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Groundhog Day
Noises Off
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Pls Farmers Market
Noises Off
Gatsby Jazz Age
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Super Bowl
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Lvr Farmers Market
Niles Canyon Railroad
Noises Off
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Moscow Festival Ballet |
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Moon Last Qtr
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Reduced Shakespeare
Noises Off |
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Pls Farmers Market
Noises Off |
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Lvr Farmers Market
Ravenswood Tours
Noises Off
Dlux Puppets
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Lincoln's
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Valentine's Day
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New Moon |
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Home & Garden Show
The Second City |
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Pls Farmers Market
Home & Garden Show
We Banjo 3 |
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Lvr Farmers Market
Home & Garden Show
Niles Canyon Railroad
Golden Strings
We Banjo 3
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President's Day
Lee Ann Womack
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Washington's Birthday |
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Moon 1st Qtr
COI Face-Off
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International Guitar Night |
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Pls Farmers Market
COI Face-Off
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Lvr Farmers Market
Ravenswood Tours
Jake
Shimabukuro Master Class
Sundays at
Hagemann Ranch
This One's For You
Jake Shimabukuro
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The information on this calendar was obtained from many sources, and many organizations. Every attempt is made to provide accurate information. Organizations sometimes make changes, and I am not always informed. Please follow the "More Info" links to check for updates from the sponsoring organization. If you find errors, please email webservant@eLivermore.com.
February 2018 Details
The
details for the following reoccurring events are on a separate page, common
to all calendar months. This saves download time. Click the item
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Feb 16 Fri
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California Feetwarmers If you missed Mardi Gras, you won’t want to miss the California Feetwarmers. These masters of ragtime, Dixieland blues and early swing are renowned for an earthy depth of character that sets them apart from others who have followed that throwback path to New Orleans, circa 1920. Their boisterous on-stage antics are solidly underpinned by playing that is as close to the source as it can be. Sponsor: City of Pleasanton Location: Firehouse Arts Center - 4444 Railroad Ave, Pleasanton Times: 8:00pm Admission: $15 - $25 More info: www.firehousearts.org |
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Noises Off Called the funniest farce ever written, Tony Award®-winning NOISES OFF presents a manic menagerie as a cast of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called Nothing’s On. Doors slamming, on and offstage intrigue, and an errant herring all figure in the plot of this sexy, hilarious and classically comic play. The film version of this show featured some of the greatest contemporary comedic actors of our time, including John Ritter and Carol Burnett. Sponsor: Pacific Coast Reparatory Theatre Location: Firehouse Arts Center - 4444 Railroad Ave, Pleasanton Times: Fri: 8:00pm; Sat: 2:00 & 8:00pm (8:pm only Jan 27); Sun: 2:00pm Admission: $19 - $41 More info: www.firehousearts.org |
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Feb 3 Saturday
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Gatsby Jazz Age Party Don't miss the party of the Year! It's the 1920's at the Bothwell Arts Center, so ankle on over 8th Street and enjoy the fun. Break out the 1920's style and enjoy Live music, dancing, over-the-moon decor, and bar. Tickets on sale at lvpac.org Sponsor: Bothwell Arts Center Location: Bothwell Arts Center, 2466 8th St. Livermore. Times: 7:00pm to 10:00pm Admission: TBD More info: Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center |
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Moscow Festival Ballet | |||||||||||||
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Feb 6 Tuesday
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Moscow Festival Balley
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Reduced Shakespeare | |||||||||||||
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Feb 9 Friday
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Reduced Shakespeare In this strange-yet-familiar narrative, an ancient grudge pits Puck (from Midsummer) against Ariel (from The Tempest) and turns Shakespeare’s canon upside-down, creating such strange bedfellows as Hamlet and that master motivator Lady Macbeth, Viola and Richard III, King Lear and the Weird Sisters. Combining questionable scholarship and street-performer smarts,
playwrights Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor weave together famous speeches
and plot devices from Shakespeare’s thirty-nine plays to create a very fast,
very funny, and entirely fictional fortieth, filled with mistaken
identities, ghosts, spells, tempests, and witty wordplay worthy of the
master himself.
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Calidore String Quartet - Del Valle Fine Arts | |||||||||||||
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Feb 10 Sat
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Calidore String Quartet - Del Valle Fine Arts In 2016, the quartet also became the first North American ensemble to win
the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and was named BBC Radio 3 New
Generation Artists, an honor that brings with it recordings, international
radio broadcasts and appearances in Britain’s most prominent venues,
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Dlux Puppets "Alice in Wonderland | |||||||||||||
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Feb 11 Sun
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Dlux Puppets "Alice in Wonderland In this visually engaging production, all of the characters who encounter Alice are intricately engineered life size puppets, hand built and voiced by DLux Puppet’s founder Derek Lux. Derek is a multi-talented performer who stars in “Beach Blanket Babylon” in San Francisco at night while building puppets during the day. His wife, second grade teacher Lauren Lux, is DLux’ education director and has developed a performance activity kit for students who attend the show. “Alice in Wonderland” made its debut in May 2017 in Walnut Creek. While the production is designed to also teach children how to use the
power of their words, thoughts and feelings in a positive way, above all
else, DLux Puppet’s “Alice in Wonderland” is a feast for the eyes and an
afternoon of family fun.
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Roger Bales - Avoiding California's Next Water Crisis - Rae Dorough Speaker Series | |||||||||||||
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Feb 15 Thurs
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Roger Bales - Avoiding California's Next Water Crisis - Rae Dorough Speaker Series |
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Feb 17-18 Sat-Sun
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We Banjo 3 Banjo. Fiddle. Mandolin. Guitar. Percussion and Vocals. Brothers Enda and Fergal Scahill and Martin and David Howley return to the Firehouse after last season’s sold-out engagement! They are among the most celebrated and distinguished young musicians in Ireland today, all holding multiple All-Ireland titles. When this award-winning quartet from Galway, Ireland takes flight in a wave of virtuosity, verve and joie-de-vivre, feet tap and pulses race. Sponsor: City of Pleasanton Location: Firehouse Arts Center - 4444 Railroad Ave, Pleasanton Times: Sat: 8:00pm; Sun: 2:00pm Admission: $25 - $35 More info: www.firehousearts.org |
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Feb 16-18 Fri-Sun
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Capital Showcase Home & Garden Show Turn your house into the home of your dreams. Come to the 31st annual Fall Home & Garden show at the Alameda County Fairgrounds. This is the largest home & garden show in the tri-valley. Get lots of ideas at hundreds of exhibits featuring custom kitchens & baths, Indoor exhibits, as well as outdoor exhibits, will be devoted to landscape displays where you can discover the incredible talents of the Tri-Valley's best landscape artists. Sponsor: Capital Showcase Location: Alameda County Fairgrounds, Pleasanton Times: Fri 12pm - 6pm; Sat 10am to 6pm; Sun 10am - 5pm. Admission: TBD More info: www.capitalshowcase.com, 916 331-6070, or Fairgrounds web site |
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Feb 16 Fri
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The Second City
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Golden Strings - Pacific Chamber Orchestra | |||||||||||||
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Feb 18 Sun
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Golden Strings - Pacific
Chamber Orchestra The Pacific Chamber Orchestra under Maestro Lawrence Kohl showcases PCO’s golden strings in a program of delectable works for string orchestra. Samuel Barber’s heartfelt Adagio For Strings has been performed in many important public settings. It was one of President John Kennedy’s favorite works. Besides his great cello concerto Elgar’s most well-known work is his gorgeous Serenade for Strings. Richard Strauss’ String Quartet in A arranged for full string orchestra shows the composer in his full youthful exuberance with delightful teasing melodies. Sponsor: Pacific Chamber Orchestra Location: Bankhead Theater - LVPAC web site - eLivermore Bankhead Theater page Times: 2:00pm Admission: $59 / $45 / $35 Students $16 Tickets: Bankhead Theater Box Office info - LVPAC Online Ordering page More info: Pacific Chamber Orchestra - LVPAC web site |
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Feb 19 Monday
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Lee Ann Womack THE LONELY, THE LONESOME and THE GONE Artists don’t really make albums like Lee Ann Womack’s THE LONELY, THE LONESOME AND THE GONE anymore. Albums that seem to exist separate and apart from any external pressures. Albums that possess both a profound sense of history and a clear-eyed vision for the future. Albums that transcend genres while embracing their roots. Albums that evoke a sense of place and of personality so vivid they make listeners feel more like participants in the songs than simply admirers of them. Recorded at Houston’s historic SugarHill Recording Studios and produced by Womack’s husband and fellow Texan, Frank Liddell (fresh off a 2017 ACM Album of the Year win for Miranda Lambert’s ‘The Weight of These Wings’), THE LONELY, THE LONESOME AND THE GONE marks the culmination of a journey that began with Womack’s 2005 CMA Album of the Year ‘There’s More Where That Come From,’ moving her toward an authentic American music that celebrates her roots and adds to the canon. It also underscores the emergence of Womack’s songwriting voice: She has more writing credits among this album’s 14 tracks than on all her previous albums combined. Womack and Liddell found a perfect complement of musicians, players who clicked right away and became a one-headed band. Bassist Glenn Worf (Alan Jackson, Bob Seger, Tammy Wynette, Mark Knopfler and others), drummer Jerry Roe (numerous Nashville sessions and his band Friendship Commanders), guitarists Ethan Ballinger, Adam Wright (Alan Jackson, Solomon Burke and others), and Waylon Payne (son of singer Sammi Smith and Willie Nelson’s longtime guitarist Jody Payne) formed the SugarHill gang. “I got everybody out of their comfort zone and into a new element,” says Womack. “And it was funky there. This place was not in the least bit slick. Everybody there, all they think about is making music for the love of making music. Everyone comes in with huge smiles and positive attitudes. It was much different than what we were used to.”
Capturing the reality of East Texas music isn’t always easy. Being in
Houston and at SugarHill helped make that happen. “Music down there —
including Houston, Beaumont, Port Arthur and all the way through Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama — is this huge melting pot,” Womack says. “I love
that, and I wanted that in this record. I wanted to make sure it had a lot
of soul in it, because real country music has soul, and I wanted to remind
people of that.”
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COI: Improv Face-Off 2018 | |||||||||||||
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Feb 21-24 Wed-Sat
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COI: Improv Face-Off 2018 Watch as local Bay Area improv teams “compete” against Creatures of Impulse in this pro wrestling themed run of shows. Five performances, five different bouts, five reasons to see all five shows with an interactive format that gives the audience a chance to win prizes! Sponsor: City of Pleasanton Location: Firehouse Arts Center - 4444 Railroad Ave, Pleasanton Times: Wed-Fri: 7:30pm; Sat: 2:00pm & 7:30pm Admission: $5 Students; $10 General More info: www.firehousearts.org |
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International Guitar Night | |||||||||||||
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Feb 23 Fri
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International Guitar Night Lulo Reinhardt has built on his grand-uncle Django’s legendary passionate style of Gypsy Jazz by introducing Latin rhythms. His interest in flamenco roots took him to southern Spain and to South America, where his fascination for Latin music found its way into his own unique swing-infused jazz style. He performed as a soloist on multiple IGN tours before taking on the role of artistic director, host and performing guitarist last year. At just age 24, Calum Graham’s smooth two-handed style has already earned him an enviable career. The Canadian guitarist and singer/songwriter has released five acclaimed albums, won major national music competitions, performed at the Olympic Games in both Vancouver and London, racked up millions of views on YouTube, and was recently named one of the top 30 guitarists in the world under 30 by Acoustic Guitar Magazine. Award-winning guitarist and composer Dr. Marek Pasieczny earned three
Master Degrees in music from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and “Karol
Lipinski” Academy of Music in Poland. He received his PhD at Surrey
University (UK) where he lectures in composition and orchestration. In
addition to extensivesolo performance credits, he has collaborated or
composed with renowned guitarists and orchestras worldwide.
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Wild Water and Wonder - Livermore-Amador Symphony Concert | |||||||||||||
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Feb 24 Sat |
Livermore-Amador Symphony -
Wild Water and Wonder Ride the water with Livermore-Amador Symphony. Evocative and cinematic music transports us from sunrise on the open ocean, through the stillness of moonlight reflected on the water, to a violent storm at sea. English composer Benjamin Britten takes us on this extraordinary journey with his Four Sea Interludes, from his opera Peter Grimes. Italian composer Ottorino Respighi inspires us with his glorious visions of wonder as he vividly describes the Fountains of Rome. Come with us on this wet and wonderful ride, featuring the talented winners of our young musicians competition. Sponsor: Livermore Amador Symphony Location: Bankhead Theater - LVPAC web site - eLivermore Bankhead Theater page Time: Prelude talk from 7 to 7:30pm. Symphony concerts begin at 8:00pm Admission: $35 / $30 / $25 Tickets: Bankhead Theater Box Office info - LVPAC Online Ordering page More info: Livermore-Amador Symphony (925) 373-6824, or Bankhead Theater |
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Sundays at the Hagemann Ranch - Handicrafts Day | |||||||||||||
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Feb 25 Sun
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Sundays at the Hagemann Ranch - Handicrafts
Day Historic Barns Horses, Goats, chickens Walking Tours Live Music Antique Tractors & Buggies Homemade Cookies Sponsor: Livermore Heritage Guild Location: Hagemann Ranch, 455 Olivina Ave, Livermore. Times: 1:00 to 4:00pm Admission: Free More info: Livermore Heritage Guild |
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This One's For You: The Songs of Barry Manilow | |||||||||||||
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Feb 25 Sun
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This One's For You: The Songs
of Barry Manilow Music and theatre stars Tielle Baker and Kyle Martin head the cast of this cabaret salute to the songs of Barry Manilow, including such enduring hits as I Write The Songs, Copacabana, Mandy, Somewhere In The Night, It’s a Miracle, Can’t Smile Without You, and many more memorable classics thatcross the generations. This venerable cabaret duo returns to the Firehouse after their sold-out performances in “The World of Webber” and “Joel.” Sponsor: City of Pleasanton Location: Firehouse Arts Center - 4444 Railroad Ave, Pleasanton Times: 2:00pm Admission: $17 - $27 More info: www.firehousearts.org |
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Jake Shimabukuro Master Class | |||||||||||||
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Feb 25 Sun
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Jake Shimabukuro Master Class
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Jake Shimbukuro
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Livermore Library Events Sponsor: Livermore Library Locations: See specific event for its location. Main (Civic Center) Library: 1188 S Livermore Ave. Rincon Branch: 725 Rincon Ave. Springtown Branch: 998 Bluebell Dr Times: See Table Admission: Free. More info: Livermore Library, 925 373-5500 Photo by Bill Nale |
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