Concert Hall Downtown Ticket Office
707 1/2 Main Avenue ~ downtown Durango
(970)-247-7657 or (877) 282-9992
Office hours: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., Monday -
Friday, (closed 1 - 2 p.m.)
Closed Saturdays and Sundays. Purchase 10 or more tickets in one sale to a Concert Hall produced event & receive a 15% Group Discount by calling or stopping by the Ticket Office.
Event to be held at the FLC Mainstage Theatre on campus, not at the Concert Hall
In collaboration with the Fort Lewis Theatre Department, the Community Concert Hall presents the compelling one-man drama “Dodging Bullets,” featuring David Barker. Barker, who plays 10 different roles on a nearly empty stage during “Dodging Bullets,” takes audiences through his interior and exterior life thus far, spiraling out from and returning to one indelible moment in 2004 – when his brother-in-law tried to kill Barker and his sister. “Dodging Bullets” includes mature themes and may not be appropriate for all audiences.
Friday, September 17, 6:00 pm
$12/$15 in advance
$20 at the door
ReCalibrate Worship is hosting its first annual All-Church worship event. The hope and prayer for all of us at ReCalibrate is that this will be just the beginning of the body of Christ in the Four Corners area coming together in unity and love to worship the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. ReCalibrate will be at the Fort Lewis College Concert Hall on September 17th, from 6 to 9 PM. The event will start with a Community Worship Band consisting of worship leaders from several different local churches. There will also be a time for us to pray together as one body for our nation, community, and local pastors and ministry leaders. Andy Braner will be our guest speaker and will be bringing us a message about unity for the sake of the Kingdom. Following a short intermission after Andy's message, we will close out the night with an amazing worship concert with the band Unhindered out of Atlanta, Georgia. For more information about the event please go to www.recalibrateworship.com.
A singer known for blending Celtic and folk sounds from her formative years in Ireland, and filtering them through contemporary American country and bluegrass music, Maura O’Connell is called a captivating stylist, introspective chanteuse, musical explorer and songwriter’s singer. O’Connell’s multi-decade career has earned her international acclaim, plus two Grammy nominations – including one in 2010 for her most recent release “Naked With Friends.”
Kick off the 2010-2011 San Juan Symphony season with this concert designed for all ages. Enjoy classics, popular favorites and familiar movie themes performed in an interactive, educational atmosphere. The perfect first symphony experience, capping off Durango’s week-long Showcase of the Arts (www.durangoshowcaseofthearts.org).
Tuesday, September 21, 7:30 pm
$25
Dance floor will be open!
Justin Moore writes and sings about his life and the people he knows, bringing a heavy dose of southern, country charm to all his work. Considered one of Nashville’s “break-out” artists in 2009, Moore has earned wide acclaim for his fast-rising, #1 hit song “Small Town USA,” an ode to the spirit and simplicity of small-town life. Writes The Washington Post, "Moore's take on the (small-town) theme is clearly resonating with country music fans.”
Wednesday, September 22,
7:30 pm, $18/$22/$28 Dance floor will be open!
The hot and haunting, blues diva that Vanity Fair called “Astounding,” Shemekia Copeland returns to the Community Concert Hall. Referred to by The Washington Post as “a force of nature,” Copeland, and her dark and thundering alto voice, generates waves of energy and emotion, singing contemporary songs carved skillfully from her blues roots. Since the 1997 release of her debut, “Turn the Heat Up,” recorded when she was 18, Copeland has literally taken the music world by storm.
Sonia Nazario
Thursday, September 23, 7:00 pm
$FREE
Fort Lewis College Common Reading Experience presents
Sonia Nazario, author of ENRIQUE'S JOURNEY.
The Common Reading Experience provides a rich liberal arts experience to the entire freshman class at the beginning of their first term. Each year, the faculty and staff select a book for the incoming class, and in welcoming the newest members of our academic community, a copy of the book is given to each freshman at Orientation.
The themeof the book is introduced at Freshman Convocation and is assigned and discussed in many classes, including all freshman Rhetoric and Writing courses.
Presentations by the author, panel discussions, films, and other events are arranged to extend and complement the ideas presented in the book. The Common Reading Experience concludes with a freshman essay competition.
For the Fall 2010 semester, the Common Reading
Experience book selection is Enrique’s Journey by Sonia
Nazario. As the Kirkus Review says, “This portrait of poverty and family ties has the potential to reshape American conversations about immigration.”
This true story tells the harrowing tale of Enrique, a boy
from Honduras who braves unimaginable danger to reach
his mother in the United States. Eleven years after his
mother is forced to leave her starving family to find work,
Enrique travels through hostile worlds to find her. He rides the “death train” through Honduras and Mexico, suffering from starvation, beatings, and robberies. He attempts to cross the border into the United States seven times until he finally succeeds and begins the search for his mother.
The eventual reunion between son and mother is
complicated by feelings of anger and joy. Enrique’s mother struggled and sacrificed to give her son a better life. Yet Enrique struggles with conflicting feelings of abandonment and anger. This tension lies at the heart of the book.
Enrique’s Journey helps shed light on the horrendous
journeys thousands of immigrants risk to find a better life. While we are left with no clear answers to the immigration puzzle, Nazario puts a human face on this complex American story and helps us see its immense complexity.
Sonia Nazario has spent 20 years reporting and writing about social issues, most recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Her stories have tackled some of this country’s most difficult problems: hunger, drug addiction, immigration.
She has won numerous national journalism and book awards. In 2003, her story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S., entitled “Enrique’s Journey,” won more than a dozen awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, the George Polk Award for International Reporting, the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence. Expanded into a book, Enrique’s Journey became a national bestseller and won two book awards. It will be required reading for incoming freshmen at Fort Lewis College this fall, 2010.
Nazario has been named among the most influential Latinos by Hispanic Business Magazine and a “trendsetter” by Hispanic Magazine.
Nazario, who grew up in Kansas and in Argentina, has written extensively from Latin America and about Latinos in the United States. She is now at work on her second book. She began her career at the Wall Street Journal, where she reported from four bureaus: New York, Atlanta, Miami, and Los Angeles. In 1993, she joined the Los Angeles Times. She serves on the advisory board of the University of North Texas Mayborn Literary Non-fiction Writer's Conference and on the board of directors of Kids In Need of Defense, a non-profit launched by Microsoft and Angelina Jolie to provide pro-bono attorneys to unaccompanied immigrant children.
She is a graduate of Williams College and has a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ricky Nelson, America’s first television heartthrob and architect of the country-rock genre, is honored 25 years after the plane crash that took his life with the multi-media event “Ricky Nelson Remembered.” Featuring his sons, twins Matthew and Gunnar Nelson (multi-platinum recording artists in their own right) and backed by Nelson’s own Stone Canyon Band, the unique show recreates the sounds and the magic that Ricky Nelson brought to the stage.
For 22 years the Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering has been bringing top cowboy poets and musicians to Durango. This year they are proud to feature Red Steagall and his Bunkhouse Boys. Red has been performing all his life and was named the Official Cowboy Poet of Texas, was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum as one of America's Great Westerners, and won many prestigeous awards. His popular radio show "Cowboy Corner" is featured on over 170 radio stations in the U.S. Singing songs and telling stories, Red brings the real West alive for all who hear him. This is a show that should not be missed if you enjoy western music and history.
Alternative Horizons presents the fashion show "The Purse and Suit
of Happiness," a tribute to the journey of women from Arabia to South Africa and beyond.
Join us as we strut from the dancing winds of the Sahara to the depths of the ocean.
All proceeds benefit Alternative Horizons which provides support and alternatives to survivors of domestic violence and their families while striving to strengthen our community through education and prevention efforts.
Returning to Durango by popular demand, the Fred Garbo Inflatable Theatre will once again help young imaginations “expand” with Fred Garbo’s fast-paced and theatrically clever inflatable world. Garbo, along with ballerina Daielma Santos, engage audiences of all ages, leaving them amazed with the tumbling, juggling, bouncing, quaking and dancing that the New York Times called “Helium light and hilarious.”
The San Juan Symphony's 25th anniversary is an opportunity to be thankful for the creativity and commitment that have built this organization over the years, and to look toward the future as well. I believe that "classic" means "always new." We play the classics because they always have something vital to say to us. A symphony orchestra of the 21st century is at once the curator of these great traditions, and a channel for the splendid talents of today's artists. By combining the old and the new in thoughtful ways, we offer an experience that lingers far beyond the concert hall, and builds culture and community within our busy daily lives.
This season's programs will further the SJS tradition of combining classic and popular works with attractive modern pieces. Brilliant soloists will join the orchestra on every program. In addition, we're proud to commemorate this momentous year by commissioning our first original composition, from popular composer and Farmington native, Sam Cardon. Sam's piece will get its first performance on the Silver Jubilee concert in November - our gift to you, and to the future of music in the Four Corners. -- Arthur Post, Music Director
Sunday, October 10, 3:00 pm
$16/$23 Students
$27/$42/$48 Seniors
$34/$45/$50 Adults
Winner of the 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, young clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein joins us for three pieces that range from traditional to modern and ethnic. His consummate musicianship and fiery technique will be on display in classical Weber, lyrical Copland and a boisterous Klezmer dance. Schumann’s popular RhenishSymphony is one of the most joyous pieces from the Romantic era. It inspired by the composer’s journey with his wife through the Rhineland, the spiritual heart of Germany.
As the singer, guitarist and main songwriter of Australia's Men at Work, Colin Hay was responsible for penning and popularizing several of the quirkiest pop hits of the early '80s, including “Down Under,” “Overkill” and “Who Can It Be Now?” The past ten years have found him re-introducing himself to new generations of fans, though the wit and warmth that defined Men at Work is still intact. Hay’s everyman charm, familiar voice and clever observations continue to resonate with audiences around the world.
Tuesday, October 19, 7:30 pm
$30/$35/$45 Dance floor will be open!
Wednesday, October 20, 7:30 pm $30/$35/$45
Dance floor will be open!
Jumpin’, jivin’ swing renaissance band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy returns to Durango for two shows. Riding a perpetual wave of popularity and hipness, the zoot-suit clad Big Bad Voodoo Daddy has toured nearly non-stop since coming together in the mid-1990s. Contributing architects of this generation's swing music revitalization, the band has delivered a series of contemporary recordings and super-sizzling live performances, fashioned from the swinging days of the '40s and '50s.
Bill Harley is considered a master storyteller and critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter who celebrates commonality and humanity through comic narrative songs and the spoken word. A two-time Grammy Award winner, and multiple nominee, Harley has been called the Mark Twain of contemporary children’s music. Noted the Los Angeles Times, “Harley’s audiences are families, but it’s hard to tell who enjoys him more – parents or children.”
If dance were edible, a performance by ODC/San Francisco would be a decadent feast. Known throughout the world for its athleticism, passion and intellectual depth, ODC features ten world-class dancers performing a dynamic, imaginative repertory. Its resident choreographers, Brenda Way, KT Nelson and Kimi Okada, are lauded as three of the finest contemporary women choreographers today. Together, over the last four decades, they have created a vibrant movement vocabulary that has significantly influenced a generation of dancers and choreographers.
Actions have consequences, and if you give a cat a cupcake, you never know what might happen. Such is the premise of the children’s theatrical show, “If You Give a Cat a Cupcake,” based on the children’s book by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond. Suited for youth 4-7 years of age, the musical production involves the audience as it explores the exaggerated world where a child can talk to their pet, and it talks back.
Lizt Alfonso Danza Cuba, established in 1991 by renowned Cuban choreographer Lizt Alfonso, combines the folkloric dance traditions of Spain and Cuba in what the company calls “a new dance vocabulary.” Offering an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary , ranging from the proud flamenco to fusion moves that incorporate ballet, modern dance, Afro-Caribbean and Latin, Danza Cuba showcases an elegance and artistic rigor that has earned the all-female company a reputation as “unique in the world.”
Grammy and 12-time Native American Music award winning artist Joanne Shenandoah “has become one of the most acclaimed Native American recording artists of her time,” according to Associated Press. Wolf Clan member of the Iroquois Confederacy, Shenandoah embellishes the ancient songs of the Iroquois using a blend of traditional and contemporary instrumentation, as well as her striking voice. From traditional chants to contemporary ballads about Native ways, her music has been described as an emotional experience, a Native American Trance.
Perhaps best known as one half of the successful ‘70s pop duo Hall & Oates, John Oates launched his successful solo career in 2002, making music that is much more rootsy and stripped-down than the commercial work he performed with Daryl Hall for more than 30 years. With his acoustic solo performances, Oates brings in a mixture of the traditional folk blues of his youth, new, original music and stripped down versions of, and the stories behind, Hall & Oates songs.
Master Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser and vibrant young cellist Natalie Haas return to Durango by popular demand. Regarded as one of Scotland’s premier musical ambassadors, Fraser presents the music of his homeland with unsurpassed eloquence, passion and energy. Together, Fraser and Hass offer a weave of rocking, reeling rhythms, poignant melodies and exquisite musicianship. Writes the Boston Globe, “Their sound is as urbane as a Manhattan midnight, and as wild as a Clackmannan winter.”
Sunday, November 21, 3:00 pm
$16/$23 Students
$27/$42/$48 Seniors
$34/$45/$50 Adults
On November 20, 1986, musicians from the Durango Civic Symphony joined Farmington’s San Juan Symphony to form an orchestra for the whole Four Corners region. We’ll recreate that concert, with two superlative soloists and two beloved concertos - Beethoven’s elegant and profound Fourth Piano Concerto, and Mendelssohn’s capricious Violin Concerto - and we’ll celebrate how far we’ve come with a brand new work commissioned for the occasion.
Jennifer Koh, violin
Benjamin Hochman, piano
Side-by-Side with high school musicians
Berlioz Hungarian March
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58
Sam Cardon 25th Anniversary Commission
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, Op. 64
Saturday, November 27, 7:30 pm
$15 Students & Children
$25 Adults
Adams Foundation Piano Recital ~
Simone Dinnerstein
Simone Dinnerstein gained an international following
because of the remarkable success of her recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations. Released by Telarc in 2007, it ranked No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Classical Chart in its first week of sales and was named to many "Best of 2007" lists including those of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The New Yorker, iTunes, Amazon.com, and Barnes & Noble.
Her program for the evening will be Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Santa Barbara, California’s acclaimed professional ballet company, State Street Ballet, will return with its touring production of the traditional “Nutcracker” for four performances. Founded in 1994 by Artistic Director and former ABT dancer Rodney Gustafson, the small but mighty company has brought audiences to their feet from California to China and beyond. According to the LosAngeles Times, “Gustafson has built a company respected for its choreography, dancing and fiscally responsible management, proving against all odds and naysayers, that ballet is alive and kicking in Southern California.”
Durango’s much-beloved cowboy crooners come off the Bar D and return to the Community Concert Hall stage for their traditional cowboy Christmas show. Founded by Cy Scarborough in 1969, the Bar-D Wranglers offer their own unique style of Western music, cowboy poetry and humor. The Christmas Jubilee is a warm-hearted and fun-filled show that inspires the entire family to remember the true meaning of the holidays.
Israeli superstar David Broza is considered one of the most dynamic and vibrant performers in the singer/songwriter world. His charismatic and energetic performances fuse the three countries of his heritage – Israel, Spain and England – in troubadour style tradition. With lyrics reminiscent of the world’s greatest poets, Broza’s songs showcase his skill on the guitar, ranging from flamenco flavored rhythmic and whirlwind finger-picking, to a signature rock and roll sound.
Sunday, February 20, 3:00 pm
$16/$23 Students
$27/$42/$48 Seniors
$34/$45/$50 Adults
One of today’s most adventuresome and approachable young artists, violinist Timothy Fain, returns to the SJS for an intimate program that weaves delightful Baroque classics together with later works that were inspired by them. Past and present, old and new come together, bridging hundreds of years and connecting musical styles from places as far-flung as Italy, Hollywood and Buenos Aires.
Timothy Fain, violin
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Stravinsky Danses concertantes Vivaldi Spring, from The Four Seasons
Kevin Puts Arches
Aaron Kernis Air
Astor Piazzolla Spring, from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Sunday, March 20, 3:00 pm
$15 Students & Children
$25 Adults
One of the very first artists ever to grasp the importance
of programming traditional and contemporary works in equal measure,
Ursula Oppens has won a singular place in the hearts of her public,
critics, and colleagues alike. Her sterling musicianship, uncanny understanding of the composer's artistic argument, and lifelong study of the keyboard's resources, have placed her among the elect of performing musicians. Ursula was forced to cancel her recital in Durango last season after being nominated for a Grammy Award.
Saturday, April 16, 7:30 pm
$16/$23 Students
$27/$42/$48 Seniors
$34/$45/$50 Adults
Durango’s Gemma Kavanagh is the featured soloist in the exotic Songs of the Auvergne, sumptuous settings of folk songs from the French countryside. Then vocal soloists and combined choirs from Durango and Farmington join the Symphony for a festive finale. Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is a feast for the senses, a cocktail of Medieval pleasures spiked with satire, humor, and even a bit of wisdom. Popular as a sound track for film, video games and television, it impresses with its sheer power and its lively message: in life and love, we are the pawns of capricious Fate . . . live it up while you can!
Gemma Kavanagh, soprano
Brian Patrick Leatherman, tenor
Scott Bearden, baritone
Durango Choral Society, Linda Mack Berven, director
Caliente, Virginia Nickels-Hircock, director
Canteloube Songs of the Auvergne
Carl Orff Carmina Burana
