Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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On Sunday, August 23, at 5 PM, do NOT go to the Hollywood Bowl. Let the Hollywood Bowl come to you through the musical talents of violinist Paul Stein. He will be performing solos and duets at a private home in Bear Valley Springs. Tickets and gate passes are available, but you must call Diana at 661-699-2719 or Jeanette at 661-972-2344. Space is limited, so call early. Mr. Stein has been a member of the LA Philharmonic for 30 years, but has branched out to include many educational and chamber...
Patrick Mitchell has been singing for 38 years and has been impersonating Elvis since he was six years old. On July 11 he will be bringing his show "Elvis & Others" to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Tehachapi. A dinner will be served prior to the show from 5 to 6 p.m. followed by vocals from Tanya, Patrick's fiancée. "Elvis & Others" will be from 7 to 9 p.m. with some of the "others" being Frank Sinatra, Neal Diamond, Bobby Darren and Dean Martin. Admission is free, so come...
The new TCT season is being launched with DNA by Dennis Kelly, the story about a group of teenagers who hang out together. The play begins after a catastrophe where the group’s antics spiraled out of control and, for one poor guy, things ended very badly. The author provides us with the incident, the panic, and the aftermath, as the gang puts their hierarchical system to one side in order to formulate an elaborate cover-up. It is an edgy, fast-paced, thought provoking play about the disasters associated with bullying in high school, a timely a...
The Bear Valley Cultural Arts Association is pleased to present taiko drumming at Cub Lake on July 11, 2015 from 3-4 p.m. with discussion to follow. Bring your chairs and refreshments for a gala afternoon. We will feature Kristofer Bergstrom and Jason Osajima from the Los Angeles Taiko Institute performing their newest works. They will also review taiko drumming as an art form and enlighten us about the art and challenge of practice. Kristofer Bergstrom performs and teaches taiko professionally in Los Angeles. After four years studying taiko...
Tehachapi Community Theatre (TCT) will hold a Drama Day Camp this summer directed by Monica Nadon. "Campers" will have fun while learning the basics of acting for the theatre. They will learn theatre games that are not only fun but help build confidence in performing. They will also learn about stage direction, blocking, diaphragmatic breathing, auditioning, monologues, skits, theatre etiquette and much more! The week long camp will end with actors performing what they learned for family and...
Tehachapi Community Theatre announces their new Postcard Discount promotion. TCT distributes 2500 direct mail postcards for every main stage production performed at the BeeKay and is offering a discount to recipients on our mailing list who bring in their postcard for a $2.00 discount on a single ticket. Write your email address on the card and give it to the agent at the box office requesting the Postcard Discount. This Postcard Discount promo is available the full run of each show and all received postcards—complete with email a...
First Friday Fun Fest will be celebrated at Tehachapi Treasure Trove, on Friday evening, May 1, from 5 to 8. The featured artist for May will be Kathryn (Katy) Jacobson. Katy creates what she calls Painterly Photos. She takes photographs which she then softens with filters, computer brushes and other techniques available on her computer software. The final product looks like a painting as much as a photo. Join us to greet Katy, enjoy food and wine and listen to music by Art Larson on clarinet. K...
Kevin Hill, landscape artist, will be the featured guest artist May 1 at Gallery 'N' Gifts. Don't miss the opportunity to meet this gifted artist and teacher. Hill, currently from the Palmdale area, was introduced to painting at fifteen while watching PBS. By the ripe old age of eighteen he was selling his landscapes at a rapid clip. This is a painter who is passionate about his own painting and teaching others. His specialty is a "wet-on-wet" oil painting technique and when you watch one of...
Anyone who has attended music festivals in California is bound to know the band Houston Jones. The “High-Octane” Americana quintet is one of the most popular groups on the circuit. Lately, however, the co-founders guitarist Glenn Houston and vocalist/guitarist Travis Jones have taken a side-trip as a duo. It’s hard to believe that less could be more in the case of Houston Jones, but the Houston and Jones reduction proves that the band rocks solid at its core. The duo will rock Fiddlers Crossing on Friday, April 17, at 7 p.m. Their origi...
Renaissance Fairs have become popular events and are held in various places, but the original one began years ago in Topanga Canyon, Calif. Jonathan Hall explained the history and development of the fairs when he recently spoke to Tehachapi Kiwanis members. Hall has been participating in Renaissance Fairs for over 30 years. To prepare for the event he spends four weekends in preparation where participants learn the history of the Renaissance, practice dialect, and learn roles. Then the fair goes on for another four weekends. Hall has often...
Listening to the old-school country songs and honest back porch voice of Amber Cross has been likened to putting an archival Smithsonian recording on the turntable. Hers is an authentic voice, both in sound and feeling. She writes from her own life’s struggles and experiences, with great power and emotion and a sense of place. Originally from Maine, Cross spent her early years surrounded by gospel music in a small town church where her father preached and her mother played piano. Today she lives on California’s central coast, where she spe...
Tehachapi Community Theatre is offering a "buy one get one" (BOGO) FREE deal for Things My Mother Taught Me. Your bling is the thing, and the ticket to cash in on Tehachapi Community Theatre's special! The BOGO offer is available to all couples who are newly engaged, newly married or still honeymooning, for the Friday, March 27 performance. BOGO tickets will only be available at the box office window the day of the performance at 7:00 p.m. on March 27. Show the box office your "bling", as in you...
What better way to spend a blustery March afternoon than enjoying the elegant sounds of Acoustic Eidolon's cello-guitar duo? The husband and wife team will give a matinee performance in Fiddlers Crossing on Sunday, March 22, at 3 p.m. Acoustic Eidolon combines the lush sounds of Hannah Alkire's cello and Joe Scott's double neck "guitjo" invention, and they captivate audiences wherever they play. Hailing from Colorado, the two have graced stages throughout the US, Europe, Australia and Canada....
Tehachapi Community Theatre offers heart, humor and sentiment in their new true-to-life comedy. It's Gabe and Olivia's move-in day. Olivia Keegan (Emily Stults) is an energetic, neat – verging on OCD – architect, and Gabe Lawson (Kendric Bertram) is a kind, good-natured writer. They've just packed up all of their belongings and driven halfway across the country, to start a new life together, in Chicago. Their moving day doesn't go exactly as planned and things become slightly more com...
Tehachapi's own Luke Halpin will be returning to town with fiddler and singer/songwriter Stephanie Bettman on Friday, March 13, for a concert at Fiddlers Crossing. The duo last performed in Fiddlers Crossing in 2011 to a full house. With their infectious mixture of folk, bluegrass and jazz, with mostly original songs, the evening will be filled with joyful fiddling tunes and soulful ballads. Many in Tehachapi will remember Luke Halpin as a youngster, growing up playing music with his parents,...
Tehachapi Community Theatre (TCT) is offering a Sweetheart Promotion for an evening with our Valentine! After a quiet dinner, or wonderful evening stroll around town tasting fabulous local and regional wines while savoring special chocolate tidbits, why not take your valentine to see final evening showing of the hit TCT live stage production of Sylvia. We will be offering our "Two for Twenty" promotion, only available at the BeeKay box office on Valentine's night, Saturday, Feb. 14. The BeeKay...
Sylvia is TCT's newest main stage production, opening Friday, January 30, 2015 through Valentine's weekend. This play is about relationships – a man, his wife and the stray dog (Sylvia) he finds in the park and falls in love with. The man's affection for Sylvia costs him his job and almost his marriage. Sylvia is an adult comedy, but first and foremost it is a heartwarming love story, and TCT is sure we all have a Sylvia of our own. Send TCT the cutest photo of your dog for the "Show Us Your Syl...
Debbie Hand-Cutler and Peter Cutler presented an interesting program about women singers and songwriters of folk music to American Association of University Women (AAUW). They talked about the evolution of folk music which began as dance music or "just sitting on the front porch music." When the phonograph and radio came into common use things changed. The Carter Family, led by Maybelle Carter, began performing and making records in the 1920s. Cutler played an original recording of Maybelle...
Despite the rainy weather, the Tehachapi Gandy Dancers Square Dance Club hosted their Snow Picnic 2015 Dance. A total of 22 people braved the elements to attend the dance with members representing the Aces and Deuces from Palmdale, the Joaquin Squares from Bakersfield, and of course, the Tehachapi Gandy Dancers. Two squares were on the dance floor at a time. Bob Knowles provided the calls for the square dancing. Square dancers danced to a variety of music, from country to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Not only was there square dancing, a number...
Improv comedy is coming back to Tehachapi! On Saturday, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m., the Bakersfield-based Center for Improv Advancement (that's right, the CIA!) will present the third in a series of family-friendly and hilariously unpredictable shows at Fiddlers Crossing. The troupe's shows are similar to the popular TV show, "Whose Line is it Anyway?" Each show is live, unscripted and unique. The audience is fully involved in the mayhem, providing suggestions of various details needed for the improv...
With a cast made up of the best of the best, Tehachapi Community Theater’s holiday production of “The Curious Savage” is sure to be an audience favorite. The cast includes some old favorites, as well as some newcomers that are sure to become well-known faces after this production hits the stage. “The Curious Savage,” by John Patrick, is the warm-hearted tale of Mrs. Ethel P. Savage, a slightly eccentric, but extremely wealthy widow. Being the recipient of her deceased husband’s estate, she wants to make the best use of it, despite her greedy st...
TCT presents Wait Until Dark That’s the question asked by Tehachapi Community Theatre’s season opener Wait Until Dark. The 1967 film starring Audrey Hepburn was listed in the AFI top 100 suspense/thrillers, and terror lurks in this play. Susy Hendrix (Audriana Lathrop) lost her vision in an accident only a year before and is still learning to deal with her new reality. She has been helped in this by her new husband Sam (played by Joseph Lathrop in his TCT debut), who is firm but encouraging. And it is Sam’s basic goodness that gets them in tr...
Tehachapi Community Theatre's summer show for kids, performed by more than 20 Tehachapi teens, opens at the BeeKay Theatre on July 18 for six performances with Long John Silver, Jim Hawkins and the whole pirate gang of "Treasure Island". Directed by Karl Schuck, this Robert Louis Stevenson classic adventure tale is suitable for children of ages 5 and up. The story is carried by high energy performances, but nothing too scary for young children. "Our intention is to really celebrate the fun of fr...
Improv comedy is coming back to Tehachapi! On Saturday, July 19, at 7pm, the Bakersfield-based Center for Improv Advancement (CIA!) will present the second in a series of family-friendly and hilariously unpredictable shows at Fiddlers Crossing. The troupe's shows are similar to the popular TV show, "Whose Line is it Anyway"? Each show is live, unscripted and unique. The audience is fully involved in the mayhem, providing suggestions of various details needed for the improv bits that will be...
Central Coast-based band, Cafe Musique will perform at Fiddlers Crossing on Friday, July 18 at 7 p.m. They may hail from the central coast of California, but the members of Café Musique have at least one foot each planted deep in foreign musical soil. By merging four very different backgrounds, the quintet presents a rich mixture of styles including gypsy, tango, classical and folk. Combining powerful vocals with soaring violin and driving accordion, the listener will be treated to an exotic...
