For a complete listing of this week’s events, visit newsreview.com/reno Handel’s Messiah TOCCATA—Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus winds down its ninth annual holiday production, which has been performed at several venues in the RenoTahoe area over the past two weeks. The concert features favorite selections from Handel’s Messiah parts I and III, as well as seasonal carols. The show begins at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 19 at Grace Community Church, 1220 Robb Drive. Tickets range from $5 to $40. Call (775) 3139697 or visit www.toccatatahoe.com.
Jazz for the Holidays The Reno Jazz Orchestra presents its holiday concert featuring performances by jazz vocalist Madeline Eastman, international tap dancing star Sam Weber and Ananda Bena-Weber of Sierra Nevada Ballet, the Reno Youth Jazz Orchestra and other special guests. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 20, at Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, 1335 N. Virginia St., at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for students. Visit www.renojazzorchestra.org.
Colors of Christmas Jazz singer Cami Thompson will present her annual holiday show and winter solstice celebration featuring favorite holiday tunes and selections off her CD Colors of Christmas. She will be joined by Peter Supersano, Joe McKenna, Eric Middleton, Doug Coomler, Rich Lewis, Andrew Woodard, and the Billinghurst Middle School Jazz Choir under the direction of Kris Engstrom and backup singers Jesse Briggs, Malary Engstrom and Jill Engstrom. The concert will benefit the Jessica Ann Faber Foundation’s “Help Bring Joy To Their World” campaign to present gifts of music lessons, arts supplies, dance gear, instrument repairs and more to struggling young artists in the community. The show begins at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 21, at Nightingale Concert Hall inside the Church Fine Arts Complex, 1335 N. Virginia St., at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tickets are $25 general admission, $15 for seniors age 65 and older and $10 for youth age 15 and younger. Visit www. camithompson.com.
Riverwalk District Wine Walk
R
emember that ugly Christmas sweater your Great Aunt Millie knitted for you ages ago that you banished to the darkest corner of your closet? It’s time to dust it off and put it on display for this month’s wine walk event. Participants age 21 and older are invited to break out their
most atrocious knitted holiday garments while sampling wines at a variety of shops in the Riverwalk District in downtown Reno. Stop by Brüka Theatre, Chocolate Bar, 5 Star Saloon or other Riverwalk District businesses, and, with a valid photo ID, you’ll receive a map, wine glass and an ID bracelet that
allows you to sample wine from any participating merchant. The glass and bracelet are $20. Part of the proceeds from this month’s event will go to Cancer Awareness of Nevada. The wine walk takes place from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 20. Call 825-9255 or visit www.renoriver.org.
Ham for the Holidays
—Kelley Lang
OPINION
|
NEWS
|
GREEN
|
FEATURE STORY
|
ARTS&CULTURE
|
ART OF THE STATE
|
FOODFINDS
|
FILM
|
MUSICBEAT
|
NIGHTCLUBS/CASINOS
There are just a few more days left to catch Brüka Theatre’s holiday production of Shad Willingham’s warmhearted farce and nod to the screwball comedies of the 1930s. The scene: It is Christmas Eve, 1939, in the fictional town of Hamlin, Georgia, and the local radio station WHAM has a special one-off performance planned for Christmas. WHAM has gathered its radio actors together for the anticipated arrival of a script and radio star Orson Welles, who will join the cast for the performance. Unfortunately, a freak snowstorm derails those plans and the actors must scramble to get a play together by airtime. Performances start at 8 p.m. on Friday-Saturday, Dec. 20-21, with a matinee show at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 21, at Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St. Tickets are $20 general, $18 students and seniors and $25 at the door. Call 323-3221 or visit www.bruka.org.
|
THIS WEEK
|
MISCELLANY
|
DECEMBER 18, 2014
|
RN&R
|
31
