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Every year we endeavor to bring national and international artist into Northeast Oregon. Please join us for these fantastic events. Your patronage at these concert will help us to bring in more top quality artists each year. Please let us know if there is an artist that you would like to see come to our community.
Ticket Information
Tickets may be purchase online by clicking on the "Purchase Tickets" link. Tickets will be available at Sunflower Books in La Grande three weeks before each concert.
Concerts and Events
Gaelic Storm
October 5, 2006 7:30 pm McKenzie Theatre
Tickets $20.00 in advance and $25.00 at the door
Drumming up a Storm with its upbeat fiddling, enthusiastic dance tunes, and spellbinding bag pipes, you will not want to miss this one time appearance of Gaelic Storm. After its showcase as the party band in the steerage scene of the movie "Titanic", the band rode a tidal wave to fame. Gaelic Storm continues to wow audiences with their upbeat vocals, wild energetic dance tunes, haunting ballads and infectious madcap humor.
"Rockin' Celtic Rhythms That Make You Want to Stand Up and Dance!"
-- Dallas Observer
George Winston
October 11, 2006 7:30 pm McKenzie Theatre
Tickets $20.00 General and $10.00 for Students in advance. All tickets will be $5.00 more at the door.
Since 1980, George has released eight more solo piano albums: "Autumn" (1980), "Winter into Spring" (1982), "December" (1982), "Summer" (1991), "Forest" (1994), "Linus & Lucy - The Music of Vince Guaraldi (1996), which features compositions by the late jazz pianist, including Cast Your Fate to the Wind and pieces from the Peanuts® TV specials; "Plains" (1999), which was inspired by his Eastern Montana upbringing, and "Night Divides The Day - The Music of The Doors" (2002). His latest release is "Montana - A Love Story " (2004).
“Changing seasons and the landscape are just two of the elements that influence the instrumental offerings of George Winston [who] calls on his childhood home for inspiration. His exceptional blend of R&B, and folk elements has drawn audiences for 25 years..." (Courier News)
Please bring a canned food item to the concert to be donated to a local food bank.
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
Adapted & Scored by Tony Palermo
December 8-9, 2006 7:30 pm McKenzie Theatre
Tickets $8.00 General and $5.00 for Students
The Community School of the Arts' Theatre in the Ronde community acting troupe will be staging this wonderful old-time radio adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol". Join Scrooge, Marley, Tiny Tim and the Christmas Spirits as they perform this play complete with classic sound effects and radio style staging. Your entire family will love this simple yet timeless performance of a Christmas-time mainstay.
Terrance Simien and
The Zydeco Experience
This Concert Has Been Cancelled -- Please Call The CSA Office at 962-3629 To Arrange A Ticket Refund
"Terrance Simien "probably has the best voice in his genre" and a live performance that was voted by Billboard Magazine as one of the Top Ten Live Performance Acts of the Year."
Help us welcome Terrance back to La Grande for this exciting, high energy, family oriented Mardi-Gras Party! Your entire family will love this fun evening complete with Mardi- Gras beads and Zydeco music that will leave you dancing in the aisles. Terrance Simien is a fantastic performer with a unique stage presence that engages audiences of all ages. Zydeco music is one of the most unique and wildly popular forms of American Roots Music, a Southern music tradition that is revered all over the world. It is the indigenous music of the multi-racial, multi-cultural French speaking Creoles of south west Louisiana and the core instrumentation is the accordion (diatonic-button & chromatic-key) and the frottoir (or rub board).
Buckhorn Mountain Boys
Idaho's Premier Bluegrass Band
February 18, 2007 7:30 pm McKenzie Theatre
Tickets $10.00 General and $5.00 for Students.
Idaho's Premier Bluegrass Band featuring veteran musicians whose careers have spanned over 25 years each of playing bluegrass music. This five piece ensemble combines traditional bluegrass with original flair.
These guys are one of the best, freshest sounds to come along in quite awhile."
Mitch Pruitt
Program Director
KFXD
"This four piece ensemble combines traditional bluegrass with original flair and have a deep appreciation for the preservation of true bluegrass music which shows in their tight vocal harmonies and obvious joy in what they do".
Molly King
Boise Weekly
"their music is new, unique, and should gain the band a great deal of attention"
Bluegrass Now
Bill Bowers
Under a Montana Moon
A Collection of Silent Stories
February 19, 2007 7:30 pm McKenzie Theatre
Tickets $12.00 General and $5.00 for Students.
To watch Bill Bowers’ collection of silent stories "Under a Montana Moon", was to see the technical elements of a European style that probably still brings Marcel Marceau to mind, joined to the American West. Mime can be wonderful - the air between him and us was his palette. -Margo Jefferson, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Under a Montana Moon", a collection of silent stories, takes the audience on a moving, magical journey through the American West -- land of cowboys and bronco busters, of painter Jackson Pollock and martyr Matthew Shepard. Bowers has appeared on Broadway in Disney's "The Lion King", and "The Scarlet Pimpernel", and on the stages of Radio City Music Hall, The Kennedy Center, Madison Square Garden, and major regional theaters across the country. He is featured in the film "Two Weeks Notice" with Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant, and his television credits include "Law and Order", "One Life to Live", "All My Children", "Remember W.E.N.N.", and Disney's "Out of the Box".
April Verch
Featuring EOU Alumni Isaac Callender
March 1 , 2007 7:30 pm McKenzie Theatre
Tickets $15.00 General
When you see twenty-seven year old April Verch perform, the first thing that strikes you is the pure energy that infuses her fiddle playing and stepdancing. When you listen to "Take Me Back", her third disc for Rounder Records, though, what draws you in are more subtle things-her confident, winsome singing, the finely detailed elegance of her fiddle phrasing and the depth of a repertoire that ranges through material from Americana mainstays Buddy and Julie Miller, to simple country songs and rollicking tunes from her native Ottawa Valley to sparkling original instrumentals. Like its predecessors, Take Me Back is rooted in a deep musical tradition, yet it also serves notice that April Verch has taken a bold step forward and stands on the threshold of a new and exciting stage of her career.
The Otttawa Valley's April Verch is perhaps everything you want in a fiddler-singer-dancer. Her vocals cut through eras and genres to take you to that timeless place, somewhere in our collective memory but very close to your heart. Her raw fiddling is playful, tuneful but not showy, a welcoming tone. It seems to be equal parts Don Messer and French Canadian. Her choice of tunes is perfect, with three from the Julie Miller songbook, two from bluegrass star Claire Lynch and a bunch of first-class instrumentals. I'm now going to admit something that may get me kicked out of the region: I think Verch is the best singing fiddler I know, including all the Maritimers.
Backbeat - Take Me Back Review
by Bob Mercereau, The New Brunswick Reader,
Seattle Pro Musica
Presents
American Masterpieces
April 22, 2007 7:30 pm McKenzie Theatre
Tickets $10.00 General and $5.00 for Students.
Seattle Pro Musica, under the direction of Karen P. Thomas, presents a concert of American Masterpieces by some of our country's most celebrated composers. From the beginnings of American music in the 18th century up to exciting new works by today's composers, you'll enjoy this broad range of great American choral music by one of the Pacific Northwest's finest choral ensembles.
Joining Seattle Pro Musica for this concert will be the EOU Chamber Choir, under the direction of Dr. Peter Wordelman, fresh from their two week tour to China.
Seattle Pro Musica's performance is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, as part of the 2006 NEA American Masterpieces Choral Music Initiative.
