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Reinvention on Blues Traveler’s itinerary BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI
Blues Traveler guitarist Chandler Kinchla is loving that his band is headlining The Great American Barbeque and Beer Festival on Saturday March 22, in downtown Chandler. “Tell Chandler thanks for naming a town after me,” Kinchla jokes. “When we were told we had an interview in Chandler, Ariz., they asked, ‘Who’s up for that one?’ Come on!” Jokes aside, Blues Traveler is in the midst of a reinvention of sorts. This year marks the 20th anniversary of its album “Four.” In celebration, the record company is re-releasing it with a companion disc that will feature writing collaborations with the likes of Gavin DeGraw, John Mayer, the Plain White T’s and 3OH!3. The Plain White T’s track was produced by ‘N Sync’s JC Chasez. “He’s (Chasez) very musical because ‘N Sync sang all those harmonies and it’s all theory based,” Kinchla explains. “You need to know how music’s put together to be able to do that, believe it or not. ‘N Sync is such a big pop phenomena that it might be easy to think it was just overproduced. But singing is singing. “He really knows the musical side of things. I think his pop sensibility is kind of cool. We’re usually a little more rock oriented. It was neat to get that sensibility—especially with us and the Plain White T’s. He was great in getting the vibe right.” The variety of acts with which Blues Traveler is working displays the band’s diversity. “‘N Sync were terrific,” Kinchla says. “I like only one kind of music—good music, which could be anything from Rihanna to ‘N Sync to Prince to Charlie
COMING TO TOWN: Blues Traveler brings its improvisational rock to The Great American Barbeque and Beer Festival on Saturday March 22, in downtown Chandler. Submitted photo
Parker. ‘N Sync was definitely my favorite of the boy bands. I love me some JT (Justin Timberlake). Who doesn’t love JT?” He admitted that Blues Traveler tried to get Chasez to cut a rug, but he refused that and any
other ‘90s moves. “At one point, we were doing a photo with the band and all that,” he says. “We said, ‘Let’s finger point!’ He said, ‘No thanks. I did so much finger pointing back then.’”
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www.SanTanSun.com The Princeton, N.J.-bred band is recording the collection at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606, the home of the console revered in the award-winning documentary “Sound City.” After the album is finished, Blues Traveler will embark on a seven-week tour with “a bunch of different bands” that Kinchla wasn’t at liberty to name yet. In the fall, “Four” and the accompanying disc will be released and Blues Traveler will head out once again. At the Chandler show, Blues Traveler will not have new tunes ready to debut. Instead, it will perform a plethora of hits as well as songs from its latest album, 2012’s “Suzie Cracks the Whip.” The collection, Kinchla says, translates well live. “We’ve been playing a lot of material off there,” he says. “With some records, there are one to two songs that really fit in the repertoire. This one, we play everything pretty regularly. It fits right with the show.” For ticket information, visit http:// chandlerbbq.com/#home. The show should be a good performance, he explains. “Everyone’s in good spirits,” Kinchla says. “We’ve been off for the last couple months, so we’re all ready to get back to work.” Christina Fuoco-Karasinski is the editor of the SanTan Sun News. She can be reached at christina@santansun. com.
The Great American Barbeque and Beer Festival returns for 2014 BY LYNETTE CARRINGTON
Patrons are invited to come hungry for the huge assortment of fun food fare at the Great American Barbeque and Beer Festival on Saturday, March 22, at Dr. A.J. Chandler Park, 3 S. San Marcos Pl., Chandler. In its fourth year, the event, presented by HDE Agency, is packing a one-two punch of beer and barbecue. Public and Media Relations Manager Jen Pruett describes how the event has grown. “For the last two years in the row, we’ve won Outstanding Event of the Year from the APS AzTec Awards, which are the Valley’s largest committee that gives event-based annual awards,” Pruett states. “This is the first event to win back-toback awards so we’re really excited to brag about that a little.” From design and entertainment to the variety of vendors and activities, this festival has something for every family member. Some of the many barbecue vendors taking part include Waldo’s BBQ, Up ‘N Smoke BBQ, Chandler BBQ Co., Tom’s BBQ and Joe’s Real BBQ. Other participating vendors include DGP Gourmet Fry Bread, SanTan Brewing Co., Paletas Betty and many more. Take part in the Can’t Stop Smokin’ BBQ rib eating, Tastebuds pie eating, Hungry Monk wing eating and Von Hanson’s brat eating
contests. Tickets are $8 in advance at all Valley Bashas’ locations or online; or $10 at the gate. Kids ages 12 and younger are admitted for free. General admission tickets include live entertainment, the eating competitions and the expanded Kid Zone. Food pricing is set by each vendor.
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Festival entrance fees at the gate are cash only and it is recommended for most food items, too. “We do advise people that cash is the best. Some vendors will take cards, but there will be ATM machines located throughout the event,” Pruett explains. VIP festival tickets are also available online only for $150 and include food, six alcoholic beverages, unlimited water and soft drinks and a VIP gift bag. Porkopolis will provide food for VIP ticket holders. Mark and Anna Smith are the owners of Honey Bear’s BBQ and have taken part SEE BARBEQUE FESTIVAL PAGE 62
CELEBRATION OF FOOD: The Great American Barbeque and Festival is 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 22, at Dr. A.J. Chandler Park in downtown Chandler. Submitted photo
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in the event for several years. “This is one of the most amazing day events in the state,” says Mark Smith. “People just eat, eat, eat. This is the day where people break their fast and eat barbecue all day long.” As a business owner, Smith recognizes the value of getting his food out to the masses at The Great American Barbeque and Beer Festival. “If you do a great job out there, you’re going to win a customer,” he notes. Honey Bear’s BBQ will serve barbecue pork, chicken and beef, ribs, ribs tips and stuffed barbecue baked potatoes. Entertainment this year includes Arizona-based country rock cover band Georgia Chrome, Nashville recording artist and Arizona native Laura Walsh, Top 20 Billboard recording artist Craig Campbell, and headliners Grammy Award winning artists Blues Traveler whose hits include “Run-Around,” “But Anyway” and “Hook.” (See accompanying story.) Other event highlights include the SanTan Brewing Tailgaters’ Lawn, UltraStar March Madness Lounge, Chester’s Harley Davidson Pavilion, Porkopolis VIP Quarters, Dickel Hoedown Rodeo Zone, Bulleit Bourbon BBQ Pit Row, DC Farmers Market and an expanded kids’ play zone. Barbecue pit masters will also compete in the Bashas’ Backyard Throwdown Competition. “We had about 17,000 people attend last year,” Pruett notes. “We hope to hit the 20,000 mark this year. To make room for that, we have added about 10,000 square feet of activity space this year.”
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Photo art on display at Vision Gallery
FAMILY FRIENDLY: The festival features something for every member of the family, including food vendors, beer vendors, the Kid Zone and eating contests. Submitted photo
A portion of the event proceeds will benefit the Boot Campaign, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to providing assistance to wounded military and their families with job placement, securing mortgage-free homes, post-traumatic stress disorder counseling, adaptive clothing and more. For additional information visit www. bootcampaign.com. To purchase tickets and for a full entertainment event schedule, visit www. chandlerbbq.com. Event hours are 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. There is street parking located throughout downtown Chandler including a lot in front of the city building and a dirt lot at the north end of Dr. A.J. Chandler Park. Parking is free. Lynette Carrington is a freelancer for the SanTan Sun News. She can be contacted at lynette@santansun.com.
The artwork of Linda Ingraham will be on display through Saturday, May 3, at the Vision Gallery in downtown Chandler. Ingraham is a local mixedmedia photographer who has honed her skills in places as diverse as Italy, New Mexico and the Sorbonne in Paris. The works in “25 Years of Mixed Media Photography” are influenced by her travels as well as her childhood and extensive artistic studies, and she incorporates painting into the background of her photographs. Ingraham’s work has been displayed in galleries and museums around the country as well as in Japan and Brussels. In 1993 she received two grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts: a Visual Arts Fellowship and an Artists Project Grant. She has also worked with the Phoenix Art Museum and Ballet Arizona.
Ingraham’s photo-constructions appear haunting and emotional as she strives to evoke the sense of reverence she felt while viewing altars and icons of the Gothic and Renaissance periods. She uses her works to create visual metaphors of things like fear, hope and desire. “I am drawn to beauty but I like to push beyond the boundary of the merely beautiful and imbue it with an emotional quality. A large part of my work deals with metaphors, trying to embody an idea or an emotion by using a figure, object or juxtaposition of photographs in a simple iconic way,” Ingraham says in her artist’s statement. For more information call (480) 7822695 or visit www.visiongallery.org.
improvMANIA hosts comedy show improvMANIA, a locally founded and based comedy troupe, will present a free 90-minute program in the style of television’s “Whose Line is it Anyway?” from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 22, and Saturday, June 21, held at Sozo Coffee in Chandler. The show is family friendly and fast paced, so guests should arrive early to catch it all, and plan to drink some coffee and laugh all night long. From its beginnings in downtown
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Jazz festival celebrates the blues next month BY MAX KRAUST
The 15th annual Chandler Jazz Festival, which takes place April 4-5 in downtown Chandler, provides families with free entertainment and a unique cultural experience. The festival will feature dozens of jazz bands and individuals performing all along the downtown Chandler area, starting at 4:45 p.m. Friday, April 4. Performances will continue until 2 a.m. and then pick up again at 12 p.m. Saturday. “It’s a nice, relaxed, laidback event where residents can enjoy an exciting but mellow atmosphere,” Chandler Special Events Coordinator Hermelinda Llamas says. The event began as the Chandler Fall Rhythm Fest and then evolved into a celebration of the lesser listened to genre of the rhythm group, jazz. The two-day festival will attract around 12,000 people. “The festival offers an opportunity to see diversity in jazz music itself,” Llamas says. “You get to hear all the different styles of jazz music and have fun and get up and dance. We want them to really feel engaged with the bands.” Each year the festival attempts to highlight a different style of the genre, with this year’s event focusing on blues. There will be a main stage at Dr. A.J. Chandler Park with featured performers, as well as performers lining the streets and local merchants, keeping the music going at all times. On the east side of the park is the “New Orleans Square” which will have
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Open studio tour to benefit CCA John Gleason and Jacque Keller of Quantum Art Inc. will open their studio at 371 N. Carriage Ln., Chandler, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, March 22, for an exhibition and sale to benefit the Chandler Center for the Arts. During the show and continuing for all of 2014, 20 percent of all sales will go to the center at customers’ requests. To learn more about the artists or their studio, visit www.QuantumArtInc.com or contact them at info@quantumartinc.com or (480) 216-0450.
FUN MOMENT: Willis Junior High School Jazz Band performing at last year’s Chandler Jazz Festival. Submitted photo
entertainment from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Bands are on the sidewalks and in the restaurants which overflows into the entire downtown area,” Llamas says. “We try to keep the party going all day and night.” The festival is more than just music, however. An arts and crafts fair as well as a beer and wine garden for festival attendees offer additional flavor. “The arts and crafts portion gives people an opportunity walking downtown to be entertained and then do some shopping,” Llamas says. The Dmitri Matheny Group is one of the featured bands at this year’s festival. It performed at the festival in 2010 and the act’s namesake says it’s one of his favorite
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Sun Lakes Chorale presents ‘Let There Be Peace’ The 80-voice Sun Lakes Chorale will present its annual spring concert, “Let There Be Peace,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 27, at Sun Lakes United Methodist Church, 9249 E. Riggs Rd., Sun Lakes. Cristine Temple-Evans, chorale director, will lead the men and women in the performance. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 and available from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Sun Lakes ACE Hardware’s “Ticket Tuesdays” through March 25. Call (480) 883-6997 to purchase tickets or for more information.
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Dive into the Palms Theatre for Spring break camp at Copperstar ‘The Dixie Swim Club’ “The Dixie Swim Club,� a lighthearted comedy about the ups and downs of five Southern friends over the years, will be on stage through Saturday, April 12, in the Marquee Theatre at Palms Theatre at 5247 E. Brown Rd., Mesa. From the authors of “Mama Won’t Fly� and “Dearly Departed,� “The Dixie Swim Club� introduces audiences to five Southern women who met years ago on their college swim team, and continue to meet for a long weekend at a beach cottage on North Carolina’s outer banks each August to reconnect and share stories from their lives. The five friends grow closer over the years even as they lead separate lives; and grow to rely on each other’s advice and boisterous conversations as they face many challenges. When
one of the women is rattled by a twist of fate in the second act, her friends come together to support her. The Palms’ production is directed by Paul Bernier and features Megan Orlowski (Sheree), Kira Galindo (Lexie), Sharon Yormick (Dinah), Heather Fallon (Vernadette) and Laura Vave (Jeri Neal). Tickets can be purchased online at www.ThePalmsTheatre.com, by phone (480) 924-6260, or at the box office located at 5247 E. Brown Rd., Mesa. Tickets, including buffet and show: matinees $42; Sunday through Friday evenings $42; Saturday evenings $48. Show-only seating is $28. Group pricing for 20 or more is available; call group sales director Cliff Richeson (480) 924-6260 ext. 106 for more information.
Copperstar Repertory Company still has registration open for its spring break camp running from Monday, March 17 through Friday, March 21 at its studio at 3002 N. Arizona Ave., Suites 3 and 4, Chandler. Visit www.springcamps14.eventbrite.com to register for the camp. Spring break camps include Rising Stars camp for children ages 8 to 15, which runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday and presents a performance at 2 p.m. Friday, March 21. An Imagination Station camp for children ages 4 to 7 is also available from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, with a sharing time with parents at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
Grease Copperstar is also hosting an interactive sing-along evening at Pollack Tempe Cinemas at 1825 E. Elliot Rd., Tempe, as they present the ďŹ lm “Greaseâ€? Thursday, March 20 and again Monday, March 24. The classic John Travolta and Olivia Newton John ďŹ lm will include subtitles, so the audience can
Chandler, African choirs join for beneďŹ t concert Tri-City Baptist Church will host the African Children’s Choir at 7 p.m. Friday, March 21, as it joins the Chandler Children’s Choir for a concert to beneďŹ t the African group. The choirs will come together to present vibrant, youthful songs; singing everything from classical tunes and well-loved children’s songs to folk songs and spirituals.
The CCC is the premiere youth community choir in the East Valley, with three different choirs and more than 100 children who are thrilled to collaborate with the African Children’s Choir. Music for Life, the parent organization for the African Children’s Choir, works in countries including Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa.
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sing along to the iconic tunes. The evening will begin with a vocal warmup led by Copperstar costumed hosts. After the warmup, the audience will learn the “hand jiveâ€? and hosts will walk them through their complimentary goody bag, which contains props to be used during certain moments throughout the ďŹ lm. In addition to singing and dancing, the audience is encouraged to arrive in costume; wear their black leather biker jackets, powder-pink bomber jackets, poodle skirts, greased hair and anything else worn in the 1950s at Rydell High. The evening’s events begin at 7 p.m., with the movie starting at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at Copperstar Studios up to the date of each event, as well as online at www.singalonggrease. eventbrite.com. Concessions will be available at the Pollack Tempe Cinemas concession stand. For more information about Copperstar Repertory, call (480) 699-1655 or visit www. copperstarrep.org. and most recently the Queen of England for her diamond jubilee. The choir has also performed alongside Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Keith Urban, Mariah Carey, Michael W. Smith and others. Tri-City Baptist Church is at 2211 W. Germann Rd. in Chandler. Tickets are $15. Call (480) 699-9846 or visit www.chandlerchildrenschoir.org for more information.
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Mesa Arts Center features contemporary art exhibits Hammered metal, selected prints, a showcase of crafts from around the country and more are on display now at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, located at the Mesa Arts Center, One E. Main St., Mesa.
First Impressions The exhibit First Impressions, running through March 23, displays prints featured in the Mesa Contemporary Arts annual print calendar in the last five years. Pieces include prints from relief, screen, etchings and lithographs. The 2014 calendar is available for purchase at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in limited quantities. Each month on the calendar features a different print, adhered to the calendar with photo corners for easy removal for framing, and no two calendars are alike. The juror for this year’s calendar was master printer David Manje, who supervises 2-D classes at Mesa Arts Center.
35th annual Contemporary Crafts Mesa’s 35th annual Contemporary Arts’ annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition, continuing through April 13, displays works from around the country. The craft showcase includes traditional crafts like jewelry, basketry, fibers, metals, papermaking, book arts and metals. Forty-six works of art will be featured by 35 artists from 14 states. The guest juror for the 35th annual
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Hammered Steve Shelby, recipient of the 34th annual Contemporary Crafts Juror’s Choice Award, is showing his work in a solo exhibition in the Dr. Ruth Tan Lim Project Room. The exhibit, Hammered, will be on display through April 13. Shelby creates handcrafted metal pieces, using hammers and stakes to shape flat sheets of metal into 3-D forms. The results are playful and humorous at times, and often inspired by shapes in nature. The exhibition is a retrospective look at Shelby’s work from the last 11 years.
M8K Marks Faculty and resident artists from the past 30 years share their art at M8K Marks, a showcase for the prominent artists. Artists Lisa Albinger, Michael Healy, Susan Manje, David Manje, Helen Norsigian, Rowles, Augie Tantalo, Janet Towbin, Agustin Vargas and Jeremy Yocum are featured. Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is at the Mesa Arts Center campus at One E. Main St., downtown Mesa. Admission is free and visiting hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday with extended hours until 8 p.m. on Thursday, and 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Call (480) 644-6567 to learn more.
Corona Del Sol High School freshman and violinist Tiffany Chang will take center stage at the Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler, on Sunday, March 23, to perform Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto in D Major” with the Chandler Symphony Orchestra. Chang recently won the CSO’s sixth annual Youth Competition, and is one of the youngest Youth Competition winners in the contest’s history. Her win gives her the chance to perform with the orchestra March 23, when the second- and third-place winners will also be honored. “I am so honored to win this competition,” Chang says. “It really gives me an opportunity to understand what it’s like to be a concert soloist and to play with actual orchestras.” Chang is a member of the Corona Del Sol chamber orchestra, and has been playing the violin for most of her life. She began playing at the age of 3, and became a member of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony in Mesa at 6, eventually rising to concertmaster in Division I by the time she was 10. At 15 she is no stranger to awards and recognitions, most recently as grand prize winner of the Phoenix Youth Symphony Young Musicians Competition 2014. She is a student of Phoenix Symphony
violinist Jing Zeng. The piece that Chang will perform on stage with the orchestra–Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35–is one of Tchaikovsky’s most renowned and most often played works. The concert will also include performances of Richard Wagner’s “Rienzi Overture” as well as Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, the “Reformation Symphony.” The Chandler Symphony Orchestra 2014 Youth Competition was open to string, woodwind, brass, harp and percussion students in grades seven to 12. Cash awards are granted to the top three competitors. This year’s second-prize winner is Dobson High School 12th grade clarinetist Alex Dergal, who performed Claude Debussy’s “Premiere Rhapsodie” for clarinet at the CSO Chamber Music concert Saturday, March 1. Awarded third prize is seventh grade violinist Hannah Goldstick. The awards will be presented to all three winners at the March 23 concert. The March 23 concert will be at 3 p.m. Doors open at 2:30 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are encouraged to defray operating expenses for the all-volunteer organization. For more information visit www. chandlersymphony.net.
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spark! Mesa’s Festival of Creativity hosts original performances, interactive art The Mesa Arts Center is welcoming spring break with spark!, Mesa’s Festival of Creativity, from Wednesday, March 19, to Sunday, March 23. The festival celebrates the arts, innovation and boundless creativity through participatory activities, music, original performances, interactive art and more. Features of the festival will include Austin Bike Zoo, an imaginative collaboration between bike builders, puppet makers and performers. Bike Zoo menagerie creatures to be featured include an 80-foot rideable rattlesnake bike, many butterflies ranging in height from 10 to 18 feet, and animated bat and owl bikes. Performances will include spokenword and hip-hop performances led by Phonetic Spit, movement and stilt-walking performance by San Francisco’s Carpetbag Brigade, Pop-Up performances by Mesa Arts Center’s resident companies, a zoo of Weaving the Wild characters in detailed frog, lizard, bird and insect costumes and a variety of popular local and regional musical acts in Western, rock, blues and jazz. Hands-on art-making activities will include a 20-foot-wide jungle scene colorby-number mural, two giant communitybuilt LEGO giraffes, a make-your-own glow-in-the-dark dragonfly, finger knit Jungle and beast-your-bike workshops (for a $5 fee), in which participants can create attachable art that will turn their bicycles into creatures. Exhibitions include an outdoor, overhead installation of iridescent, solar-
STILT SPECTACLE: The Carpetbag Brigade brings its unique brand of physical performance to the festival. Submitted photo BIKE BEASTS: The Austin Bike Zoo will roll by the festival with butterflies, owls and other “creatures” from its bicycle menagerie. Submitted photo powered dragonflies by Arizona artist Jeff Zischke and five exhibitions in the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, including the 35th annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition. Also, like a page out of a Dr. Seuss book, the campus will be covered with colorful knitted tree sleeves created by members of the community. Interactive projects will include the Wonder Dome by Dan Fine, a 360-degree immersive dome with an interactive system for live performance; the Amyloid Project, a new steel sculpture and performance by UrbanSTEW, which will
bring complex research to life through interactive sound and dance performance and TubberKnockers by Doug Boyd, which will offer a musical playground that invites everyone to get involved in music-making. Inside MADE Garden, conceived by Megan Flod Johnson and created entirely out of recycled materials, insect performers will guide visitors on a personal tour. New this year, spark! After Dark on Friday and Saturday nights from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. will include the Dance Lighthouse and Digital Light Painting by Glowing Pictures; It’s You, an interactive projection
piece by Karolina Sobecka; Fractured Future by Moheeb Zara, an interactive DJ/ VJ installation that invites participants to change image and sound on a projectionmapped installation from a built-in DJ/ VJ kiosk and fire and glow performances by circus artists Martin Taylor and Juggler James Reid. All festival activities and outdoor performances are free with the exception of ticketed performances in the MAC’s theaters, studio sampler workshops in the MAC’s arts studios or Beast Your Bike workshops led by Austin Bike Zoo artists. For further details visit the spark! event page at www.mesaartscenter.com.