Educator Workshop with John Muir Laws
Join Us for a One-of-a-Kind Workshop: Master Nature Journaling with the GOAT, John Muir Laws!
Mini Music Makers- March
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Sunflower Skies
Musical Headwaters: Garden
Join us for our fifth year of commissions for Musical Headwaters with Year of the Garden ft. new songs by Owen McIntosh, performed by Nightbirds and Fire & Grace.
Musica Sierra is thrilled to present "Musical Headwaters: Garden," the fifth commission in its innovative series. This year's program bridges nature-based education with the visual and performing arts, featuring newly composed songs by Owen McIntosh inspired by the Sierra Valley. In collaboration with Fire & Grace and Nightbirds, led by Jade Hendrix, these powerful and moving songs are designed for our youngest learners, ages 4-6, yet resonate with audiences of all ages. Join us for a week of educational concerts and two public shows integrating Earth Science, Ecology, Language Arts, and the Arts. This commission, following Rob Wade's Outdoor Core Mountain Kid curriculum, will be recorded for educational use, enriching our next Musical Field Journal. Don't miss this unique opportunity to deepen environmental stewardship through the arts.
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NIGHTBIRDS
United originally by their California roots and love for folk music, Nightbirds emerged out of the shared experience of newfound motherhood. Each member recognized their precious free moments after the little ones were put to bed when creative musings could finally be explored. The powerful new chapters in their lives called for a deeper well of expression. The band’s collective sound is poignant, yet it evokes a sense of innocence, a quality inspired by the presence of their children.
Jade Hendrix brings her soulful vocals and insightful songwriting to the ensemble. Instrumentalists Sam ‘n Ash (an established folk duo comprising of accordion and mandolin) complement Jade’s crooning with their inventive melodies and effective arrangements. The trio fuses classic folk themes with expressive vocals, resulting in a unique and compelling blend that can only be described as a sound all their own.
FIRE & GRACE
Fire & Grace is an eclectic collaboration between guitarist William Coulter and violinist Edwin Huizinga. This unique duo explores the connective musical elements of classical, folk, and contemporary traditions from around the world. Fire & Grace’s repertoire is vast, ranging from Bach to Vivaldi, tango to Celtic tunes, traditional Bulgarian to American fiddle tunes and waltzes, all played with a sense of discovery and commitment to the elements of passion and virtuosity — fire and grace — found in these diverse traditions. Recent and upcoming performances have included engagements at the Carmel Bach Festival, the Mozaic Festival, the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, the Electric Earth Concerts, the Monterey Museum of Art, and with Tomaseen Foley’s A Celtic Christmas. In March and April 2017, Fire & Grace toured to New Zealand with appearances at the UPSURGE Festival, the Festival of Colour, and the New Zealand School of Music. The group’s self-titled debut album combines melodies from Argentina, Bulgaria, and Western Europe with dance elements from baroque and folk musical traditions.
Mini Music Makers- April
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Mini Music Makers- May
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Mini Music Makers- June
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Mini Music Makers- June *2nd
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Mini Music Makers- Feb
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Mini Music Makers
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Elderflora
ELDERFLORA
JOIN US OCT. 5th AT THE FEATHER RIVER LAND TRUSTS’ NEW NATURE CENTER!
Elderflora is the story of the life of a tree. Told from the perspective of he tree itself, Elderflora (“old trees”) relates its journey from birth by fire to death by lightning.
Connery’s work is inspired by the Native American belief that land is kin. Elderflora is dedicated to the urgent message of Chief Oren Lyons: "Time is running out: Our survival depends on immediate action against climate change." Lyons is a Haudenosaunee Faithkeeper of the Wolf Clan of the Onondaga Nation and the Seneca Nation of the Six Nations of the Grand River.
Elderflora is a 60-minute song-cycle designed to seamlessly restart at the one-hour mark, mirroring the life cycle.--
Written by composer and vocalist Majel Connery, the music for Elderflora pairs the rich, earthy tones of cello (played by Felix Fan) with Connery’s own vocal electronic manipulations to evoke a portrait of nature both deeply familiar and utterly out of this world.
Mini Music Makers
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
The Red Hoop Singer + Marjorie Voorhees
Experience an unforgettable evening of art and culture at the unveiling of the Marjorie Voorhees Stained Glass Window, commissioned by Musica Sierra. Join us for a wine and cheese reception, followed by a mesmerizing performance by the red hoop singers debuting new round dances and powwow songs. Your attendance supports community restoration efforts, transforming the Old School House into a vibrant space dedicated to education and the performing arts in Loyalton, CA.
Mini Music Makers
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Duo Violão + One
Join us for an evening of Rogério Souza, Edinho Gerber, & Ami Molinelli with special guest Loyalton Middle School’s 7th grade Samba Band, led by Mr. McIntosh.
This trio will spend three days in at Loyalton High School in a hands-on workshop with the Middle/high school music electives. Additionally, the 7th grade samba band will get an opportunity to perform with Duo Violão + One in an assembly for the school as well as the public performance.
The Sierra Schools Foundation possibly supports this immersive residency.
Duo Violão + One started with two Rio de Janeiro-based guitarists, Rogério Souza and Edinho Gerber, and the desire to explore and expand the musical possibilities of playing two violões, or Brazilian guitars. During their first visit to the Bay Area in 2015, they met percussionist Ami Molinelli, and the musical connection was immediate.
The ensemble navigates 20th-century Brazilian popular music, emphasizing Brazil’s first original musical genre, choro while showcasing original works and inventive arrangements. The group’s first album, “A História de Choro,” was released in 2019 and featured as one of the best musical albums of the Bay Area by the San Jose Mercury News.
Duo Fortin-Poirier (PIANO FOUR HANDS)
Join us for an afternoon of Amélie Fortin & Marie-Christine Poirier with the world's most formable experts on this genre!
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Duo Fortin-Poirier (Montreal, Québec, CAN)
One of this generation's top Canadian piano duets, Duo Fortin-Poirier, is renowned for its exceptional unity, sensitivity, and lively performances. Since 2005, Amélie Fortin & Marie-Christine Poirier have championed the art of piano four hands. Through their dynamic and original concepts, Duo Fortin-Poirier has rendered this repertoire accessible to thousands of spectators.
Mini Music Makers
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Rami Bar-Niv, pianist
Join us for an afternoon of Gershwin & Ragtime with the world's most formable expert on this genre!
From Tel Aviv, ISR - internationally acclaimed concert pianist Rami Bar Niv performs an electric and inspired classical and popular music program.
Mini Music Makers
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Mini Music Makers
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Mini Music Makers
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Holiday Caroling with Carolyn Enger
Musica Sierra and Carolyn Enger, acclaimed pianist will be presenting a merry evening of Holiday Carols at the Sierra Brooks POA Annual Holiday Party.
Dress in your best Ugly Sweater, and warm up your voice for some merrily caroling!
Art Bites: Carolyn Enger at the Nevada Music of Art
Carolyn Enger’s Resonating Earth
Musica Sierra and Carolyn Enger, critically acclaimed pianist, engage in an inspiring musical performance and conversation about climate change. Resonating Earth is a multimedia solo piano performance that creates a meditative space for listeners to engage with music and environmental art in order to directly inspire environmental action afterwards.
This event is free to museum members and $15 for the general public, please register here!
Carolyn Enger
Pianist Carolyn Enger has gained critical acclaim for her lyrical and dynamic playing, her deeply felt interpretations of works from Beethoven and Schubert to contemporary music, and her warm personal approach. Her 2013 release of piano music by Ned Rorem on Naxos Records was selected as one of the “Best in Classical Recordings” by The New York Times.
Music in Schools, Carolyn Enger, Fauna Suite
Musica Sierra’s Music in Schools program
Musica Sierra and Carolyn Enger will present a hands-on workshop at Wild River Waldorf for grades 3-8, showcasing a new commission called Fauna Suite by local Sierraville composer JJ Hollinsworth.
Here, we will spend two days in the schools, offering a workshop and performance for the children practicing two movements from this newly commissioned suite. Joined by acclaimed pianist Carolyn Enger, our students and staff will have a unique opportunity to learn, perform, and be inspired by world-class pianists.
Carolyn Enger
Pianist Carolyn Enger has gained critical acclaim for her lyrical and dynamic playing, her deeply felt interpretations of works from Beethoven and Schubert to contemporary music, and her warm personal approach. Her 2013 release of piano music by Ned Rorem on Naxos Records was selected as one of the “Best in Classical Recordings” by The New York Times.
We are WIDER, WILDER, and WONDER-FILLED.
We are Wild River, a Truckee-Tahoe, community-anchored, enrichment and exploration offering. We strive to model independent thinking, creativity, and problem solving that serves as a firm foundation for creating a healthy social and natural world.
Music in Schools, Carolyn Enger, Fauna Suite
Musica Sierra’s Music in Schools program
Musica Sierra and Carolyn Enger will present a hands-on workshop at Wild River Waldorf for grades 3-8, showcasing a new commission called Fauna Suite by local Sierraville composer JJ Hollinsworth.
Here, we will spend two days in the schools, offering a workshop and performance for the children practicing two movements from this newly commissioned suite. Joined by acclaimed pianist Carolyn Enger, our students and staff will have a unique opportunity to learn, perform, and be inspired by world-class pianists.
Carolyn Enger
Pianist Carolyn Enger has gained critical acclaim for her lyrical and dynamic playing, her deeply felt interpretations of works from Beethoven and Schubert to contemporary music, and her warm personal approach. Her 2013 release of piano music by Ned Rorem on Naxos Records was selected as one of the “Best in Classical Recordings” by The New York Times.
We are WIDER, WILDER, and WONDER-FILLED.
We are Wild River, a Truckee-Tahoe, community-anchored, enrichment and exploration offering. We strive to model independent thinking, creativity, and problem solving that serves as a firm foundation for creating a healthy social and natural world.
Mini Music Makers
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Mini Music Makers
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Julian & Anita Graef, Natures' Song
Join us Friday, November 10th, at 7 p.m. for an inspiring evening of music at the Loyalton Milton Gottardi Museum!
This dynamic program of duet works for violin/viola and cello explores music inspired by our natural world and the ever-illustrious bird songs. Performed by brother and sister duo Julian and Anita Graef, you will hear music written by Vivaldi, Sibelius, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, and Caroline Shaw.
Each piece will take you on a journey about birdsong and the sounds found in nature. This musical adventure will deepen your connection to our beautiful earth through the power of music…you might even perform your very own dawn chorus!
Mini Music Makers
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up at the Music Modular, Room 11, at the District Office, right next to the LES Playground.
This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5, including Drumming, Percussion, deskbells, Singing, and Dancing. Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Chanticleer: Music in a Silent World
Music in the Barn
Join us for a spectacular night of enchanting music with Grammy Award-winning choir Chanticleer. Performing in one of the Sierra Valley's oldest barns and most beautiful barns, Diamond S Ranch, will offer up the perfect venue for these angelic voices.
Music of a silent world, Chanticleer sings the songs of the natural world and gives a voice to the otherwise voiceless rocks and stones and trees and rivers that share our planet with us.
Co-commissioned with Chanticleer, their program centers around a new arrangement of Majel Connerys The Rivers are our Brothers. "The goal, she says, is to give nature a voice. I wanted to allow these vibrant things to speak on their own behalf." While inhabiting those voices, the program also explores what the world might be like without them. Repertoire includes music by William Byrd, Heinrich Isaac, and Max Reger, new arrangements of Wildflowers by Tom Petty and The Weather by Lawrence, and a new commission from Chanticleers's composer in residence, Ayanna Woods.
Doors at 6 PM
Show at 7 PM
Cash bar and snacks
Diamond S Ranch
Chanticleer @ The Nevada Museum of Art
Chanticleer: Music of a Silent World
In a special performance at The Nevada Museum of Art
In Music of a Silent World, internationally recognized Chanticleer sings the songs of the natural world. Each movement represents a different part of the Sierra Nevada’s natural beauty, from its mountains to its forests, rocks, rivers, and snowbanks. This program centers around a new arrangement of Majel Connery’s, The Rivers are our Brothers, co-commissioned by Chanticleer and Musica Sierra. The work was first performed in the Sierra Valley as part of Musica Sierra’s Musical Headwaters program in 2021. In the spirit of educational collaboration, local school groups participate in the performance of The Rivers are our Brothers. This particular performance will feature University of Nevada, Reno’s Chamber Chorale.
Chanticleer, a multiple Grammy award-winning vocal ensemble, has been presented by some of the largest musical organizations in the country, including the Chicago Symphony and the LA Philharmonic. Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer has sold over one million recordings and performed thousands of live concerts to audiences around the world. Chanticleer’s repertoire is rooted in the renaissance and has continued to expand to include a wide range of classical, gospel, jazz, and popular music.
*Doors open at 6 pm with cash bar
This program is presented as part of UPSTAGE: A Literary and Performing Art Series supported by the Nightingale Family Foundation and the Williams Foundation
Chanticleer, Education Concert with the Loyalton Schools
Teachers, staff, parents, and family members, please join us for a free Educational performance featuring music written for children to help deepen their connection to Mother Earth.
This performance is in partnership with the Sierra-Plumas Joint Unified School, featuring a collaborative performance between the 5th & 6th grade students of Loyalton Elementary School and Chanticleer.
Please come out and support your kiddos in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Musica Sierra is a performing arts non-profit dedicated to world-class music education and cultural enrichment that bridges nature-based education with the visual and performing arts to deepen one's social and emotional connection to the earth. To learn more or bring Musica Sierra to you, visit www.musicasierra.org -or- email musicasierra415@gmail.com
This event is made possible by an Impact Grant awarded by the California Arts Council.
Take a listen to the song your kiddos will be singing and read along with our Musical Field Journal that accompanies this song.
What is a musical field journal, you say…well it’s an educational learning tool that combines Earth Science, Ecology, Language Arts, and the Visual and Performing Arts. A truly multi-media experience, the songbook, and album deepen the capacity for environmental stewardship via the arts.
Chanticleer, Education Concert with Tahoe Truckee Waldorf
Join us for a free Educational performance featuring music written for children to help deepen their connection to Mother Earth.
This performance is in partnership with the Tahoe Truckee Waldorf School, featuring a collaborative performance between the students and Chanticleer.
Musica Sierra is a performing arts non-profit dedicated to world-class music education and cultural enrichment that bridges nature-based education with the visual and performing arts to deepen one's social and emotional connection to the earth. To learn more or bring Musica Sierra to you, visit www.musicasierra.org -or- email musicasierra415@gmail.com
While this event is free for students and families, we hope you will consider a donation to help continue our mission of bringing the performing arts to our community.
This event is at the Truckee Community Arts Center at 10046 Church St. Truckee Ca 96161
Mini Music Makers
Join us for our monthly musical meet-up! This free monthly meet-up will offer music classes for ages 0-5 including Drumming, Percussion, Desk Bells, Singing, Dancing, and light refreshments.
Parents are required to moderate their child’s behavior and play along!
Time: 11am-12pm
Location: Modular 11 is located at the District Office | 109 Beckwith Road, Loyalton 96118
