2003-2004 Live Performance Season

September 21 The Bill Hilly Band     January 23 Eden Atwood
September 29 American Indian Dance Theatre      January 26 Chiapas and Other Distractions
October 4 The Campbell
Brothers		    February 4 The Montana Repertory's Streetcar Named Desire
October 8 Scott Kirby      February 6 Kathy Mattea
October 30 Tears of Joy Puppet Theater's Ride the Red Mare
     
 March 16 Vishten
November 7 Aulos Ensemble       April 8 Les Ballets Africains
November 16 Ennis Sisters      April 13 The Acting Company's Richard III
January 16 The Kennedy Center Presents Hans Christian Anderson's The Nightingale May 4 Lila Downs

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The Bill Hilly Band

Sunday, September 21, 7:30 p.m.
Myrna Loy Center
Tickets: $15 adults, $12 seniors, $10 students

From beautiful British Columbia come five exceptional musicians who have forged a sophisticated, down-home "acoustical explosion" all their own. With artistry, enthusiasm and irresistible entertainment, they cook up a mélange of European stylings, Latin American rhythms, and songs from old-time, bluegrass, jazz, swing, Klezmer, Brazilian, Caribbean, Spanish and a world of other sounds. In one Toronto concert, they got a standing ovation after the first song.

www.thebillhillyband.com



American Indian Dance Theatre

Monday, September 29, 7:30 p.m.
Helena Middle School
Tickets: $20 adults, $16 seniors, $12 students

For almost 15 years, the American Indian Dance Theatre has been creating a new level of awareness of American Indian culture across the nation. This suite of dances will combine the traditional vocabulary with modern expression.

"The American Indian Dance Theatre offers a rare, illuminating theatre experience." - Los Angeles Times

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The Campbell Brothers

Saturday, October 4, 8:00 p.m.
Myrna Loy Center
Tickets: $20 adults, $16 seniors, $12 students

This is real Gospel music with a compellingly rich variety of music from the African-American Holiness-Pentecotal repertoire with a new twist: the growling, wailing, shouting, singing and swinging voice of the steel guitar, played as you have never heard it before.

"Chuck Campbell is the Jimi Hendrix and the Django Reinhardt of the steel guitar." - Andy Grigg, Real Blues


www.campbellbrothers.com


Scott Kirby

Wednesday, October 8, 7:30 p.m.
Myrna Loy Center
Tickets: $10

Barnstorming Montana Tour Pianist/composer Scott Kirby specializes in distinctly American genres which unite the worlds of classical and folk music, including Terra Verde, early jazz, classic ragtime, new ragtime and Creole compositions. As a composer, Kirby weaves strains from American roots music with European Romanticism into a syncopated language all his own.

www.barnstormingmontana.com

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Tears of Joy Puppet Theater's Ride the Red Mare

AWARE Family Showcase

Thursday, October 30, 7:00 p.m.
Myrna Loy Center
Tickets: $15 adults, $12 seniors/students



Illustration by Julie Downing, Orchard Books		 Portland's TOJ Puppet Theater brings to Helena Ursula K Lequin's story of hunting and trolls and a young girl's brave ride on the Red Mare to save her brother. Along with the show a special auction of Halloween "funkins" by Helena artists will benefit AWARE Family Services of Helena.

www.tojt.com

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Aulos Ensemble - 5-Day School Residency

Friday, November 7, 8:00 p.m.
Helena Middle School
Tickets: $20 adults, $16 seniors, $12 students

The Aulos Ensemble pioneered period-instrument performing. Now in their 30th year, these five Juilliard graduates tour and teach extensively, lead their own concert series in New York City, and have brought the world a new awareness of the rich rewards of original-instrument performance. In addition to their evening concert, the Aulos Ensemble will perform a five-day residency in Helena-area schools.

www.aulos.org

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Ennis Sisters

Sunday, November 16, 7:30 p.m.
Myrna Loy Center
Tickets: $15 adults/seniors, $12 students

In music there's nothing quite like the sound of three voices singing together in perfect harmony. Their self-titled major label debut album has spawned a two format radio hit ("It's Not About You"), they were named Best Country Group atthe Canadian Radio Music

Awards, they won an East Coast Music Award as Group of the Year and to top it all off, the Ennis Sisters won a Juno Award (Canada's most precious accolade) as Best New Country Artist or Group in front of a hometown audience.

www.ennissisters.com


2004


The Kennedy Center Presents Hans Christian Anderson The Nightingale

Friday, January 16, 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
Helena Middle School

The Kennedy Center production of Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Emperor and the Nightingale" will be retold in song and dance for Helena area 1st-3rd Graders.

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Eden Atwood

Friday, January 23, 8 p.m.
Tickets: $15
Myrna Loy Center

Meet Missoula's own Eden Atwood. Daughter of jazz arranger Hub Atwood (who composed and arranged for Frank Sinatra, Stan Kenton and Nat King Cole) and granddaughter of A.B. Guthrie. She started singing jazz in a Memphis pizza parlor at the age of three. At five she moved to Montana; at 15 she was fronting a busy band of musicians twice her age.
Skip to the present: Since the release of Eden's recording, "A Night In The Life", she has performed all over the world sharing bills with Gene Harris, Joshua Redman and Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band. She has been featured on NPR's Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland and Ms. McPartland appears on three tracks of Eden's CD 'There Again'.

Most recently, Eden has toured Singapore, Hong Kong, and Thailand performing for an ever-growing legion of fans worldwide. In addition to touring and performing, Eden teaches private vocal students, and works with attachment-disordered children..

"Eden Atwood paints with an uncommonly rich vocal palette. Smooth, saucy, seductive, or soaring, cool, coy, plaintive or just plain down and dirty, she can do it all, and all with infectious joy." - Edwin Dobb, Writer, Harper's Magazine

www.edenatwood.com


Chiapas and Other Distractions

Monday, January 26, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $10
Season Ticket Holders will receive their tickets for this event in the mail.
Free to Carroll students, faculty and staff
Myrna Loy Center

Special free Social Justice Month lecture at Carroll College at Noon on January 26.

Lalo Espejo (r) and Patrick Pennefather (l)

 A funny and vibrant show based on the writer's travels during the time of the historic Mexican elections in July 2000. The comedic monologue uses the Subcommandante Marcos-led Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, as a point of comparison for our media saturated lives. Lalo Espejo is a Vancouver playwright whose political satire has been compared to Spalding Gray's work.

Chiapas "is a travelogue that doesn't tire because it's fueled by vibrant detail, caustic humour and politically astute observation." Vancouver Sun



Montana Repertory's Streetcar Named Desire

Wednesday, February 4, 7:30 p.m.
Myrna Loy Center
Tickets: $15 adults, $12 seniors/students

Tennessee Williams' insights into human behavior are nothing short of miraculous and his craft is unparalleled. He recognized that we are part angel and part beast, and it is this conflict within each of us that plays out in the time of our lives. He saw we were capable of great heights of generosity and love and the depths of cruelty and anger. Of all Williams' masterpieces, none better articulated this paradox than the exquisite Streetcar Named Desire. This presentation continues the excellence in drama that has earned the Montana Repertory Theater its national reputation.

www.montanarep.org/streetcar.html


Kathy Mattea

Friday, February 6, 8:00 p.m.
Helena Middle School
Tickets: $22 adults/seniors, $12 students

Kathy's powerfully tender voice has won multiple awards and sold three gold albums and a platinum. She has won Grammy Awards for Country Vocal Performance, and also for Gospel. More recently, she's ventured into Scottish territory, singing "contemporary folk with a Celtic twist." Now a Narada label artist, she continues to explore new ground.

www.kathymattea.com



Vishten

Tuesday, March 16, 7:30 p.m.
Myrna Loy Center
Tickets: $20 adults, $16 seniors, $12 students

Acadian Fiddle & Dance-With fiery fiddling and high-energy step dancing, 6-member Vishten's stage show is a "kitchen party" of singing, dancing and hot musicianship from the shores of Prince Edward Island. This group performs a hardy mix of French, Irish and Scottish music styles. You will surely enjoy their finger-flying, feet-tapping musical celebration




Les Ballets Africains

Thursday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.
Myrna Loy Center
Tickets: $20 adults, $16 seniors, $12 students

Les Ballets Africains, the national ensemble of the Republic of Guinea, has thrilled audiences worldwide since it was formed by the distinguished Guinean choreographer Keita Fodeba in 1952/53. It is universally recognized as Africa's most accomplished touring company. In a compelling program celebrating the company's half century, Les Ballets Africains performs traditional dance, music, acrobatics and storytelling. Pulsing rhythms from ancient tribal instruments build the excitement as the company bursts onto the stage in an explosion of dance and song. Fascination legends filled with humans, animals and spirits unfold in a fast-paced joyous celebration that will leave audiences breathless. Les Ballets Africains captures the elemental energy of its native land in a performance that is pure sensation.

"Sheer physical energy and beauty." The New York Times

"A rich, varied and colorful program" Le Figaro, France

"A striking show - a polyrhythmic bombardment" Information, Denmark

www.worldartsinc.com/africainsmain.html


The Acting Company's Richard III

Presented with support from the National Endowment for the Arts "Shakespeare in American Communities", Target Stores, Western States Arts Federation, American Chemet, Insty-Prints of Helena, and Sallie Mae Fund.

Tuesday, April 13, 1:00 p.m.
School Show

Tuesday, April 13, 7:30 p.m.
Myrna Loy Center
Tickets: $20

The 2003 Tony-winning Acting Company will bring their awarding-winning production of Shakespeare's Richard III. Acclaimed by the Tony Awards as the country's leading touring company bringing excellence in theater to rural America, the Acting Company will also do a special school showing of Richard III.

www.theactingcompany.org/

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Lila Downs

Tuesday, May 4, 7:30 p.m.
Myrna Loy Center
Tickets: $20 adults, $16 seniors, $12 students

After her appearance on the 2003 Academy Award show Lila Downs is one of the hottest acts in American music. Lila and her band frequently tour in Mexico, South America, the U.S. and Europe. Lila presently lives in Coyoacan and collaborates with musicians from Mexico, Canada, Cuba, Peru, Argentina and Paraguay. She performs her own compositions and also taps into the vast reservior of native Mesoamerican music, singing songs in the Indian languages of Mexico such as Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya and Nahuatl. She recently was nominated for a BBC Radio 3 2003 World Music Award.

www.liladowns.com

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