Community Calendar

Rooted in folk, blues, country, Latin, rock ‘n’ roll, and psychedelia, intent on uncovering and sharing old hidden gems and forgotten treasures, the music of Indian Paintbrush embraces & continues to pass along the stories and styles of our mixed folk traditions, with a passion to celebrate and share them with all who listen– lest these songs slip through the veils of antiquity into obscurity. Like a vast western horizon, their sound captures and depicts a wide range of history, nature, and feeling; a lone, steady, undying wind singing through red rock mesas, whistling through mountain trees, billowing across grassy plains; silhouetted atop a cosmic pastel skyline, of Venus star, crescent Moon, and setting Sun; from a rumbling boxcar ramble, to the warm reprieve of an ember glowed campfire, to high times in a swinging old neon clad honky tonk; fervour like crying coyotes over a fresh kill, warning like the shake of a rattlesnake’s tail, endless possibilities of an open highway; drawing upon timeless existential human themes, as old & relatable as love & betrayal, lust & romance, triumph & self-doubt, freedom, redemption and realization. These are the feelings and images conjured by the music and sounds of Indian Paintbrush.

In a free public talk, a preeminent microbiologist, Professor Ute Römling from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden will discuss “Microbial biofilm formation -- about origin, multicellularity and clinical impact”. Römling is among the world experts in biofilms. In her public presentation, she will explain that most microbes live in communities known as biofilms. About 70 percent of human infections involve microbial biofilms. Some of the most problematic biofilms are formed on the surfaces of prosthetic devices, in chronic wounds and in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients.

Epic Horizons will close out our 75th concert season, featuring guest violinist Aubree Oliverson, who will perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Oliverson is a young American violinist proving to be one of the most compelling artists of her generation. Praised for her evocative lyricism and joyful, genuine approach, Oliverson is acclaimed as a “masterful” soloist, with recent solo appearances including the Chamber Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall, the Utah Symphony, the Peace Orchestra Project, and the Ridgefield Symphony, featuring a pairing of the Barber and Esmail violin concertos.