehling, guitarists Isabelle Fontaine and Jeff Magidson, violinist Evan Price and stand-up bass player Clint Baker—will sonically transport audiences to a 1930s-era gypsy campsite in the French countryside where the travelers have set up a makeshift movie theater with a film projector screening silent movies on the side of the barn. The band will provide the soundtrack to the silent films The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) and The Mascot (1933) by Ladislaw Starewicz and There It Is (1928) by Charles Bowers. These two filmmakers made notable contributions to the medium: Starewicz was a pioneer in stopmotion animation and Bowers has been heralded as a comic genius for his surrealist shorts that combined animation with live action. Hot Club of San Francisco will play classic jazz tunes and original compositions to the films starting at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19, at Nightingale Concert Hall in the Church Fine Arts Building, 1335 N. Virginia St., at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tickets are $5-$24. Call 784-4278 or visit www. unr.edu/pas.
—Kelley Lang
A Band Called Death
In collaboration with Brasserie St. James, the Holland Project will screen this documentary film about punk pioneers Death on Sunday, Sept. 22. The band was formed by three teen-aged brothers in the early 1970s, before punk rock exploded on both sides of the Atlantic. The trio moved beyond the humble environs of a spare bedroom in their family’s home in Detroit to performances at a few local gigs. Eventually, the brothers pressed a single in the hopes of getting signed. But in the era of Motown and emerging disco, record companies weren’t keen on signing a band whose music didn’t fit the mold—not to mention, Death wasn’t a name that sold records. The group disbanded before they completed one album, and the demo tape was stored away in an attic until it found an audience three decades later. The documentary chronicles the brothers’ journey from obscurity to the band’s new-found recognition as the first black punk band—if not the first punk band—in existence before there was music called punk rock. The film screens at 7 p.m. at Brasserie St. James, 901 S. Center St. Admission is free. Call 742-1858 or visit www.hollandreno.org.
Urban Farm Fest
Local urban farms will come together to celebrate the urban growing movement, the harvest season and the autumnal equinox at this festival on Sunday, Sept. 22. River School Farm, Urban Roots, Earth Alchemy, Avanzino Farm and Loping Coyote Farms, along with the Local Food Network, present a day of food, festivities and fun. There will be games for all ages, a straw-bale fort, farm food for sale, a Local Food Network panel, an autumnal equinox ceremony, contra dancing, live music and more. The event begins at 3 p.m. at River Farm School, 777 White Fir St. Admission is free but donations are welcome. Call (775) 747-2222 or visit www. riverschoolfarm.org.