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Davis Jazz Festival: October 21 & 22, 2011

Enjoy the 5th Annal Davis Jazz Festival in Downtown Davis on October 21 and 22!

The Festival is organized by theJohn Natsoulas Art Center. On Friday night, October 21, Dr. Andy Jones of UC Davis will announce the winners of the Jack Kerouac Poetry Contest and at 7 pm we will hear the World renowned poet, Neeli Cherkovski read from his latest poetry. The evening will include a dance performance by the Linda Bair Dance Company and live music by the Toni Passerelli Jazz Trio.

Duke Ellington

This week's show on ART+ is about Duke Ellington.

The show's recordings are from the archives of the Library of Congress.

We'll listen to short interviews by the Duke and his granddaughter, Mercedes Ellington. We'll also listen

to live recordings by Duke Ellington's Orchestra.

To listen to the show,
Please Click Here!

This year, the US participated for the first time in Cairo's International Sufi Music Festival with Voices of Inspiration, a gospel group from Harlem.

Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, Egypt
was built in the year 550 by the Byzantian Empror Justinian to protect the ancient well of Moses and The Burning Bush.

ART+ interviewed The Davis Shakespeare Ensemble about their upcoming performance of Twelfth Night at UC Davis Arboretum Gazebo. Performances will be from Thursday - Sunday, January 13 - 16 and January 20 - 23 at 8 pm.

Matinee performances are on Sunday, January 16 at 2 pm and Sunday, January 23 at 2 pm. The Davis Shakespeare Ensemble worked very hard to cover the Gazebo and make it warm and welcoming to the audiences.

This performance of Twelfth Night is staged to music by composer Richard Chowenhill who majored in music at UC Davis.

click here for a short video about Twelfth Night

Davis Shakespeare Ensemble's first performance was Romeo and Juliet which they staged last summer at the Arboretum. The performance had great reviews.

click here for a short video about Romeo and Juliet

Singer, Song writer Tish Hinojosa was interviewed on ART+ about her folk music which crosses many borders; Tish talked about her new country music album 'Our Little Planet' and about her classic, award winning, bi-lingual album (& book) for children 'Every Child'. Tish has been a successful singer and song writer over the past 25 years; this is quite an accomplishment considering that she is the youngest of 13 children and that her parents were very hard working immigrants. Tish grew up listening to music on her parents' radio; she is a very big fan of radio and of community radio.

Tish Hinojosa's radio show will be broadcast on December 22 at noon and re-broadcast on December 29th.

For more information about Tisch Hinojosa, please

click here to go to her website

Katherine Keefer, public artist was interviewed on ARTplus about her work in ceramics, her public art and her spirit of adventure.

Katherine has a wonderful spirit of adventure and she talked to ARTplus on how to travel the world on a shoestring. Katherine's public art is installed in many states including Florida, Colorado and California.
Tune in to find out how Katherine got to travel and teach in India, Germany and Africa. Katherine also talked about the incredible opportunities that are now available for public artists around the country. she talked about the money for art program which mandates that public buildings and construction install public art.. Go Artists.. Go!.