ABOUT DIGITAL PROGRAMS
The Gallo Center has adopted the use of digital programs meant to be viewed on cell phones or other computer devices. This change has important public health, environmental and economic benefits: reducing close contacts between patrons and ushers, cutting our use of paper, and eliminating substantial printing costs. View the program only before shows begin or during intermissions. Please be considerate of other patrons and artists on stage by not viewing it during performances. Patrons who do not observe this courtesy and create distractions may be asked to leave. Thank you!
WHY YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS
The Gallo Center for the Arts is a non-profit performing arts center with a deep commitment to enriching the people and communities of California’s vast San Joaquin Valley. From the scintillating performances of its wonderful resident companies, to the great variety of world-class entertainment presented by the Center each season, to robust arts education programs for the region’s youth, this is where the magic happens.
From the beginning, the Center’s mission has been clearly defined: to provide an inspirational civic gathering place where regional, national, and international cultural activities illuminate, educate, and entertain. Since revenue from ticket sales and facility rentals only covers a portion of the costs associated with fulfilling this mission, the Center is dependent on the generous annual financial support from donors and program sponsors within our community.
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ABOUT THE CENTER
HOW TO BUY TICKETS
In Person: 1000 I Street, downtown Modesto
Online: 24/7/365 at GalloArts.org
By Phone: (209) 338-2100
TICKET OFFICE HOURS
Monday – Friday: 10 am – 6 pm, Saturday: Noon – 6 pm Closed Sundays
Ticket Office opens two hours prior to all events
EMAIL LIST
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GENERAL INFORMATION
The mission of the Gallo Center for the Arts is to enrich the quality of life in the San Joaquin Valley by providing an inspirational civic gathering place where regional, national and international cultural activities illuminate, educate and entertain. The Gallo Center for the Arts celebrates the diversity of the San Joaquin Valley by offering an array of affordable cultural opportunities designed to appeal, and be accessible, to all.
The Center opened in September, 2007 and consists of the 440-seat Foster Family Theater, the 1,248-seat Mary Stuart Rogers Theater, the Marie Damrell Gallo Grand Lobby and a plaza serving both theaters, and the Modesto Rotary Music Garden.
As a regional non-profit performing arts center, the Gallo Center for the Arts presents internationally recognized touring artists in all disciplines, and also is home to four resident companies: Central West Ballet, Modesto Performing Arts, Modesto Symphony Orchestra and Opera Modesto. The Gallo Center for the Arts is a unique public/private partnership. Construction was funded jointly by the County of Stanislaus, which owns the facility, and contributions from more than 4,000 individuals and businesses given to a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization which today operates the Center.
PATRON EVENT INFORMATION
• Emergency exits are indicated by green exit signs located above each exit. For your safety, please check for the location of the exit nearest to your seat.
• The Gallo Center for the Arts is accessible to disabled patrons. Wheelchair seating is available in both theaters.
Portable wireless listening devices are available at the “ Coat Check room at no charge. Please inform the Ticket Office of any special needs when ordering tickets.
• Food and beverages are not allowed in the theaters. (with the exception of bottled water and beverages served in theater cups.)
• Smoking is prohibited inside the building and within 20 feet of all entrances.
• Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the Gallo Center for the Arts’ house managers.
• The use of recording equipment and the taking of photographs in Gallo Center for the Arts theaters is strictly forbidden. The Gallo Center for the Arts reserves the right to confiscate any such equipment and/or require offending customers to exit the premises.
• As a courtesy to artists and to your fellow patrons, please turn off or silence any mobile device on your person. No texting, please!
• Restrooms are located on all three levels of the Center.
• Lost items will be held in the Coat Check room on the main level until the end of the performance. Thereafter, please contact Ticket Office at (209) 338-2100.
• All patrons MUST have a ticket to enter a performance regardless of age.
• Out of courtesy to other patrons, the Gallo Center for the Arts requests that no infants or toddlers attend any performance.
Groups qualify for discounts up to 15% on ticket prices to the many exciting performances offered by the Gallo Center for the Arts and its resident companies.
Secure your group reservation today for just 10% down of your total price!
EMPLOYEE PARTIES/REWARDS
CHURCH OUTINGS
CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS
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…AND MORE!
ONE CALL DOES IT ALL!
Our group sales manager, Jesica Sanchez, is at your service. Call her at (209) 338-5064, or send an email to jsanchez@galloarts.org.
Dustbowl Revival
A Laurel Canyon Retrospective
Dustbowl Revival has always been about pushing the boundaries of what American roots music can be. After celebrating over a decade of sonic adventuring and playing thousands of shows together in ten countries and counting, the group collected a devoted fanbase coast-to-coast. After throwing five of their own virtual Sway-At-Home festivals during the shut-down featuring nearly forty artists, the always evolving group of string and brass players led by founding members Z. Lupetin, Josh Heffernan, Ulf Bjorlin are excited to welcome a new wave of talent to the band, after emerging from a pandemic touring hiatus.
After spending years on the road, selling out hometown shows at LA’s famed Troubadour, headlining festivals and wowing crowds from Denmark to China, Dustbowl Revival never stopped making their joyful, booty-shaking soul songs and cut-to-heart folk-rock ballads that lift up their transcendent live shows.
Even so, with the bands emotional new single “Beside You” and 2020’s ambitious full length Is It You, Is It Me, they wanted to strike into new terrain. As they mined new energetic material from the place where folk and funk music meet, they teamed up with producer Sam Kassirer (Lake Street Dive, Josh Ritter) and engineer Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens). The latest album strikes a more personal note than ever before, representing the latest stage in a band that never stops exploring new sounds.
Many of the songs feel like small theater pieces coming to life verse by verse. It’s the yin-yang conversational harmony that is the true specialty of lead songwriter and singer Z. Lupetin, who also doubles as a playwright and recently wrote the music for a Greek tragedy set in Gold Rush era California. While longtime co-lead Liz Beebe has stepped away from the band after a long run, an amazing young
talent in Lashon Halley has stepped in to bring new life to the songs, matching Lupetin’s intense vocal range with her own.
With a big brass-and-strings band building around the voices, Is It You, Is It Me isn’t afraid to explore the personal and political tension that the group may have shied away from facing before. The album tackles uneasy topics, often where the political feels personal, especially in the defiant “Get Rid of You,” which was inspired by the student activists who emerged from the tragic Parkland High School shooting in Florida. The ominous driving brass groove of “Enemy,” hones in on a painful generational split between a daughter and her parents who may have voted in a tyrant, and have become strangers to her. This yearning search for common ground pervades the record as a whole.
Where the band really sets on a new course is on lushly cinematic, orchestrated set pieces like “Mirror,” “Runaway” and, most notably, the current fan favorite and live showstopper “Sonic Boom,” about the struggle to reveal who you really are in the hidden, rose-colored world of social media. There’s a new widescreen expansiveness to these songs that wouldn’t be out of place in a packed arena or orchestra hall with a full neon light show. Acting like a nimble rock orchestra, during the recording process, each member played multiple instruments, and the group brought in new musicians on symphonic brass, and local friends to sing as a spur-of-the-moment choir.
If one thing is clear, Is It You, Is It Me represents another large leap forward for Dustbowl Revival, coming after their acclaimed self-titled 2017 album. Produced by Grammy-winner Ted Hutt (Old Crow Medicine Show, Drop Kick Murphy’s), it transitioned the group from a “roots dance party band” that continues to thrive on the festival circuit, to a nuanced ensemble embracing more soulful territory without losing their original fire. That self-titled record was a
direct bridge to the newest work, rising number to one on the Amazon Americana chart and featuring a funky favorite “Honey I Love You” where the band joyfully teaming up with blues master Keb Mo’. Their heartache folk number “Got Over”, surprised the band by racking up over seven million streams and counting online. “Beside You” stayed in the Americana charts for months and “Enemy” became a staple on SiriusXM, especially during the 2020 election. To top it off, Billboard Magazine added about that Is It You, Is It Me is “the biggest sonic work of the Venice, Calif.-based troupe’s career.”
Dustbowl Revival’s story started humbly. Nearly thirteen years ago Z. Lupetin, a Chicago native who attended college in Michigan came to L.A. to be a screenwriter, grew disillusioned with his job in advertising, and placed a hopeful ad on Craigslist. He sought to find fellow musicians who shared his roving love of Louis Armstrong, Bob Wills, Old Crow Medicine Show, Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin and the brass bands of New Orleans, but also wanted to write songs like Americana pioneers Wilco, Lucinda Williams and even Bruce Springsteen. There are still players in the group who responded to that initial odd quest. New talent on electric guitar, piano and more are joining in for 2021.
“Maybe we don’t know where this journey will take us or how long it will last,” acknowledges Lupetin, “That’s my take on the importance of what we try to do. Music elevates us, lifts us up, makes us change our minds, takes us out of our comfort zones. If just one person can be moved by just one song, that’s enough.”
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CENTER CIRCLES
As
Laureate’s
Chairman’s
As of July 15,
The Mayol Family & Team PSC
Daniel Del Real – Del Real Group
The Graspointner Family
Modesto Toyota
The Pirrone Family
Stanislaus Food Products
Braden Farms
Gianelli | Friedman | Jeffries
Sodhi Law Group
Winton-Ireland, Strom & Green Insurance Agency
Mistlin Honda
Arts Education
As of July 15, 2024
$25,000+
Alfred Matthews
California Arts Council
Education Foundation of Stanislaus County U.S. Bank Foundation
$10,000+
Make Dreams Real Foundation
Modesto Subaru Porges Family Foundation Fund
Silva Injury Law, Inc.
$5,000+
Kaiser Permanente
$2,500+
Beard Land & Investment Co.
Jeff Gaudio & Karen Freeborn
Jason, Beki, & Stephen Rush
Ella Webb & Shelley Dameron
$1,000+
Enterprise Mobility Foundation
Carl A and Margaret A Johnson Family Foundation
Modesto Rotary Club Foundation
Modesto Sunrise Rotary
The Save Mart Companies CARES Foundation
$500+ USS Balthasar Cortney Hurst
Anonymous (1)
$300+ Ceres Pipe & Metal, Inc.
$150+
Grace Lutheran Church
Jerry & Diane Hougland
Alice Renfroe
John & Mary Ann Sanders
FOUNDATION GIVING
Bob
California
Costa
National
Stanislaus
The
The
Porges
This listing is updated quarterly. Every effort has been made to ensure our list of supporters is accurate. It is possible that a name may have been misspelled or omitted. If so, please accept our sincere apology and kindly notify our Development Department at (209) 338-5013, so that we may make the appropriate change to our records.
Gallo Center for the a r t s
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Christina Gomez, ChairoftheBoard
Marie D. Gallo, PresidentEmerita† June Rogers, Director Emerita
Alex Mari, M.D., ImmediatePastChair
Ginger Johnson, ChairElect
Mel Bradley Fallon Ferris
Sarah Grover
Chad Hilligus
Michael Krausnick
Jay Krishnaswamy
Michelle Lewis
Katy Menges
Todd Aaronson
Angelica Anguiano
Victor Barraza
John C. Bellizzi
Jennifer Coehlo
Kathryn Davis
Daniel Del Real
Paul Michael Eger
Robert Fantazia
Stacey Filippi
Robert Fores Julian Gallo
Irene Angelo†
Lilly Banisadre
Carl Boyett†
Joan Cardoza
Sheila Carroll
Suzanne Casazza
Paul Draper
Ron Emerzian
Ann Endsley
Kenni Friedman
Juan Sánchez Muñoz, Ph.D.
Duncan Reno
Tina Rocha
Michael Joe Silva
Stephanie Gallo Tyler
Ann M. Veneman
Geoff Wong
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Ryan Roth Gallo
Virginia Madueno
Roberto Martinez
Ivey Mayol
Yolanda Meraz
Sharilyn Nelson
Linda Hischier Ronald Hoffmann
Jose Ibarra
Jaime Jimenez
Brian Kline
Kevin Luttenegger
Ogle, Ph.D.
Johann Ramirez
Rose Marie Reavill Jeffrey Reed
FOUNDING TRUSTEES
Louis Friedman
Dianne Gagos
Barry Highiet† Randy Jalli
Roy Levin, M.D.
Alexandra Loew
Bill Mattos
Tony Mistlin† Kate Nyegaard Ruthann Olsen
Jeanne Perry
John C. Pfeffer, M.D.
Norm Porges
Chris Reed James Reed
Ellen Ritchey Delsie Schrimp
Catherine Rhee
Christine Roberts
Rosalee Rush
John Schneider
Kate Trompetter
Philip Trompetter, Ph.D.
Aaron Valencia
Colleen F. Van Egmond
Doug Vilas
Sue Zwahlen
Fred A. Silva
Ray Simon
Delmar R. Tonge, M.D.†
Tom Van Groningen, Ph.D.
Carol Whiteside†
Jeremiah Williams
Alice Yip
†In Memoriam