Creative Camp: Fiber + Textiles
2025-06-23 09:00 - 2025-06-27 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | Coconino Center for the Arts, 2300 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States
Creative Camp: Fiber + Textiles
Date/Time: June 23-27
Get ready to create and explore with Flagstaff’s premier arts educators at Coconino Center for the Arts!
CCA is thrilled to launch Creative Camps, a new way for your child to immerse themselves in the arts, with professional arts educators guiding their experience.
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Artist Talks & Film Screening: Wes Pope and Caitlin Keating
2025-06-28 18:00
Wes Pope presents an artist talk about POP 66, followed by the late Edward Keating’s daughter Caitlin Keating speaking on behalf of MAIN STREET as an introduction to the documentary film Edward Keating – his life on Main Street, Route 66.

On The Road: Youth Art Workshop Using Perspective to Draw a Realistic Road Scene
2025-08-02 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-08-02 12:30 - 13:30
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Join us for a free youth art workshop led by artist and instructor Erika Tsouras: On The Road: Using Perspective to Draw a Realistic Road Scene! In this hands-on session, young artists will learn the basics of one-point perspective to create dynamic and realistic road scenes inspired by Route 66. Erika will guide students step-by-step through drawing techniques that bring depth and dimension to their artwork.
This is a free one-hour workshop and no experience is necessary! All supplies are provided. Registration required.
Ages 7-14

Digital Marketing and AI for Nonprofits
2025-08-09 09:00 - 12:00
Digital Marketing and AI for Nonprofits
Date/Time: Saturday, August 9, 9am-noon
FREE EVENT; Registration Required
Instructors: Kayley Quick & Caitlin Burd
Explore how nonprofits can leverage marketing strategies and AI tools to enhance outreach, engagement, and efficiency. Led by artist and designer Kayley Quick and marketing professional and theater leader Caitlin Burd, this session will provide practical insights into branding, content creation, and the evolving role of AI in nonprofit marketing. Whether you’re looking to streamline operations or strengthen your organization’s presence, this workshop will offer valuable takeaways for nonprofit leaders and creatives alike.
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Shades of Route 66 Panel Discussion
2025-08-12 18:00
Join us for a powerful conversation with humanities scholars Ricardo Guthrie, Margaret Hangan, Ivan Pacheco, and David Purcell as they reflect on Shades of Route 66—an exhibition exploring race, representation, and the untold histories along the Mother Road.⁠ ⁠ Shades of Route 66 was produced and sponsored by Cline Library at Northern Arizona University and funded by the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona. Coconino Center for the Arts is honored to serve as a satellite venue.⁠

Interference Series Presents: Southwest Collaborative Music Convergence
2025-08-17 22:42, 2025-09-18 19:00, 2025-09-19 19:00, 2025-09-20 19:00
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Spanning three days and nights of concerts and presentations, this is a one-of-a-kind experience for musicians and audiences alike. Along with co-director Thollem McDonas, Interference Series has invited a wide variety of collaborative musicians from around the region to create unique sonic experiences that express the dynamics of the Southwest ecologically, socially, politically, as well as in response to CCA’s two exhibits, Shades of Route 66 and Route 66: Alternative Perspectives. We are grateful for the opportunity to bring together all of these exceptional artists who have spent their lives honing their craft through collaboration with others. Most of all, we are excited to share it with the community!
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Abby Fisher, Betsy Hamill, Chad Kim, Chelsey Trejo, Chris Woodward, Edie Tsong, Eric Matchett, Gabby Isaac, Jeremy Schroeder, Kai Natseway, Lauren Sarah Hayes, Lillie Gordon, Michael Begay, Owen Davis, Sage Bond, Robert Clark (Igloo Martian), Rob Wallace, Somei Kundu, Spencer Huttenmeyer, Teo Morris, Thollem McDonas, and Vicki Brown.

SCHEDULE

Thursday, Sept 18th

Large Ensemble Concert (Theater)
7:00 – 8:30 PM
(Doors at 6:00PM)

Friday, Sept 19th
Large Ensemble Concert (Theater)
7:00 – 8:30 PM
(Doors at 6:00PM)Saturday, Sept 20th
Artist Discussions (Theater)
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Sonic events (Gallery and Outdoors)

2:00 – 4:00PM
Large Ensemble Concert (Theater)
7:00 – 8:30 PM
(Doors at 6:00PM)

SWCMC HISTORY
The Convergence is an extension of a concert held Feb., 2023 in Tucson that Thollem curated as part of the Peaceful Sky Benefit (www.peacefulsky.us). PSB was organized in order to raise awareness of the increasingly dangerous exercises the U.S. military is conducting in the southern desert. Based on the enthusiasm of the participants and the audiences, it became clear that the Convergence needed to happen again. The artists for this year’s Convergence include musicians who participated in both 2023 and 2024 plus local musicians from Flagstaff and the Navajo Nation. Next year we are planning to open it up to more musicians from the region. See/hear you out there!
TICKETS
3-Day Passes will be available on-line sold in advance.
Individual $20 tickets for each performance will be available at the door the day-of.
(3-Day Passes are transferable if you cannot attend all three shows. In order to transfer passes an email must be sent to boxoffice@coconinoarts.org indicating both the name of the original ticket purchaser and the name of person to whom the pass is being transferred.)
*No one turned away for lack of funds
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Art Seen Heard
2025-08-21 18:00 - 19:00
Join us for a special gallery performance inspired by Route 66: Alternative Perspectives, the current exhibition at Coconino Center for the Arts!⁠ 🎶 ⁠
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Presented by AH Creative and Flagstaff Songwriters Circle, this unique event features original songs written in response to the stories and imagery of the Mother Road.⁠
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August 21 | 6–7PM⁠
Free | Suggested $10 donation⁠

Summit Dub Squad - Celebrating 20 Years
2025-08-29 19:30
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Summit Dub Squad is celebrating 20 years of high elevation sound flavor!! The Squad has just released their brand new, self-produced, 6th album titled “HIGHER GROUND” – a musically diverse homage to their hometown at 7000-feet elevation – and will perform several tunes from this new 13-song body of work. This event will be a seated, more-intimate theater listening session, focused on the positive, uplifting lyrics of lead singers B Dub the Artist and Hunter E RedDay, both of Dine’ (Navajo) heritage. Special guests will join the band and choice selections from every album will be performed. All ages irie fun for the entire family.
Summit Dub Squad is a roots reggae / positive hiphop band from Flagstaff, IrieZona. The musically and cultrally diverse group pulls fans and new listeners in with undeniable grooves and thoughtful lyrics. With 6 self-produced albums of original music and a myriad of classic cover songs, the band takes pride in never playing the same set twice, ensuring a fun, upful, and exciting experience every time they perform.Their energy is infectious and the message inviting, with peace, love, unity and respect at the core of their DIY mantra. The Summit crew is livicated to fostering a world were social and environmental justice are at the forefront of the conversation on the road to One Love Humanity.
For more information about Summit Dub Squad and to listen to the new album visit their website at: www.summitdubsquad.com
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Interference Series Presents: Thollem McDonas - Solo Piano
2025-09-14 19:00
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“Listening to Thollem play the piano is an astonishing experience. He has an innate ability to compose transcendent music using the piano as his expressive voice and to explore the depth and range of the instrument like no one else.” (Joan Jeanrenaud, Kronos Quartet)
Thollem’s music is genre-bending, code-switching, omni-idiomatic, and intersectional. Quality Revolutionary Entertainment! His music expresses the culmination of his life’s experiences in dialogue with the universe and fellow human beings. As a result of growing up in the culturally diverse SF Bay Area, his classical piano training, and his itinerant lifestyle since, Thollem’s interests, influences and inspirations range widely. He has spent most of his life performing and collaborating with hundreds of artists and communities throughout N. America and Europe and has released well over 100 albums on 27 different vanguard labels. Multitudes have inspired and influenced him as a pianist from Scriabin to Monk, Scarlatti to Nina Simone, Glenn Gould, John Cage, Art Tatum, as well as his contemporaries. Thollem’s parents were both pianists, and his earliest memories were of climbing up to play the inside of the piano.
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Thollem began playing the piano, composing and improvising as a child, absorbing the sounds of his culturally diverse upbringing. As an adult he has continued to incorporate the breadth of musics he has experienced on his extensive travels. Since 2005, he has played over 1,500 concerts throughout N. America and Europe as a soloist and in collaboration with other musicians, dancers and filmmakers. In that time span, as lead facilitator or co-leader, Thollem has released close to 100 albums on 23 different vanguard labels. A very brief cross section of his many collaborators include William Parker, Pauline Oliveros, Stefano Scodanibbio, Nels Cline, Rob Mazurek, Ravish Momin, Michael Wimberly, Mike Watt and Carmina Escobar. He is the founding director of Estamos Ensemble, a Mexican-American cross border ensemble for musical exchange, the long-term temporary Guida of the Sicilian Improvisers Orchestra and is a published author about art, politics and his travels in NewMusic Box, The Anthology of Essays On Deep Listening, Full Moon Magazine (Prague) and First American Art Magazine.
“Thollem is a modern griot who has absorbed sounds from every place he has visited.”– William Parker, from Conversations II (Rogue Art)“Thollem displays a chameleonic ability to adapt to suit whatever musical context presents itself…there is more than one way to access the infinite.”- Daniel Spicer, The Wire“Blue collar virtuoso.”- Detroit Metro Times
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Flagstaff Festival of Science, Route 66 Pinhole Camera Obscura Workshop
2025-09-25 16:00 - 17:00
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Explore image-making through the simplest of lenses: a tiny hole. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll construct your own working pinhole camera from basic materials and, in the process, explore the optics that make it possible.
No prior experience with photography is required—just curiosity. Together we’ll cover the essentials of pinhole imaging, how to achieve the sharpest image possible. We’ll also introduce the basics of exposure, practical methods for testing and refining your exposure times, and how to use free or inexpensive light meter apps on your phone to guide your experiments.
Participants are encouraged to bring small containers that can be made light-tight—soda cans, cardboard boxes, cookie tins, or anything else that sparks your creativity. The more inventive the better. A selection of materials will also be made available during the workshop.
The session will be led by Wes Pope, a photographer and educator whose decades-long pinhole photography project along historic Route 66 is currently on display at the Coconino Center for the Arts.
Free | Registration Required.
Instructor: Wes Pope

Gareth Pearson
2025-09-26 19:30
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Gareth Pearson is referred to as “The Welsh Tornado” which is particularly appropriate, seeing as this special talent combines fingerstyle pyrotechnics, with explosive lead runs making Pearson one of the most exciting acoustic musicians gigging today.
Gareth has a distinctive style that can be heard through his creative and innovative arrangements which cover a wide spectrum of genres, including country/folk/classical/pop/rock/jazz/swing and bluegrass music, along with his own beautiful and often intricate original compositions. Drawing his playing style initially from influences such as Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, Jerry Reed and Tommy Emmanuel, he has developed a style that is both inspiring and entertaining.
Within a year of taking up the guitar, Gareth was opening for Tommy Emmanuel on his 2005 UK tour. It was in Cardiff where Tommy invited Gareth to play at the CAAS convention (Chet Atkins Appreciation Society) in Nashville Tennessee. Later that year, Gareth was performing and touring alongside Ray Davies (The Kinks), John Renbourne, and Southside Johnny and the Ashbury Jukes. During the Southside Johnny tour, Gareth was invited by Southside to be flown over to the USA to open for his annual New Years Eve concert at the Count Basie Theatre in New Jersey. The following year Gareth was invited by Tommy Emmanuel to be the support act for his UK tour, following extensive UK supports to Jan Akkerman, Andy McKee and appearing at numerous Folk Festivals and Guitar workshops including the Montreal Jazz Festival.
With appearances throughout Europe and a growing reputation, Gareth was invited to perform at the 2008 Canadian Guitar Festival where he came to the attention of Candyrat Records. This lay the seed for Gareth to be the first UK guitarist to be signed by the label. On its release, Gareth’s debut album “Urban Echoes Vol 1” was selected by Acoustic Guitar editors and frequent contributors as one of the “Essential Acoustic Albums of 2010”. With Appearances at the 2009 Montreal Guitar Festival, USA and Worldwide tours and Guitar workshops, Gareth’s reputation as a performer and teacher is constantly growing.

“Gareth is fast becoming one of the worlds most renowned instrumental guitarists”
​Adam Walton (BBC Radio Wales)
“I really respect Gareth’s abilities. He’s a great young man and a great ambassador for the acoustic guitar”
.ommy Emmanuel
“I’m Gareth’s number one fan! What a guitarist! His original compositions hit the ears like cool spring water on a hot summer’s day. His stage show has everyone up on their feet. Fingerstyle guitar is in good hands for the next generation”
Stefan Grossman
“Not only is Gareth one of the most amazing guitarists around, he is a really nice guy and funny as hell!”
Andy McKee
“My friend Gareth Pearson is a huge talent and in his genre, one of the best young players around. I mean there’s many roads that lead to Rome, but this one is definitely a great one. I can see a great future for him”
Jan Akkerman

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Route 66 Diner Theater
2025-09-27 17:00 - 20:00
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 – 5:00-8:00pm
Buckle up for an unforgettable night of food, music, theater, and film inspired by America’s most iconic highway!
Coconino Center for the Arts invites the community to hit the open road—without leaving town—for Route 66: Diner Theater, a one-night-only benefit for CCA’s exhibitions and programs. This dynamic evening blends the tastes, sounds, and stories of America’s most iconic highway into an unforgettable experience.
The ticket price includes appetizers and dinner by Sosta, (2) drink tickets, theatrical performance, and three unique musical experiences, weaving together a rich tapestry of sound and storytelling within Coconino Center for the Arts’ current exhibition.

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Stargazer Collaborative Theatre Presents: Dog Sees God
2025-10-03 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-10-04 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-10-05 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-10 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-10-11 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-10-12 14:00 - 17:00
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When CB’s beloved dog dies, he’s thrown into a spiral of grief, big questions, and unexpected discoveries about love, friendship, and identity. Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is an unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving play that reimagines familiar childhood characters as troubled teens navigating bullying, sexuality, mental health, and belonging. Both irreverent and heartfelt, this cult favorite asks: what happens when innocence ends and growing up gets complicated?
Dog Sees God contains mature themes—drug and alcohol use, bullying, sexuality, mental health struggles, and strong language. Because of that, the performance is recommended for teens and adults.
Stargazer’s 2025 season is proudly sponsored by the Art Flores Memorial.
Directed by DeLano Hays
Stage Managed by Kate Carroll
CAST:
CB – Jordan Galvan
Beethoven – Alex Casady
Matt – Al Armitage
Van – America Fregozo
CB’s Sister – Maryn Hart
Tricia – Savannah Jerumbo
Marcy – Sasha Charls
Van’s Sister – Liv Scott
DOG SEES GOD: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead by Bert V. Royal
DOG SEES GOD was first presented by Sorrel Tomlinson / File 14 Productions at The 2004 New York International Fringe Festival, a production of The Present Company.
Originally produced Off-Broadway, in a limited engagement, by Sorrel Tomlinson.
Subsequently produced Off-Broadway by Dede Harris and Martian Entertainment in association with Sharon Karmazin, Michelle Schneider, Mort Swinsky.

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SHIFTING TOPOGRAPHIES: Extracting the Landscape
2025-10-18 18:00 - 20:00
Opening Reception Saturday, October 18, 2025

Members Preview 5 – 6 pm
Public Reception 6 – 8 pm
Artist Talks 6:00 pm

SHIFTING TOPOGRAPHIES: Extracting the Landscape features projects by Carol Hartman (Red Lodge, MT), Jeff Schmuki (Stateboro, GA), and Klee Benally in memoriam (Diné, Black Mesa, Navajo Nation; Flagstaff, AZ). In a rapidly changing climate, we are witness to and complicit in irreversible scarring of the land. There are eight National Parks and Monuments within a 2-hour drive of Flagstaff that face potential threats to their preservation, due to the proposed federal reopening of protected sacred lands to mining. This timely and relevant exhibition theme—extraction—takes on a markedly different approach depending on the geographical and cultural perspectives of the represented artists. Hartman’s large-scale abstract paintings respond to the many phases of oil drilling and the environmental impact of fracking in the western U.S. Schmuki’s ceramic tableaus combine locally sourced clay and discarded porcelain figurines with glazes containing mine tailings and lithium oxide to portray the broader environmental impacts of mining including air, land, and water contamination along with deforestation and wildlife disruption. The late Klee Benally dedicated his unfortunately brief life to art and activism that expose the impact of uranium mining and waste on regional Indigenous communities. Benally’s work includes video projection mapping, banners, and activist performance that expose the degradation to the regional landscape and disproportionate impact on tribal communities.
Image credit: Jeff Schmuki, Extractive Figure, 2024, locally sourced clay, discarded porcelain figurines, and glazes containing mine tailings and lithium oxide, 24” x 16” x 14”

The Living Room
2025-10-30 18:30
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Presented by Liberation Earth, Kappé Rousseau and Armand Ramirez, The Living Room is a performance series designed to offer space for artists who may be underrepresented in the Flagstaff area. Expect a house concert–style event, centered around a warm, intimate setting—much like gathering in a spacious living room. One might even think of it as a modern-day salon.
More than just a performance, The Living Room invites the audience into a shared experience—a space where connection, curiosity, and deep listening come alive. It’s about breaking down the divide between performer and audience, creating moments of spontaneity, intimacy, and collective expression.
The evening will highlight original works, creative expression, and a diverse lineup of songwriters and musicians, featuring different musical modalities and instruments—some familiar, some unexpected—with an emphasis on storytelling, artistry, and connection. The goal is to create an experience that feels personal, alive, and truly reflective of the richness of our artistic community.
Proceeds benefit Liberation Earth.
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Driftwood Quintet - El Tango Nuevo: Angeles y Diablos
2025-11-01 19:30
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This suite of 8 tangos by Astor Piazzolla depicts an angel’s journey to save a small town in Buenos Aires and a demon’s brash attempt to stop it. Piazzolla perfectly blends elements of classical, jazz and Argentinian music to showcase the tango’s flirtatious rhythms and delicate nuances that will take your breath away.
Based in Phoenix, Arizona, the Driftwood Quintet is a chamber group dedicated to crossing genres and bending boundaries in classical music. Through the work of Driftwood’s arrangers, a performance can feature anything from orchestral masterworks or piano works to the imaginative soundtracks from the greatest video games and films. Driftwood also seeks to create memorable experiences through collaborations with artists from a variety of disciplines, ranging from jazz musicians and singer/songwriters to dancers and visual artists.
Driftwood also exemplifies its dedication to chamber music through educational outreach, engaging youth through interactive performances that integrate music with a variety of disciplines such as language arts, science, and history. Members of the Driftwood Quintet are active music educators in the Phoenix metropolitan area, working in underprivileged communities to improve the quality of public music education and foster lifelong musical literacy.
Originally from Mesa, Arizona, Gabe Hall-Rodrigues is a Seattle-based, Brazilian-American musician with a deep love for the accordion, piano, vocals, and composition. His musical ventures have led him to perform with diverse groups like Jared and the Mill, the Salt River Brass Band, the Seattle Philharmonic, the Ben Thomas Tango Project, and Brazilian forró band Foleada. He most recently dazzled audiences at the 2024 Ystad Jazz Festival as part of Bobby Medina’s Latin American Jazz Experience. Additionally, Gabe also co-creates beautiful music as part of the accordion duo Creosote with his wife Jamie Maschler, offering unique interpretations of Brazilian music and original compositions.
Gabe’s talent on the accordion has been recognized globally, with accolades such as winning the American Accordionists Association’s Solo Virtuoso Competition in 2010 and clinching 2nd place in the International Open category at the prestigious Trophee Mondial in Loule, Portugal in 2019.
A passionate educator, Gabe draws on nearly two decades of experience to inspire students both in-person in Seattle and virtually across the U.S. He also dedicates his time to nurturing the accordion community as the former conductor of the Rose City Accordion Club Camp (2017-2024), co-director of Emerald City Accordion, and as the current president of the North American Accordion Collaborative.
Gabe Hall-Rodrigues genuine love for music is palpable, and he uses his talents to connect with others and spread joy through his art. Gabe is a Harmonik and petosa artist
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Film Screening & Live Music from Tha ‘Yoties
2025-11-05 18:00
In Defense of our National Monument: Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah kukveni – Ancestrial Footprints of the Grand Canyon

Greenhouse Productions Presents: Della Mae
2025-11-07 19:30
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Each generation, perhaps once a decade, bluegrass experiences a band or an artist that redefines and recenters the genre itself. Della Mae is one such band.
The GRAMMY-nominated string band was founded in 2010 and over the next decade and a half they’ve demonstrated to the roots music world, once and for all, that a band of all women is not, nor has ever been, a mere novelty. They remain at the forefront of the explosion of women instrumentalists and all-women acts in roots music and their impact is striking and measurable – not just in North America, but around the globe.
Now 15 years since their origin, Della Mae can boast their strongest lineup yet. Founders Kimber Ludiker and Celia Woodsmith are joined by guitarist and songwriter Avril Smith and vocalist and two-time IBMA Bass Player of the Year Vickie Vaughn.
There has never been a band like Della Mae in roots music before, but thanks to Kimber Ludiker, Celia Woodsmith, Avril Smith, Vickie Vaughn – and all of the women who have been part of this band over its long life – we know there will be many more bands, singers, songwriters, and pickers just like Della Mae in the future.
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Managing Web Presence for Artists
2025-11-08 09:00 - 12:00
Managing Web Presence for Artists
Date/Time: Saturday, November 8, 9am-noon
FREE EVENT; Registration Required
Feeling overwhelmed by all the ways you’re supposed to show up online? You’re not alone—and you’re not doing it wrong. This workshop is designed to help you take a step back, make sense of your digital presence, and move forward with more clarity, confidence, and creativity.
We’ll explore approachable strategies to boost your visibility across key platforms and connect with the people who matter most—without burning out or getting lost in the noise.
Led by the team at Mountain Mojo Group, this session brings real talk, real tools, and a whole lotta support for artists, makers, and mission-driven teams doing big things.
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Greenhouse Productions Presents: The Brothers Reed
2025-11-08 19:30
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With their comedic brotherly banter, impeccable harmonic expression, and widely varying influences, a Brothers Reed performance will have you reflecting on lost lives and lovers, laughing hysterically and leaving completely entertained. The bros will soothe your soul with songs that are familiar yet original. Whether they are finger picking their way through a lamentable ballad or bringing you around full-speed with a barn-burning bluegrass number, The Brothers Reed are masters of their craft.
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Greenhouse Productions Presents: Mason Jennings
2025-11-09 19:30
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Minneapolis songwriter Mason Jennings shares his new video for the single, “Only Lovers Welcome” from his brand new album, Underneath The Roses out now via Loosegroove Records. Underneath The Roses is available on limited-edition colored vinyl and is available here. Watch and share the video for “Only Lovers Welcome” here.
Jennings writes that the songs from Underneath The Roses were, “Written in an unprecedented burst,” following the birth of his son, Western, in March 2022. Jennings explains, “I hadn’t written any songs in about a year. I had been dealing with the psychological after effects of the pandemic as well as the loss of my dad. So, when Western was born I didn’t expect to be writing much. But immediately he was responding to music in a very intense way. For this album, between May and November 2022, I wrote 48 songs! They certainly uplifted me and connected me with the creative spirit, and spirit in general, again. They cover all kinds of ground but, when I listen back, I think the central theme is overcoming fear with love.”
Jennings also released a video for, “No Ordinary Friend,” which he explains, “Depicts two of the most important decisions a person can make. One, whether or not they believe in a loving higher power and two, who they decide to choose as a life long romantic partner. This song is referring to both of those and the choices I’ve made.”
“Stone Gossard and Regan Hagar from Loosegroove Records helped me edit the 48 down to 11. I then enlisted the help of my Painted Shield bandmates to record the songs.”
Jennings and Gossard are ongoing collaborators in the band Painted Shield, who released their 2021 debut album on Loosegroove, the influential indie label that Gossard founded back in 1994 issued records from acts such as Critters Buggin, Malfunkshun, Weapon of Choice and Devilhead, and was the launching point for Queens of the Stone Age’s debut album in 1998.
Jenning’s previous album ‘Real Heart’ came out in January 2022 and received Triple/Non-comm radio across KCMP Minneapolis, WFPK Louisville, WPYA Birmingham, KRCL Salt Lake City, WMMM Madison, WQKL Ann Arbor, KCSN LA, KRVB Boise, WCLZ Portland, WDSE Duluth, WRLT Nashville, WXPN Philly, WXRV Boston, & WZEW Mobile.
Press highlights include: American Songwriter, Relix, No Depression, Grateful Web, Take Effect 9/10 review, & Jam Bands
Jennings adds “I called it Underneath The Roses because I feel like these songs are musical roses and when I look below them there are many thorns and so much dirt and soil. All of it was needed for them to come into existence and bloom. It’s been a long hard road of self-discovery and discernment for me the last few years and the roses wouldn’t be here without what lies underneath. Hope you enjoy the music!”
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