Organization

Le Jazz Hot - Concert

Presented by City of Sunnyvale - Community Services Department at Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre

February 11, 2012

Le Jazz Hot, the quartet version of internationally recognized Le Hot Club of San Francisco, will perform a Valentine’s weekend concert of Django Reinhart-style Gypsy jazz. Band leader Paul Mehling grew up locally in Santa Clara, but worked as a street musician in Paris learning techniques from real Gypsies before returning to the Bay Area to launch a revival of jazz manouche with his group.

Patterned after Reinhart’s famed Hot Club de France, the group’s style

San Jose Taiko

Presented by City of Sunnyvale - Community Services Department at Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre

March 24, 2012

With its iconic “fat drums,” San Jose Taiko is easily one of the South Bay’s most recognizable and popular cultural arts organizations, wowing audiences since 1973. This internationally recognized group fills the theater with sound, color and physicality in a spectacular show of drumming and dance. Renowned for a uniquely sansei, or third generation Japanese-American, style, San Jose Taiko blends ancient Japanese rhythms and movement with African, Balinese, Brazilian, Latin

Likha Pilipino Folk Ensemble Performance

Presented by City of Sunnyvale - Community Services Department at Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre

April 14, 2012

The season finale of this Sunnyvale performance series features the dynamic Likha Pilipino Folk Ensemble, celebrating its 20th season preserving and promoting the unique Pilipino dances, music, costumes and customs. More than 7,000 tropical islands that comprise the Philippines, where Eastern, Western and indigenous tribal traditions converge to create one of the most culturally-rich climates on the planet.

The San Francisco-based group is dedicated to giving Filipino-Americans a

Patrick Ball, Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter - Legends of the Celtic Harp Concert

Presented by City of Sunnyvale - Community Services Department at Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre

January 14, 2012

A perennial Sunnyvale favorite, Celtic harper and storyteller Patrick Ball returns, this time, accompanied by two other top Celtic harpers for Legends of the Celtic Harp, an evening celebrating the fabled instrument. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Lisa Lynne is a New Age music chart-topper with recordings on the prestigious Windham Hill label. Lynne has been widely profiled in the national media for her innovative work in music therapy. Aryeh Frankfurter is a rock violin virtuoso

Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum - Concert

Presented by City of Sunnyvale - Community Services Department at Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre

December 10, 2011

Two-time International Bluegrass Music Association’s female vocalist of the year and Grammy Award winner Laurie Lewis will perform a holiday show featuring selections from her Winter’s Grace album. Fiddler-singer-songwriter Laurie Lewis is considered one of bluegrass music’s revolutionaries. Her performing partner of twenty-five years, Tom Rozum, is an ace mandolinist, fiddler, mandola and guitar player.

The Berkeley-based duo’s Yule time show features

Joni Morris' Portrait of Patsy Cline - Concert

Presented by City of Sunnyvale - Community Services Department at Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre

November 26, 2011

For Thanksgiving weekend, Country singer Joni Morris performs her critically acclaimed Portrait of Patsy. Patsy Cline remains arguably the most influential female singer in the history of country music. Morris faithfully renders Cline’s biggest hits, including Walkin’ After Midnight, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams and Crazy, captures the spirit of the Grand Ole’ Opry star’s live performances. The After Midnight Band recalls Nashville’s

Laura Ellis - Cinema Sweethearts Concert

Presented by City of Sunnyvale - Community Services Department at Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre

October 15, 2011

In the Golden Age of Hollywood, singing starlets like Judy Garland, Doris Day and Shirley Jones sent audiences home from a night at the movies humming unforgettable songs. Now, jazz singer and classic film buff Laura Ellis premieres a new show celebrating the tunes made America fall in love with its favorite leading ladies.

Her silky voiced performance of classics like “Que Sera Sera” and “Til There Was You” sparkles with fun celebrity trivia, movie clips on

Herencia Musical - Concert

Presented by City of Sunnyvale - Community Services Department at Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre

September 10, 2011

Herencia Musical is a group of four local amigos who happen to be outstanding traditional musicians. John Lopez, Margarito “Mago” Jimenez, his son Patrick Jimenez and Filiberto Sanchez have been playing and singing all their lives and harmonizing together for five. They specialize in Latin music, romantic ballads, lively polkas, rancheras and Veracruz-style music. Their concert will include such beloved classics as La Paloma, Cielito Lindo and the quintessential