Inyo Council for the Arts
5-14-2009

Dynamic songwriting, heartstopping vocals and music to match are all in store for Eastern Sierra music-lovers as the Inyo Council for the Arts welcomes two of the country’s most respected artists to its stage this week.
Keith Greeninger and Dayan Kai, no strangers to fans of folk and indie music, have been invited to perform at 7:30 p.m. this Friday at the ICA at 137 S. Main St., Bishop.
Greeninger is a seasoned troubadour, award-winning songwriter and unforgettable performer. As a solo artist, with his previous trio City Folk, he has toured the national Folk and Americana circuit extensively for the last decade and a half. His masterfully crafted songs and warm distinctive vocals have earned him the top songwriting awards at the Telluride Blue Grass Festival, The Kerrville Folk Festival and The Napa Valley Folk Festival.
Weather leading his band or alone with just a guitar, Greeninger can completely captivate an audience. From the deep, laidback grooves of a soulful ballad to the righteous intensity of a hard-driving anthem his rich vocal range conveys strength tempered with vulnerability, political struggle reflected in personal experience, and a deep connection to the land, community, and family. A fourth-generation Northern Californian Greeninger has traveled and lived throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America. His music has been deeply influenced by his work with Native American and Latin cultures, and his songs cut an honest, hard worn path to places of simple truth about good people holding on to hope and instinct in a world that often tries to strip these things away.

Recent filming projects take many unusual forms

Humvees at the ready at Whitney Portal and Movie Flat roads as part of a Department of Defense training film for troops in Afghanistan. Photos courtesy Inyo County Film Commission

 By Chris Langley
Inyo County Film Commission
5-7-2009

The economic slowdown has had a significant, measurable effect on filming projects locally. By this time each year, the county usually has had 20-30 automobile commercials. This year they can be counted on fingers of both hands. Different kinds of filming projects have been scouting and filming, however, and demonstrate that many new forms, markets and formats are being generated by innovative artists and Internet gurus.
The writers’ strike last year ended the hopes of many budding television series, and furloughed feature film production. That was followed by the threatened actors’ strike. Although a tentative agreement has been reached, the strike’s shadow is still present. Many companies stored their money for films in hedge funds, which quickly evaporated with the enormous drop in the Stock Market.

Chamber Music Unbound
5-7-2009

The Eastern Sierra’s resident chamber music phenoms have a special surprise in store for music-lovers when they perform the swan song to their winter concert season this weekend.
Chamber Music Unbound presents its last program of the winter season, “Bel Canto,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Bishop High School and Saturday at St. Joseph’s Church in Mammoth Lakes.
Joining the Felici Trio’s Rebecca Hang and Brian Schuldt are three illustrious L.A.-based guests; pianist Ming Tsu, violinist Josefina Vergara and Nico Abondolo, bass. On the program are works of Italian master Gioachino Rossini, Louise Farrenc and a special world premier by the Felicis – to be revealed at the concert.

Bishop Community Concert Association is presenting the acclaimed Studio Singers of Long Beach City College live in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 1 at Bishop Union High School. The concert is being offered at no cost to the public. Photo courtesy BCCA

Register Staff
4-30-3009

After taking music-lovers on aural escapades through Germany, Italy and Ireland and other points around the globe, the Bishop Community Concert Association returns to U.S. soil for a special bonus concert being offered tomorrow night.
Almost two months following the close of its successful 2008-09 season, the BCCA will host the acclaimed Studio Singers of Long Beach City College live in concert beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Bishop Union High School Auditorium.
The show marks a sixth, “bonus” concert for the BCCA and will be offered free to the local community and visiting public.