The Rancho Mirage Writers Festival is an annual celebration of writers, books, readers, and ideas! The City of Rancho Mirage, California will welcome authors and readers to the Rancho Mirage Public Library. Writers will talk about their books, their source of ideas, and the mechanics of writing for publication.
A Place at the Table: Dining at Sunnylands, celebrates Walter and Leonore Annenberg’s remarkable history of diplomacy and social gatherings through an exploration of the fine china and tableware they used to entertain guests for decades, and which is still used for important meetings to this day.
Pioneers in the use of four-hands piano in jazz, Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi have earned widespread success with their arrangements of classics from the stride piano, ragtime, and boogie woogie repertoires, as well as from the swing era and the Great American Songbook. The husband-and-wife duo have performed across the United States, Europe, and Japan, winning the acclaim of critics and fans alike.
LP and the Vinyl sends pop and R&B favorites through a kaleidoscope of jazz, providing the best of both worlds: familiar songs dear to the heart, freshly intensified with beautifully mastered improvisation. In this special concert, the band will play tribute to Black History Month with a performance featuring music by Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Sam Cooke, Louis Armstrong, and Bobby Timmons.
Whether you’re a lifelong fan of opera, or have never experienced a performance, you’re sure to enjoy this special show. The Palm Springs Opera Guild of the Desert presents Toujours l’amour, a performance of love arias just in time for Valentine’s Day. Providing the evening’s events talent will be two accomplished and very well-known opera singers from Southern California – Joshua Wheeker, tenor, and his wife, Tara Wheeker, soprano. These real-life lovebirds will take your breath away as they celebrate the beauty of romance through music.
The Rancho Mirage Writers Festival is an annual celebration of writers, books, readers, and ideas! The City of Rancho Mirage, California will welcome authors and readers to the Rancho Mirage Public Library. Writers will talk about their books, their source of ideas, and the mechanics of writing for publication.
Guitarist Peter Sprague takes Cole Porter’s classic songs and presents them in a new color of samba, funk, salsa, and jazz. Come hear fresh and inventive arrangements such as "Just One of Those Things", which swings fast. Morphing over to funk, "Love for Sale" takes a trip to Cuba, while "Night and Day" arcs with a Brazilian moon. Meanwhile, "I Get a Kick Out of You" is heavily influenced by Eddie Harris’ Freedom Jazz Dance, and "Every Time We Say Goodbye" is as nice and gentle as Cole intended it to be.
International Jazz pianist and Steinway artist Lenore Raphael, renowned vibraphonist Steve Hobbs and bassist Hilliard Greene will play a tribute concert recalling tunes made famous by the Modern Jazz Quartet, such as "Django," "Afternoon in Paris," "Bags Blues," "Nearness of You," and many more. It will be a very swinging evening of great jazz.
Join an enthusiastic audience for a memorable performance by Jim Borax's California Cabaret, a Rancho Mirage-based entertainment group with a large following.These outstanding professional singers and dancers (several with Broadway experience) will perform unforgettable standards from the Great American Songbook. The ensemble has been featured on both CBS and CNN. The Cabaret has also performed their music and dance routines throughout the Coachella Valley.
Call them a family band: sibling duo Anna Lee and Willie Fleming, joined by their dad Bill, take Americana clear off the rails! The band leapfrogs through a mix of their own toe-tapping originals and covers from Flogging Molly/Pogues-style electrified folk, bluegrass, Grateful Dead, Sublime, Amy Winehouse, and Stevie Wonder, all hot-wired by Finnegan Blue’s high-energy.
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