Don’t miss chamber music for all ages
Vashon Maury Chamber Orchestra (VMCO) will present its spring concerts at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Vashon Methodist Church.
Special guest artists Elizabeth C.D. Brown and Ken Jacobsen will join the group for “Fantasia Corelliana,” a 1999 work for two guitars and strings by American composer Roberto Sierra.
Brown is head of the guitar and lute program at Pacific Lutheran University and performs with ensembles throughout the Pacific Northwest. Jacobsen, an Islander, is a guitar teacher and performer both on and off the Island, with a long history of performing in all musical genres.
Two Vashon High School seniors will also step into the spotlight. Oboist Erica Walker and violinist Kyle Gagner will perform concerti by Bernadetto Marcello and J.S. Bach, respectively. Works of Grieg and Arensky will round out the program, along with a Piazzola tango with Island flutist and tango instructor Janeen Bramwell on bandoneon.
The 11 a.m. show — an abbreviated, kid-friendly version of the concert, emceed by Kim Thal and Amy Broomhill — will include selections from Grieg, Bach and Piazzola, performed by the orchestra and special guests Gagner and Bramwell.
Admission to the morning concert is by donation. Tickets to the evening concert are $10 general and $7 for students and seniors.
Head to the Bike for a good laugh
Local comedians Kevin Joyce, Steffon Moody and Jim Farrell, along with special guests Andre Sapp and Eric Perlman, will stand up and let it all hang out at a comedy night at 8 p.m. Friday at Red Bicycle Bistro.
Moody, who is putting the show together, said that the four-performer lineup will give all the funny men a chance to “stretch their legs and deliver the full-blown comedy package.” There’s a cover charge of $5, and the show is for adults only due to spicy material.
Take the kids to see a traveling troubadour
Lil Rev, a Milwaukee-based solo act that combines ukulele, mandolin, guitar and harmonica playing with lively tales of the stories behind the songs, will play a show at the Vashon Theatre at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Lil Rev — the stage persona of performer Marc Revenson — first came to the theater last year.
Among many other honors, Lil Rev was inducted into The Traditional Old-Time Country Music Hall of Fame in 2003. Currently, he writes instructional books for Hal Leonard Publishing, presents clinics all over the country and tours internationally as a performer of time-honored classics including ukulele music, old-time blues, Tin Pan Alley and American, Jewish and Yiddish folk songs.
Lil Rev’s show is for all ages. Tickets, $7, are available at the theater box office.
Get the week started right with world music
A world-renowned French vocal ensemble, Lo Cor de la Plana, will play a concert for Vashon High School students at 9:15 a.m. Monday.
It’s the second time the group has come to the high school to talk with students and perform — the Marseille-based group first visited Vashon in 2009.
According to concert organizer Martin Koenig, Lo Cor de la Plana sings tight, high-energy vocals in the disappearing language of Occitan, the language of medieval troubadours, accompanied only by their own stomping feet, clapping hands, tambourines and hand drums.
A block of 20 tickets for Monday’s show, $10 each, is being set aside for community members. Email Carrie Van Buren at carriejoel@msn.com or take your chances by showing up to the high school at 9 a.m. All proceeds from the ticket sales will benefit the music enrichment program at Vashon High School.
Hear an acclaimed singer at Open Space
Teresa Tudury, a Bay Area-based singer/songwriter who brought the house down in a 2011 Church of Great Rain guest star turn, will play a concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, at the Open Space for Arts & Community.
Tudury is a veteran performer and recording artist who has performed and recorded with the likes of Leonard Cohen.
Critics have heaped accolades on her for her wicked wit and performing chops. Scroll down the press page on her website, www.teresatudury.net, to find such praise as this rave from Buzz Weekly: “Part chanteuse, part comedian, part bona fide pop artist, Tudury combines the best of all those roles with tender, autobiographical narratives, funny between-song banter, and a voice that could stop a war.”
Tickets to her show are $14 and are on sale at the Vashon Bookshop and www.brownpapertickets.com.
