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Jazz

'What Made That Thing Work?': Bill Frisell Takes On Screen Music

January 29, 2016

While making his latest album, the inventive guitarist found that covering classic film and TV scores has an existential side effect.

Classical

Eclectic Cellist Tina Guo Performs In-Studio

January 29, 2016

Cellist Tina Guo has performed as a guest artist for numerous symphonies. She has performed at the Playboy mansion and at the Grammys. She's also been featured on scores of major films. Now we can add CapRadio to her venerable list of venues.

Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Author Maceo Montoya Joins Seventh Season Of Stories On Stage

January 29, 2016

One of the writers featured in the upcoming seventh season of Sacramento's Stories on Stage is artist Maceo Montoya. We'll meet Montoya and hear about his work.

Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Grammy-Nominated Cellist Tina Guo Performs In Studio

January 29, 2016

Cellist Tina Guo performed as a guest artist for numerous symphonies, and performed at the Playboy mansion and the Grammies. She's also been featured on scores of major films. Guo joins Insight to talk about her many music stylings.

Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Swinging Easy On 52nd Street

January 27, 2016

This Saturday, Sacramento jazz vocalists Cynthia Douglas and Vivian Lee are presenting a special show, “Swinging Easy on 52nd Street: The Music of Carmen McRae and Sarah Vaughan,” at the State Theatre in Auburn.

Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Blues Harmonica Blowout At The Harris Center

January 26, 2016

Joining Insight are three bluesmen: Harmonica player Aki Kumar, guitarist “Little” Charlie Baty, and bassist RW Grigsby. They'll be at the 25th anniversary Blues Harmonica Blowout at the Harris Center for the Arts in Folsom.

Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Art Exhibit: “Can We Live Here?”

January 25, 2016

Insight talks with a husband and wife creative team about their work and how they see California’s Central Valley as a landscape.

Classical

Bassoonist Takes Center Stage With Stockton Symphony

January 21, 2016

As a member of the Stockton Symphony, bassoonist Nicolasa Kuster usually sits toward the back with her fellow woodwind players. But this weekend, she moves to center stage as a soloist to perform Peter Schikele's Bassoon Concerto.

Bassoonist Takes Center Stage With Stockton Symphony

January 21, 2016 | Jeff Hudson

As a member of the Stockton Symphony, bassoonist Nicolasa Kuster usually sits toward the back with her fellow woodwind players. But this weekend, she moves to center stage as a soloist to perform Peter Schikele's Bassoon Concerto.

Arts and Lifestyle

A New Meaning To 'Driving Miss Daisy'

January 20, 2016 | Jeff Hudson

Many people fondly recall “Driving Miss Daisy.” The play won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988, and the movie received four Oscars. Now, some three decades later, This Sacramento Theatre Company revival carries a new kind of resonance.