2017 Viola Award Nominee for Excellence in the Performing Arts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cksaBAnMc4E Linda Sutera played Violet Weston in Theatrikos Theatre Company’s production of August: Osage County from July 29 through August 14, 2016, at the Doris Harper White Playhouse in Flagstaff. The cast featured thirteen local actors directed by Nancy Wonders. The script chronicles the saga [...]
2017 Viola Award Nominee for Excellence in the Performing Arts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQR0emnyy-o On October 1, 2016, Flagstaff band, the Mother Road Trio, presented their CD release party and concert for their debut album On Route 66 at the Coconino Center for the Arts. Here in Flagstaff, a popular stop along U.S. Route 66, also known as [...]
2017 Viola Award Nominee for Excellence in the Performing Arts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NldyXVFoptc The Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy (FALA) presented a production most high schools would never dare attempt. The play, columbinus, is based on the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, where 12 students and a teacher were shot and killed by [...]
2017 Viola Award Nominee for Excellence in the Performing Arts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqBITV9WXzQ NAU Department of Theatre produced Tennessee Williams’ 1948 drama Summer and Smoke at the Clifford White Theater from November 18 to December 4, 2016. The play was directed by Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy. Set among the immense heat and pressure of a Mississippi summer on the [...]
2017 Viola Award Nominee for Excellence in the Performing Arts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wa6Sj2JG6g Mozart and Mahler was a concert performed by the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra with guest artists on March 11, 2016. The concert was comprised of three scores: Mary Howe’s Stars, Mozart’s Concert for Two Pianos, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. Guest pianists and identical twins [...]
2017 Viola Award Nominee for Excellence in the Performing Arts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkoXP64OisM Beethoven’s Slippers is a world premier monodrama by NAU faculty voice professor and composer Judith Cloud with a libretto by Santa fe artist and writer Douglas Atwill based on his short story of the same title. Beethoven's Slippers was staged in Ardrey Auditorium on November [...]
2017 Viola Award Nominee for Excellence in the Performing Arts OPIA was an aerial dance performance produced in an airplane hangar, Wiseman Aviation, near the Flagstaff Airport. It was the first performance by the new group, Dark Sky Aerial. There were two showings: Friday, December 2, and Saturday, December 3, 2016. Both showings were sold [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWaXnn_L0BI Flagstaff based five piece folk rock band, Tow’rs, has released a new full length CD, The Great Minimum, in 2015. Fresh off their Emerging Artist award win from the 2015 Viola Awards, the group released the new album in June. It follows up their well-received debut self-titled album from 2014. Tow’rs came together as [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv-5r_LjYR0 Vicki Thompson played the lead role of Margaret in Theatrikos Theatre Company’s production of Good People at Doris Harper-White Playhouse that ran September 25 - October 11, 2015. The play, tremendously moving and often hilarious, questions what really makes us good people. It centers around Margie Walsh, a single mother raising her adult developmentally [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqNeY5LRX0E The final concert of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra’s 65th season on April 17, 2015, Carmina Burana, featured three Flagstaff choirs performing with the FSO. The rousing performance was an aural spectacle, filling Ardrey Memorial Auditorium with intense and powerful music. Carmina Burana is Carl Orff’s epic choral-orchestral masterpiece, one of the most iconic works [...]
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