Lake Tahoe Summer Music Festival
July 13th, 2008 Posted in General, Home, Tahoe, Vacation TipsSix-time Grammy nominee saxophonist, Dave Koz, opens the Lake Tahoe Music Festival with a concert this Thursday, July 17th, at Homewood. The 26th year of the Music Festival is being held between a trio of North Shore ski resorts - Homewood, Tahoe Donner & Alpine Meadows and at the West End Beach where Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will perform August 7th. The Festival is bringing in a wide variety of top performers this year and hearing them under the stars will be a real treat.
The Reno Philharmonic will be performing on three Saturday evenings and all of their performances will have the option of lawn seating (Lawn-$15, General-$25 Preferred-$50). The Reno Philharmonic first appears July 19th at Homewood with jazz trumpeter, Christian Scott and the Christian Scott Quintet. Their second appearance, August 2nd, at Tahoe Donner is a 60th Birthday Tribute to Andrew Lloyd Weber. Then, the Philharmonic wraps up the Music Festival back at Homewood with the “White Nights Finale” featuring renowned pianist, Jeffrey Biegel, and a rousing production of the 1812 Overture.
The relaxing lawn seating is also available for the Dave Mason concert which features Jim Messina and Band on July 31st at Alpine Meadows. And, for a special mellow evening, consider smooth saxophonist, Euge Groove, appearing on Saturday, July 26th, with guest acoustic guitar players Strunz and Farah.
Best selling jazz artist and Grammy-award winning jazz trumpeter, Christ Botti (a personal favorite) appears Thursday, July 24th, at the Tahoe Donner Trout Creek Recreation Center.
Even as I write this, I’m wondering if my husband would complain if I asked to go to all of the performances. I think I’ll have to choose carefully and am leaning toward the Andrew Lloyd Weber tribute in addition to the Chris Botti concert.
We’re so fortunate that productions of this caliber come to the Lake and if you have time to make it up to see a performance (or two) I’m sure you’ll be pleased.
You can get more information and purchase tickets for the Lake Tahoe Summer Music Festival online at www.tahoemusic.org.
Off and on for the last several weeks, the Tahoe Basin has become a catch-all for the smoke coming east from the many California fires. The smoke has been a constant reminder of the difficulties happening in places far from our immediate sight. Having been through our own fire last year, our awareness is heightened and our thoughts are with all the folks going through difficult times as fires approach their cities and neighborhoods. Our prayers and good wishes are with all the Fire and Public Service personnel who are doing their best to control the blazes and help those in need. We wish much good fortune to all of you who are dealing, in one way or another, with this California crisis.
Hope to see you in Tahoe soon,
Kathleen