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industry with his breakout single “Riptide,” which appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 43 weeks. Joy returns to Arizona for his “Fire and the Flood” tour with openers Elle King—a buzz artist in her own right— and Jamie Lawson. Marquee Theatre, 730 N. Mill Avenue, Tempe, 480.829.1300, luckymanonline.com, 8 p.m., $28.

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Arizona Renaissance Festival

THROUGH MARCH 27 This festival transports visitors to a European-style fair filled with an agreeable rabble of knights, rogues, royalty and craftsmen, all roaming throughout a 30-acre village filled with delectable sights and sounds tantalizing the senses. Explore 200 charming craft shops, 13 stages of nonstop entertainment, an arena for full-contact armored jousting, a living fountain, kitchens, pubs and peoplepowered games and rides. 2601 E. U.S. Highway 60, Gold Canyon, 520.463.2600, royalfaires.com, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., $10-$24.

Spring Training

MARCH 1 THROUGH APRIL 1 Spring Training baseball under the warm Arizona sun has been a tradition for devoted fans since 1947. Eight stadiums host 15 MLB teams such as the World Champion Kansas City Royals, the Arizona Diamondbacks, Colorado Rockies, Chicago White Sox and the D-backs’ rivals Los Angeles Dodgers, among others. Stadium and ticket information at cactusleague.com, prices starting at $8.

MARCH 5 The 25th anniversary of Blues Blast is presented by the Phoenix Blues Society with Canned Heat, who is feting its 50th year, and The Laurie Morvan Band headlining the event. This two-hour retrospective of blues also features Arizona Showdown winners Smokestack Lightning and Eric Ramsey. Margaret T. Hance Park, 1202 N. Third Street, Phoenix, phoenixblues.org, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., $25-$30.

MARCH 10 The original “River Tour” began in October 1980 and continued through September 1981. With sets that regularly approached the four-hour mark, the 140-date international tour firmly established a reputation for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band as marathon performers. Springsteen and his merry band of music makers resurrect the jaunt for 39 shows in across North America and Europe. Talking Stick Resort Arena, 201 E. Jefferson Street, Phoenix, 800.745.3000, ticketmaster.com, 7:30 p.m., $55-$150.

AZ Aloha Festival

Charlie Daniels

MARCH 1 THROUGH 3 The devil is coming to the Valley! Legendary country, bluegrass and Southern rock musician Charlie Daniel will be playing three nights in Mesa and you definitely won’t want to miss him. Mesa Regal (March 1), 4700 E. Main Street, Mesa, 480.981.5118; Valle del Oro (March 2 & 3) 1452 S. Ellsworth Road, Mesa, 480.984.5076, cal-am.com/ concerts/, 7:30 p.m., $60-$80

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

Vance Joy

MARCH 1 Australian singer-songwriter Vance Joy, seen last year opening for Taylor Swift, made his mark on the music

MARCH 7 THROUGH MARCH 8 Two-day celebration of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture with more than 90,000 transplanted South Pacific Islanders and those who simply love the Aloha Spirit and exploring the group’s food and traditions. The festival includes more than 40 performers, over 85 merchandise stands and 35 food vendors cooking up beloved island treats. Learn to hula or to play the ukulele, make a paper lei or play chongka’. Tempe Beach Park at Tempe Town Lake, Mill Avenue and Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe, azalohafest.org, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., free.

McDowell Mountain Music Festival

MARCH 11 THROUGH MARCH 13 McDowell Mountain Music Festival is celebrating its 13th year with top performers like Beck, Kid Cudi, The Avett Brothers, MS MR, Animal Collective, Goldfish, Porter Robinson and many others. MMMF is Arizona’s 100-percent, nonprofit music festival and all proceeds will benefit two local, family-based, nonprofits: Phoenix Children’s Hospital Foundation and UMOM New Day Center. Margaret T. Hance Park, 1202 N. WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

Third St., Phoenix, mmmf.com, Friday 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday 1 p.m. to 11 p.m., Sunday 12 p.m. to 11 p.m., $70-$170.

Scottsdale Arts Festival

MARCH 11 THROUGH MARCH 13 More than 170 awe-inspiring artists from around the globe fill the grounds around the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Guests will have the opportunity to bid in the online art auction benefiting Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, listen to live music by local bands and savor mouthwatering cuisine from local food trucks. Bring the kids to Imagine Nation for fun, family-friendly activities. Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 E. Second Street, Scottsdale, 480.499.8587, scottsdaleartsfestival.org, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $5-$15.

Roots N’ Boots Queen Creek

MARCH 11 THROUGH MARCH 13 Banner Ironwood Medical Center Presents Roots N’ Boots, the funfilled western rodeo with a variety of activities for the family including the carnival, shopping and dining emporium, petting zoo, PRCA rodeo and other attractions. Tickets are required for the PRCA Pro Rodeo, Rodeo 101 and the carnival. Horseshoe Park & Equestrian Centre, 20464 E. Riggs Road, Queen Creek, schedule, ticket pricing and list of activities can be found at rootsnboots.org.

Experience Ireland

MARCH 12 THROUGH MARCH 13 Experience Ireland with the help of the Musical Instrument Museum at its fifth annual celebration of Irish music and culture. Enjoy music, Irish dancing, storytelling, face painting and more. Musical Instrument Museum, 4725 E. Mayo Boulevard, Phoenix, mim. org, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., $10-$20.

Legends in Concert

MARCH 16 THROUGH MARCH 20 Haven’t seen Madonna, Rod Stewart, Steven Tyler or Taylor Swift in concert? Well, see them together with the fabulous tribute performers of Legends in Concert. Talking Stick Resort, 9800 E. Talking Stick Way, Scottsdale, 480.850.7734, talkingstickresort. com, Wednesday at 8 p.m., Thursday at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Friday at 5 p.m., $20.

Pot of Gold Music Festival

MARCH 17 AND MARCH 19 Pot of Gold Music Festival offers some of music’s hottest acts like Future, Atmosphere, Big Sean, 311, Slightly Stoopid and more at Rawhide Western Town and Event Center. The second annual event is held rain or shine for an all-ages audience. Rawhide Western Town and Event Center, 5700 W. North Loop Road, Chandler, 877.318.4540, potofgoldaz.com, Thursday at 1 p.m., Saturday at 12 p.m., $40-$110.

Lord of the Dance

MARCH 12 Following its acclaimed Broadway debut, “Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games” comes to Arizona with the show’s founder, the renowned Michael Flatley. The dancer will headline in what will mark his final stage appearances as a performer following a remarkable 20-year run as the creator and star of the “Lord of the Dance” franchise. Comerica Theatre, 400 W. Washington Street, Phoenix, 602.379.2800, ticketmaster.com, 7:30 p.m., $99.

St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Faire

MARCH 12 Irish step dancers, bagpipers, police and fire vehicles, dignitaries, floats and grand marshal Mike Bidwell of the Arizona Cardinals make their way around downtown Phoenix in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. Oh, and we can’t forget this year’s Arizona Colleen/Rose with her court. The Phoenix St. Patrick’s Day Parade was founded in 1984 to preserve and enhance the heritage and traditions of the Irish Culture. Route is Third Street south from Sheridan to Moreland, downtown Phoenix, stpatricksdayphoenix.org, 10 a.m., $8-$10. WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

say this one will be the biggest and best year yet. Highlights include a full day of country music with headliner Granger Smith, March Madness lounge, Jack Daniel’s Experience, and kids’ and eating competition zones. It has expanded with more than 100 exhibitors and over 60 pit masters from across the nation, serving up over 20,000 lbs of mouth-watering pork ribs, pulled pork, brisket and chicken, all paired with the state’s finest craft beer. Dr. AJ Chandler Park, 3 S. Arizona Avenue, Chandler, chandlerbbq.com, 12 p.m. to 10 p.m., $10-$15.

Italian Festival

MARCH 19 THROUGH MARCH 20 Hosted by the Italian Association of Arizona, this two-day celebration is doubling in size, taking up the entire Scottsdale Waterfront. The event features everything from live music and unique, hand-crafted Italian items, to wine tastings, authentic Italian cuisine and artists straight from Italy. Of course, no Italian event would be complete without the country’s favorite dessert—gelato. Scottsdale Waterfront, 7135 E. Camelback Road, Scottsdale, 480.745.7020, italianfestivalaz. com, Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., free for veterans and Italian Association members, $10 others.

Check, Please! Arizona Festival MARCH 20 Sample the signature dishes of chefs from restaurants featured on “Check, Please! Arizona.” The cuisine of independently owned restaurants will be paired with wine and beer from participating wineries and breweries. Cooking demonstrations and panel discussions are also on the docket. Margaret T. Hance Park, 1202 N. Third St., Phoenix, azpbs.org. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., $49.

spark! Mesa’s Festival of Creativity

MARCH 18 THROUGH MARCH 19 This festival will provide an immersive environment in which to celebrate the work of amazing, creative people and to discover the creative thinker inside every visitor. This free two-day event will feature a variety of musical performances featuring popular local and regional artists in country, rock, Latin, blues and jazz. Mesa Arts Center, One E. Main Street, Mesa, 480.644.6500, mesaartscenter.com, 12 p.m. to 10 p.m., free.

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MARCH 19 Organizers of the 2016 Great American Barbeque and Beer Festival

Fall Out Boy

MARCH 25 Multiplatinum-selling artist Fall Out Boy shows all sides of its talents with the “Wintour is Coming” tour, celebrating its more than 10-year success. AWOLNATION and Pvris come along for the ride. Talking Stick Resort Arena, 201 E. Jefferson Street, Phoenix, 800.745.3000, ticketmaster.com, 7 p.m., $29.50.

Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage MARCH 28 The concert will feature some of the greatest music written for the franchise including “Star Trek: The Original Series,” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and more. Meanwhile, the most iconic “Star Trek” film and TV footage is beamed in high definition to a 40-foot wide screen. Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Boulevard, Tucson, broadwayintucson.com, 7:30 p.m., $35-$75.

Beauty and the Beast

MARCH 28 THROUGH MARCH 30 Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” is based on the Academy Awardwinning animated feature film. This classic musical love story is filled with unforgettable characters, lavish sets and costumes, and dazzling production numbers including “Be Our Guest” and the beloved title song. Mesa Arts Center, One E. Main Street, Mesa, 480.644.6500, mesaartscenter.com, 7:30 p.m., starts at $47.

Justin Bieber

MARCH 30 Whether you love or hate him, pop star Justin Bieber is coming to town during his 50-plus city “Purpose World Tour.” Limited seats are still available. Gila River Arena, 9400 West Maryland, Glendale, 800.745.3000, ticketmaster.com, 7:30 p.m., starts at $50.50.

Lecrae: Higher Learning Tour

X Ambassadors

MARCH 23 X Ambassadors take to the road again for the VHS 2.0 Tour set to stop in Tempe with artists Seinabo Sey and Powers. X Ambassadors are responsible for the ubiquitous single “Renegades,” which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. Marquee Theatre, 730 N. Mill Avenue, Tempe, 480.829.1300, luckymanonline.com, 7:30 p.m., $23.

MARCH 31 Lecrae is heading back to school. The two-time Grammy Award winning gospel hip-hop artist, known for the positive message in his music, is hitting the road for his “Higher Learning Tour,” which stops at college campuses and in college towns across the country. His latest album, Anomaly, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200, rap, digital, Christian, gospel and independent charts. Grand Canyon University, 6751 N. Sunset Boulevard, Glendale, gcuarena.com, 7:30 p.m., $24.75.

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or Jimmy Shubert, being a comedian is a lot like being a magician. “There are no bad audiences, there are only bad magicians. And I think it’s the same for stand-up comedy,” Shubert says. At an early age, he knew he wanted to be a funny guy. He started practicing magic at age 9 and then at 18, he dipped into the comedic world.

“I hung up the wand and retired the rabbit and started doing stand-up comedy,” Shubert says. His background in comedy didn’t come from attending comedy school. Instead, Shubert learned from experience by jumping onto the stage at open mic nights in Philadelphia. “Comedy is one of those trial-anderror jobs. If you want to learn how to do it, you just have to do it. You have to do

Jimmy Shubert’s first love was magic, but comedy was his calling

all of that stuff in front of an audience,” Shubert says. Part of that learning process involved finding his comedic voice. “Thank God I did magic because I had to wait for my writing ability to catch up with my performing ability. I was writing and trying to find my voice. It takes you a while to find your voice as a stand-up comic, it takes years and years to get good at it,” Shubert says. Eventually he found his voice, which combines a comedic short-story form and poking fun at pop culture. “My stand-up is lead with the punch lines. It’s kind of like an older style of comedy,” Shubert says. “You have the subject and you really just pound it out until you get every last bit of laughter out of the subject matter, it’s a lot like sculpting.” The comedy world is new and evolving, but Shubert has found a way to use his forward approach to his advantage. “A lot of these kids are ironic and they’re storytellers—I just like it to be funny. That’s the kind of comedy I like. It’s a classic style of comedy,” he says. Shubert draws inspiration from comedians like George Carlin, who he says plays with language in a way that he aspires to. “You gotta be able to put a paragraph into one sentence and paint pictures with words, it’s all in the details,” he says. When Shubert isn’t doing a set on stage, he’s making it to the top 10 on “Last Comic Standing,” acting for television shows and films and is constantly creating new content to add to his repertoire. “Acting fuels my personal appearances. It’s a lot like being an athlete. People follow your high school career, your college career, and then you go to the pros and people come out to see you again and again,” Shubert says. He’s worked with Charlize Theron, Brat Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Robin Williams and many other big names in Hollywood. “I got to work with Robin Williams in ‘One Hour Photo,’” Shubert says.

About a year before his untimely death, Williams even watched Shubert perform in San Francisco. It’s a moment he calls “incredible.” “I didn’t get a picture with him, but I got to have a moment with him. That to me was really powerful. I got to have a moment with a legend and he stayed and watched my show for 25 minutes. He was really laughing. That makes me feel pretty good,” Shubert says. His newest project is a television special called “Smoke and Mirrors,” which he hopes to bring to Netflix. “I actually open the show with a little bit of close-up magic. The magic is really a metaphor for what I’m talking about on stage— it’s that everything in life is smoke and mirrors,” Shubert says. The special has allowed him to manage his content and keep up with this fast-paced business. “That’s the name of the game. It’s changed a lot. You look at a guy like Louis C.K. who’s a writer, a producer, an editor and he does a show. His work ethic is unbelievable.” As he wraps up his TV special, Shubert isn’t slowing down. He’s coming to the Valley for seven shows, and he couldn’t be more excited to perform at Rick Bronson’s House of Comedy at High Street in Phoenix. After 25 years in comedy, the performer continues to make people happy, and makes a living while doing it. “That in itself is a huge success. I know how blessed and how lucky I am,” Shubert says. “There’s enough stuff in the world that make people sad and angry and I just like making people laugh.”

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Rick Bronson’s House of Comedy, 5350 E. High Street, Suite 105, Phoenix, 480.420.3553, houseofcomedy.net, Wednesday, March 9, through Sunday, March 13, times vary, $13-$22.

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o most Italians, there’s nothing better than pasta, cannolis and wine. The Italian Association knows this and is hosting the third annual Italian Festival Saturday, March 19, and Sunday, March 20, along the Scottsdale Waterfront to celebrate the country’s culture, food, music and arts. Christina Forrest of the Italian Association says this year will be double the fun as it is the first year it has been held for two days. “Before, we were just on the bridge,” she says. “Now we’re going all the way down the canal. We’ve got about 30 more booths, more food vendors. “Last year, we brought in a group called A’ Ziarella. They were a big hit. They’re an Italian folk group. We’re also bringing in Flag Sbandieratori. They’re flag throwers. It’s sort of an Italian tradition from Medieval times.” Besides the pasta and cannolis, the Italian Festival will, of course, feature pizza, olive oil thanks to the Queen Creek Olive Mill, gelato and espresso. Forrest hopes to bring in about 15,000 to 20,000 people, which is why it was upped from one day to two and expanded along the canal. The Italian Association was founded with the goal of bringing a cultural Italian event to the Valley, says Forrest, whose family is from Sicily.

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“The long-term goal is to develop a Little Italy here in the Valley,” she says. “A lot of other cities have it and we feel like we’re big enough and have a decent enough Italian-American population that we could develop something like that.” The Italian Festival is a start. Forrest calls A’ Ziarella and Flag Sbandieratori amazingly authentic. The family who owns Marcellino Ristorante introduced the Italian Association to A’ Ziarella. The folk group travels throughout Italy performing and Valley organizers were able to bring it to Scottsdale. “I invite everyone to come have a good time—to eat and drink.” She says. “It’s $10 to get in, that covers a donation to the Italian Association that helps us pay for the entertainers to come from Italy, etc., and any sort of expenses related to the festival.” Food and wine are additional charges. Forrest recommends bringing cash as the vendors are not required to accept credit cards.

The Italian Festival

Scottsdale Waterfront, 7135 E. Camelback Road, Scottsdale, 480.745.7020, italianfestivalaz.com, italianassociation.org, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 19, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 20, $10, free for children younger than 12, veterans and Italian Association members.

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he countdown to the 25th annual Lake Havasu Boat Show, presented by Frontier Communications and Mohave State Bank, has begun. This year, Arizona and Nevada’s largest boat show opens on Friday, April 8 and runs through Sunday, April 10 at Lake Havasu State Park, Windsor 4 on London Bridge Road. More than 300 boats and several acres of marine accessories await boaters of all types seeking to peruse and possibly purchase a family sportboat, pontoon, exotic high performance powerboat, fishing boat, personal watercraft, jet boat, wakesport boat, kayak or paddleboard in time for summer. Every facet of the sport is represented with aggressive pre-season boat show pricing specials. But new boats aren’t the only thing Lake Havasu Boat Show attendees have to look forward to. The boat show is again hosting the 4th Annual ICS Lake Havasu Chili Cook-off competition sponsored by Lake Havasu Regional Medical Center on Saturday. The chili and salsa contest, with proceeds going to benefit the Lake Havasu High School Athletic Booster Club, has guaranteed over $5,000 in cash prize money to the various winners in each category (red chili, chili verde and people’s choice) and is open to all chefs. More than

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50 chili and salsa teams are expected to compete. Best of all, attendees have the opportunity to sample all the recipes by purchasing a $5 tasting kit while at the boat show. Then on Sunday, get ready for Family Fun Day at the Boat Show. Family Fun Day will be highlighted by a people’s choice chili cook-off, a host of carnival games and activities for the entire family, plus tasty fair-food favorites like hot dogs, cotton candy and kettle corn. All proceeds from Family Fun Day also go to benefit the Lake Havasu High School Athletic Booster Club. Also returning as a boat show favorite will be the IJSBA Jettribe Gary Hart Memorial PWC WaterCross Races featuring over 150 of the fastest personal watercraft racers in the country hitting speeds up to 70 miles an hour around a challenging motocross style race course. And for those who fancy themselves expert cornhole players, get ready to toss at the second annual Lake Havasu Cornhole Championships with classes for all ages, both singles and doubles/teams plus cash awards for the winners. Brand new for 2016, it’s Boat Show Beach Bash time on Friday evening with a beer garden, adult beverage bar, barbeque food favorites and a live band performing classic rock favorites. Happy hour begins at 6 p.m. for food and drinks followed at 6:30 p.m. with musical entertainment. The Beach Bash is free to everyone who purchases a boat show admission ticket earlier on Friday. For those only wanting to attend the Beach Bash, there is a nominal $2 per person cover charge.

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ugby’s rising popularity in the United States is evident by 61,000 spectators packing Chicago’s Soldier Field in 2014 to see an American squad play against New Zealand’s national team. And with rugby returning to the 2016 Olympic Games, after a 92-year absence, the sport will have an even greater global stage. In April, Valley residents will once again be able to experience this electric sport, as a match between the Mexican National Rugby Union Team and nationally ranked ASU team is held at Scottsdale Stadium. Now in its third year, this iteration of the Rugby Bowl will not only offer thrilling action, but also introduce a unique element, a balloon fiesta featuring worldwide acclaimed, eight-story tall “Star Wars” characters Yoda and Darth Vader. “Hardcore rugby fans will get to see the action they want, but we’re bringing something for the casual viewer too,” says the event founder Jason Rose, also a principal at the Greater Phoenix-based public relations firm Rose + Moser + Allyn. “In the year of ‘Star Wars,’ we thought this would be a great idea. The balloons created by renowned Benoit Lambert of Belgium have been showcased globally, but never in Arizona.” The Fiesta Bowl Rugby & Balloon Classic was born out of the popular Scottsdale Bentley Scottsdale Polo Championships, in its sixth year. “Everyone was encouraging us to have a spring polo event in addition to our November championship,” says Rose. “But we saw a greater opportunity with rugby, because of its worldwide popularity. We reached out to Arizona State University and they loved the idea of bringing a competition to the Valley.” In the first two years of matches, the ASU team took on Brigham Young University and Ohio State University squads, but this year the Sun Devils face an altogether different challenge, squaring off against the Mexican National Team, which narrowly missed competing at the 2015 Rugby World Cup. “This is really a David and Goliath match up,” says Rose. “The ASU players

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will be giving away 30 pounds per man to their opponents. A victory would be something on the order of when the U.S. college hockey players beat the Soviet Union in 1980.” Making the event a special one includes an association with great sponsors and partners, a point Rose knows well from the Polo Championships. This year in addition to the title sponsorship of MercedesBenz, Rose has joined forces with the Fiesta Bowl, the Arizona-based sports community organization, to help bring in spectators of college and professional football who may not know rugby. “By April, football will have been gone for a few months and with this partnership we can create some intrigue around the sport and attract those that may be curious about rugby,” Rose says. “The Fiesta Bowl offers great integrity and a platform to reach a wider audience. When you have organizations like Fiesta Bowl and Mercedes-Benz with their great reputations that says it all.” Mike Nealy, executive director of the Fiesta Bowl, is excited about the partnership. “Jason Rose has done a good job with this event, and in our first entre this year, using our name and brand to add value and notoriety to a unique, family-friendly and affordable event helps in our mission to make Arizona a better place to work, live and play,” he says. Following the match played at 5:10 p.m. Saturday, April 23, the Hot Air Balloon Glow will begin at 7 p.m. This year, Rose expects about 7,000 to 8,000 patrons. “Anyone who shows up will immediately become a rugby fan,” says Rose. As for a prediction? “I hope ASU wins.”

The Fiesta Bowl Rugby & Balloon Classic Scottsdale Stadium, 7408 E. Osborn Road, Scottsdale, therugbybowl.com, 5:10 p.m. Saturday, April 23, $12 in advance.

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FLY LIKE AN ‘EAGLE’ ‘Eddie the Eagle’ soars among the great films

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alling from a Manhattan hotel room, unlikely Olympic hero Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards is a spokesman for all things positive. A cheerleader for the underdogs, Edwards fought the odds—and the doubters—to compete in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary as a ski jumper. The Englishman’s story is told in the new film “Eddie the Eagle,” starring Taron Egerton in the title role, and Hugh Jackman as Bronson Peary, a harddrinking, chain-smoking American and former ski jumper who takes Eddie, very reluctantly at first, under his wing. “I saw the whole completed film on January 3 and I was blown away by it,” Edwards says about the film that opened February 26. “I thought it was absolutely fantastic and it brought tears to my eyes. But it is very, very surreal to sit there and watch a film that’s been made based on my life.”

Edwards adds that he was shocked when he saw Egerton dressed and acting as him. “I thought, ‘My God. That is just how I looked 28 years ago when I was 24 and I was standing at the top of those Olympic ski jumps,’” he recalls. Although he placed last in both his events—the 70-meter jump and 90-meter jump—he became a media darling (he was quickly dubbed “The Eagle” by the tabloids) and something of a folk hero, famous for his unorthodox style, appearance and will to compete. So Edwards knows a thing or two about perseverance. The film, which took 17 years to make, accurately portrays the stumbling blocks Edwards faced in his climb up the figurative Olympic ski jump. “I was this tiny David of a country against these Goliath nations of jumping,” he says. “I came from a country with no snow, no training facilities, no trainer, no money, borrowed equipment and yet I still managed to get to those Olympic games and compete for my country. I hope it’ll open people’s eyes.”

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Edwards says it was easy to keep his morale up, considering he’s always been “extremely self-motivated.” “I don’t know where I get it from,” he says. “I must get it from my mum and dad, my grandparents, my greatgrandparents. Despite people all the time telling me I can’t do this, I can’t do that, stop doing this, I use that to inspire me to prove them wrong. “If there’s nothing I liked better, it was proving people wrong. If someone said, ‘You can’t do it,’ I’d think, ‘Yes, actually I can and I’ll show you I can.’ I used to do that a lot and I still like doing that to this day. I like nothing more than proving people wrong.” These days, when Edwards isn’t doing “Eddie the Eagle work”—motivational talks and TV and radio appearances—he works in construction, following in his dad’s footsteps. “I build houses and extensions. I’m a roofer a plasterer. It keeps me grounded,” he says. “It keeps me fit. It keeps me active. It means I’ll always have a job. I don’t have to rely on doing media stuff and PR. I do enjoy it though. It takes me all over the country, all over the world. But when I go through months without doing any of it, I go back to my construction work where I’m happy as a Larry.” His wishes for “Eddie the Eagle” are simple. “I hope that people will enjoy it for 90 minutes, will be entertained by it and be inspired by it,” says Edwards, the divorced father of two daughters, Honey and Ottilie. “Hopefully people will begin to understand just what it was like for me to get to those Olympic Games. Some of the media was, quite, uh, well, how do I say it, ‘unkind’? “They had a preconceived idea of what Eddie the Eagle was all about. They thought I was a laugh or a joke. They were taking the Mickey out of all of that. When they see the film, I’m hoping they see just what it took for me to get to those Olympic games. Me getting there was my gold medal.”

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Chandler gearing up to show off local artists’ musical prowess

Marjorie Rice » The Entertainer! n April 2, stand on a sidewalk in downtown Chandler, close your eyes and you may think you’ve been transported to New Orleans’ French Quarter, with strains of jazz coming from every direction. On that spring Saturday, jazz performers will set up on the sidewalks in front of five downtown shops to entertain music fans as part of the 17th annual Chandler Jazz Festival, April 1 and 2. Admission is free. The event kicks off Friday night, with a blues vibe on the new Main Stage in the Downtown Library Plaza, 178 E. Commonwealth Avenue. It swings into the sidewalk jazz on Saturday, followed by a night of jazz on the Main Stage. Blues bands include the Levi Platero Band, Paul Cruize and the Blues Crew and headliners RD Olson Blues Band. Saturday night’s Main Stage action kicks off with the South Mountain Community College Latin Jazz Big Band, followed by the Gabriel Mark Hasselbach Quintet and winding up with headliners El Chicano. And that’s not all. In addition to the sidewalk music, blues and jazz entertainers will perform at the Ostrich Lounge, El Zocalo,

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Vintage 95 and the Original Chop Shop restaurants. Each night ends with a jam session at Vintage 95. The festival has been swinging downtown Chandler since 2000, and it’s grown to become Arizona’s largest free jazz event, with music, a beer and wine garden, vendors, food trucks and more. Bart Salzman is artistic director and founder of the festival. He got the gig in 1992, when Rich Dlugas, then director of community services for Chandler, asked him to put together a festival to draw people downtown. “Chandler had a Jazz Fest,” Salzman says, “But they had it in a park east of downtown and they wanted to bring it to the center of the city. My vision was to create a French Quarter feel with music everywhere. I made a couple of calls, and in a week we had $10,000 and sponsors, and we put on a festival in April 2000. In 17 years we’ve never missed a beat.” Salzman, himself a jazz trumpeter, runs the festival as a consultant for the City. “Each year we’ve attracted more famous performers and a bigger budget,” he says. “Typically we get 10,000 people over the two days, depending on the weather.” New this year is the permanent Main Stage, in the park next to the downtown library. That required a change

in scheduling, Salzman says. “The stage has no shade, so we’re not able to put bands on the stage until 5 p.m. We used to have local bands during Saturday afternoon, so we now have a lot more stuff in restaurants and on sidewalks during the day on Saturday. “We want people to know that there’s a lot going on Saturday, starting at 2:30.” Music fans can wander through downtown, shopping, snacking and enjoying the sidewalk sounds, then spread out on the grass for the evening, or head to restaurants where some of the headliner bands also will play after their Main Stage performances. And after the main show each night, they can check out the jam sessions at Vintage 95. “Those are unbelievable fun,” Salzman says. The festival includes all types of jazz–blues, old standards, modern, vocalists–again, echoing New Orleans’ eclectic mix. “If you go stand in the middle of downtown Chandler you’ll get that blending,” Salzman says. “I love that feel–it’s an exciting vibe, that’s what we try to create.” It’s called a jazz festival but Friday night the blues rule. “Glendale used to have a jazz and blues festival,” Salzman says. “They stopped doing that three years ago, and we decided to bring those bands and those fans to Chandler. We get a whole different crowd on blues night,

which is a lot of fun. “On the blues side, the Phoenix Blues Society is the sponsor. They’re my partners in picking the blues bands. We have three of the finest blues bands around. The first is from Albuquerque. They’re young guys who are really hot. The Levi Platero Band. Paul Cruize is a fixture here. He’s got the unbelievable Royce Murray on organ. And the R.D. Olson Blues Band is the real deal blues. Vocal and harmonica-led, RD Olson is the band leader. They just came back from the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. They were the top winners in the Arizona competition for blues bands. They’ve been around a long time.” Jazz night headliners El Chicano has been a standout in L.A. Latino Rock for upward of 40 years, with various artists over the years. “They’re like Santana,” Salzman says. “They’re every bit as good but they have day jobs and don’t tour as much. It’s primarily Latin pop and jazz. They get a huge audience every time.”

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Fans apparently find Fall Out Boy ‘Irresistible’

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or Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman, his home life with his wife and 2-yearold daughter seem like they would juxtapose his professional career. But, like his 15-year run with Fall Out Boy, his daughter is aging at the blink of an eye. “I just took my daughter, who’s almost 2, to a preschool just to see if she liked it and to see if they liked us,” Trohman says via telephone from his Los Angeles-area home. “I was looking at these kids and thinking about by the time they’re my age, I’m going to be in my 60s. That is crazy and I can’t believe I’m already in my 30s. I can’t believe I have a child and that I’m taking her to preschools. Time, in general, has gone by so quickly. Ten years is a blip and it’s been 15 years. In my head I’m the same age, but in the mirror I am not the same age.” In the here and now, Trohman— along with bandmates Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz and Andy Hurley—is on tour promoting Fall Out Boy’s latest album, American Beauty/American Psycho, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. “We’re pretty surprised with the success of [2013’s] Save Rock ‘n’ Roll and American Beauty, it’s still rolling,” he says “We’re very blown away because the same people could have forgotten us when we went away. They embraced us when we came back. They could have gotten sick of us and yet they embraced us. We’ve gotten really lucky.” He’s referring to Fall Out Boy’s more than two-year hiatus, during which each musician explored other artistic endeavors. Stump embarked on a solo career, while Wentz formed the electronic duo Black Cards with vocalist Bebe Rexha. He also penned a novel, “Gray,” and hosted the reality tattoo show “Best Ink.” Hurley played with several rock bands, including The Damned Things with Trohman, Every Time I Die’s Keith Buckley and Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano. Upon reuniting, the catch was all four guys had to return to Fall Out Boy.

“There was a guy who worked for a record label in Japan,” Trohman says. “When he heard our band was on hiatus, he was talking to our manager and he said, you take this band and this band and this band and that sounds like Fall Out Boy together. “If you took Fall Out Boy and separated them, together that would make the cake. We have all of the ingredients. We realize you can’t come back and remove an aspect of the band, meaning a member of the band, and still be the band.” Fall Out Boy is celebrating the success of American Beauty/American Psycho with the re-release of the single “Irresistible,” this time featuring the vocals of Demi Lovato. “When we recorded the song for the first time, we tried female vocals on it,” he says. “They weren’t working, but we knew we wanted a female voice on the song. We ended up releasing the song on the record without that aspect. “I hate using the word ‘organic;’ it’s the most overused word. But it was a natural progression and it came about to include Demi. The moment she started tracking it, it sounded great and here we are. We’re realizing the song the way we wanted to release it in the first place.” Fans may hear that song when Fall Out Boy plays Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix on Friday, March 25. “It’s a different production,” he says. “Were trying to change up the setlist and throw some songs in that we haven’t played much, before, at all before, or songs we haven’t played in a long time. “We have a lot of songs, which is a good place to be in. It’s easy for us to do a setlist of hit songs, but I think that can get monotonous. There’s a time and place for the hit song setlist. With a tour like this, we want to go through our catalog and find fan favorites that we haven’t done in while.”

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he Avett Brothers have an intimate relationship with Father Time. Sure, it sounds like an odd statement, but bassist/ vocalist Bob Crawford is pretty convincing when he mentions that the mythical figure appears on Live, Vol. Four. “We’ve got a good relationship with Father Time, which is really special and exciting,” Crawford says of the album that was released December 18. “We always like for him to do a song with us. When you’re dealing with Father Time, you really have to choose the right song.” Mystery revealed: Father Time is really Valient Himself, of the Southern heavy metal band Valient Thorr. Recorded in Raleigh, North Carolina, on December 31, 2014, Live, Vol. Four features 14 tracks, including four covers and two unreleased songs. Crawford says, besides reining in Father Time for a NYE show, preparation is minimal for a live CD. Same goes for the band’s nerves. WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

“I really don’t sense that,” he says about the anxiety level of The Avett Brothers before a NYE gig. “Once the preparation for how many balloons are we going to have, what time do you shoot off the confetti canon, when do you drop a certain banner [things cool down],” he says. “I would think the prep is more on our crew than us; the guys who have to pull off the lights and the sounds. There’s more pressure on them.” Crawford and the rest of The Avett Brothers—Scott Avett on vocals/banjo/ kick drums; Seth Avett, vocals/guitars/high hat; keyboardist Paul Defiglia; violinist Tania Elizabeth; cellist Joe Kwon and drummer Mike Marsh—return to Phoenix to play the McDowell Mountain Music Festival on Sunday, March 13. Crawford says The Avett Brothers will play a few new tracks from an album that’s due out in the summer, perhaps. But that’s all he’ll say. “The only thing I’ll say about it is we, for the first time, recorded with a seven-piece band,” he says. “We’ve never done that before. That alone will make it unique.” He’s chattier when The Avett Brothers’ last album, 2013’s Magpie and the Dandelion, as well as its predecessor,

2012’s The Carpenter. “That was such a weird time period,” Crawford says. “They were both recorded in the same window of time. “We put out The Carpenter and that got a lot more behind it than Magpie ever did. We don’t bury our heads in the sand and we’re not completely aloof as to how something is perceived or how successful it is.” That’s not something on which Crawford or his bandmates focus. “For us, it’s the creation of the record that’s the memorable point,” he says. “Once it’s released, however, how well it does or does not do is technically out of our hands. “I will say this about our two records. We recorded all of these songs and when we released The Carpenter, we didn’t know what was going to happen to the rest of the songs. “Six, seven, eight months went by and Rick [Rubin, producer] started playing with the tracks we had remaining.” He and The Avett Brothers found that the songs could work as a standalone collection. “It was amazing how thematically different Magpie is from The Carpenter,”

The Avett Brothers return to the stage for MMMF Crawford explains. “So in that respect, I’m really proud of Magpie. It was compiled and released so far away from the time it was recorded that it really gave us, well, me, the opportunity to be disassociated from it and be distant from it. “I remember listening to it before it came out. I would listen to it like I wasn’t in the band. There was something about that distance that made it appealing in the songs and the vibe of the record.” Magpie and The Carpenter aside, Crawford is looking forward to playing his new songs at the McDowell Mountain Music Festival. “It’ll be our third show of the year,” he says. “Hopefully we remember how to play the songs. We’re looking forward to getting back out there. We’ve been off since November. It’s time to get back to work.”

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aynard James Keenan is, admittedly, a smack-talking Irishman. Whether he’s fronting Tool or Puscifer, Keenan maintains a theatrical show, but in discussing it, the conversation soon turns questionable. “It’s always a challenge when you take on theatrical elements, combining that with just performing,” says Keenan, who performs with Puscifer on Friday, March 18, at the Comerica Theatre. “You have to make sure that you’re delivering a song in the manner that you like and it feels effective. It’s about kind of finding that perfect balance between tapping into that emotional side and tripping over the props or getting in the way of the show itself. This time out, though, we have an actual Lucha Libre ring on the stage to make sure you’re navigating the rope properly.” Besides the problems navigating the stage, or “ring,” Arizona-based Keenan finds it challenging to get Puscifer’s music heard, specifically its latest album Money Shot. “Were an independent project,” says Keenan, who runs vineyards in Jerome. “Many years ago, a lot of things used to be able to survive in the middle. Now there’s a big huge hole in the middle. It’s like very commercial stuff gets pushed on your plate and very independent things go unnoticed. To make your mark, you have to put the work in.”

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Keenan adds that it’s frustrating, but it’s part of the work. “We’ve gotten used to putting less effort in and getting a lot more back,” he says. “We’re going to move again to a time where that’s not going to be the case anymore.” The writing process for Money Shot, Puscifer’s third studio album, was centered around Arizona and California. “We were traveling a lot for the first [album],” he says. “We were in hotels, in venues, in a bus, in studios around the country. It was a little schizophrenic in terms of capturing that traveling energy. “These last two were written in Arizona. That environment is going to affect you as an artist. You’re going to be influenced by what you see. It’s our own version of a local first movement.” Money Shot, which features Keenan’s 20-year-old cellist son, Devo, marks an increased presence of Carina Round, whose vocals blend well with Keenan. “She’s a firecracker,” he says. “We were born about three days apart, several years apart, though. We are cut from the same s--- talking Irish mold. We definitely complement each other and we work really well together.”

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ocated in the heart of the Legends Entertainment District, the Hard Rock Café is a musical oasis in a desert of sports. Residents and outof-state fans who congregate to see any of the myriad of sports teams who call downtown Phoenix home, can get a taste—literally and figuratively—of the area’s music scene as well. The restaurants’ memorabilia cater to each café’s location. The Phoenix restaurant boasts collectibles from local heroes like Stevie Nicks and Alice Cooper. Sales and marketing assistant Kenton Wells says the “severed” Cooper head is a fun piece to show visitors. “It’s kind of nice to come in here,” adds Anthony Sciarpelletti, the sales and marketing manager for the café. “You order your food and then you can get up and you walk around, and then by the time you are done walking around, your food is ready.” The Hard Rock Café in Phoenix doesn’t necessarily only show memorabilia from Arizona musicians. “We have had kind of a passing of some huge legends in the month or so,” Sciarpelletti says. “We just happen to have a guitar signed by Glenn Fry from the Eagles in here and we also have the David Bowie outfit over there with the velvet pants,” Sciarpelletti explains.

Sure there are memorabilia on the walls and souvenirs that are perfect for every guest, but Wells and Sciarpelletti want visitors to know that the Hard Rock is more than that. It boasts a full menu, including the Local Legendary—a burger that is prepared with a Valley flair—and the Veggie Leggie, a patty topped with a grilled Portobello mushroom, zucchini, yellow squash and roasted red pepper. Additionally, the café gives back to the community. Sales of the Guinness and Jameson Bacon Cheeseburger benefit the Phoenix Fire Department. Other offers are aplenty. Although downtown Phoenix isn’t home to a Spring Training facility, guests who stay in hotels surrounding the Hard Rock for those games are treated to specials. The restaurant’s street team also encourages passersby to dine in. Even without the fun offers, Hard Rock is welcoming. With employees singing along to music inside and outside, Hard Rock Café’s vibe oozes rock ‘n’ roll. “If you look around, a lot of the staff really encompasses rock ‘n’ roll,” Sciarpelletti says. “They have the different colored hair. They are a lot of fun people.”

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Welcome to The Entertainer!’s newest section, “The Tourist,” a great addition for the more than 40 million visitors to our state, as well as locals, most of which come to us from all over the country. But we’re not stopping at the border. Anything within a day’s drive is fair game, so expect us to also clue you in to popular destinations of merit which may only be a tank of gas away. Whether it be nightlife, natural wonders, golf, resort diversions, amazing cuisine or one-of-a-kind attractions, let us point out the best of the mileposts. As we peel back the first few pages of what’s in store, we’ll bet you find more than one item that should be on your bucket list. Enjoy!

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CrackerJax Family Fun and Sports Park The entire family will be entertained at CrackerJax! Experience a variety of attractions including go karts, 18hole miniature golf course, 300-yard golf driving range with two levels and 66 bays, bumper boats, batting cages, the Bungee Dome, Alien Invasion Laser Tag, volleyball courts, Water Wars arcade, restaurant and more. Ideal for birthday parties and corporate events of all sizes. Open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; and 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Driving range is open at 8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, and 8:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. 1601 N. Scottsdale Rd. Scottsdale, 85254, Call 480.998.2800, CrackerJax.com

Rick Bronson’s House of Comedy Enjoy the best comedy club in the city, showcasing the absolute brightest stand-up comedy stars! Experience a world-class showroom, delicious food and full-bar service. Arrive early and visit The Heckler Lounge, a great place to meet, see live close-up magic and later, hang out with the comics after the show. The club is located on High Street (formerly City North) in Phoenix’s North Valley—one of the country’s hottest entertainment districts. Open Tuesday through Sunday, with additional performances on Fridays and Saturdays. The Heckler opens for happy hour daily. 5350 E. High Street, Suite 105, Phoenix, 85054, Call 480.420.3553, HouseOfComedy.net

O.K. Corral Visit the actual site of Tombstone, Arizona’s legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and see Wyatt Earp and “Doc” Holliday in daily reenactments. There are life-sized animatronic figures of the eight-gun fighters, too. Experience the Corral as it was in the 1880s, with working blacksmiths, antique cowboy gear, western buggies and four museum displays. Ticket includes admission to multimedia Tombstone history show and a copy of the October 26, 1881, Tombstone Epitaph newspaper with original reports of the gunfight. 326 E. Allen Street, Tombstone 85638, 520.457.3456, okcorral.com

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RIDING THE EDGE

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rand Canyon river guides Wes Neal and Kyle George had a simple idea: encourage Grand Canyon National Park visitors to spend more time outside of their vehicles by offering bike rentals inside the park. In 2010, they managed to secure access to a 28-square-foot “shack” at the South Rim and together they launched their bike rental business, Bright Angel Bicycles & Mather Point Café. The timing was perfect for their venture. In 2008, the Park Service developed miles of pedestrian- and bikeonly “greenway” trails along the rim, including three miles of the original wagon road out to the Hermit’s Rest—which today is the western end of the South Rim’s paved road. The park’s development of new rim-side trails means that more of the park than ever is open to biking. Neal and George rented more than 6,000 bikes out of the shack in their first year of business. In 2012, the partners competed against much larger companies to win a game-changing 10-year Park Service contract. Since this success, they’ve moved from the original shack into a

1,200-square-foot building. Neal and George have also added a coffee shop and café, which serves fresh food from local Flagstaff businesses. I decided to pay Bright Angel Bicycles a visit on an exceptionally beautiful weekend. When I pulled into the parking lot by the visitor center, I quickly spotted rows of bikes and knew I was in the right place. My girlfriend and I gave our basic information like height and biking experience before a BAB employee picked out two hybrid bikes for us. A hybrid bike is a mixture between a mountain and road bike. BAB’s bikes have big comfortable seats and let you enjoy the canyon views from a more upright position than other styles. After helping us adjust our helmets to a perfect fit, we were ready to hit the trail. It was a beautiful day with a few wispy clouds and the perfect temperature as we began our adventure. We quickly left the crowds at the visitor center behind as we progressed down the greenway. I felt a bit giddy as we peddled along because I love bikes and I love national parks, but this was the first time I’d combined the two. Are we really allowed to ride here like this? Yes. In a short time, we approached the first of many canyon vistas on our ride. Naturally, the view was stunning, and after taking it in for a moment, we peddled on down the trail. This is when I began to learn the first rule of biking the Grand Canyon: when you approach people meandering along the rim, ring your bike bell, which all of BAB’s bikes have, early and loud to let them know you are coming. This is smart practice because visitors near the rim of the Grand Canyon are usually in something of a trance. The mile-deep gulf presents the viewer with a wall of silence, shape and color that is so unlike anything encountered in everyday life, it is a bit mesmerizing. We opted for the 7-mile roundtrip ride out to Yaki Point and back. The

paved greenway winds its way close to the rim for most of the journey. Views of the canyon appear frequently, and sometimes the trail is just a few feet from the rim. The ride was mostly flat, with just a few gentle ups and downs. On bikes we seemed to move from vista to vista in a surprisingly short time. I had only experienced the Grand Canyon pullouts by car, so biking in and out of them and past carbound tourists made us feel as if we had VIP access to the rim. It could have been more my imagination than reality, but as we breezed by people on our comfortable bikes, I often sensed people thinking, “Why didn’t we think of that?” Our ride out to Yaki Point and back was the perfect adventure for us, but with so many paved trails open to bikes, there are lots of different adventures that can be put together. Neal says that the 5.5-mile section of the greenway trail along the Hermit Road is one of the best rides in the park. During nonwinter months, Bright Angel Bicycles operates a shuttle service between Hermit’s Rest and Hopi point, so customers can enjoy the downhill ride down to Hermit Rest without having to sweat the uphill. BAB also leads guided bike tours that provide guests with information on the history and geology of various points of interests. After returning our bikes, we felt like we’d had a full day of adventure at the Grand Canyon, but we decided to make another stop: a window-side table at the El Tovar Hotel cocktail lounge was calling us.

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Christina Fuoco-Karasinski » The Entertainer! l Volo’s Piero Barone is pumped up—literally and figuratively. The charming singer in the Italian “popera” trio is pumped about Il Volo’s U.S. tour as well as the workout he just finished at a RitzCarlton “somewhere in America.” “I can’t wait to bring our show to Phoenix,” he says. “It’s been two long years.” Barone is joined in Il Volo by baritone Gianluca Ginoble and fellow tenor Ignazio Boschetto, all of whom practically grew up in the public’s eye. As teenagers, Ginoble, Barone and Boschetto were discovered on an Italian singing competition show “Ti Lascio Una Canzone” in 2009. They performed solo until the show’s creator put the three together to create a trio similar to The Three Tenors (Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti). By the fourth show, the three young men were singing together. The 23-year-old bespectacled Barone says he didn’t mind aging in the spotlight. That maturation is evident on Il Volo’s fifth studio album, Grand Amore, and on its PBS special, “Il Volo: Live from Pompeii.” But there’s always that image to uphold. “It’s great doing PBS special,” Barone says with a laugh in his thick Italian accent. “But you have to fix all the time your hair and put on makeup. We have to concentrate [in front of cameras], you’re not just with the boys, you have to improve your image.” It’s not that Il Volo’s image was tarnished. Teenage girls—and their mothers—scream so loudly at concerts

that Barone says it makes it hard to sing. The band’s career is shining brightly, too, having won awards here and abroad. Barone has a couple special places in his home for them. “We bring them home to put in our wall,” he says. “In my house, I have the award wall. I put all these awards in my wall, yes. I put the awards in the bathroom, too. Every time you go to pee you see your awards.” While Barone is a big fan of Pavarotti and Domingo, he listens to plenty of American music to get him jacked at the gym. “At the gym, I always listen to Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Pink—all these artists who get me up,” he says. “We perform four to five concerts per week. If it’s a concert day, we do just cardio, then when we have a day off, we do weights. The gym is crucial for our way of life.”

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Every Picture Tells a Story THROUGH MARCH 13 Art and hands-on activities are a part of this unique exhibit which focuses on the wildlife and vegetation that inspires American Indian artists. Visit vast grassy plains, the Southwestern desert, the Red Colorado Plateau, the gently flowing Rio Grande, forested Great Lakes, the rocky ocean Northwest coast and the icy Arctic tundra. Each geographic display includes an activity that families can create together. Heard Museum 2301 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix 602.252.8840 heard.org

Evita THROUGH MARCH 20 Andrew Lloyd Weber’s powerful play about Argentina’s Eva Peron may have been made famous by its big screen adaptation starring Madonna, but the stage version, based on the book and lyrics by Tim Rice dates back to the mid-1970’s. Phoenix Theatre – Mainstage Theatre Phoenix Theatre 100 E. McDowell Road, Phoenix 602.254.2151 phoenixtheatre.com

VICKI LAWRENCE & MAMA MARCH 5

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Ravel’s Bloero MARCH 4 AND MARCH 5 Guest conductor Andrew Grams joins the Phoenix Symphony alongside pianist Pascal Roge for a production of Maurice Ravel’s most famous work, which features the longest-sustained single orchestral crescendo. Presented by the Phoenix Symphony Phoenix Symphony Hall 75 N. Second Street, Phoenix 602.495.1999 phoenixsymphony.org

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MARCH 4 THROUGH MARCH 20 The legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as told by Monty Python! This hilarious comedy, based on the movie from 1975 was named “Best Musical” at the Tony Awards. Be warned...the show contains adult themes and mature language. Mesa Arts Center One E. Main Street, Mesa 480.644.6500 mesaencoretheatre.com

Vicki Lawrence & Mama: A Two Woman Show MARCH 5 Vicki Lawrence came to stardom when she was chosen to star opposite Carol Burnett on the popular variety show. One of her most memorable characters, “Mama,” earned a spinoff series of her own and delighted audiences on television for years. Her “two-woman” show promises to be a mixture of comedy, music and observations of real life. Chandler Center for the Arts 250 N. Arizona Avenue, Chandler 480.782.2680 chandlercenter.org

Quilters: A Musical MARCH 11 THROUGH MARCH 27 Interrelated scenes filled with music, dance and drama depict the life of women living on the frontier. From girlhood, to childhood to spinsterhood, their stories are told with love, warmth and lively humor. A theatrical production woven together, much like a quilt. Fountain Hills Community Theatre 11445 N. Saguaro Boulevard, Fountain Hills 480.837.9661 fhct.org

Crystal Trio MARCH 12 Hailing from Siberia, Russia, this music trio brings a medley of music ranging from well-known classics to modern pieces, all performed on instruments made of glass to the contemporary stage. “Glass Music,” is an ancient art, which has had success dating back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Higley Center for the Performing Arts 4132 E. Pecos Road, Gilbert 480.279.7194 higleycenter.org

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder MARCH 15 THROUGH MARCH 20 Direct from Broadway and named “Best Musical” by the Tony Awards in 2014, this hilarious comedy is about— you guessed it—murder. A distant heir to a family fortune tries to bump up his place in line by eliminating the relatives that stand in his way! ASU Gammage 1200 S. Forest Avenue, Tempe 480.965.3434 asugammage.com

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill MARCH 16 THROUGH APRIL 3 Relive that legendary night in musical history. Billie Holiday, on a

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Rita Rudner MARCH 17 Rita Rudner holds the title of being the longest-running solo headline in Las Vegas history, performing more than 2,000 times, over the course of 12 years and selling more than 1.5 million tickets. Rudner takes her act on the road, along with her quick wit, intelligences and observations about life. 1090 S. Vulture Mine Road, Wickenburg 928.684.6624 dewpac.org

Today’s Masters MARCH 24 THROUGH 27 Celebrate Spring with a program of varied works featuring choreographers from across the world. Come early and stay after the production for “inside look” chats. The program includes works from the resident choreographer at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Ballet Arizona Artistic Director Ib Andersen, and more.

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Acoustic Africa with Habib Koité and Vusi Mahlasela MARCH 25 Not only does the world-renowned Musical Instrument Museum educate through a variety of permanent and ever-changing exhibits, its musical theater brings the world’s music to our doorstep. Enjoy a performance of African traditions of voice and song with Habib Koité and Vusi Mahlasela. The MIM Music Theatre 4725 E. Mayo Boulevard, Phoenix 480.478.6000 themim.org

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David Archuleta MARCH 25 Fans of the popular music competition show will recognize David Archuleta from season seven of “American Idol.” While he only came in as “runner-up,” his musical career has been anything but second best. His first single debuted at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. From his Christmas album, to performing for the troops, Archuleta has seen commercial success. Queen Creek Performing Arts Center, 22149 E. Ocotillo Road, Queen Creek 480.987.SHOW (7469) qcpac.com

FLAMENCO KINGS MARCH 25

Flamenco Kings starring Los Vivancos MARCH 25 Los Vivancos is comprised of seven brothers educated in different cities around the world. The family has a loyal commitment to flamenco and has performed in front of over a million people globally. The fastpaced, upbeat performance will feature choreographed numbers comprised of music, martial arts, and of course, flamenco. Chandler Center for the Arts 250 N. Arizona Avenue, Chandler 480.782.2680 chandlercenter.org

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MARCH 25 THROUGH APRIL 9 Mesa’s Southwest Shakespeare Company always makes the literary giant’s hits and lesser-known pieces accessible to all audiences. This production is known as one of Shakespeare’s most romantic comedies, deliciously dark and filled with mistaken identities and misdirected passions. Expect an “entertaining cocktail of comic confusion!” Presented by Southwest Shakespeare Company Mesa Arts Center One E. Main Street, Mesa 480.644.6500 swshakespeare.org

Bruce Munro: Sonoran Light THROUGH MAY 8 Visit the Desert Botanical Garden on select nights and be immersed in the beauty of the desert and view eight large-scale, light-based installations created by British artist Bruce Muno. Each one uses an array of materials and hundreds of miles of fiber optic lights. Desert Botanical Garden 1201 N. Galvin Parkway, Phoenix 480 941.1225 dbg.org

POPnology ONGOING Discover how pop culture has impacted technology at the Arizona Science Center. Yesterday’s science fiction is today’s reality. Four featured areas explore science and technology in everyday human life. The 9,000 square foot exhibit includes props from popular movies, hand-on robotics, an Autopia car from Disneyland and much, much more! Arizona Science Center 600 E. Washington Street, Phoenix 602.716.2000 azscience.org

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attended a musical theater performance last month and understood every word. Well, alright, a few words got lost in songwriter Jason Robert Brown’s complex part-writing and in the high notes. But I understood 95 percent of what was being sung and said. Why is that remarkable? Because the venue was ASU Gammage. “We’ve known about the acoustic complications of presenting Broadway shows in a house built for symphony orchestras for a long time,” says Michael Reed, ASU Gammage’s senior director of programs and organizational initiatives. “But we needed at least a million dollars to do something with real impact.” Last summer, they found the money as part of a 50th-anniversary fundraising campaign, and got to work. The result, 44 new speakers later, is a vastly improved acoustics for the Southwest’s major purveyor of touring Broadway productions. What was wrong before? Nothing, really, provided the performance was not miked. Gammage was, and indeed, still is, a perfectly designed acoustic environment for nonamplified sound. When Frank Lloyd

Wright conceived the structure, he made sure to consult acousticians who understood how symphony orchestras and jazz bands and every other form of naturally produced music might project instantly from the stage to the back of the house—which in the case of 3,000-capacity Gammage, was quite a distance. For more than a quarter century after Gammage opened in 1964, the house was the acoustically friendly home to some of the greatest classical music performers on the planet. I recall hearing a Boston Symphony Orchestra performance in which every stand of violins glowed, and a recital by legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz playing Rachmaninoff, and projecting every nuance into the massive hall. Then, in the 1990s, came the big change to Broadway musicals. Broadway musicals were popular in a way that classical music was not, and capable of generating revenue. There was only one problem. Broadway shows were amplified, but the miking didn’t throw the sound into the audience as quickly as the natural, acoustic production did. This resulted in audience members hearing the sound twice: first, as the perfectly

delivered acoustic sound of the singers and orchestra, and then—frustrating nanoseconds later—the miked “ghost” of the acoustic sound. Words and notes arrived at the ear just slightly out of phase, like seeing a color picture out of register, and it made comprehension difficult. I recall seeing a production of “Porgy and Bess,” a piece I know very well, and not being able to discern the familiar words at all. But last month at the musical version of “Bridges of Madison County,” I heard everything with amazing clarity. What did they do to fix it? “We now have way more distribution [of sound] throughout the house, with 64 speakers instead of 20,” Reed says. The speakers are strategically placed to make sure everyone hears what’s being said or sung at the same time. “The timing from spot to spot in the house is within hundredths of seconds,” Reed adds. Each production brings its own sound package, so adjustments will be made from show to show to ensure good acoustics. “The sound will improve with each show,” Reed promises. Now, can we talk about the parking at Gammage? WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

‘LAND OF THE ’ DIVINE Chinese art comes to life with Shen Yun

nearly forgotten culture will come to life in this awe-inspiring performance from the nonprofit Shen Yun Performing Arts. Shen Yun 2016 will combine a live orchestra, classically trained dancers and an animated backdrop that will transport the audience back to the “Land of the Divine.” The 40-piece orchestra will play a diverse selection of Chinese folk songs and traditional melodies as 60 dancers dressed in customary fashion fill the stage. Behind them, a 30-foot backdrop full of animated scenes including the Tibetan mountains and the Dai Village will captivate the crowd. The interactive screen will add an exciting element to this already remarkable show. In the story “The Fable of the Magic Brush,” a woman is saved and rewards her rescuer with a paintbrush that turns his art into reality. When the rescuer paints on the interactive screen during Shen Yun, his artwork will come to life before the eyes of WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

the audience. The Shen Yun Orchestra is highly impressive. Each production is complete with music that is unique to that show, written by internationally recognized composers. The orchestra combines traditional Chinese music with western sounds, resulting in the perfect marriage of modern and and ancient instruments like the pipa and erhu, bringing together cultures to generate extraordinarily new sounds. Shen Yun cannot be seen in China today, where its 5,000-year-old culture has all but disappeared. Today, the thought of divine beings and mortals coexisting is intimidating to the Communist regime. Ancient stories and tales that have been passed down from generation to generation are now banned or altered in the country. However, the traditions continue to live on through Shen Yun in other parts of the globe, bringing over 20 mystical legends of heroes swimming with dragons and heavenly beings walking on land to the stage.

For close to a decade, Shen Yun has astounded more than five million people in 30 countries and four continents with their breathtaking performances. Their production presents a myriad of Chinese tales like the stories of the fierce heroine Mulan and General Yue Fei, through grand musical performances, extravagant period costumes and beautifully choreographed dance numbers. Shen Yun invites you to the Orpheum Theatre on Thursday, March 31, through Wednesday April 6. Tickets range from $60 to $149. Grab your seats today and experience China’s 5,000-year history in one extraordinary performance.

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harles Bruffy is starting to lose track of how many Grammy nominations and wins his recordings have won. “It’s a lot,” he says, and the choral conductor not bragging: it is a lot. As of last month’s awards ceremony of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, 12 nominations and five Grammy Awards have gone to Bruffyconducted recordings. Three of the wins involved the Phoenix Chorale, which Bruffy has music-directed since 1999. He’s also led the Kansas City Chorale since 1988. In 2015, Bruffy’s Phoenix and Kansas City chorales combined to record Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil on the occasion of the massive work’s 100th anniversary. On Feb. 15 of this year, that CD won the Phoenix Chorale’s and Bruffy’s latest Grammy: Best Choral Performance. “It’s always exciting to win. That doesn’t get old,” says Bruffy by phone from Scottsdale’s Arabian Horse Show. (Bruffy owns a horse farm near Kansas City, Missouri.) “But I have to tell you, the wait for the announcement gets more and more excruciating. We were the 39th award to be announced. How many times can you listen to, ‘And the Grammy goes to...’”? The wait was all the harder, Bruffy says, because “both choirs were involved and this was such an important piece.” The Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil is considered a landmark in the history of sacred music. The Phoenix Chorale/ Kansas City Chorale CD was released last year on March 15, the exact centenary of the work’s world premiere in Russia. “I don’t mean to jinx it, but every recording my choirs have been nominated for has come home a winner.” That doesn’t mean every nomination has won. This year, for example, the AllNight Vigil was also nominated for Best Engineering, Classical, and lost. But every CD nominated has brought home at least one prize. Previous winners for The Phoenix Chorale were Best Engineered Album, Classical for “Grechaninov, Passion Week” (2008) and Best Small Ensemble Performance for “Spotless Rose” (2009). All-Night Vigil was already a major event in the world of choral music when it won the Grammy. The Chandos CD spent five weeks on Billboard’s classical charts, ranked No. 1 on three Amazon

sales charts (Opera/Vocal, Chamber, and Classical), and was featured on iTunes “First Play.” What has Bruffy done, in 17 years at the helm of the Phoenix Chorale, to achieve such stature? After taking a moment to consider the question, the conductor answers: “The one thing predominant in my approach with these wonderfully skilled singers is to turn what starts out as beautiful sound into something that is compellingly meaningful.” The aliveness of the choir’s sound owes not only to the notes, but the words. “Unlike other musical ensembles, we have the challenge and the grace of having text to deal with,” Bruffy muses, “and so the way we approach articulation of the words, the pronunciation of them, and how long the consonants take and the vowels take and the diphthongs take—all that impacts one’s perception of what is heard.” It also helps that the Phoenix Chorale sings and performs together regularly. “Some of the other nominees this year have their singers flown in,” Bruffy observes. “But we have singers who live here in the Valley and work together all the time. That in no small way contributes to the way we sound.” The Phoenix Chorale is one of very few choirs in the nation considered “professional,” which means its member are paid a modest salary to participate. What is the salary of a Phoenix Chorale member? “No more than it was before the Grammy win” is Bruffy’s gnomic answer. Since All-Night Vigil is a Russian work, the question naturally arises: Will the Phoenix and Kansas City chorales take the piece to the land of the bear? “I’ve been talking with some people in Germany and Russia” about tours, Bruffy says, but he is not willing to comment further. What’s next for Bruffy and the Phoenix Chorale? “So many pieces need exposure, pieces with historic value and newly written scores. But hell, I don’t really know what’s next. I love the one I’m with!” You can hear the Phoenix Chorale perform American folk music in concert March 4, March 5 and March 6 at various Valley venues. Go to phoenixchorale.org for more information.

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What movie should you see this month? Ask our experts! JOSEPH’S MOVIE OF THE MONTH:

“Jack of the Red Hearts”

“Jack of the Red Hearts” is a genuinely moving drama that works on as variety of levels. It will undoubtedly speak to parents of children with a disability of any kind, demonstrating the difficulties of such a situation with absolute honesty. However, it is also a much more universally touching tale as it addresses the power of human connection to transform us and assist us in our search for redemption. Star AnnaSophia Robb’s performance is authentic and affecting while the story itself - and its assorted facets—amps up the empathy aspect without resorting to syrupy sweetness. RANDY’S MOVIE OF THE MONTH:

“Deadpool”

It is not often that my “pick of the month” is a Hollywood blockbuster and never has it been a Marvel “super hero” movie. But, there is a first for everything! In this case, this Ryan Reynolds action/comedy works on all levels. It is a unique and entertaining, raunchy take on the traditional comic book flick; it is a hilarious and well-written comedy and it succeeds in the action department. Not only did opening weekend break box office records, it may signal a change in the genre.

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Typically when a Coen Brothers picture goes wrong, it does so in the second half—after a brilliant beginning, the story collapses over the Coens’ distaste for providing dramatic payoffs. But this spoof of mid-century Hollywood, in which doltish leading man George Clooney is kidnapped right off the set of the Biblical epic in which he’s starring, rewards patience with a painfully slow opening act. As its various silly subplots progress and intertwine, it begins to find genuine laughs, and some heart. As growly, harried studio boss Eddie Mannix, Josh Brolin underplays and holds the ensemble cast together.

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JOSEPH J. AIRDO is a film critic, producer and on-air personality for “Breakthrough Entertainment,” a talk radio show airing 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturdays on KPHX 1480 AM and BreakRadioShow.com, which shines a spotlight on the practical perspectives of the topics and themes explored in movies. He has a pet duck named Frozen who is as opinionated about movies as he is. Email him at joseph.airdo@gmail.com.

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“The Program” R - 103 MINUTES

Chris O’Dowd plays an Irish sports journalist who becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong’s performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong (Ben Foster). Opens March 18.

PG-13 - 90 MINUTES

Clive Owen plays a down-on-his luck carpenter tasked with entertaining his young son. But when his prized toolbox is stolen, a quiet father-and-son weekend turns into an adventure of a lifetime. Aided by an oddball drywall repairman (Patton Oswalt), the duo search for the thieves and find something they never imagined—a true family connection. Opens March 18.

“Zootopia”

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Jason Bateman plays a fast-talking, scam-artist fox who, in a city of anthropomorphic animals, must work with a rookie police bunny (Ginnifer Goodwin) to uncover a conspiracy. Other voice talents include Idris Elba, Shakira, Alan Tudyk, J.K. Simmons, Jenny Slate, Bonnie Hunt, Octavia Spencer and Tommy Chong. Opens March 4.

Jennifer Garner plays a mother who discovers her daughter has a rare, incurable disease and becomes a ferocious advocate for her healing as she searches for a solution. Queen Latifah and Eugenio Derbez also star. Opens March 18.

“The Lobster”

“Get a Job”

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Colin Farrell plays a single man who, in a dystopian near future, is taken to a hotel where he is obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or be transformed into a beast and sent off into the woods. Opens March 11.

R - 100 MINUTES

“The Little Prince” PG - 106 MINUTES

Jeff Bridges voices a pilot who crash lands in the Sahara Desert and encounters a mysterious young boy (Paul Rudd) who claims to be an extraterrestrial prince. Other voice talents include James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Benicio Del Toro, Ricky Gervais and Paul Giamatti. Opens March 18.

“Pee-wee’s Big Holiday” NR - 100 MINUTES

Paul Reubens reprises his role as Peewee Herman who this time meets a mysterious stranger that inspires him to take his first-ever vacation. Opens March 18.

Miles Teller and Anna Kendrick play college graduates who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs. But with help from their family, friends and coworkers, they soon discover that the most important adventures are the ones that we don’t see coming. Opens March 25.

For more movie reviews, in-depth celebrity interviews and behind-the-scenes insights, tune in to breakthrough entertainment 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturdays on KPHX 1480 AM and BreakRadioShow.com. Email film writer Joseph J. Airdo at joseph.airdo@gmail.com.

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THE WITCHING HOUR

Six years of work pay off for fledgling writer-director Robert Eggers

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obert Eggers is the new darling of horror films. His premiere effort, “The Witch,” has been called one of 2016’s most anticipated movies in that genre. Eggers also returned home with the Best Director Prize in the U.S. Narrative Competition at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. He is taking it all in stride. “Of course you have to believe in your film to get it made,” Eggers says during a recent phone interview. “It’s very hard to get a film made—especially one about pilgrims suffering. “I never expected the zeitgeist would be right for this film in such a large way. I’m very happy about it—very pleased.” This new horror film that opened Friday, February 19, melds witchcraft, back magic and possession to tell the story of a family of pilgrims who are banished to the New England wilderness around 1630. An unknown evil lurks on the edge of an ominous forest near their home. When crops fail, animals turn malevolent and one child disappears, the

family blames their daughter, Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy), whom they believe is a witch. Playing her parents are Ralph Ineson of “Game of Thrones” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” and Kate Dickie, also of “Game of Thrones.” “I grew up in New England and New England’s past is always part of my consciousness,” Eggers says. “I wanted to make the archetypical New England horror story. The challenge I set myself was to take a nightmare from the past—a puritan’s nightmare—and upload it into the mind’s eye.” “The Witch” took six years to research and create, but only 26 days to shoot. During the course of the six years, Eggers says he was thrilled to have found Anya to play Thomasin. “It just seemed she could never survive in a puritan society,” Eggers says of Anya. “She’s also amazing with the language, and she’s super enigmatic and mysterious. You put the camera right in front of her face and you want to know what she’s thinking but she can’t really figure it out.” The casting seems to be the easy part. Eggers says the rest of the process was challenging.

“We were shooting in a very remote location; all of the money was on the screen to make it accurate and so on,” Eggers says. “We didn’t have a lot of infrastructure. It was hard dealing with the weather. We wanted to shoot only on gloomy days. “Working with the animals was very difficult. The goat just did what the goat wanted to do. Of course, I respect Charlie the goat. He’s just trying to be a goat. He doesn’t care that I was trying to make a film.” He admits that it made his life “miserable.” “But I just kept my eye on the prize and compartmentalized and pretended that everything was going to be alright,” he says. “You have to have blind faith a little bit. Every morning I’d be making coffee in tears, but by the time I got to the set, I’d have to be excited and pumped and ready to go.” The project has paid off for Eggers. “At one of the first screenings, the audience gasped at this one particular moment that I can’t share with you for spoiler reasons,” he says coyly. “Obviously, people are going to jump at a few jump scares, but I’m glad that moment worked.”

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MARCH The Seasonal Table Dinner Series MARCH 3 Have dinner in the Desert Botanical Garden at the seasonal table dinner series. Guests will enjoy a delicious dinner with locally sourced dishes, wine pairings and live music. Journey to Argentina with Chef Matt Taylor of Gertrude’s, who will be preparing an Argentinean feast with drinks, hors d’oeuvres, a four-course menu and Argentinean wines. A musical performance by the Phoenix Theatre will set the mood for this garden banquet. Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N. Galvin Parkway, Phoenix, 480.481.8188, dbg.org, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., $160.

Arizona Jerk Festival MARCH 5 Get a taste of the Caribbean in the middle of the desert! Now in its second year, the Arizona Jerk Festival allows guests to experience the culture of the Caribbean through reggae music, traditional fare, art and more. Get

ready to dive into the culture through the delicious cuisine at the largest Caribbean food festival in Arizona. Kiwanis Park, 6111 S. All America Way, Tempe, 602.733.2998, azcaribbeanjerkfest.com, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., $19.95.

Devoured Culinary Classic MARCH 5 AND MARCH 6 The Devoured Culinary Classic is a two-day food festival that highlights the tastiest restaurants in the state, and features some of the best chefs around town. More than 100 restaurants, wine and craft beer makers and food purveyors will come together to share their expertise with 4,000 attendees. Guests will have a five-star culinary experience by watching food demonstrations, meeting the chefs and sampling the delicious dishes. This is a one-of-akind festival for all foodies. Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, devouredphoenix.com, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., $89.

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MARCH 5 AND MARCH 6 Things are going to get a little spicy at the 32nd annual My Nana’s Salsa Challenge. More than 100 salsa experts will compete to see whose salsa is top notch. For two days, more than 20,000 people will gather at Steele Indian School Park to stuff their faces with chips and salsas all day long. Enjoy drink margaritas, ice-cold beers, live music and vote for your favorite salsa! Steele Indian School Park Memorial Hall, 300 E. Indian School Road, Phoenix, 602.955.1962, salsachallenge.com, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., $12-$15.

MARCH 20 After four years, the Check, Please! Arizona Festival is making its way to Margaret T. Hance Park for even more food fun! Dishes from the Valley’s top restaurants, small-town eateries and everything in between will be available for sampling along with delicious craft beer and wine. Feast your eyes on chef demonstrations and even get a chance to audition for the show. Margaret T. Hance Park, 67 W. Culver Street, Phoenix, 602.496.8888, azpbs.org/ checkplease/festival/, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., $59 adv, $69 doe.

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MARCH 12 AND MARCH 13 The Arizona Aloha Festival is meant to embrace and preserve the Polynesian culture. The weekend-long free event offers multiple stages of traditional Hawaiian and Polynesian music and dance, shopping, crafts and, best of all, food! Get a taste of island cuisine with classic dishes like kahlua pig, manapua, vilo vilo chicken and spam musabi. Aloha! Tempe Beach Park, 80 W. Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe, 602.697.1824, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., free.

MARCH 24 Chefs...start your grills. More than a dozen of the Valley’s top burger aficionados will battle for the title of Best Burger in the Valley at Hotel Valley Ho. Attendees and judges will get the chance to taste these grilled concoctions and vote for their favorites from burger joints like Hopdaddy Burger Bar, Aioli Gourmet Burgers, Zinburger Wine and Burger Bar and many others. Grab your ticket today to sample the plenty of burgers, drink refreshing beer and much more deliciousness. Hotel Valley Ho, 6850 E. Main Street, Scottsdale, scottsdalefest.org, 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., $65 adv, $75 doe.

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HIBERNOPHILE’S DREAM Flavors from here and across the pond come together at The Harp Irish Pub

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n St. Patrick’s Day, it’s said, everybody is Irish. That certainly will be the vibe March 17 at The Harp Irish Pub in Mesa. Even the owners, Shaun Claypole and Darren Hickman will be Irish that day. The rest of the year, they’re English, having grown up in Staffordshire. They’ve been friends since they were teens, attended culinary school together in England and operated several pubs and bars there before relocating to the warmer, dryer climes of the Valley 10 years ago. The Harp’s menu reflects their combined British-American experience. “The recipes here are mainly family recipes, tweaked a little bit and modernized,” Darren says. “It’s modernday pub food with a little Irish twist.” The menu has morphed over the WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

years to reflect American tastes. “We used to do mushy peas with our fish and chips,” Darren says. “It wasn’t a best-seller. Americans tried them and didn’t like it, though our British customers loved them.” So off went the mushy peas and on went flatbreads, Mediterranean salad and pesto chicken, while the bangers and mash were updated with whole-grain mustard mashed potatoes. Today you’ll find Guinness fondue made with stout, and Irish Nachos (waffle fries, corned beef, cheddar cheese, jalapenos and a chipotle dipping sauce) on the appetizer menu alongside more predictable choices including onion rings and Buffalo chicken wings. Main dishes range from burgers and pork chops to more traditional Irish fare including shepherd’s pie, chicken and leek pie, corned beef and cabbage and fish and chips. Desserts include crème brulee and an

Irish sundae (a warm brownie with Bailey’s cheesecake swirl, ice cream, whipped cream and chocolate sauce). They sounded great but so far I haven’t wanted to venture past the bread and butter pudding. You need to wait a bit for it, but it’s well worth the 10 minutes, brought to the table piping hot and topped with whipped cream and caramel that melts into a silky sauce. It’s so good, as my brother would say, it makes you want to slap your grandma. I live in Central Phoenix, and I am happy to drive to Mesa just for this creamy perfection. That’s not to downplay the appeal of the main dishes. Particularly the shepherd’s pie—creamy mashed skinon potatoes topping a savory blend of minced meat, carrots, peas and a fullbodied gravy that could have come off my Mom’s stovetop. The chicken and leek pie is more subtly flavored, and instead of

mashed potatoes comes with a raft of puff pastry baked separately and placed on top. It’s a bit messy to eat but a pleasantly crispy counterpoint to the creamy chicken filling. I’m coming back to try the Cornish pasties (that’s pronounced PASS-ties, by the way), which will be a good excuse to have more bread and butter pudding. I’ll wait till after St. Pat’s however, when the place will be jammed inside and spilling onto the patios with revelers downing green beer and Guinness and munching on corned beef and fish and chips. There will be Irish music all day and live performances including the Irish Pipers, a local bagpipe group. “The Pipers will be here at 9,” Darren says. “They go to several Irish pubs on St. Patrick’s Day, and they like to finish here so they can have a couple of beers to celebrate.” The rest of the year there’s live entertainment on the weekends, including dueling pianos on Friday nights, with two baby grand pianos next to the big fireplace in the large room at the back. The atmosphere is quieter on Saturdays with acoustic music. And I should say a few words about the location, since it’s had a few name changes over the years. It began in 2005 with Molly Brannigan’s. It was the first out-of-state pub for a chain based in Pennsylvania, and it closed in 2009. At that time, Shaun and Darren were operating their own British pub, Churchill’s, in Chandler. They saw an opportunity to expand into the vacant site with another British-themed pub, which they named Shakespeare’s. Meanwhile, in Chandler, their lease expired and they closed Churchill’s around 2012. Back in Mesa, the pair decided to change to an Irish theme and renamed the restaurant The Harp Irish Pub. Keeping tabs on restaurant names, owners and themes is thirsty work. Which brings me to the Harp’s bar, a warm, welcoming expanse in dark wood with enough beers to allow you to order a different one every day of the month, with a couple extra left over. For myself, I would opt for a wee dram of The Macallan from The Harp’s extensive list of whiskies. I know it’s Scotch and not Irish, but The Harp is, as I mentioned, a bit of a hybrid.

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3622 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. $2 off all drafts, $1 off bottles, cans, liquor and wine and food specials

2922 N Hayden Road, Scottsdale Tuesday through Sunday, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. $5 select small dishes, select cocktail and select wine and beer

Five locations across the Valley Daily 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. to midnight $2.75 well drinks, $3.25 domestic drafts, $3.50 house wine and several food specials

4225 E. Camelback Road, Phoenix Weekdays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Thursday through Saturday 9:30 p.m. to close $6 signature cocktails, house pours and featured glasses of wine

3 S. Second Street, Phoenix Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. $3.50 domestic bottle and draft, $4.50 select craft beer, $5 premium well, house wine and double shot of Fireball

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4222 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale 20831 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 117, Scottsdale Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. $3 domestic pints, $4 local pints, domestic aluminum bottles and premium well drinks, $5 house wines

1760 W. Chandler Boulevard, Chandler Daily 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. $1 off all alcohol, but ask about daily specials! For example, Wednesday is $3 pints of craft beer all day!

6922 E. Main Street, Scottsdale Daily 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. $1 off all beers and $2 off all wines

50 W. Jefferson Street, #240, Phoenix Daily 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. $2 domestic drafts, $3 craft/import drafts and well drinks, $4 premium cocktails, house wine and food specials

Creole Cajun Bistro

7210 E. 2nd Street, Scottsdale Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 11 a.m. to close on Thursdays $1 Off all party starter appetizers, $1.50 PBRs, Domestic Pints $2.50, Premium Pints $3.50, $1 off shots, wines by glass and specialty drinks

Scottsdale Beer Company

8608 E. Shea Boulevard, Scottsdale Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. $1 off all Scottsdale Beer Company beers, well drinks, wines by the glass and food specials

Stockyards Steakhouse

5009 E. Washington Street, #115, Phoenix Monday through Friday, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. $2 off draft beer and Saloon Snacks, $3 domestic bottles, $4 well drinks and $5 house wine with complimentary tenderloin sliders

Luxe Lounge

5070 S. Gilbert Road, Suite 400, Chandler Monday through Friday 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. $1 off all wines by the glass, $2 off all signature drinks and $1 off all appetizers

SunUp Brewing Co.

16000 N. Maricopa Road, Maricopa Monday through Friday 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and all day Sunday $3 well drinks, house wines and 16 oz.

322 E. Camelback Road, Phoenix Daily 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. $5 select appetizers and $1 off beers

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Dirty Dogg Saloon

10409 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. $1 off domestic beers, well drinks and call

The Mission at Minder Binder 715 S. McClintock Drive, Tempe Daily 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. $2 domestics, $4 quality wells, $2 off all pizzas

Tandoori Times

Tandoori Times Indian Bistro

8140 N. Hayden Road, Suite H-115, Scottsdale 5626 W. Bell Road, A-103, Glendale Tuesday through Sunday, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. $1 off wine and liquor, $2 off all beer and happy hour appetizers from $3.99

Duke’s Sports Bar & Grill

Old Town Tavern

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7607 E. McDowell, Scottsdale Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. $3.50 domestic drafts and bottles, $5.25 house wines and $8.99 domestic pitchers

5550 E. Lincoln Drive, Paradise Valley Monday through Saturday 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. $3 glass of house wine and domestic bottled beer and $5 El Chorro Margaritas and well drinks

4175 N. Goldwater Boulevard, Scottsdale Daily 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. $3 beers, $4 well drinks, $5 wines and $6 cocktails

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7320 E. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale Daily 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Bucket of beers (five beers for two people): $12 domestic, $16 Mexican imports, $20 premium

7373 E. Scottsdale Mall, #6, Scottsdale Tuesday through Sunday, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. See a full list of specials at www.peterscuisineaz.com.

8320 N. Hayden Road, Scottsdale Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wine and Champagne are $5 and appetizers are $6

6339 E. Greenway Road, Suite 108, Scottsdale Monday through Friday, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Select beers $3, well drinks $3 and select glasses of wine $5

9053 E. Baseline Road, Mesa, 2115 E. Rittenhouse Road, Queen Creek; Brewery: 4921 E. Ray Road, Phoenix Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday through Thursday, 10 p.m. to close $3.50 Uncle Bears craft pints, domestic bottles, wells & house margs, $4.50 22 oz. Uncle Bears crafts, guest craft pints, Deep Eddy cocktails & house wine, $5.50 22 oz. guest crafts & sangria

Wasted Grain

7295 E. Stetson Drive, Scottsdale Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. $5 small plates and The Drink Exchange-prices vary based on supply and demand

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One March 7, 11-inch pizzas are $5 and beers are $2. Plus, if you wear a baseball hat, T-shirt or other clothing item, you’ll receive a free dessert. Eklectic Pie, 2990 E. Germann Road, Chandler, 480.855.7342, eklecticpie.com

“Show your stub” at Chipotle for buy one get one free burritos, bowls, salads, or tacos from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on game day. Chipotle, 2000 E. Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe, 480.829.0600, chipotle.com

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For only $14, enjoy a juicy burger, draft beer and house fries when you show your same-day ticket stub. Paul Martin’s American Grill, 6186 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, 480.991.9342, paulmartinsamericangrill.com

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Grab a complimentary appetizer with a $25 purchase and dine like a king with delicious seafood classics. King’s Fish House, 35 S. McClintock Drive, Tempe, 480.966.9121, kingsfishhouse.com

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a Pizzetta has “rendezvous” written all over it. The little Italian café, tucked away among a few other buildings in a corner of McDowell Mountain Ranch, has intimate charm, red-checkered tablecloths and the glow of a desert sunset at dinner time. It’s a place you take a special someone to escape the loud restaurants of today’s urban culture. So it’s only appropriate that La Pizzetta’s new head chef started cooking for reasons more romantic than culinary. “I’ll tell you the truth,” says Pietro Pizzuro. “I got into cooking because in Sicily, I would take a girl out to dinner at a restaurant, and then that was it. She would go home. “But when I cooked for her at my place,” Pizzuro adds with a broad smile, “she would stay.” That was a while ago—a few decades and half-a-world ago. When young Pizzuro ventured forth from his small hometown to the Sicilian capital of Palermo to learn cooking, he found a new life. “In Sicily, we cooked for today, not tomorrow,” he recalls. “The fish was caught that morning and on your plate that afternoon. We pressed our own olive oil and made our own tomato sauce from scratch every day.” That’s the kind of devotion to fresh ingredients and homemade preparation that Pizzuro intends to bring to La Pizzetta. Pizzuro was named the eatery’s new head chef in January. Primarily a pizza shop since its opening last year, La Pizzetta is expanding under Pizzuro to include pastas, gnocchi and desserts. Pizzas will continue to be featured as well. Some of Pizzuro’s signature dishes include Strozzapreti Salsiccia, a hand-

rolled pasta in a sausage sauce with cream and parmesan; homemade gnocchi with mascarpone; and Pizza Bianca. “I also make a heck of a seafood pizza, with calamari, mussels, white fish in garlic and mozzarella, finished with a sauce that has a clam-juice base,” Pizzuro adds. Another pizza new on La Pizzetta’s menu is Pizzuro’s “Michelangelo,” a veggie pie featuring grilled zucchini, eggplant, Portobello mushroom, roasted red peppers and garlic. The flour used in La Pizzetta crusts is sourced from Italy, and local produce is used whenever possible. The ubiquity of garlic on the menu is in keeping with Pizzuro’s Sicilian roots. “In Sicily, everything is more garlicky,” he says, adding that, if one has been to Rome or Venice but not to Sicily, then one “has never really been to Italy.” Pizzuro left Sicily as a young man for New York, where his family owned a number of pizza shops. Eventually, he left for Ohio, where he started his own network of pizza places. He eventually moved to the Valley, where he opened 10 Café Romas and Il Forno in Mesa. Horse racing took him away from cuisine for a while, and for several years he owned and raced a stable of horses at Phoenix’s Turf Paradise during the winters, and in California in the summers. The horses didn’t turn out as he had hoped. “Things went bad for me, and so here I am, starting all over again in the restaurant business, which is more solid.” That’s good fortune for Scottsdale lovers of Italian food—and for Scottsdale’s lovers.

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magine a hungry couple’s conversation: “What do you want for dinner?” “Cold beers and cheeseburgers.” “OK, then, it’s settled.” “What’s settled?” If the James Beard awards had a category for Most Obvious Restaurant Name, Cold Beers and Cheeseburgers would win. All customers have to do is remember the name of this eatery, and they probably will know what they want to eat and drink at this growing restaurant group. Cold Beers and Cheeseburgers is all about cold beers―more than 100 of them, including 40 different draft beers, 60 selections in bottles and 30 choices in cans. The eatery serves 19 versions of half-pound burgers, ranging from the classic All American with American cheese, lettuce, tomato and pickle, to the Mammoth Double of two patties, American cheese, mustard, mayo, ketchup, lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle. “Everybody loves a cold beer and cheeseburgers,” said Alecia Sanchez, director of marketing for Square One Concepts, a hospitality management, design and consulting firm in Scottsdale that develops restaurant concepts. That love of beer and cheeseburgers was embraced and developed by owner S. Barrett Rinzler. Rinzler, a restaurant veteran with 15-plus different concepts over the past 25 years, including the Martini Ranch, Wasted Grain and San Diego’s Pacific Beach Shore Club, wanted to open a restaurant that would appeal to all

different demographics, Sanchez said. The first Cold Beers and Cheeseburgers opened in October 2011 in Grayhawk in North Scottsdale. That location was followed by others in Old Town Scottsdale, Chandler and a third Scottsdale location on Shea Boulevard. Two other locations will open later this year on Seventh Street north of Missouri Avenue in Phoenix and in San Diego. The most popular burgers are the CB&CB, featuring gruyere cheese, caramelized onion, pickle, lettuce and garlic aioli; the Juicy Lucy with a cheddar Jack stuffed patty, and the Bacon Bleu with bacon, bleu cheese crumbles, avocado, caramelized onions, chef mayo and baby greens. The handformed, half-pound burgers range in price from $11 to $18. One taste of the Bacon Bleu and diners will realize why it is so popular, although a little messy. The hand-pressed homemade burgers are seared to the diner’s preferred doneness (today it is medium) and the slight char of the burger makes it savory and caramelized, a pleasant sensation on the palate. The bleu cheese crumbles give it an ever-so-slight tang and a richness that elevates this

culinary classic. The fries are salted just right. Order a beer or another favorite beverage, and the pre-game meal before a Spring Training game will be off to a good start. Burgers are served with chips or fries, and for $2, you can substitute other sides, like a house salad, cole slaw, Tater Tots or onion rings. Customers can build their own burgers on Wednesdays. Those who are into the competitive eating aspect of burgers can enter the One & Only Burger Challenge. The most impressive finisher had a nine-patty, 5-pounder. Finish in the posted time and the burger is on the house. “Everything is made from scratch, everything is fresh made, in-house from the aioli on the burgers to the dressings in the salads,” Sanchez said. Many of the beers sold are created by local crafters, Sanchez said. “We have such a wide range,” Sanchez said. Some of the local beers offered include the Four Peaks Sunbru, SanTan’s Devil Ale, Scottsdale Blonde Ale, Grand Canyon Pilsner and the Barrio Rojo, just to name a few. Red and white wines from California, Washington and Spain grace the menu.

For those who don’t want a cheeseburger, there’s Stadium Char Dogs, salads, appetizers such as the Buffalo Chicken Eggrolls, sandwiches like the Grayhawk Club and desserts like the brownie sundae. Who can forget though, the name of the restaurant, and why they came in the first place? More than 30 HD flat-screen TVs are on for fans to enjoy watching their favorite teams (or cheer for the team playing a hated rival). As Spring Training and the Cactus League begins play, the Old Town location near Scottsdale Stadium will give rides to the San Francisco Giants’ exhibition games. The restaurant will sell customers going to the game the first Dos Equis for $1, and patrons will receive a $5 gift card for the next visit, Sanchez said.

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is open at 4222 N. Scottsdale Rd., 20831 N. Scottsdale Rd., Suite 117, and 10767 N. 116th St., and 1980 W. Germann Rd. in Chandler. For more information, visit www.coldbeers.com

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hether you like it with cheese or bacon or chili, in a bun or between slices of sourdough, you love the burger. Dozens of variations on America’s favorite sandwich will vie for your attention and your vote at Scottsdale’s fifth annual Burger Battle at the Hotel Valley Ho. Held Thursday, March 24, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., this signature culinary event is presented by Scottsdale League for the Arts, a nonprofit volunteer group committed to promoting the arts and arts education organizations in Greater Phoenix. As in previous yearly competitions, all net proceeds will support Scottsdale League for the Arts in fulfilling its mission. Showcasing the best burger creations from around the Valley, the “Burger Battle” began as an event to feature the emergence of eateries built around a burger culinary experience. “In 2009-10, there became more gourmet burgers being offered as standalone restaurant concepts or highlighted offerings on menus,” says Lindsey Friend, general manager, Scottsdale League for the Arts. “It also seemed that many of the restaurants were claiming that they had the best burger.” From that initial idea, sprang a contest-style function to award the Valley’s best burger inventions. “Patrick Hamilton, a longtime league member, and former Scottsdale League for the Arts General Manager, Joe Zanovitch, started kicking around event ideas and decided to combine the growth trend in gourmet burgers and the competitive nature of the restaurants to create the ‘Burger Battle,’” says Friend. “In particular, they wanted a casual and fun event in contrast to many of the other more formal culinary events produced by the league.” This year, over a dozen of the area’s finest restaurants and chefs will put their burger designs on the platter to be graded by attendees in the People’s Choice Award, as well as by a panel of food experts and local celebrities in the Judge’s Choice Award. Out of the grilling greats, two winners will be selected to appear and compete at the prestigious World Food Championships in November. Along with tasty burger fare, fries and desserts, visitors can enjoy the cold suds of Leinenkugel’s brews, while

enjoying live entertainment by the Groove Merchants. “Leinenkugel is the presenting sponsor and the official beer of the event. Leinenkugel’s support has been integral to the look and feel of this event,” says Friend. This year’s burger battling participants include: Aioli Gourmet Burgers, Tavern Americana, Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers, Bootleggers, Casino Arizona, Casablanca, Hopdoddy Burger Bar, LuLu’s Sorbetto, District American Kitchen and Wine Bar, Zinburger Wine and Burger Bar, Black & Bleu American Grill, Mariposa Latin Inspired Grill and ZuZu. The 2016 “Burger Battle” continues the tradition of providing guests with an engaging experience, in no small part because of the venue. “This event has grown from a 250-person event to a 500-person World Food Championship qualifying competition,” says Friend. “The Hotel Valley Ho has been a great partner of ours the last few years and lends itself to creating a great energetic atmosphere around our friendly competitive event.” All attendees can expect a terrific experience, whether holding a $65 presale general admission ticket, paying $75 at the door, or springing for a VIP admission of $85 that includes early entry, meet and greet with local celebrity judges, a VIP gift and access to the exclusive lounge area. “We hope our guests leave the event happy, full, and having discovered a few new restaurants they’ve never tried before,” says Friend. Already thinking ahead to future “Burger Battles” Friend wants to enlarge the concept. “We’d like to continue to grow the footprint of our event and showcase as many great burgers from around the state of Arizona as our attendees can consume,” she says. “We’d like to eventually introduce other types of burgers into the competition as well such as ostrich, bison, veggie, etc.” For more information, visit scottsdalefest.org or leagueforthearts.org.

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hat a fun photo shoot with Scottish Highland athletes, Heather MacDonald and Eddie Brown! The backdrop for the COVER PHOTO is at the Irish Cultural Center/ McClelland Library in downtown Phoenix. Eddie is an Arizona native and ASU graduate. He lives in Mesa, Arizona with his wife and daughter and has been competing in the Scottish heavy events since 2012. He competed in the IHGF All American championship in 2013 where he placed 4th. In 2014, he became the world amateur caber tossing champion in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We’re cheering on the Arizona Diamondbacks. With Major League Baseball’s Spring Training games in March, Eddie is wondering though, “Which one o’ ye fellas was callin’ me kilt a skirt?” Somber thought! Phoenix is hosting the Women’s World Championships (see page 17). Heather was first introduced through Fellow A-Class competitor, Scott Hutchison; they were teammates (Track & Field) in college. She won her very first games in 2006 and ended up falling in love with the sport and the camaraderie. Heather holds various field records at games in New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona; 2015 Scottish Games League Southwest Champion; 7-year Women’s World Championships competitor 7 -year U.S. National Heavy Events Championships (Pleasanton, CA) competitor; and 5-time Pacific Northwest Scottish Games Championships competitor. “Highland Games has been an important part of my life for a decade, and a source of so many strong friendships, indelible memories, and positive connections. Beyond the feats of strength, we accomplish (particularly the women), we all share a common thread of community and sportsmanship that transcends the field itself.” Heather’s personal records are: 30’ Braemar Stone, 38’ Open Stone, 42’3” Hwavy Weight for Distance, 73’ Light Weight for Distance, 95’2” Light Hammer, 82’ Heavy Hammer, 15’6” Weight for Height, 26’ Sheaf. Biggest caber turned: 17’6”, 75 lbs. She is a Professor of English, Arizona State University Writers Studio; and Adjunct Instructor at Glendale Community College.

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Mar – Apr 2016 ~ Arizona’s Original Irish Newspaper 39 Pot of Gold Music Festival 43 Kiss Me I’m Irish Run & Walk 44 Book of Kells Seminar 50 and BACK Discovery Series: Explore UK &

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19 Book Review: “Up Cappanale Way” 37 FREE Online Course: Intro C.S. Lewis 40 Celtic Artisan: Jean Doig, Lace Maker, Spinner, Weaver 41 Spinning Around Ireland

Ireland, OrigiNation 51 San Diego St. Patrick’s Parade & Festival

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6 Irish Tales from Arizona Territory: Ranchers 6 Arizona: Did you know?

30 Irish Network Phx: Maureen and Jack Sullivan

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12 Michael Bidwill, Grand Marshal Phoenix St. Patrick’s Parade

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8 Maureen O’Hara, 1920-2015 10 Centenary of 1916 Easter Rising 12 Irish Person of Year Paul Ahern 14 Young Irish Titleholders Selected 20 St. Patrick, Moses, and Viracocha 23 Tucson Grand Marshal T.P. Prendiville 34 Keltic Kitchen: Hot Cross Buns 35 Celtic Caterer: Cooking Demos in Phx 42 Anam Cara Honorees, 2015

16 Davy Gowan, Scottish Squatter at Tonto 17 Who’s Ready? Glenmo Games 52 38 Highland Tea with Diana Gabaldon

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28 The Guinness Storehouse, Dublin 29 Left Lane Maureen, Part 13: Galway

WELSH 44 Frongoch and Easter Rising of 1916

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4 Arizona Renaissance Festival 11 Events at Irish Cultural Center & Library 13 Phoenix St. Patrick’s Parade & Faire 18 Young Artists & Authors Showcase 18 Phoenix Mayor’s Int’l. Gala 19 Tucson Mayor’s Luncheon 21 Pirate Party 23 Tucson St. Patrick’s Parade & Festival 38 Northern Arizona Happenings 38 Sedona St. Patrick’s Parade & Festival

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32 Celtic Pubs and Eateries 46-47 Organizations, Sister Cities, Dance, Clans

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33. Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, two of the most prominent movie stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, were married on March 18, 1939, in Kingman, Arizona. 34. Montezuma never visited Montezuma National Monument—he was born 100 years after the prehistoric dwelling was abandoned. The monument was misnamed for the Aztec emperor when it was rediscovered in the 1860s. 35. Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, grew up on a large family ranch near Duncan, Arizona. 36. The Arizona Cardinals are the oldest continuous franchise in the National Football League, dating back to 1898. [See story page 12]

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Arizona’s Official State Historian, Marshall Trimble has been called the “Will Rogers of Arizona.” He’s a “cowboy philosopher,” educator, lecturer, author, folk singer and stage performer, and appears frequently on radio and television. He created and taught Arizona history at Scottsdale Community College for forty years where he was also Director of Southwest Studies.

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any of the Irish heading west into the American frontier traveled to the mining camps to seek their fortunes in striking it rich in gold, silver, or copper. Others decided they could take advantage of the heavily populated camps to seek their fortunes in other ways, providing beef or lamb to hungry miners or owning a prosperous saloon or mercantile business. Arizona had two sets of Ryan brothers who were engaged in the cattle business. There is something about that Ryan name…. When I was at a clan gathering in Ireland I was told, “All Ryans are rogues, but not all rogues are Ryans.” I guess we made our reputation in Ireland on that note. The first set of Ryan brothers were located in Southern Arizona. Their father, Matthew Ryan, was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, and immigrated to America when he was only thirteen. He was an Irish success story with butcher shops, packing houses, and mercantile businesses in Kansas and ranches in Wyoming. In 1894, his sons Matthew Jr. and Jeptha, later joined by their brother Thomas, ventured into cattle ranching in Southern Arizona and New Mexico. By 1896, they were the third largest ranching enterprise in Cochise County; exceeded only by the Chiricahua and Erie Cattle Companies. They began closing their ranches in Arizona by 1901 due to drought and the loss of land with settlers moving into the area. The population growth included men working the mines in Gleeson, Pearce, and Bisbee. By February 1903, 18,000 head of cattle had been shipped to their company feeder lots in Colorado as the Ryan brothers from Kansas severed their ties with Arizona. At that time, my grandfather William Albert Ryan was 17 years old and in time, he and his brothers Neil, Joseph, and Emmet would form another Ryan brothers group with ranches in Gila and Apache Counties. The brothers’ parents, William and Anna

Moloney Ryan, were from Counties Tipperary and Limerick and had settled in Globe during the early 1880s. When the boys were young, the trail herds would stop near Globe on their way to the railroad shipping point in Holbrook. All the cowboys wanted to take advantage of the saloons and dance halls in Globe before tackling the long trail to Holbrook. They would pay the local boys to watch the cattle while they headed to town. The boys would take advantage of the absence of the cowboys and practice their roping and bull dogging skills on the cattle. Will and his brothers leased ranches on the Apache Reservation; both Will and his brother Emmet lived on the Reservation. Will’s wife Edith was a novelty to the Apaches as they had not seen many white women and they would come by the cabin and look at her through the windows. She would fix them lunch and they were always respectful of her. Through the years this set of Ryan brothers also ranched at the Five Slash Ranch in Globe, the Box Bar at Fort McDowell, and Will even ventured into the sheep business. Janice Ryan Bryson descended from Irish Pioneers who arrived in the Arizona Territory in the 1880s. She is co-founder of the Irish Arizona Project and co-author of the book Irish Arizona. Janice was named an Arizona Culture Keeper for her research on the Irish in our state and is a recipient of the 2015 Anam Cara Award.

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We Say Goodbye to the Pride of Ireland

MAUREEN O’HARA T

By June Parker Beck

1920-2015

here are no finer words to describe legendary Irish actress Maureen O’Hara than those written by Anthony J.F. O’Reilly, Chairman, President and CEO of Heinz Food at their World Headquarters. Mr. O’Reilly composed this letter for the program of the Ireland Fund when they honored Maureen at a gala dinner in 1991: “There is no doubt that Maureen O’Hara is a descendant of one great Celtic queen, and should Ireland have a queen today, surely it would be she. Time and again we have witnessed her standing majestically and resolutely for virtue and justice before the boldest of men, the likes of John Wayne and Errol Flynn. And we have seen them withered by her fiery indignation. And what queen would be more gracious or kind or more beautiful, or inspire us to greater acts of heroism. Maureen, you have captured hearts throughout the world and made each of us from Ireland proud that you are one of our own...” In the bygone days of the silver screen, Maureen O’Hara was quite at home as a swashbuckling heroine fencing her way across the high seas or standing toe-to-toe with the likes of rugged star, John Wayne. Things really hadn’t changed that much in the 1990s when she returned to film at the age of 70 in “Only The Lonely” with John Candy. Getting back into the swing of things, she surged ahead making several made-for-TV movies, “The Christmas Box,” (1995); “Cab to Canada” (1998); and “The Last Dance” (2000). This magnificent lady brought to every role she played, intelligence, strength, and pride in being a woman. To most female fans, Maureen O’Hara seems to represent a womanly pride and elegance that they greatly admire. However, her incredible beauty caused the studio heads to relegate her to more decorative roles. Thankfully, director John Ford came to her rescue periodically and cast her in films like “How Green Was My Valley” and “The Quiet Man.” She is also remembered for such classics as “Miracle on 34th Street,” “The Parent Trap,” and the ever popular “McLintock.”

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Maureen completed her autobiography, “Tis Herself, A Memoir.” In 2005, she was honored as “Woman of the Year” by the Irish America Magazine; and went on to receive many other honors in Ireland and the U.S. in subsequent years. On November 8, 2014, Maureen was awarded a long overdue Oscar for Lifetime Achievement by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Governors Board. I was honored to be invited to this celebration and had tears in my eyes as she received a standing ovation followed by presentation speeches by Clint Eastwood and Liam Neeson. In 2012, Maureen began her official retirement by making her home near her beloved grandson, Conor FitzSimons, his wife Elga, and two great grandchildren, Everest and Baylee, in Boise Idaho. Last August 17, 2015 on her 95th birthday, they held a small gathering of family and friends to celebrate. A couple of weeks prior (through the “Maureen O’Hara Magazine on Facebook” extension page), I invited fans to submit a brief birthday video and the response was amazing! We received 63 video clips from all over the world and uploaded them to YouTube! One was from Ralna English of the Lawrence Welk TV show (she sang and played the piano for her birthday greeting.) Elga FitzSimons played the videos for Maureen at that party. We were so happy to be even a small part of this special occasion; which would be Maureen’s last birthday. Over 10,000 people have visited the YouTube Maureen O’Hara Birthday video site. Add to that a 100,000+ Facebook “Likes” and you have one very popular lady with fans from three generations from a worldwide prospective.

As Maureen’s archivist and official website editor, Maureen O’Hara Magazine, for over 20 years, I am humbled by her trust and confidence in me and grateful to have had her friendship. I’ve learned so many things on this adventure. First and foremost, Maureen had tremendous pride in her Irish heritage— born Maureen FitzSimons on August 17, 1920 in Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland—it was her inspiration from the beginning. Her mother was an accomplished contralto. Her father was part owner of “The Shamrock Rovers,” a renown Irish soccer team, and managed a business in Dublin. Maureen’s athletic skills from an early age undoubtedly enabled her to perform her own stunts, which was rare at the time for any actress. All this coupled with her great love for her family and an impeccable work ethic. She gave 100% to everything she did. One could not ask for a better legacy.

Her life away from films has been an adventure that rivals any make-believe story on the screen. As the wife of famed pilot Brig. General Charles Blair, she experienced what she reflects as the happiest ten years of her life. When Charlie was killed in a tragic plane crash in 1978, Maureen became the first woman to own and manage a scheduled airline. She considered all the rough spots in her life, “another hill to climb.” Maureen O’Hara was a mother, grandmother, sister, and a friend. Her family was the most important thing in her life. To coin a worn-out phrase of this era, “It just doesn’t get any better than that.” We lost Maureen on October 24, 2015. On November 9, she was laid to rest beside her beloved husband at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. May she rest in peace.

Watch film, music, and interview clips In 1991, June Beck decided she’d try her hand at writing and selected Irish actress Maureen O’Hara as her topic. This evolved into even more research on Maureen and her multi-talented family, creating a website (later made Maureen’s “official” site by Maureen and her brother, Charles FitzSimons), a trip to Ireland, new friends, and dozens of other wonderful experiences. June attributes her 24-year association as a blessing. June resides in Tempe, Arizona.

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2016 Marks the International Commemoration of the Centenary of the

1916 EASTER RISING

By Caroline Woodiel

ne hundred years ago, the city of Dublin was seized and occupied by the very poets, teachers, labor leaders, and ordinary citizens who walked its streets daily. While outside of Ireland many may not have an instant recollection or idea of what took place in Dublin over those 6 days after Easter, it was much different in 1916. In April of 1916, the world was well aware of the events in Dublin. Newspapers around the globe, including the New York Times and local papers like the Arizona Republican, covered the plight of the men and women of Ireland’s Easter Rising. Now, 100 years later, the world finds itself again reflecting upon the Irish struggle for independence. Just as many Arizonans found themselves first learning about the Irish plight through day after day of front page coverage, in 2016 many Arizonans will learn about the Easter Rising in The Desert Shamrock. Dublin was a drastic example of extremes at the turn of the century. Severe poverty plagued its citizens, while the landed gentry lived lives of excess and luxury. The Irish people found their voice in a 19th century cultural and language revival, reinforcing their identity and providing a sounding board for the many issues facing the Irish people. As the 20th century moved into its second decade, the newly unified voice of the Irish called out to the discontent felt by laborers, suffragettes, poets, academics, and playwrights. The frustrations seemed to

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be about to come to a head in 1914 with the possibility of the long awaited promise of self-governance, or Home Rule. However, any hope for self-governance was short circuited in the British Parliament when WWI broke out. While the horrors of war waged around the many Irish soldiers fighting and dying in British uniforms, many of the men and women back home did not give up hope on Ireland obtaining its own Jim Daugherty, freedom. Arms were presenter of the “1916 smuggled and secret Easter Rebellion groups were reorganized Commemoration” at in hopes of a future the Irish Cultural Center republic. Many of these were headed not March 26. by soldiers, but by the academics, artists, and labor leaders who were at the heart of the cultural revival. Groups like the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Citizen’s Army joined with the Irish Volunteers and together, set an eventual date for what would be later known as the Easter Rising. The Monday after Easter 1916, the Volunteers marched in formation into Dublin on April 24. The citizenry had become accustomed to drilling and was unaware of the six-day siege about to take hold of their city. With the General Post Office, or GPO, as their headquarters, Pádraig Pearse read aloud the Proclamation declaring the formation of the Irish Republic, and the right of the Irish people to self-governance. Six days of bloody war ensued, and in the end the small number of rebels were forced to surrender to the British Army. Soon afterwards, secret court martials were held for the men deemed responsible for the Easter Rising. One by one the British government condemned them to death and swiftly carried out their executions. The politicized martyrdom of the Rising’s leaders only added fuel to the fire of their cause. The spark ignited by these men, and the other participants of the Easter Rising, seized on the talk of forced Irish conscription and became the torch that brought about the Irish Free State and the now Republic of Ireland. On the eve of the centenary of their great sacrifice, the world remembers and reflects on the men and women of the Easter Rising and the aftermath of their actions just as they did 100 years ago. To learn more about the 1916 Easter Rising, visit the McClelland Library’s exhibition “Remembering the Easter Rising: Historical Context and Cultural Legacy.” The Irish Cultural Center has its annual multi-media presentation “1916 Easter Rebellion Commemoration” presented by Jim Daugherty on March 26.

Éamon de Valera, prisoner at Richmond Barracks

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Resolve for Irish Independence The swift executions in 1916 further fanned the resolve for freedom and independence of the Irish.

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Pádraig Pearse

Éamonn Ceannt

Thomas Clarke

Seán Heuston

Thomas MacDonagh

Michael Mallin

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Joseph Mary Plunkett Edward Daly William Pearse Michael O’Hanrahan

May 5 John MacBride

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Thomas Kent (in Cork)

May 12 James Connolly Seán MacDiarmada

August 3 Roger Casement (in England)

The efforts of these men and the many others who joined, culminated in The Republic of Ireland Act 1948 came into force on 18 April 1949, Easter Monday, the 33rd anniversary of the beginning of the Easter Rising. Caroline Woodiel is a hobby photographer, border collie enthusiast, and librarian with ancestors of both Irish and Scottish descent. She holds a Bachelor’s of History from the University of Colorado and a Master’s of Library and Information Science from the University of Arizona. Caroline is the Public Services Coordinator for the McClelland Irish Library in Phoenix.

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CARDINALS PRESIDENT KICKS OFF ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE

Parade and faire are part of a day-long Irish party on March 12 in downtown Phoenix

he 33rd annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade starts at 10 a.m. March 12 at Third and Sheridan Streets and heads south to McDowell Road. The popular parade is the Valley’s only authentic day-long Irish party and is sure to keep the eyes of the Irish (and Irish wannabes, smiling). The parade theme is “2016 - An Irish Centennial,” which ties in with the global commemorations of the Easter Rising of 1916 in Dublin. A Faire featuring a roster of Irish rock and traditional bands, Irish food and fashion also starts at 10 a.m. at Margaret Hance Park off Central Avenue.

in Washington, D.C. where last May he was awarded an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters and delivered the school’s commencement address 25 years after his own graduation. He’s a wee bit Irish himself and is honored to represent the Arizona Irish Community.

IRISH PERSON OF THE YEAR

Paul Ahern, Architect, President of the Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation Board

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Michael Bidwill joined the Cardinals in 1996 after six years as a federal prosecutor in Phoenix. Since he took over as team President in 2007, the Cardinal have gone .500 or better in seven of nine seasons (just twice in previous 20 years) and have posted four double-digit win seasons (none in previous 20 years). The 2015 season was a banner one for the organization as the team won the NFC West, set a franchise record for wins in the regular season (13) and earned the first postseason bye in team history. Arizona also played its eighth and ninth postseason games since Bidwill took over as President in 2007. The Cardinals played just seven total playoff games in the previous 73 years between 1933 (when the NFL first instituted a postseason) and 2006. Michael notably spearheaded the effort that led to the creation of University of Phoenix Stadium where the Cardinals have sold out every game played since it opened in 2006. The iconic, award-winning stadium has been a major factor in the transformation of the Cardinals and a catalyst for the team’s success. It also hosted its second Super Bowl in February of 2015 as well as the Pro Bowl a week before. Bidwill was influential in landing both events which combined to deliver an economic impact of $720 million to the region. Michael has taken on an increasing role in the NFL and the greater Phoenix business community. Bidwill earned a B.S. in Finance from St. Louis University and a law degree from Catholic University

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Michael Bidwill – President, Arizona Cardinals Football Club

Paul Ahern was born in Las Vegas, Nevada to John and Martha Ahern. Paul was named after his father, who gave him guidance in everyday things, as well as business, work ethic and even, on occasion, matters of the heart. He is the third of four children. He met and married Diane, while attending ASU. They have three daughters and five grandchildren. Paul’s great grandfather, Patrick, emigrated from County Kerry as a teenager with his brother around 1850. Patrick was denied entry to the U.S. in New York but was accepted in Canada. Eventually his son James, Paul’s grandfather, settled in Nevada. Paul’s father remained in Nevada where he created Ahern Rentals, specializing in construction equipment. Paul earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Arizona State University in 1973. Two years after graduating, Paul became a registered architect and worked for an established firm in Tempe. In 1979 a new firm was created that included Paul as a partner and owner. In 1997, Paul designed An Halla Mor, or the Great Hall, which was the first of three buildings that constitute the Irish Cultural Center in central Phoenix. An Halla Mor opened in 2002. Paul was able to meet the design criteria for the newly started Center by providing a meeting place for a variety of Irish cultural activities, including the Center’s Academy of Irish and Celtic Studies. The Cottage, which opened in 2004, is a replica of an authentic 19th century County Clare stone cottage. Paul’s most recent project, the McClelland Library, opened to the public in October 2012. The library is more than a repository for books: it houses the administrative offices of the Center as well as the Center’s Academy classes; exhibit space; and the Frances McClelland Genealogy Research Center. Paul enjoys leading the newly formed Currach Team Phoenix. There is nothing that makes him happier than to see the Center being filled with people enjoying themselves.

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Food Drive & $100 Raffle

Friends of Saint Patrick Centre AZ Chapter

Marching Bands Irish Dancers Government Dignitaries Police & Fire Vehicles 2016 Arizona Colleen/Rose & Court Bagpipers Floats

10am to 5pm at the Irish Cultural Center & Margaret Hance Park

Admission $10 Kids 12 & under FREE Senior (55+) & Military $8 CASH ONLY (ATMS available) 3 Stages of Irish Music and Dancers Kids Area Food and Beverages Crafters 1916 Commemorative Exhibit at the McClelland Library

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YOUNG IRISH TITLEHOLDERS SELECTED By Sarah Houghtelin Koerner

he Little Miss Shamrock and Arizona Irish Lass are Irish heritage programs open to young girls six to seventeen years of age with some Irish ancestry. These encourage pride in one’s culture, as well as involvement in the Irish Community in Phoenix and Arizona. The winners will assist the 2016 Arizona Colleen and Rose as representatives at various events around the state, including the 2016 Phoenix St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Faire on Saturday, March 12. The Shamrock contestants were seven talented and remarkable young ladies: Ada Hamilton (8), Rylee Hankal (11), Lily Wnek (10), Molly Ruley (11), Keira Ruzovich (11), Katie Hannigan (11), and Erin Larson (9). The Irish lasses featured five incredible teens: Marlene Hannigan (13), Anne Gardner-Hajek (13), Sophia Promponas (15), Kaitlynn McAulay (14), and Draevyn Clark (16). The adjudication panels included dancers, artists, and outstanding women in the Irish Community. This year’s judges were Laura Masterson, Jacquilyn Avery, Nicole Lopez; and Cassandra Lopez, 2015 Arizona Colleen and Rose, Mallory Melton, and the representa-

tive from the Arizona Renaissance Festival, Lady Letitia Peighton MacCarthy. Contestants arrived early in the morning to meet each other and rehearse. Check in began at 10:00 am followed by games so the participants could relax and have some fun together. They were able to practice speaking into a microphone, walking up and down the stage stairs, and each girl rehearsed her talent on stage before the judges arrived. After rehearsals, the contestants enjoyed lunch together and then played a few more games before getting dressed for the big event. The Selection began with a meet and greet where the judges could meet each girl and their family in a relaxed atmosphere before the emcee called for everyone to find a seat so the main part of the program could begin. The co-emcees were the 2015 Arizona Irish Lass Ella Sullivan assisted by 2015 Little Miss Shamrocks Ceilli Tobin and Megan Kernaghan. Each young lady began by introducing herself to the audience. These were followed by an on-stage, three-minute individual interview with questions from the panel of judges, including, “Tell us something about your family being Irish.” Once the interview portion was completed, the competitors began their talents. The audience enjoyed singing, dancing, and playing musical instruments. After a short break for refreshments and final tabulation, the outgoing Shamrocks and Lass entertained the audience with their talent performances one last time before crowning their successors. Finally, the moment everyone had waited for arrived as Sullivan, Tobin, and Kernaghan invited all

contestants to join them on stage. Each girl was given flowers and a special award that highlighted each young lady’s contribution to a great performance and a funfilled day. Then, the titleholders were announced and the crowd welcomed the 2016 Little Miss Shamrocks, Rylee Hankal and Molly Ruley, and our 2016 Arizona Irish Lass, Anne Gardner- Hajek. For more information, please email juniorprograms@azcolleen.org. Sarah Houghtelin Koerner was crowned the 2004 Arizona Colleen and currently directs the two junior age group selections for the Arizona Colleen Programs under the auspices of the Phoenix St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Faire Committee.

The earliest recorded evidence of St. Patrick’s Day being celebrated outside of Ireland, other than by Irish soldiers, is provided by Jonathan Swift, the Dublin-born author of Gulliver’s Travels. In his Journal to Stella, he notes that in 1713 the parliament at Westminster was closed because it was St. Patrick’s Day and that the Mall in London was so full of decorations that he thought “all the world was Irish”. WWW.DESERTSHAMROCK.COM » WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

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too good to let slip. Originally from the Scottish fishing port of Inverbervie, Gowan arrived in the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. While prospecting along Pine Creek, he came across the amazing travertine arch, believed to be the largest in the world. Indians were a constant danger and on one occasion, Gowan had to hide under the bridge for three days. When he emerged he behaved in true Scottish entrepreneurial style…and claimed squatters’ rights. Gowan insisted he had been the first white man to set eyes on the bridge, a highly unlikely story but one that suited his assertion. More than 20 years later, his nephew, David Goodfellow, arrived with his family in Arizona and set up home with ‘Uncle Davy’. Gowan refused to settle, he continued to mine, and his sense of humor showed through in census documents where he gave as his birthplace ‘Atlantic Ocean’. Old Davy Gowan left home one day in the winter of 1925 and never returned. Weeks later his frozen body was found near Deer Creek. But his discovery— Tonto Natural Bridge—lives on as one of Arizona’s most striking hidden gems.

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Indians in pursuit? Davy Gowan, an imposing man with long red hair and a thick Scottish accent, was a nomadic character. He had been shipwrecked off the west coast of America and wandered from place to place working as a miner and a gold prospector. But Gowan was also as shrewd as they come and at the Tonto bridge he saw an opportunity that was

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onto Natural Bridge is one of Arizona’s most stunning natural wonders. Set in the countryside near Payson, it is a magnet for walkers, hikers, outdoor lovers and tourists. But how many realize that this scenic treasure was ‘discovered’ by a rough and ready Scotsman on the run from

Iain Lundy grew up in Ayrshire, Scotland, and has worked as a journalist since the 1970s. He and his wife moved from Scotland to Arizona in March. His paternal grandfather came from Downpatrick, County Down, and moved to the west of Scotland as a young man.

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oin us for a Scottish weekend celebration! The Glenmorangie Scottish Highland Games is comprised of many things: world-class athletic competitions, Highland dance, reenactment presentations, educational seminars, clans, food, live music, bagpipe & drum bands from all over the globe and lots of fun for the wee lads & lasses. Have you ever seen a big burley man in a kilt toss a telephone-pole-like caber? Did you know that the origination of pipe bands comprised of pipers, side drummers, bass drummers and occasionally a tenor drummer occurred sometime after the battle of Waterloo in 1815? They are Solo Piping, Solo Drumming, Drum Major and Pipe Bands. Or how about, that right along with the ancient stories of daring warriors and master pipers you

will find dance as a crucial part of celebrations and ceremonies of the Highlands? Nothing can compare with the graceful power of a Highland dancer recalling a glorious victory.

You can even research your family roots at the Games and learn about the significance of a family tartan. While you are attending the Glenmorangie Scottish Gathering & Highland Games this year, make it a point to visit the Clan tents. The Wee Ones area this year features junior athletic competitions, bounce houses, games, arts & crafts. In the Ghillie Dhu, Wicked Tinkers and Celtica Pipes Rock will play, with additional performances by Stoneybank, with comedian Patrick Halloran as emcee. The Learners’ Arms will feature music by De Mairt Ceol, Stoneybank, John Allen and Mistress of Ceremonies Sarah Haywood. There will also be a variety of musicians roving the

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grounds and master illusionist Craig Davis perform throughout the weekend. Visit with our friends from the British Car Clubs, reenactment groups and Scottish Country dancers who will demonstrate and perform all weekend through! Come hungry! In the mood for some haggis? Fish & chips? Shepherd’s Pie? Find all of that (and more) in the food court plus ice cold Kiltlifter and other fine beverages! Each year Glenmorangie Single Malt Scotch Whisky provides tastings & educational seminars that are second-to-none. This year they have graciously offered to provide a more upscale experience and will be sampling more complex marks paired with tasty nibbles and for one seminar each day, Glenmo collaborates with Westin Kierland’s The Scotch Library where guests will sample a reserved mark along with epicurean delights prepared by the Westin’s chef.

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Chandler-Tullamore Sister Cities PRESENTS

2016 YOUNG ARTISTS & AUTHORS INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE RECEPTION “Peace through People” Reception: Friday, April 15 3rd Friday Artwalk • 6:00 to 10:00pm Date: Thursday, April 7, 2016 You are invited to join You are invited to join Mayor Greg Stanton Mayor Greg Stanton Where: Sheraton Grand Phoenix and Phoenix Sister Cities for Valley an amazing evening of the Sun Ballroom and Phoenix 340 N. 3rd Street, international cuisine and entertainment Sisterof Cities for an Phoenix, AZ 85004 fromevening aroundofthe world. amazing Time: Reception 6:00-7:00 p.m. international cuisine Dinner 7:00-9:00 p.m. Date: Thursday, April 7, 2016 ............................................................. and entertainment $130 per; $1,300 for Where: Sheraton Cost: Grand Phoenix from around the world. sponsored table of ten

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in Historic Downtown Chandler • Exhibit will feature poetry, essays and artworks submitted by Chandler students for our 2016 Art and Author Showcase.

• Chandler-Tullamore Sister Cities was chosen to host the 2015 Sister Cities International Showcase, featuring Young Authors and Artists from around the world! The pieces are included in the Exhibit for the month of April. • Beibhinn Cullen, student from Sacred Heart School, Tullamore, Ireland, was the 2015 Sister Cities International Grand Prize Essay Winner, and is represented in the Exhibit.

For information and to view our winners and Reception photos, please see our website, www.chandlerirish.org; or contact chan.to.tull@gmail.com.

Hosting of the 2016 Art & Author Showcase is made possible by a grant from Chandler Special Events Sponsorship Funding and the Chandler Cultural Foundation, and through the generous support of Downtown Chandler Community Partnership.

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Up Cappanale Way BY JACK DROUGHT BLACK BRIDGE PRESS, 2012

aps depict the site of Cappanale resting a stone’s throw from Birr, a former UK Parliamentary constituency in County Uí Failghe, modern day County Offaly. Both burghs lie almost dead-center in the modern-day Republic of Ireland. Jack Drought’s charming Cappanale of the 1950s seemingly lies with one foot steeped in modernization and one foot steeped in the old ways, a dichotomy not unheard of in Ireland even today. Cappanale is where readers are introduced to Betty Kirwan, née Betty Kelly, a pillar of Irish Catholic guilt, grit and resolve, the family matriarch who we barely meet before she gashes a shin with an ax while chopping wood. “Ya bloody eejit, ya,” Betty curses herself, with no thought of going to a doctor unless her leg had been hacked off. Betty is wife to self-important Val, a dandy who struts about all knotted down and spit-shined on the warmest of days, even while mucking out sewers as Birr Sanitary Inspector, a career he inherited from his father after Val failed at other pursuits. In Vals’ opinion it’s a man’s duty not to tell his wife how much money he makes, nor should any Irishman ever wash dishes or clean up after meals. Unsurprisingly, Val Kirwan is rather fond of the drink, a pursuit hushhushed when it comes to how much he spends on it. The Kirwans birthed sixteen children, twelve of whom still live with Ma and Da in a house only

Personal Note: Recall that twenty years ago Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes taught readers “that a happy childhood is hardly worth your while.” You’ll find none of McCourt’s maudlin sentiment in Jack Drought’s puckish charmer, which reminds me more of my own father’s free-spirited childhood growing up in a rural Erin. He then settled in a Wisconsin farming township replete even today with Irish surnames, although today the farmers’ ghosts lie under Erin Hills Golf Course (PGA men’s championship in 2017).

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I really enjoyed the book; the writer captured a wealth of small details that really built a true picture of life in Birr and brought me straight home. The flat accent came out in his accurate spelling of the Offaly brogue. He paints a great picture of what people did just a few decades ago, the simple enjoyment and pride in gardening, fly fishing, and hunting with a good dog. He also describes the beauty of the town of Birr with its wonderful Georgian Malls; and the influence Lord Rosse and the castle has had on this town over the years making great efforts to support the community which was unique at that time. Also how the town transformed on Mart days, Monday and Thursdays, as it got invaded by farmers with cattle and sheep. The complexity of family, street community and the greater town community, and where folks felt they fit. I think he gets the balance Irish people had at that time being religious, very family centric, but yet not taking life too seriously and the wit and appreciation they had for different characters.

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recently introduced to running sink water and electricity that illuminates a lightbulb or two. The Kirwans lost three children to untimely deaths and one son, Billy, lives in an asylum in Queens County, a fact that troubles the parents deeply. Val and Betty pray and plan that someday Billy might be able to return home, but it seems unlikely. Meanwhile all they can do is travel a far distance to visit him. The author’s richly appointed text captures the inflection of speech patterns underlying prayerful intonations to various patron saints to intercede for Cappanale’s denizens, amid all manner of trials and tribulations. Readers are also treated to samples of typically Irish puck and grit in response to repeated challenges, which remain constant but are met with undeniable resolve. Only if Jack Drought had paraded out an occasional leprechaun or two would he have charmed readers with more old-world schtick in Up Cappanale Way. Tinkers, priests, nuns not sparing the rod with recalcitrant students, a chapter dedicated only to favored dogs living on equal footing with human owners—to say nothing of the real-life Lord and Lady Rosse of Castle Birr with its renowned telescope— they’re all part of Drought’s enticing tale.

-Tom Nallen Tom and Caroline emigrated from Birr, County Offaly to Arizona

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ST. PATRICK, MOSES, AND VIRACOCHA

The Foreign Roots of Great Leaders By Sharonah Fredrick, PhD

rom ancient Israel to 5th century Ireland, to the pre-Hispanic Andes mountains, great leaders— in fact, those that each culture considers its greatest leaders—were believed to have foreign roots. Moses had an ostensibly “foreign” (i.e., Egyptian) upbringing. Contrary to what one might suppose, having been brought up in another area, or in the specific case of St. Patrick, another religion, does not exclude one from being adopted as the culture hero by a different group of people. Culture is not genetic. It is learned. A Chinese baby, brought up by Finnish parents, will speak Finnish and not show any innate tendency for the Chinese language. What is it in St. Patrick’s character that marks that saint as specifically Irish when he was of British/Roman descent? Could it be the same extraordinary qualities that made Moses the greatest Jewish prophet, even if as Sigmund Freud surmised, Moses was an Egyptian prince who defected politically to the Israelite side? Did Patrick share a similar life experience with Viracocha, the great shaman wrongly described as a “god” in 16th and 17th century Spanish colonial chronicles. For Peru’s Quechua-speaking Indians, Viracocha brought civilization to the Western Andes. His origin is attributed to Lake Titicaca, far to the east of Peru, where he is venerated. What does St. Patrick, emblem of Irish faith, share with Moses and Viracocha? Patrick’s death date, marked throughout the Irish diaspora, is, according to the old Julian calendar, March 17. His birth year is generally given as around the year 387, near Dumbarton, Scotland, to wealthy parents connected with the Roman legions then occupying Britain. Kidnapped by Irish pirates as a 16-year-old youth, he spent six years in Erin. There, he mastered the Irish language, and vowed to return at a later age. After many years’ monastic training in France, Patrick reappeared in Ireland at the age of 46, devoting himself for the next thirty years to the peaceful evangelization of the island. This is in fact the only case of an entirely peaceful evangelization of an entire nation to Christianity, which renders Patrick a unique figure in the history of world religion. Moses was prophet and author, in Jewish tradition of the first five books of the Bible, the Torah, (the

word means “of the light” in Hebrew; orah being the root for “illumination”). He undertook the liberation of the Israelites from slavery at a mature age: that of 80 years! While some of the Biblical accounts have, as the Spanish-Jewish sage Maimonides (1135-1204) wrote, more of an allegorical meaning, the first forty years of Moses’ life are clearly delineated. Exodus tells us: Moses was a prince in Egypt. That means, for all intents, an Egyptian. The fact of his Jewish birth, as Freud says, is secondary to his greatness as protector and liberator of the Jewish people. Similarly, some 1,700 years later, Patrick’s non-Irish origin was no impediment to him becoming the best-known symbol of Irish learning and erudition during the rest of Europe’s Dark Ages. Like Moses, Patrick was profoundly opposed to slavery. Patrick’s politics may have contributed to the fact that he was never officially canonized as a saint by the Vatican, despite his widespread veneration. Viracocha, the teacher from the eastern Andes mountains, is believed by Aymara and Quechua Indians to have taught their ancestors many millennia ago how to cultivate corn and how to organize themselves peacefully in different societies. Later according to the Huarochiri Manuscript (late 16th century, Peru), Viracocha populated the sea with the fish which humanity needs for sustenance. Seen by Peruvian Andeans as a benevolent protector, his worship outlasted the Incas’ imperial sun-god, Inti. Patrick, Moses and Viracocha are today beloved by the Irish, the Jews and the native Peruvians. None was raised in the cultures in which they are revered. Integrity, not ethnicity, creates heroes, and Patrick is a truly multicultural hero. Sharonah Fredrick is Assistant Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at ASU. She has a PhD in Latin American Colonial Literature; MA in Renaissance History; and BA in Cultural Anthropology. She’s multi-lingual; attended Yeats Summer School and Merryman Literature Summer School in Ireland, as well as doing independent study in the Donegal Gaeltacht, and summer courses at Trinity College, Dublin.

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he 2016 Tucson St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Festival will be held in downtown Tucson on Sunday, March 13, 2016. The Festival will be at Armory Park from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. The Parade winds through downtown Tucson, ending at Armory Park, 6th Avenue and 12th Street. This year’s festivities celebrate the centennial of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, the most significant political, social and economic movement in Ireland during the 20th century - a revolution which eventually established the current Republic of Ireland and borders between the Republic and Northern Ireland. We are especially proud to have Timothy Patrick Prendiville as our Grand Marshal for 2016 to celebrate such a significant turning toward liberty and justice. Tim personifies the spiritual center of the Tucson Irish Community. There isn’t an Irishman in Tucson who hasn’t felt Tim’s compelling influence. Tim has lent his talents to many an Irish organization: the St. Patrick’s

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Parade & Festival Committee, the Irish Heritage Foundation, the Emerald Isle Society, the Liturgy & a Meal Program, chaplain to the Green A Brigade. His long-held value of community service is slowly touching us all. The Parade has always enjoyed great crowd appreciation and will feature plenty of bagpipes, bands, floats, and marching entries with keen competition for the Best Entry award. The Festival is downtown Tucson’s hottest and longest running party. 2016 will be the 30th year in a row and will feature music and dance from Tucson’s two award-winning Irish dance schools, Maguire Academy of Irish Dance and Tir Connail Academy Dance. There will be plenty of Irish food and drink. Get your jig on with Irish rock ‘n roll from The Sea Merchants. For more information about participating in the Parade and Festival, directions and schedule of events, log onto www.tucsonstpatricksday.com.

Sunday, March 13, 2016 Festival

10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Armory Park

Parade

11:00 a.m., Downtown Tucson

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“Freedom Rising” celebrating the centennial of the 1916 Easter Rising

Grand Marshal: Timothy Patrick Prendiville

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LEPRECHAUNS, LEGENDS AND MYTHS

By Carmelita Lee

n the 1959 Disney film, Darby O’Gill and the Little People, Darby, trapped by leprechauns, is shown a harp, a sword, jewels, a stone throne and pots of gold. Those mythical treasures form the basis of a shaky but romantic folktale about Irish royalty, hinted at by the scriptwriter. Over centuries, sloppy scholarship has perpetuated, but not authenticated, the story. Real facts are thin, but you have the stuff of legend. Extracting truth from the fog of millennia becomes an adventure itself. The story goes that the Biblical prophet Jeremiah, circa 585 BC, was charged with saving King Zedekiah’s daughters from certain death or slavery at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar. According to both Egyptian and Hebrew texts and oral history, at least one daughter fled from Israel to Egypt with Jeremiah and his scribe, Baruch. From Egypt they went to Saragossa, Spain, a long-established Jewish city-state. This red-haired beauty, Teia-Tephi, won the heart of a prince, they married and had children, preserving the royal lineage of King David. After a brief stay in Spain, one might say they moved on to greener pastures, settling in Munster in one account, and Leinster in another. It’s a stretch, but the heraldry of Ulster (red hand inside a Star of David, and until 1970, including a crown) is perhaps suggestive of bloodlines, as heraldry often is. But then there’s Leinster’s heraldry depicting a harp, actually a “lap harp” similar to the “kineret” played by that brave shepherd boy in ancient Israel. It has been oft repeated that this small harp, when hung in a tree during a wind, will sing all by itself. Legend says, and tour guides repeat, that Jeremiah was actually Ollamh Fodhla, or the “Wise Sage” of County Meath. Baruch becomes Brek, Brogue, or Brak, depending on who’s telling the story. When they left the old country they were entrusted with not only the king’s daughters, but certain of Israel’s national treasures – a harp, jewels and gold encrusted artifacts, (hinted at being the Arc of the Covenant itself ) and the Coronation Stone, also known as the Pillar of Jacob. This ordinary chunk of red sandstone sits on a shelf under the throne. It has two iron rings from which it was suspended when carried. What’s the big fuss? If legend proved true, the stone would have been a “witness” to the crowning of all the kings of Israel, Ireland, Scotland, and about half the kings and queens of England, from Elizabeth I to the current monarch. Reliable history of the Coronation Stone begins in 1296, when it was taken captive from Scotland by King Edward I, and held in Westminster Abbey until November of 1996, when it was returned to Scotland in a symbolic gesture of

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peace. If the legend is truth, then all kings of Israel, Ireland, Scotland and England were crowned upon it. It’s trustworthy to note that there are actually four coronation stones in the region, each bearing its own folklore. Was the first queen of Ireland really Israel’s own Jewish Princess Teia Tephi, who lived near Cnoc na Teamhrach, or Tara Hill? Was Jeremiah really Ollamh Fodhla, buried in Loughcrew in Cairn T, a magnificent mound passageway near Oldcastle, County Meath? On the side of credibility, Ancestry.com lists her and her husband Heremon as real persons… If all this is truth, is there legitimacy in the current grass-roots movement to find the Lost Tribes of Israel? Are they lost? Or did they just lose their identity? Will there really be a regathering so huge that it will cause the Exodus, or first regathering, to pale in comparison, as suggested by Jeremiah 23:7-8?

I want to believe that a royal princess traveled in Phoenician ships to marry her Eochaid, later called Heremon – but see, there you go. All these names, all these dates…and frankly, I realize that Indiana Jones didn’t look for the Lost Arc in Ireland, which pretty much cinches it for me. Next time, Tuatha Dé Danann….[continued in the May-June edition] Carmelita Lee How does a gal named Carmelita claim to be Irish? Scottish, even? Granny Holland’s family hailed from Ennis, County Clare, and Grandpa Maxwell from the Borderlands, Scotland. Her husband’s mother was a Dowdall, and he had a Grandma O’Higgins...ye can’t be more Irish than that!

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RIVERDANCE AT THE MESA CENTER FOR THE ARTS Cast members graciously signed autographs for Irish dancers: (l to r) MacKenzie Moore-Kosslow, Colleen Kelahan-Pierson, Anne Gardner-Hajek, and Kassidi Jensen

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t takes adventurous spirit and irrepressible ingenuity to do things the Guinness way. A young Arthur Guinness leaves home and heads to Dublin in 1759, where he signs a 9000-year lease on a dilapidated brewery at St. James’s Gate. Here’s to bold beginnings. From their humble beginnings to the present day, they’ve gone to extraordinary lengths to deliver exceptional beer. GUINNESS® is synonymous with Ireland and no visit to Dublin is complete without a trip to

The Guinness Storehouse will hold its 10th annual St. Patrick’s Festival from 16th–20th March 2016. the Guinness Storehouse—the Home of Guinness. The physical building dates back to 1904 and is built in the style of the Chicago School of Architecture. It was once the fermentation plant of the brewery and is now a multi-story visitor interactive experience dedicated to the history of the making of this world famous beer. Visitors discover what goes into the making of each and every pint, and learn about the incredible brand history, stretching over 250 years. Ireland’s number one attraction unfolds its tale across seven floors shaped around a giant pint, which, if filled would contain 14.3 million pints of Guinness. The Guinness Storehouse® was recently voted Europe’s Leading Tourist Attraction at the World Travel Awards 2015. Paul Carty, Managing Director of the Guinness Storehouse shares, “We welcome our visitors on an unforgettable journey to the heart of Guinness. Here, WWW.DESERTSHAMROCK.COM » WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

you can experience Guinness like nowhere else: to discover the age-old art of brewing that makes Guinness so distinctive; to learn how to pour the perfect pint in the Guinness Academy; to step into the wonderful world of Guinness Advertising at our new Advertising Exhibit, and to enjoy the best in Irish cuisine at our wonderful restaurants. The highlight for many visitors is the GRAVITY® Bar, where visitors can enjoy unparalleled panoramic views of Dublin city—views that are all the better with a complimentary pint in hand!” Steeped in history and tradition and located in the heart of St. James’s Gate Brewery, the Guinness Storehouse is a must-see for anyone visiting Dublin. The world is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day and where better to celebrate than here?! With live music, entertainment, and of course, a pint of the black stuff, the Guinness Storehouse is the perfect place to experience Ireland’s national holiday. It’s open from 9.30am-6pm on Festival dates. With the successful launch of three new brews, namely Dublin Porter, West Indies Porter, and Guinness Golden Ale, behind them, their innovative

brewers continue to brew up anything they can dream up, proudly pushing brewing boundaries. Fusing over two centuries of brewing heritage and innovation, Nitro IPA was born. Everything you’d want from an IPA blended with everything you’d expect from Guinness, it features a unique blend of carbon dioxide and nitrogen to balance out the profusion of hops flavors. But, while many milestones mark the way on their long and illustrious path, they’re not ones to rest on one’s laurels. As they like to put it: the greatest work is yet to come. For more information and tickets, see www.guinness-storehouse.com.

• The Guinness Storehouse® is open 7 days a week 9:30am7pm (last admission is at 5pm; July and August until 6pm) • Closed on Good Friday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and St. Stephen’s Day (Dec. 26) • Gravity Bar is the highest bar in Dublin city located 44 metres (144 feet) off the ground

• Over 14 million visitors to date since opening its doors in 2000 • Adult admission is €20 (exchange about $22), which includes a complimentary pint of Guinness in Gravity® Bar, 5th floor restaurants, or the Guinness Academy • Book in advance for up to 10% discount • Book online at www. guinness-storehouse.com

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Galway Cathedral By Maureen Sullivan CTC County Cork, Ireland

ay the road rise to greet you, as you enjoy the delights of Galway City and the Aran Islands! Galway is one of my favorite Irish cities! There is a grand Saint Patrick’s Day parade in Galway. If you happen to be visiting in the west of Ireland, this year will be their 113th anniversary. The parade will start on Dominick Street, winding through Bridge Street, Eyre Square, and finish at Prospect Hill. There is always a joyful, carnival atmosphere during this time. So if you miss it in 2016, plan ahead to be in Ireland for the 2017 Saint Patrick’s Day celebration!! 2016 will also be the 100th anniversary of the Rising in Dublin on the General Post Office steps. The B&B’s owners in Galway City that we use for our clients are delightful, while the nightly music in and around Eyre Square is truly lively. We found “Tigh Fox,” a local pub with great music and craic. Craic is great fun in the Irish. Galway City “the City of Tribes” is over 800 years old. It’s charming with its narrow streets and shop fronts made of wood and stone. Galway is a great walking city, so park your car by the Cathedral and stroll the streets. The creation of pedestrian streets emphasizes the medieval nature of the city centre

and makes it easier in the exploration of ancient landmarks. St Nicholas Church, founded in 1320 is worth the stop. It is actually Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas called Galway Cathedral. The Spanish Arch, built in the 18th century, shows the trade link to Spain at that time. “Browne Doorway” features a statue of Liam Mellows, who took part in the 1916 Easter Rising. One of the best ways to get an overview of Galway city is the hop-on-hop-off bus, which gives you a good overview of the city. Not to be missed are the Galway shops which feature the marble from Connemara, as well as the lovely Claddagh rings created in this area. The Aran Islands are a highlight of any Irish journey! The ferry takes you to Inis Mor and its main town Kilronan. The ferries leave and return each day from the port of Rossaveal, an hour from Galway. Kilronan is a busy, enjoyable town with its horse carts and rental bicycles greeting you as you arrive on the island. The best way to experience the island is by the minibuses awaiting at the pier. The rugged men who have fished and the women who have created the famous Aran sweaters are the mainstay of this island community. The Aran Islands are part of the Gaeltacht, areas in which the Irish is mainly signposted and spoken by the locals. The islands of Inis Mor, Inishmaan and Inisheer have

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some of the most ancient pre-Christian and Christian remains in Ireland. Using one of the many forms of transportation, you are able to travel to Dun Aengus, an ancient Iron Age stone fort. Many great monks, including St Enda, (500 AD) studied, prayed, and taught in the Aran Islands. He received the island from Aengus, the King of Cashel and went on to teach many scholars such as St. Brendan, Finan and Jarlath. His teaching led many men and women to found great learning centers in Ireland, as well as Europe. For lunch try the seafood fresh from the boats that morning. Stop by the heritage center, IIonad Arainn. See if you are able to take in one of the music, song and dance shows late in the afternoon before your departure. Depending on the time of travel, that experience is at Halla Ronain at around 3:00 pm. Don’t miss the ferry—otherwise you will be spending a night on the island! In Ireland the road less traveled isn’t always a road. Enjoy Ireland! Maureen and John (“Jack”) are the owners of Sullivan’s Travels, Inc. Maureen has been a travel professional for 25 years, moving their business to Phoenix four years ago. www.sullivanstravels.com

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MAUREEN AND JACK SULLIVAN

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ospitality extraordinaire best describes Maureen and John (“Jack”) Sullivan’s business, Sullivans Travels. This couple goes beyond the extra mile when it comes to planning dream vacations for their clients. They specialize in travel to Ireland and also plan trips to Europe, Australia, China, and the Caribbean. Their seven adult children and eleven grandchildren are their best referral agents. Maureen’s grandparents were Frances and Bernard McNally, onion farmers whose antecedents immigrated from County Clare to Connecticut during the Great Hunger. Her English birth father, Charles Maurice Howes, was killed on a return flight from fighting the Germans in August 1944 before she was born. She explains, “My adopted name was Larson, so technically I am Maureen Frances Rosemary Howes Larson Sullivan.” After her first trip to Ireland, Maureen became fascinated with travel and the incredible warmth of the Irish people. She left her catering business to pursue her new passion. She worked at three travel agencies, earned the CTC designation, then realized that a more tailored service was necessary for clients. Consequently, when Jack retired as an electrician in 1999, they opened their own travel business in Chicago. Jack is the perfect complement to a business specializing in Irish travel. He’s the son of Margaret (Peg) Leap,

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West Cork; and father, Richard, from Beara Peninsula north of Bantry. Peg lived in America from 1929 to 1979, but after her husband’s death, she returned to Ireland and built a cottage on the family farm, which has remained in the family—a cherished destination for the Sullivans. Six years ago they moved to Phoenix, where they immersed themselves in many activities at the Irish Cultural Center. Once a month, Maureen and Jack prepare an authentic Irish breakfast for the Irish Network Phoenix’s (INPHX) monthly meeting. Guests are welcome; it’s complimentary the first time. Upcoming breakfast at the Irish Cultural Center is 7-8am on April 8 (RSVP to maryhannon@cox.net). In this age of global communication, why use Sullivans Travels? Jack answers without hesitation. “First of all, you can’t believe everything you read on the Internet. There’s so much misleading information out there you could get yourself into a bad situation that ruins your trip.” Maureen agrees. “Many Americans don’t have the time for research. They feel safer speaking with a real person at a time that’s convenient for them. When they hear our voices, they know we care about their vacation as much as they do.” Clients answer three questions during their initial meeting: When do you want to travel? What do you want to see? How much do you have to spend? Armed with this information, Maureen and Jack blend their

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experience, knowledge, and connections to map out the details of a dream trip. Happy client, Mary Kallemeyn, says, “Maureen and Jack gave us the confidence in traveling on our own, with a feeling of comfort at each B&B, including specific details of each village, roads to travel, and what to see.” Ellen Harrington, board president for the Chandler-Tullamore (County Offaly) Sister Cities, recently led a trip to Ireland. “Maureen and Jack were the true organizers of the trip. We were following a detailed, bound itinerary. Everyone said it was fantastic!” Mary and Ellen both referred to the written itinerary presentation each client receives. “Our itinerary built our business,” Jack says with a smile. This document is actually a book—a keepsake—forty to eighty pages in length. Besides listing where you’ll visit, it includes colored photos of attractions, reserved B&Bs, maps, and cultural information. Jack is proud of these publications. “Their anticipation bubbles up and our clients arrive in Ireland with this vision and enthusiasm.” The Sullivans have a trunkful of grateful stories. One family discovered that Ireland is family friendly when their B&B hosted a birthday party for their oneyear-old daughter. Another family requested being on a group tour, but longed to visit her grandfather’s home for a day. Maureen made one call and arrangements were made to make this happen. With each story, Maureen and Jack fulfill their own dream of providing one-of-a-kind travel services for their clients. After all, they don’t sell travel, they sell dreams. [The Sullivans write a regular column, “Driving Tips from Left-Lane Maureen;” see page 29.] Jan M. Whalen, MASL, is an award winning author who creates books, workbooks and blogs about self-trust, confidence and telling your story. www.whalenvoices. com; jan@whalenvoices.com

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HOT CROSS BUNS

By Katie Caufield Ginder

ia daoibh a chaired! (Hello friends!) For many people in Scotland and Wales, the end of the Lenten season is celebrated with the Hot Cross Bun. These slightly spiced sweet rolls typically include raisins or currants and are marked with an icing cross atop of each bun. Christians believe the cross represents the crucifixion of Christ and the spiced dough is a reminder of the spices placed on Jesus’ body pre-resurrection. The recipe below will produce a delicious addition to your Easter celebration but can be savored anytime of the year. Enjoy! Katie Caufield Ginder lives in Gilbert with her husband and son. Her background is in higher education program management, instruction and faculty recruitment. She enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, cooking, yoga, volunteering with Big Brothers Big Sisters and learning about her Irish heritage. Katie’s great, great paternal grandfather was from Galway and immigrated to Pennsylvania in the 1860s.

Serves 24 DOUGH: 1 cup milk (scalded to 180°F) 1 cup cool water 1 package yeast 4 Tbsp. sugar 1 Tbsp. salt 1 cup flour 6 Tbsp. melted butter 2 eggs 5 cups flour (more or less) SUGAR MIXTURE: ¼ cup sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon ¼ teaspoon nutmeg ½ cup currants or raisins GLAZE: 1 egg white 1 Tbsp. milk ICING: 1 cup powdered sugar 2 Tbsp. milk

DIRECTIONS: Place sugar, salt, flour, and yeast in mixing bowl. Add scalded milk and water at same time. Mix thoroughly and let sit for 10-15 minutes to proof yeast. Add butter, eggs, and flour to yeast mixture, alternating liquid and dry until soft dough forms (will be slightly sticky). Place dough on lightly floured surface and flatten with hands into a rectangle. Sprinkle with tablespoon of sugar mixture and 1/3 raisins or currants. Fold rectangle in half and flatten out into another rectangle. Sprinkle with tablespoon of sugar mixture and 1/3 raisins. Repeat process once more with remaining sugar and raisins. Pinch off dough into golf-ball sized rounds and roll into smooth balls. Place balls on greased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Allow to rise in a warm place for one hour.

Preheat oven to 400°F. Brush each roll with glaze and cook in oven for about 20 minutes or until tops are golden brown. Remove from oven and cool completely before adding an icing cross on top of each bun. NOTES: If you don’t have any raisins or currants, try using dried cranberries instead. The sugar mixture can be revised to include spices such as all spice or cardamom as well. Place icing in small Ziploc bag and snip off one corner to create an easy tool for making each cross.

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eltic Cuisine? The mainstream culinary world does not believe and has never explored historically, the connections among the remnants of the last 8 Celtic Nations. That is what I do; I show you the influences between some of the most beloved Celtic dishes. Some that you had no idea were actually from one of the 8 Celtic nations: Scotland, Ireland, Manx, Wales, Cornwall; Brittany, France; Galicia and Asturias, Spain.

Please join me March 19-20 at the Arizona Scottish Gathering and Highland Games in Phoenix and on April 3 at the Discovery: UK and Ireland event at the Scottsdale Center for Performing Arts.

Robert Mulvin, owner, is of Irish and Scottish ancestry

In my live cooking demonstrations, I make various traditional Celtic with a modern flair right in front of a seated audience. They get to see real time camera images from an overhead camera onto a large color screen. All with a storyline explanation of how that particular dish evolved and what aspects in history influenced the creation of that favorite Celtic food, its flavorings, and variations. The guests get to taste what was cooked on stage. Expect a “wow” sampling these Celtic culinary delights. I’ve joined The Desert Shamrock as a regular columnist. Hence, a short treatise on the most wellknown dish identified with Scotland: haggis. It’s not just Scottish but there was a time when eaten all across Europe in every household. I found recipes in Norway, Greece, and the Isle of Man; each had their own version of haggis. It was a way a poor family could survive. They might have some sheep, probably two lambs, and it was a way to maximize them to last all winter long. You had to use everything, so that’s when they started using the offal, lungs, and heart. We can’t import British or Scottish-made haggis because of diseases we can get, similar to mad cow disease because of the lungs. When I make haggis, even though I have

found most countries have no problems with lungs, there is a similar flavor if you use beef tongue. That substituted, along with the sheep heart and liver create a great haggis “flavor.” People ask me about haggis all the time who have never tried it. I ask them, “Do you like bratwurst?” They usually answer, “I love bratwurst!” Well it’s the same thing, made with lamb instead of pork. It’s all in the flavoring, the spices, and the fat that you put into it. One is with pork; one is lamb. What the comedians all hold against it is because they used to use stomach lining the same way that we use the sausage intestine linings. Ninety percent of people who eat sausages don’t realize they are wrapped in pig intestines. The difference with haggis is putting the stomach lining in a salt solution, a brine, for about 24 hours. When you do that, you can scrape it all down and you are just left with a membrane. Then you can put the meat in that way and boil it. When I make it I, sort of construct it: boil things separately, grind it, and then put it all together. The water it has been boiled in can be either used to make a gravy for it, or you can mix the water with some of the fat, mix it in and let it re-saturate the meat. Chef McBride is an award-winning chef and author of four Celtic cookbooks (Scotland, Ireland, Wales & Manx, and Celtic-style vegetarian), and has a line of traditional Celtic Seasoning mixes. You can get his books via his website www.celticcaterer.com or on his Facebook page “the Celtic Caterer & Chef Eric W. McBride, or on YouTube.

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.S. Lewis is known all over the world as the creator of Narnia. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is probably the most widely recognised title of all of the Narnia books. The seven books that comprise The Chronicles of Narnia continue to be read by millions of children in over 42 languages in successive generation after generation representing a truly international and intergenerational readership. It is not exclusively children who enjoy these books; many adults, whether they read the books as children or not, discover them at a different level in later years. The books are read by parents to their children and grandparents to their grandchildren. C.S. Lewis once said that a children’s book that is read only by children is not a good children’s book. By this definition, the Narnia books qualify for inclusion in the category of good. Much of Lewis’s adult life was spent at Oxford University where he

contributed to The Oxford History of English Literature and became a prolific author and poet. He concluded his truly remarkable academic career as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Magdalene College Cambridge. However, it still comes as a surprise, even to some of his admirers, that C.S. Lewis was born in, and grew up in Belfast. His strong Irish roots and background are slightly veiled by the many years he spent as a Don in two of the most prestigious Universities in England but the plain fact is that he was born in Ireland. SURPRISED BY BELFAST His father and mother were both born in Cork in southern Ireland and both families, by different and circuitous routes, arrived in Belfast in the 1860s where C.S. Lewis was born in 1898. The Lewis family has its origins in Wales but his mother’s background is Scottish. Her family were

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Hamiltons with roots stretching back to Scotland and to Scottish Royalty. Lewis never wrote an autobiography but parts of the story of his early life are told in his book Surprised by Joy. To stand at the birth place of C.S. Lewis will require a visit to Belfast, Northern Ireland. Every year many groups of visitors to Belfast join the C.S. Lewis Tour and come to the site at Dundela where he was born. Lewis recorded for us the detail of an event that happened in the garden of the house where he was born. Of this event he says that the rest of his life was about nothing else. So what was the story about which he makes such a momentous claim? SIGNIFICANT LOCATIONS The Shape of my Early Life is the sub-title to Lewis’s book Surprised by Joy. In it he details many of the locations in Belfast that helped to shape his boyhood. Among these was Little Lea, the new house to which his family moved when he was a child in 1905. He described Little Lea as a major character in his story. It was here that the most earth shattering episode in Lewis’s early life occurred. Other locations in Belfast that are significant in his story include Campbell College; the School he attended in 1910; and the nearby St. Mark’s Church where Lewis and his brother were christened by

their grandfather who was Rector of the Church from 1874-1900. There are many locations in Northern Ireland that captured the affection and imagination of C.S. Lewis. From the windows of the house in which he was born he could see the hills of County Down. One of his early poems is called the “Hills of Down” and it was the view of these hills that first created in Lewis a sense of longing which he retained for the rest of his live. Visitors to Northern Ireland who wish to take the full C.S. Lewis Tour, need to have 4- 5 days to take in the Belfast locations, County Down, the Mourne Mountains, the Antrim Coast with the Castle at Dunluce and the famous Giants Causeway to which Lewis refers in his book, Voyage to Venus. THE C.S. LEWIS FESTIVAL IN BELFAST C.S. Lewis was born on 29 November 1898 and died on 22 November 1963 on the same evening that former U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. In November 2013, a memorial stone was dedicated to Lewis’s memory in Poet’s Corner at Westminster Abbey and every November since then, Belfast has celebrated his life and work with a weeklong Festival of events. The events include lectures, talks, theatrical productions, tours, films, and

displays of artwork. For November 2016, the festival programme will feature a new installation of public art in the recently created Lewis Square in Belfast. The new public artwork is a series of life-size sculptures based on The Chronicles of Narnia. Other details of the 2016 festival programme will be available toward the end of the summer. TOUR OPPORTUNITY Heritage Experience, a not for profit, social enterprise company specialising in cultural tourism under the brand name Authentic Ulster, is offering the opportunity for Lewis enthusiasts to visit Ireland for the week of the festival. This is a unique opportunity which is detailed on our website at www.authenticulster. com. The other, easy to remember shared websites are cslewisbelfast.com and cslewisni.com. We welcome you to join us for the festival this year! Alexander “Sandy” Smith is author of “C.S. Lewis and the Island of his Birth,” and a director of Heritage Experience, touring company.

Hillsdale, MI –Hillsdale College launched a new, not-for-credit online course, “An Introduction to C.S. Lewis: Writings and Significance.” The free, nine-week course examines Lewis’s philosophical and literary writings and their significance today. Registration is available online at http://hillsdale.edu/cslewis. “C.S. Lewis was one of the most gifted and influential thinkers of the 20th century,” said Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College. “His extensive contributions to fiction, philosophy, and the study of medieval literature were worthy of serious consideration and discussion for his contemporaries, and perhaps contain even more relevance for those of us fortunate enough to encounter them 53 years after his death. Rarely has a mind like Lewis’ touched on such a wide variety of subjects with such startling interconnectedness.” Instructors for the online course include Dr. Arnn; Michael Ward, author of several books about Lewis; and David Whalen, Hillsdale College provost and professor of English. Each of the nine lessons includes a 30-minute video lecture, a pre-recorded Q&A session, a discussion board, and a quiz. They are available on demand; however, students are encouraged to watch one lecture per week. Those who complete all nine lessons and pass a final quiz have the opportunity to receive a free “Certificate of Completion” for their participation in the course. Hillsdale College offers an entire catalog of free online courses taught by its faculty in subjects including the Constitution, history, k-12 education, great books, and free market economics. More than 900,000 students have generated more than 1.4 million course enrollments since the program launched in fall 2011. To view the full course catalog, visit online. hillsdale.edu.

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for a month! By Kathleen Walters

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March is an exciting month in Northern Arizona. The “Day of the Irish” is celebrated all month long! SEDONA Folks from all over the world will gather in Sedona for their 46th Annual St. Patrick’s Parade and Festival on Saturday, March 12. Leading the parade will be Northern Arizona’s own pipe band—Southwest Skye Pipes and Drums, and this year’s Grand Marshals will be the Sedona Volunteer Parks Rangers Program. The parade steps off at 10:30 a.m. at Jordan Park in Uptown Sedona, followed by the Festival. PRESCOTT On Thursday, March 17, Rosslyn Chapel Chapter of the Daughters of the British Empire will host a St. Patrick’s Day Meeting and Lunch at Willow Creek Restaurant, 2516 Willow Creek Road in Prescott. RSVP to Roslyn at 928-237-1113.

Even though March is for celebrating the Irish, we in Northern Arizona do not forget the Scots. One of Scotland’s favorite folk music groups—The Old Blind Dogs—will perform at Light and Life Free Methodist Church, 2797 Willow Creek Road in Prescott at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 24. Call Dave at (928) 771-1218 for tickets and information. FLAGSTAFF On Sunday, March 13, from noon to 3 p.m., Riordan Mansion State Park, 409 West Riordan Road in Flagstaff, will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in true Irish style with music, games, whiskey tasting, and other activities that honor one of Flagstaff’s pioneer Irish families. For more information, call 928-779-4395. Then the Scottish music group The Old Blind Dogs will perform at the Coconino Center for the Arts, 2300 North Fort Valley Road in Flagstaff at 7:00 p.m., on Friday, March 25. For more information, call 928-779-2300. The Northern Arizona Celtic Heritage Society

will present their annual Highland Tea with Diana Gabaldon, author of the “Outlander” series, on Saturday, March 26, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at The Kilted Cat, 2600 West Kiltie Lane in Flagstaff. For ticket information, call 928-606-6327.

It’s great to be Irish any time, any place, but there is nothing better than celebrating St. Patrick’s Day and Month in Arizona! Kathleen Walters lives in a log cabin in the woods near Flagstaff. For several years she taught English on the Navajo Reservation and for 30 years owned and operated Aradia, an independent bookstore in Flagstaff. A strong advocate for Adoptee Rights, she wrote Coming Together: An Adoptee’s Story and the fictional Caitlin: Priestess of the Goddess (under the author name Martha Shideler). Kathleen is fascinated by all things Celtic, travels to Ireland and Scotland as often as possible, and edits and publishes the monthly “Independent Celt Newsletter.” In her spare time, she plays the bagpipes.

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Grand Marshals of the 46th Annual Sedona St. Patrick’s Parade future residents with a spirit of fellowship.” While our first priority is to provide support to the City’s Park & Recreation programs, the majority of our time is spent providing roving informational services and assistance to visitors in “Uptown” Sedona. Uniformed Rangers serve as a primary contact point for visitors in Uptown. They answer questions, provide directions, serve as “City Ambassadors,” pose for pictures, provide first aid, serve as first responders to emergencies, report violations/hazards, pick up litter, check public restrooms, and serve as an immediate City contact for merchants and residents. The Rangers also assist with community events providing crowd control, traffic and parking assistance, gate security, and serving as a roving contact.

he City of Sedona Volunteer Park Ranger (SVPR) program was created in 2007 based on the City’s Vision Statement goals of preserving Sedona’s “natural beauty, scenic vistas, pristine environmental and cultural heritage nurtured in a spirit of volunteer is—that welcomes and accommodates all of its visitors and

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BENEFIT TO THE CITY During the 2015 calendar year, the Sedona Volunteer Park Rangers provided 1,619 hours of community service, totaling 25,860 volunteer hours since the program began. Based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2014) who sets the monetary value of volunteers for city, state and federal agencies, the Sedona Volunteer Park

Rangers contributed $37,350 in services to the City in 2015. This brings the total to $383,156 since the program began while costing the city less than $24,000 during that same period. But the real value may be found in the intangible benefits of having “City Ambassadors” greeting and assisting visitors on the street, making them feel welcome and creating an atmosphere that encourages them to return to Sedona. SEDONA’S PARADE AND FESTIVAL Saturday, March 12 marks the 46th Annual Sedona St. Patrick’s Parade and Festival. The festivities are presented by Sedona Main Street Program, NAU Parks and Recreation Management Program, and the Sedona Green Team. The parade starts at 10:30 am from Jordan Historical Park and proceeds south on Jordan Road to Mesquite Avenue. Parade entrants include dignitaries and civic, social, cultural, and religious organizations, with area businesses. The Festival begins immediately following the parade, featuring free children’s and family activities, food vendors, and nonstop music until 3pm.

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Knitted Lace

LACE MAKER, SPINNER, WEAVER

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ighly skilled artisan, Jean Doig, is truly a Celt, hailing from many generations of Cohens. Her mother’s surname was MacGillaverey; her father, a descendant of the Scottish Stewart clan. A versatile woman, Jean, from a young age, assisted her mother in teaching aquatics that she would continue at the YMCA until a back injury forced her into retirement. She pursued studies in library management at Mesa Community College and for several years has coordinated on a part-time basis the technical process for the McClelland Library at the Irish Cultural Center in Phoenix. She is also a library substitute for Mesa Public Schools. Today and for years, she has been a devoted member of CROFT, a research and re-enactment group who claim Scots, Irish and Welsh descent and emulate the lifestyles, trades, and artistry of Celts from 400 BC until 1746 AD. Growing up in Los Angeles, Jean’s crafting began at the wonderful age of five with knitting and crocheting and by nine had progressed to embroidery and needlepoint, then to weaving on the rigid heddle loom and card weaving by age ten. Her teen years only engaged her more, with tatting, spinning, dyeing, and needle lace. It was she who would be asked to assist the substitute when her fiber arts teacher was absent and perhaps here, she discovered her love for teaching. At age twenty-one she turned to her great love... lace making and especially bobbin lace which she claims is the easiest of all to create. “It is like glorified hair braiding,” she said, by which one can produce exquisite collars, edgings, and lace motifs. She would pursue the making of netted lace mesh. All lace making would become her passion, her life work. Jean stated as far back as 1740 in Jefferson’s times, there has been a documented American lace industry and the trading of laces, patterns, and silk. Lacemaking was and still is the work of nuns who embroider and

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beautify church linens. Recently, she said, the oldest maker of bobbin lace died in a convent in Bruge, Belgium. She was a teacher of some of the most advanced forms of bobbin lace. She also remarked how highly praised are the lace designs found in the Vatican linens. An authority in the field of lace making, Jean has been called upon to give lectures and demonstrate her craft to the Mormon Relief Society. As an expert in the design and repair of lace, she was asked by Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church Altar Guild to monogram their altar linens. She stated that lace conservation is of great concern for such groups but it is an arduous task to match size, texture and color of fibers. Fortunately I had “captured” Jean on a day when she was demonstrating her craft to tour groups visiting the Irish Cultural Center. Among her pieces was a stunning collar of Irish lace she had discovered in a trunk that had been made by her paternal great-grandmother. Its large flowers, she pointed out, are no longer made in Ireland; the cost to make them exceeding the time consumed in producing them. Jean’s goal is to design samples of Irish laces...the embroidered net laces of Limerick, Carrickmacross, and Tambour; the needle laces of Youghal and Kenmare from which one can make coasters, sun catchers, ornaments and medallions for clothing. She especially loves Irish crochet and its motifs; there is also the beautiful Mountmellick embroidery with fringed, knitted edge and the unique designs she hopes to replicate soon in a tea cozy. I ask all my artisans this...what do you consider your pièce de résistance? Inspired by Barbara Underwood’s writings on Bedfordshire bobbin lace, Jean created for her sister a wedding headpiece of lace. It consumed two years of her life (1990-1992), 326 pairs of bobbins and 3,800 hours of handwork. It is now on display in her sister’s home. With its letter of authenticity, it is valued at $25,000. Do you have an unhappy memory in your years of art making? Tragically, Jean stated her dog literally ate a stunning knitted lace blouse she had created with

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imported yarn from Israel and no longer made. And what lies ahead for you? Jean didn’t hesitate...she will continue to teach and make lace, still weave and spin. One could not find a more serious and well-versed teacher in such matters. And with all you have told me, what might you say to our readers in closing? Jean smiled. “Lace is not hard to do but very addicting.” READ MORE: Decorative Arts and History Museum, Dublin http://www.museum.ie/Decorative-Arts-History http://www.irishlacemuseum.com And there are other wonderful sites: http://www.mountmellickdevelopment.com/ museum.htm http://www.carrickmacrosslace.ie http://www.kenmarelace.ie Lynn is a former high school teacher of art, history, and political science. She is a potter, illustrator, muralist in public venues and private homes, and wordsmith. Frequently a featured artist at the Irish Cultural Center, Celtic landscapes intrigue her. Her mom, a Williams, is totally Welsh with ancestry as far back as 1700s and the Isle of Anglesley.

Ann Hines, Jean Doig (center), and Wendy Beaver presenting demonstrations at The Cottage, ICC

n today’s Ireland, an advertisement for “spinning” means a workout on a stationary bike, not using a spinning wheel. But... Two images come to mind when spinning thread is mentioned. One, an old woman holding a stick and twisting it; the other, an equally old woman turning a wheel on a frame. Back through history spinning was done on a weighted stick called a spindle. Women and young girls spent much of their time spinning so the thread could be woven into cloth for the family. The spinning wheel was invented in Asia and made it into Europe by the 13th century. This kind of wheel is called the Great or Walking Wheel. A large wheel turned by hand turns a spindle as the spinner walks away from it which spins the thread. Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on one. This was the first kind of wheel to make it into Ireland. Improvements were made, including a treadle which turns the wheel by foot allowing the user to sit while working, leaving both hands free to spin better thread. This is what we think of as a spinning wheel. Treadle spinning wheels were brought into Ireland by Sir Thomas Wentworth, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. He brought craftsmen from Holland to teach Irish carpenters how to build wheels for spinning flax. So in Ireland this wheel is known as the Dutch wheel. Flax was grown and spun in Ireland for use in making the world’s best linen. A hank of spun flax yarn was 3,600 yards long and could weigh as little as an ounce. Irish women were given wheels by weaving mills to spin flax and used their machines for spinning wool as well. Today, around the world, descendants of those spinners spin for the pleasure it brings. Kristie Stevenson, a fourth generation Arizonan, traces her Celtic ancestry back to Ireland, Scotland and Wales. A CROFT member, she enjoys spinning, felting and quilting. She with her husband, Chris, spend summers in their home in Banbridge, County Down, and winter in Glendale, Arizona. PHOTO SHOWN ABOVE BY DETROIT PUBLISHING CO., LIBRARY OF CONGRESS REPRODUCTION NUMBER LLC-DIGPPMSC-09892. LICENSED UNDER PUBLIC DOMAIN VIA COMMONS - HTTPSCOMMONS.WIKIMEDIA.ORGWIKIFILEE

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ANAM CARA HONOREES T By John Keating, Fund Development Manager, ICLF with Iain Lundy

Photos by Bob Rink Photography

he 8th Annual Anam Cara Awards Gala was a terrific success. More than 175 guests attended at the Irish Cultural Center and McClelland Library in October 2015, for an enjoyable outdoor evening of great food, entertainment, and fun. Among the special visitors was Irish Consul General to the Western U.S., Philip Grant; and Councillor Mary Howard of the EnnisPhoenix Twinning Board (Sister Cities in County Clare, Ireland). The event net proceeds reached close to $20,000. The monies raised from table sales, silent and live auctions, and general donations go directly toward supporting the programs and events offered through the nonprofit parent organization, the Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation (ICLF). The wonderful evening was capped off with awards for the Anam Cara (Irish pronounced “ah-nahm khara” means “soul friend”). The honorees giving touching and emotional speeches about their positive involvement in the Irish/Celtic community. Instead of individuals, this year three outstanding couples were recognized with the annual Anam Cara awards in recognition of their generous contribution of time and leadership in the Community. The three sets of recipients are:

PATRICIA AND SEAN PRIOR The Priors are among the Founders of the ICLF and have been involved with the Center since its conception. Patricia previously served as a volunteer in many positions from Secretary of the ICLF Board of Trustees, President of WWW.DESERTSHAMROCK.COM » WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

the Board, Executive Director; and as one of the founding members of the Celtic Crafters. The ICC’s Annual Fall Tea is one of the events she hosts and is enjoyed by many each year. Sean is forever proud of his contribution to the Winter Solstice celebration each December and served as a docent for many years. His help with creating the Famine Memorial is also very special to him. Although now “somewhat retired” from their previous involvement with the Irish Cultural Center, but were both delighted at being Honorees for the Anam Cara Award this year, an award that Patricia was quite involved with originally establishing.

ANNA AND MICHAEL O’HARA Michael, who is originally from Ajo, Arizona, and Anna, from Washington DC, were married in 1972 in Phoenix and blessed with three children: Tara Leigh (Soucy), Patrick Michael, and Arick Ray, and their grandson, Brendan. Since Anna retired from teaching middle school in the Kyrene School District in 2006, she has volunteered as Lead Docent at the Irish Cultural Center. She is a former Affiliate Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation Board member. Currently, Anna is President of the Irish Foundation of Arizona; Michael serves as Vice-President and interim Secretary. She and Michael are both founding directors for the Friends of St. Patrick Centre, Arizona Chapter; Anna was the former Secretary. Together, they are members of the Irish Currach Team of Phoenix rowers.

DELIA AND KELLY STOKES Baby Nicholas Stokes was born more than three months early on July 12, 2006, in one of the most breathtakingly beautiful places on earth, the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, Ireland. Sadly, he lived only an hour and died en route to the hospital. Moved by the compassion and kindness the Irish people showed them, Delia Garcia Stokes Director of Communications for Walmart; and Kelly Stokes, Market Director of Health & Wellness for Walmart, pledged to turn their tragedy into something good. With the help of the Phoenix-Ennis Sister Cities and the county’s leadership, Kelly and Delia’s vision of a fully equipped first aid facility at the soon-to-be completed state-of-the-art Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience was approved by Clare County Council. In 2007, the Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience was inaugurated and the first aid facility, named for Baby Nicholas, was opened. Nicholas’ Room is designed to be “an ambulance without wheels,” where trained staff can triage and support visitors who need medical attention. Parents Kelly and Delia, from Phoenix, shared, “Though the circumstances of his premature arrival have been described as sad and tragic, the legacy of Nicholas’ short life is anything but that. There is great joy, peace, hope, and a renewed faith in God’s plan for each of us.” Through the care and assistance provided in Nicholas’ Room, Baby Nicholas will continue to touch the lives of people from Ireland and around the world who visit the Cliffs of Moher.

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The Irish would be inspired at the Welsh’s dogged retention of their native tongue despite their English neighbors. By Lynn Herdman Mascarelli

hree miles from Bala in North Wales, there is little evidence of the site of a 1916 internment compound, where the Welsh played a major role in a well-documented turbulent time in Irish and British history. There is talk of ceremonies and the laying of wreaths of remembrance during this centenary year of 2016. With the government of Ireland Act 1914 and continued oppression of Home Rule Bills, Ireland was weary; insurrection imminent. A rebellion aimed at establishing an Irish Republic arose on Easter Monday 1916 but was swiftly crushed by British military forces. Fifteen leaders of the Easter Rising were executed. The rest, more than 1800 Irishmen, among them Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, were transported with prisoner of war status to Merionethshire in Wales and the tiny village of Fron Goch. Because many charged were wrongly arrested, the prisoner population was sorted out and gradually reduced to five or six hundred. The internment site had been a German prisoner of war camp during World War I. They were displaced and sent elsewhere to make room for the Irish insurgents. It was divided into a North and South Camp. The South Camp based in an old whisky distillery fallen into disrepair when the owners suffered bankruptcy in 1910. The North Camp was close to a road leading to the location of another tragic event years later in Welsh history in the town of Capel Celyn, lying peacefully in a valley. It would be literally submerged under water after the people were forced out; their life work gone to allow a reservoir by the river Tryweryn to flow into the lowlands in1965. The North Camp was designated a place to discipline unruly prisoners. One can only imagine the conflict existing between the camp authorities and imprisoned insurrectionists, the living conditions, and not knowing what lay ahead. Most interesting was the relationship that devel-

Prisoners held Gaelic lessons and were allowed to have musical instruments. oped between prisoners and Welshmen who worked at the camp. The Irish would be inspired at the Welsh’s dogged retention of their native tongue despite their English neighbors. The Irish prisoners were, for the most part, educated men, who chose to use their prison time well by learning their own Gaelic; Welsh, Spanish, and French. Prisoners themselves organized classes in subjects like bookkeeping, mathematics, and shorthand. Paul Dickens in his writings (2016) maintains it was “the learning of Gaelic that had been inspired by the Welsh’s own love for their language.” But Michael Collins would teach other things, train the detainees in military strategy and guerrilla warfare. Frongoch would earn the name: ollscoil na réabhlóide, the university of revolution. The planning of the fight for freedom continued and the name Irish Republican Army was first used instead of the Irish Volunteers or Irish Citizen Army. Public outcry and reports of abuse and poor diet caused a doctor to declare most would not survive their internment and, on 23 December 1916, Britain’s first and only Welsh-speaking Prime Minister, David

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Lloyd George, signed the release of the Irish detainees who returned home for Christmas. Inwardly they came back to Ireland fired up even more to rebel. There were no remembrances for a very long time at Frongoch due to the ongoing Troubles in Northern Ireland and fear of possible controversy that might ensue if they did. But, initiated by the Liverpool branch of Conradh na Gaeilge/The Gaelic League and Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg/The Welsh language Society, a memorial plaque in Irish, Welsh, and English was unveiled at the internment site in the summer of 2002. A local school Ysgol Bro Tryweryn now stands on the site of the former camp. For author’s bio and photo, go to page 41.

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MARCH/APRIL 2016 THE DESERT SHAMROCK IRISH CULTURAL CENTER & McCLELLAND LIBRARY Our mission is to provide a link between the people of Arizona and the people of Ireland and other Celtic cultures. The Irish Cultural Center serves as a central meeting place for cultural groups, affiliate groups and people looking to celebrate their Irish/Celtic heritage. The McClelland Library is a three-story building resembling a traditional 12th century Norman castle from the Emerald Isle. The Library houses 8,000 books from Irish authors, poets, and genealogical sources, a permanent exhibit on The Book of Kells, several reading rooms, and computer access to various disciplines of Irish and Celtic studies including genealogy. Their current exhibition is on the Historical Context and Cultural Legacy of the 1916 Easter Rising. The mission of The Academy of Irish & Celtic Studies is to spread the knowledge and wisdom of the Celtic nations through music, dance, art, literature and language. We do this by providing many musical and Arts programs, open to young and old alike. The Center is also available for private rentals, being a beautiful venue for all occasions! www.azirish.org, 602-258-0109

ARIZONA COLLEEN PROGRAMS The Arizona Colleen and Rose of Tralee Selection, Arizona Irish Lass and Little Miss Shamrock programs select young ladies of Irish descent to participate as spokespersons at area events. Prize packages for each competition. The Colleen wins a trip to Ireland and $1,000 scholarship. For details, visit www.azcolleen.org or contact Erin Sweeney-Morgan, Chair, 602-373-7931, info@azcolleen.org.

ARIZONA LAW ENFORCEMENT EMERALD SOCIETY (ALEES) ALEES was incorporated in 2004 to promote and celebrate accomplishments of Irish-Americans in law enforcement. Its members, families and friends support ALEES Foundation, a non-profit 501(c) (3) created in 2012 to provide financial assistance to the families of injured and fallen brothers and sisters in Arizona law enforcement. If interested in becoming a member or volunteering, contact us at azemeraldsociety.org.

THE CALEDONIAN SOCIETY OF ARIZONA Our mission is to promote Scottish culture through art, education, and athletics. Each year we grant scholarships to aspiring and professional Highland athletes, musicians, dancers and/or any other individuals or organizations whose mission, project or program promotes Scottish heritage. We meet the 2nd Thursday of each month for drinks, entertainment and Scottish fun! Everyone welcome! ArizonaScots.com.

CELTIC HARVEST FESTIVAL SEDONA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 AT VERDE VALLEY SCHOOL Enjoy the sounds of Celtic music and dance, storytelling, and poetry, wares for sale, workshops by artisans, sheepherding demos, art of falconry, Fairy Village children’s activities, lots of food and drink! New this year Scottish heavy athletics! Adults $15; Teens $5; under 11 yrs. old free. www.celticharvestfestival.com

DAUGHTERS OF SCOTIA DESERT THISTLE LODGE #260 Formed in 2005 to promote Scottish heritage. Ladies of ancestry, married to a Scot or born in Scotland may join. We hold monthly meetings, tea socials, a teahouse at the AZ Highland Games and attend Scottish events. We support Highland dance competition and other charities. Contact: Bethany Tso at 602-770-7565 or clanwoman924@yahoo.com

DESERT IRISH WOLFHOUND ASSOCIATION (DIWA) A non-profit corporation, DIWA is committed to improving the health and welfare of Irish Wolfhounds throughout Arizona; encouraging responsible ownership through mentoring and education of its members; and maintaining a source of Irish Wolfhound specific rescue/rehoming contacts statewide. Dues are $20 for a single and $30 for a family membership. For information, contact Christine Davis, President, 602-439-1783; or Pam Clark, Rehoming Coordinator, 928-821-6009; www.desertirishwolfhounds.org.

FRIENDS OF SAINT PATRICK CENTRE – AZ CHAPTER The nonprofit organization was formed in 2011 to promote positive relationships between Arizona and Northern Ireland. Through education, cultural exchanges and charitable events, the Chapter nurtures St. Patrick’s legacy. Meetings held quarterly at the ICC. Contact: Glenda Walker at 602-277-1376, www.saintpatrickcentre.com

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GRAND CANYON CELTIC ARTS ACADEMY It offers classes in Irish music, dance, and language to children ages 7+ (July 14-18, 2014) and adults (July 15-17, 2014). Come learn something new or improve your current skills with members of Runa and Zac Legér. Classes in fiddle, whistle, guitar, bodhrán, Irish language, dance, and more! Contact: Kari Barton, 928-600-1365, kari@grandcanyoncelticarts.org

IRISH AMERICAN CLUB WEST VALLEY Our purpose is to bring together individual of Irish descent and others interested in Irish culture through our monthly socials. Everyone is welcome; it is part of our Irish hospitality. The Club meets monthly October through May for dinner and dancing at the Sun City Country Club. Dues are $10 per year. For information or a complementary newsletter, contact Maura McConnell, Secretary, 623-933-3698, hummel4fun@aol.com.

IRISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA Formed in the 1970s to bring together people of Irish heritage in Arizona, the group sponsors social events throughout the year. Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of each month at 7pm at the ICC. Contact: Anna O’Hara, President, 480-345-9517

IRISH NETWORK PHOENIX (IN PHX) Irish Network Phoenix is under the umbrella of the national IrishNetwork USA organization integrating the IrishNetworks that exist in various cities across the United States. It allows members of the networks to connectwith their peers and to develop relationships that will foster success in their business, economic, cultural andsports ventures. Come to a monthly breakfast or lunch to explore membership benefits.www.meetup.com/INPhoenix; www.facebook. com/IrishNetworkPhoenix; www.IrishNetworkPhoenix.com

JIM THOMSON U.S. SCHOOL OF PIPING & DRUMMING This bagpipe and drum school is dedicated to excellence in bagpiping as well as camaraderie and fun. All levels of students are welcome! Instructors are brought from Scotland, Ireland, Canada and the U.S. Contact: Eric Poleski, Administrator, ericpoleski@cox.net, 702-270-8974 home, 702-340-8859 cell, 928-556-3161, www.nachs.info

LOS SAN PATRICIOS DE ARIZONA (ST. PATRICK’S BATTALION) The organization honors the 150-year-old bond of friendship existing today between Mexico and Ireland. Los San Patricios de Arizona was founded by Wm. “Bill” Howard O'Brien; Hector Corona, El Teniente; and Ernie Patino, El Teniente. For information, please call 480-951-1152 or email whoco@cox.net.

NORTHERN ARIZONA CELTIC HERITAGE SOCIETY The nonprofit organization is dedicated to presenting, promoting, and preserving Celtic culture. Each year we host the Arizona Highland Celtic Festival (July 19-20, 2014), the Jim Thomson U.S. School of Piping & Drumming (July 11-18, 2014), and the Grand Canyon Celtic Arts Academy (July 15-18, 2014). Contact Jude McKenzie, information@nachs.info, 928-556-3161, ww.nachs.info.

PHOENIX ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE & FAIRE COMMITTEE Formed in 1983, the Committee has the responsibility for organizing the annual Phoenix St. Patrick’s Day Parade and the Faire that follows, which are held on Saturday (the closest before or falling on March 17); and the Arizona Colleen Programs throughout the year. It is entirely volunteers and meets the second Tuesday of each month at 7 pm at the ICC. Contact: Harry Sexton, President, 602-863-9198.

PHOENIX ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE It is one of the largest parades in Arizona! Celebrate being Irish with the entire Valley. Coming up Saturday, March 14, 2015, 10am; route is Third Street south from Sheridan to Moreland, FREE. Contact: John Corcoran, Chair, 623-939-1183, www.stpatricksdayphoenix.org.

PHOENIX ST. PATRICK’S DAY FAIRE Fun for the entire family, it showcases Irish music, step dancing, Irish and Celtic arts and crafts, plus traditional Irish foods and beverages. Coming up Saturday, March 14, 2015, 10am-5pm at the Irish Cultural Center and Margaret Hance Park grounds. Contact: Mary Moriarty, Chair, 602-258-0109, www.stpatricksdayphoenix.org.

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Our organization, a 501(c)(3), exists in order to promote cultural pride in Celtic heritage through education, scholarships, activities, special events and the annual Prescott Highland Games. It is a love of all things Celtic which drives our association. Dues are $10 for single and $15 per couple per year. For information, call Andy Hamilton 928642-0020 or Jill Nelson 928-443-1422, regjill@q.com; P.O. Box 12912, Prescott, AZ 86304-2912; www.prescotthighlandgames.com.

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RIORDAN MANSION STATE HISTORIC PARK

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Built in 1904 for two Irish brothers, Riordan Mansion is an architectural treasure offering a glimpse into the lives of Flagstaff’s early Irish settlers. The “fairy ring” seen on the outdoor self-guided tour hints at the Irish tradition of providing fairies an outdoor dancing space, preventing mischief inside. For admission rates and hours call 928-779-4395.

SCOTTISH-AMERICAN MILITARY SOCIETY (SAMS), FLAGSTAFF Chartered on April 21, 1981 in North Carolina, membership is open to all Active Duty and Veterans of the USA and the British Commonwealth who are of Scot or Scot-Irish lineage. For more information, contact SAMS Flagstaff Post 2000, George G. Shoemaker, 928-607-1600, gduffer@suddenlink.net.

SCOTTISH-AMERICAN MILITARY SOCIETY (SAMS), PRESCOTT Membership is open to honorably discharged veterans or active duty or reserve military persons who have served or are serving with any branch of the United States or Commonwealth Armed Forces, of Scottish ancestry. We welcome your membership. Currently there are 39 Posts within the United States. Contact: Reg Nelson, 928-443-1422; SAMS Prescott Post 1297, “The Arizona Highlanders,” P.O. Box 2245, Prescott, AZ 86302-2245; sams.commander.post1297@gmail.com.

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MAGUIRE ACADEMY OF IRISH DANCE Classes in Phoenix, Tucson, Dallas, and Houston Info@maguireacademy.com (520) 319-0204. Darren Maguire, TCRG, ADCRG www.maguireacademy.com

MASCHINO SCHOOL OF HIGHLAND DANCE Kari Maschino, 480-242-7760, Kari@maschinodance.com Gilbert, Tempe, Peoria www.maschinodance.com

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PRESCOTT AREA CELTICS SOCIETY (PACS)

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CLANS CLAN MACINNES INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION Arizona Convenor: Steve McKinnis 11505 E. Calle Javelina, Tucson, AZ 85748 macinnes@macinnes.org • 520-290-1268 • www.macinnes.org

Ellen Harrington, President. P.O. Box 4174, Chandler, AZ 85244-4174 480-600-8509, chan.to.tull@gmail.com, www.chandlerirish.org

PHOENIX-ENNIS, IRELAND SISTER CITIES Mary Hill-Connor, Committee Chairperson 602-635-9760, mary.hillconnor@gmail.com www.phoenixsistercities.org

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MARCH-APRIL 2016 [All events are in Arizona USA unless otherwise noted]

IRISH CULTURAL CENTER (ICC)/ MCCLELLAND LIBRARY

PUBLIC WALK-IN HOURS (TOURS, LIBRARY & GENEALOGY) Tuesday-Saturday • 10am – 3pm Wednesday Evenings (Library only) • 3pm – 8pm Frances McClelland Genealogy Centre available these hours; Open Other Hours for Scheduled Classes, Meetings & Events 1106 N. Central Ave., Phoenix 85004 602-258-0109, www.azirish.org See ad page 11

DEIREADH SEACHTAINE – IRISH LANGUAGE WEEKEND

5TH ANNUAL EXPERIENCE IRELAND

Thursday, March 17 • 7:30pm Tickets: start $29 Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts See ad on back page

CELTIC WEEKEND

Thursday March 17 • 10am – 10pm Tickets: $5 - $15 at the gate. Children under 12 free! azirish.org, 602-258-0109

Arizona Renaissance Festival Saturday, March 12 Sunday, March 13 See ad page 4

ST. PATRICK’S EVENTS

February 26-28 • 10am – 4pm $50 per day or $125 for all Instructor is native Irish speaker commissioned by the Ireland-United States (Fulbright) Commission for Educational Exchange. Info: Vicki Champion, AZRangGaeilge@gmail.com, 623680-1711 ICC, azirish.org, Elaine at 602-864-2357

REMEMBERING THE EASTER RISING: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND CULTURAL LEGACY

Now through June An Interactive Museum EXHIBIT | McClelland Library Co-Sponsored by Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the Consulate Office of San Francisco. Cost: $10 adults, $8 seniors and students, $5 members, and $5 kids ages 5-17. Contact/Info: 602-864-2351; www.azirishlibrary.org

FAMILY STORY HOUR

Saturday, March 5 • 10:30am to Noon Stories and crafts for entire family. Irish Cultural Center; FREE. Contact: 602-864-2351; info@azirishlibrary.org

TÉADA ORCHESTRA PRESENTS “REAWAKENING”

Thursday, March 10 • 7pm Friday, March 11 • 7pm Téada (Irish for “string”) Orchestra is a group of 20 string musicians who form Dublin’s newest orchestral collective. Tickets: $38.50 - $43.50 MIM.org or 480.478.6000

TUCSON MAYOR’S LUNCHEON

Friday, March 11 • 11:30am – 1:30pm Pastiche, 3025 N. Campbell, Tucson Hosted by Tucson-Roscommon Sister Cities RSVP: Colleen Beaman, 520-743-7979 See ad page 19

KISS ME I’M IRISH RUN & WALK

Saturday, March 12 • 7:17am start Live Music, Fun for the Entire Family IrishRunAZ.org; 480609-3978 See ad page 43

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POT OF GOLD MUSIC FESTIVAL

Thursday, March 17 Saturday, March 19 Rawhide in Chandler, AZ potofgoldaz.com See ad on page 39

Friday, March 18 • 7pm – 9pm Westin Kierland, Scottsdale Saturday, March 19 9am – 7pm Sunday March 20 9am – 4pm Steele Indian School Park, Phoenix See ad page 17

February 26 through March 13 By Conor McPherson Directed by Carol MacLeod Theatre Artist Studio Discount for ICC/McClelland Library members See ad page 50

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ST. PATRICK’S DAY AT THE IRISH CULTURAL CENTER & MCCLELLAND LIBRARY!

SCOTTISH GATHERING AND HIGHLAND GAMES

“THE WEIR”

(IRISH SOCIAL DANCING) March 18, April 15 • 7pm – 10pm • The Great Hall $6; under 12 FREE (2 with each paid admission)

CONCERT: CHERISH THE LADIES

Saturday, March 12 • 9 am - 5 pm Sunday, March 13 • 9 am - 5 pm Music, crafts, Irish dancing, storytelling and more; celebrate St. Patrick’s Day! Tickets: Activities and performances included with paid museum admission MIM.org or 480.478.6000

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PARADES AND FAIRES

Saturday, March 12 Phoenix Parade • 10am; Irish Faire • 10am – 5pm See ad page 13 San Diego, CA Parade • 10:30am; Irish Festival • 9am – 6pm See ad page 51 Sedona Parade • 10:30am; Irish Festival • follows to 3pm See info page 38 Sunday, March 13 Tucson Parade • 11am; Irish Festival • 10am – 6pm See ad page 23

LIVE MUSIC AT IRISH PUBS

Thursday, March 17 Directory page 32; See ads below O’Connor’s page 21 R.T. O’Sullivan’s page 22 Rula Bula page 50 Seamus McCaffrey’s page 43 The Kettle Black page 47 Tim Finnegan’s page 47

ST. PATRICK'S DAY FUN AT RIORDAN MANSION!

Sunday, March 13 • Noon to 3:00pm State Historic Park 409 West Riordan Road, Flagstaff Celebrate the Irish heritage of the Riordan family. Music, raffles, refreshments, crafts for kids, and other magical surprises! Irish-themed tours (regular admission fee applies); whiskey tasting ($15 per person) Hosted by Northern Arizona Celtic Heritage Society and the Riordan Action Network Need not be Irish to attend - kilt not required Info: 928-853-7792

LÚNASA WITH TIM O’BRIEN

Tuesday, March 15 • 7pm Tickets: $38.50 - $48.50 Irish music dream team and Grammy-winning musician explore common roots and mutual influences at the heart of American and Irish music. MIM.org or 480.478.6000

Thursday, March 24 • 7 pm Light & Life Free Methodist Church 2797 Willow Creek Rd., Prescott Tickets at door only: $25; $12 college students; under 19 - FREE, Info: 928-771-1218 Friday, March 25 • 7pm Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff Info: 928-779-2300 www.oldblinddogs.co.uk See info page 38

MULTI-MEDIA EVENT: 100TH ANNIVERSARY 1916 EASTER RISING

Presented by Jim Daugherty Saturday, March 26 • 9am – 1pm The Great Hall, ICC Co-Sponsored by Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the Consulate Office of San Francisco FREE, donations accepted; cash bar azirish.org, 602-258-0109

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

Saturday, March 26 • 10:30am – 12:30pm • FREE Co-Sponsored by Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the Consulate Office of San Francisco This month discussing Liam O'Flaherty, “The Informer” (novel) ICC/McClelland Library, 602-864-2351; azirishlibrary.org

ANNUAL HIGHLAND TEA WITH DIANA GABALDON

Saturday, March 26 • 2pm – 5pm The Kilted Cat 2600 West Kiltie Lane, Flagstaff Author of the “Outlander” book and TV series Hosted by Northern AZ Celtic Heritage Society Ticket info: 928-606-6327

MULTI-MEDIA EVENT: 100TH ANNIVERSARY 1916 EASTER RISING

Presented by Jim Daugherty Monday, March 28 • 6:30pm FREE Scottsdale Civic Center Library See ad on back page

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FAMILY STORY HOUR

BOOK OF KELLS SEMINAR

Saturday, April 2 • 10:30am to Noon Stories and crafts for entire family. Irish Cultural Center; FREE. Contact: 602-864-2351; info@azirishlibrary.org

Saturday April 23 • 1pm – 4pm Norton Room, McClelland Library Presented by Sean Lee, ICC Co-Founder and Dr. Sharonah Fredrick, ASU Tickets: $15 per person, $25 for two people at the gate. Reservations required. azirish.org, 602-258-0109 See ad page 44

ORIGINATION/DISCOVERY: UK AND IRELAND

Sunday, April 3 • Noon – 4pm FREE Scottsdale Center for the Arts Concerts, vendors, workshops, dance, cooking show, theatre, and more! Celtic Tea Party 2:30-3:30pm (requires ticket $10; online or call box office) See ad page 50

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PIRATE PARTY! FOR ALL AGES

Sunday, April 17 • 1:30pm – 5:30pm ICC/McClelland Library Pirate lore and storytelling, music and dance, kids’ craft, food and cash bar. Welcome to come as a pirate! Tickets: $5 at the gate; kids under 12 FREE azirish.org, 602-258-0109 See ad page 21

MAYOR’S INTERNATIONAL GALA

Thursday, April 7 6pm – 9pm Sheraton Grand Phoenix Tickets by March 18 PhoenixSisterCities.org See ad page 18

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“PEACE THROUGH PEOPLE”

Thursday, April 21 • 6:30pm – 8:30pm Burst of Butterflies Pottery & Art Studio 141 W. Boston Street, Downtown Chandler Painting the Blarney Castle Hosted by Chandler-Tullamore Sister Cities See ad page 18

Saturday, April 9 • 10:30am to 12:30 pm Cost: $15 members/$20 nonmembers ICC/McClelland Library, 602-864-2351; azirishlibrary.org 2016 Young Artists & Authors Int’l. Showcase Reception Friday, April 15 • 6pm – 10pm 3rd Friday Artwalk, Downtown Chandler Hosted by Chandler-Tullamore Sister Cities Chandlerirish.org See ad page 18

A WINE & DESIGN EVENING

Sunday, April 24 • 2pm – 4pm Great Hall, ICC Tickets: $10 Adults; $5 Children Contacts: Janet Grant, tisdalejanet@gmail.com, 602-509-1182; Bethany Tso, autumnphyre@cox.net, 602-770-7565

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

Saturday, April 30 • 10:30am – 12:30pm • FREE Co-Sponsored by Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the Consulate Office of San Francisco This month discussing Frank O'Connor, "Guests of the Nation" (short story) ICC/McClelland Library, 602-864-2351; azirishlibrary.org

SAVE THE DATE: LEGENDS OF CELTIC EXPLORATION IN THE ANCIENT AMERICAS: SAINTS, PRINCES, & RED-HAIRED GODS Saturday, May 7 • 7pm – 9pm Presented by Dr. Sharonah Fredrick ICC, $10 at door See ad page 44

IRISH LANGUAGE INTENSIVE May 17-22 (All levels) Info: Vicki Champion, 623-680-1711

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OrigiNation A Festival of Native Cultures celebrating the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Arizona

Sunday

April 3, 2016 12 – 4 p.m.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts 7380 E. Second Street Scottsdale 85251

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An afternoon of free entertainment and interactive experiences OPEN-AIR MUSIC PERFORMANCES BY

The Rave British Invasion, Tramor, and The Big Fellahs Seating on lawn; welcome to bring a blanket or portable chairs

COMMUNITY PARTNERS including the Irish Cultural Center/McClelland Library, Living Traditions Dance Troupe, Arizona DeLorean Club, Welsh musician John Good, Maschino Highland Dancers, Desert Irish Wolfhound Association, Irish Currach Rowing Team, Scottish Highland Games Athletes, Celtic Re-enactment Organization for Fellowship and Trades (CROFT), Arizona Curriculum Theater presents Peter Pan for children and more!

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The Celtic Caterer live cooking demonstration, period costume making by Arizona Renaissance Festival, Scotch Tasting*, and teaching Irish social dancing (ceili)

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Saturday, March 12, 2016 parade:

10:30 am, Fifth and Laurel irish festival: Balboa Park, 9 am to 6 pm JOIN THE FESTIVITIES! Authentic Celtic Food Village • Beer Garden Craft Booths • Kids’ Zone with Rides and Bungee T-Shirts, Jewelry and More • History Booth

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Explore U.K. + Ireland The 2015-16 Discovery Series offers an authentic exploration of the United Kingdom and Ireland, including performances, talks, films and more. Celebrate with the Ladies!

Cherish the Ladies: Irish Homecoming Thursday, March 17, 7:30 p.m. A St. Patrick’s Day concert with the all-women traditional Irish band blending virtuoso instrumentals, beautiful vocals, captivating arrangements and stunning step dancing. Also in Tucson: Friday, March 18, 7:30 p.m. Fox Tucson Theatre, FoxTucson.com or call 530-547-3040.

National Theater of Scotland’s

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart

Created by David Greig, Writer, and Wils Wilson, Director

April 19–24 An incredibly inventive and entertaining piece of anarchic theater, live music and strange goings-on. This event is an interactive theater experience with limited seating onstage in a pub setting.

Arts-Connect

Learn more about United Kingdom and Ireland through free lectures and other special events.

100th Anniversary The 1916 Easter Rising Monday, March 28, 6:30 p.m. Scottsdale Civic Center Library

OrigiNation

A Festival of Native Cultures From the United Kingdom, Ireland and Arizona

Sunday, April 3, Noon – 4 p.m. Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and Scottsdale Civic Center Park

Click ScottsdalePerformingArts.org Call 480-499-TKTS (8587) Visit 7380 E. Second St.

Season Sponsor

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April 17, 2016 5pm-10pm Proceeds Benefit

at Rawhide Western Town and Event Center • Beer Garden • Indoor & Outdoor Live Music on 2 Stages • Silent Auction • Over 30 Restaurants & Caterers Sharing Tastes • Beverage Vendors Provided by Bashas

BonVivant goes country

Event Schedule: 5:00pm - Early VIP entry 5:30pm - General Admission entry 5:30-8:00pm Main Event! 8:00-10:00pm - After Glow Party!

Silver Ticket: General Admission, $75 Gold Ticket: VIP Includes Gen Admission area, VIP + Parking fees After Glow: Afterparty, $20 Tickets available at event

Relax and enjoy local, live entertainment and win fabulous prizes at the silent auction. Bashas & friends will once again provide hundreds of beverages, including wines, beers and non-alcoholic drinks, featuring a Cigar & Coffee Bar, special games and music on 2 stages!

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Beer Over Here

Drink up at any of these Valley beer events this month Heineken Coyotes Viewing Party

MARCH 7 The Arizona Coyotes are playing the Colorado Avalanche in Denver, and Heineken has the hook up. Head to the viewing party at El Hefe and enter for a chance to win tickets to see a Coyotes game. You can drink ice-cold beers and cheer on your team all in one place. El Hefe, 4425 N. Saddlebag Trail, Scottsdale, 480.945.6200, az.crescentcrown.com, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., free

Paint Your Own Stein

MARCH 8 With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, having your own personal beer stein is essential. Sun Up and KD’s studio are teaming up to help you bring out your creative side. You can drink delicious beers, eat food and paint your own stein at this local brewery. All of the painting supplies are included with your stein purchase. Plus, if you pick up your finished stein on March 17, you will receive special

St. Patty’s Day beer pricing. Sun Up Brewing Company, 322 E. Camelback Road, Phoenix, 602.279.8909, sunupbrewing.com, 6:30 p.m., $20

Craft Beer Relay

MARCH 12 This isn’t your normal relay race. The craft beer relay is a four-person team 5K full of obstacles, team challenges and 12 beer stations from local breweries around town. The race also includes a festival that will feature live music, beer games, food trucks, prizes and tons of beer. It’s your chance to “drink beer, race and conquer.” We-Ko-Pa Resort and Conference Center, 10438 N. Fort McDowell Road, Scottsdale, 480.789.5300, craftbeerrelay.com, $84.34– $295.34

Birds ‘n’ Beer

MARCH 17 Join the Audubon Center on St. Patty’s Day to learn about all things nature while sipping on beers. This month, the theme is “Transferrable Ideas to Green Up Your Home.” Take a tour of

the center, learn about conservation and drink craft beer from Four Peaks Brewing Company. Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center, 3131 S. Central Avenue, Phoenix, 602.468.6470, riosalado.audubon.org, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., free

Great American BBQ & Beer Festival

MARCH 19 Get ready to indulge in mouth-watering barbecue and delicious brews. The seventh annual Great American BBQ and Beer Festival is back with even more country music, food-eating competitions and over 20,000 pounds of ribs, pork, brisket and chicken. Wash it all down with more than 200 kegs of SanTan Brewing Company beers. With family zones, over 100 vendors and plenty of food, there’s something for everyone at this barbecue and brew fest. Dr. A. J. Chandler Park, 3 S. Arizona Avenue, Chandler, 480.234.4232, chandlerbbq.com, 12 p.m. to 10 p.m., $10-$15

Boon-Stock Music and Beer Fest

MARCH 26 Rock out with local bands all day long at the Boon-Stock Music and Beer Fest. Come check out the music of The Blackmoods, Elvis Before Noon, Rose Colored Eyes and many others while sampling delicious craft brews from Arizona breweries like SanTan Brewery and Sleepy Dog Brewery. From 12 p.m. to 12 a.m., Boondocks will be rockin’ with local talent and you’ll be enjoying ice-cold beers. Boondocks Patio & Grill, 4341 N. 75th Street, Scottsdale, 480.949.8454, boondocksaz.com, 12 p.m., $22

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BeerFinder DIRECTORY Where to find the best craft beer bars in town

Craft 64

6922 E. Main Street, Scottsdale Craft 64 is proud to offer 36 local Arizona beers on tap in the heart of Scottsdale. Arizona beers only!

Mellow Mushroom Pizza

2490 W. Happy Valley Road, 5350 E. High Street, 740 S. Mill Avenue Locations throughout the Valley Incredible Pizza and amazing beer make Mellow the place to go for a craft beer experience.

Papago Brewing Company 7107 E. McDowell Road, Scottsdale The granddaddy of Arizona beer bars, there is something for every beer lover at Papago.

Boulders on Broadway

530 W. Broadway Road, Tempe Boulders has the appeal of a neighborhood bar with a beer list that’ll make your eyes pop.

Hungry Monk

1760 W. Chandler Boulevard, Chandler Whether you want great wings or great beer, Hungry Monk’s selection is tough to beat.

Harvey American Public House

1524 E. Williamsfield Road, Gilbert First class food and first class beer, all set away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Goldwater Brewing Co.

3608 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale This new brewery is already making waves with their desert inspired brews--and names. Check out their Scotch’Dale Scottish style ale.

Spokes on Southern

1470 E. Southern Avenue, Tempe A comfortable bike-themed grill with 24 draft handles and food made from scratch.

Culinary Dropout

5640 N. Seventh Street, 7135 E. Camelback Road Locations in Phoenix and Scottsdale Located at The Yard, Culinary Dropout has everything you look for in a great restaurant experience, especially great beer.

Scottsdale Beer Company

8608 E. Shea Boulevard, Scottsdale Quality craft beer made right here in Scottsdale. Happy hour from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday with $1 off all Scottsdale Beer Company beers, well drinks, wines by the glass and all small bites and starters!

Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row

Phoenix Public Market Café

4420 N. Saddlebag Trail Scottsdale Dierks Bentley has been known to kick back with a craft beer or two, and so can you at his digs.

Garage Wine and Tap

1534 E. Bethany Home Road, Phoenix With a small selection of great beers and a reputation for outstanding food, Garage should be on your list.

Thirsty Lion

Copper Blues/Stand Up Live

50 W. Jefferson Street, Phoenix Have a beer and a meal at Copper Blues before the stand-up show. You won’t even worry if it’s sold out.

Brat Haus

3622 N. Scottsdale Road Scottsdale The name says it all--brats, pretzels, Belgian fries and plenty of craft “bier” to make everyone happy.

Cold Beer and Cheeseburgers 4222 N. Scottsdale Road, 20831 N. Scottsdale Road Scottsdale Do we need to say more? The name spells out everything you need to know.

2337 N. Seventh Street Phoenix A charming old home is the location for this Coronado neighborhood hangout spot.

Pig & Pickle

House of Brews Sports Bar 825 S. Cooper Road Gilbert Is it a sports bar or a craft beer bar? It’s both!

The PERCH Pub & Brewery

232 S. Wall Street, Chandler Located in historic Downtown Chandler, this brewery and pub not only has delicious craft brews, but is also home to a collection of beautiful, brightly colored rescue birds!

Union Barrel House

3636 N. Scottsdale Road Scottsdale Look for a changing selection of taps along with great food.

Ground Control

Fox Cigar Bar

1464 E. Williams Field Road Gilbert Cigar fans, this should be your stop for cigars and great craft beer. Enjoy a walk in the humidor, the dark wood bar and a patio that is perfect for a cigar and a beer.

World of Beer

526 S. Mill Avenue, 2224 E. Williamsfield Road Locations in Tempe and Gilbert Let these fine folks take you around the world with over 50 taps and 400 bottles. You are bound to find your favorite beer.

1805 E. Elliot Road Tempe Home of the Third Thursday Tap Takevoer. The rest of the month is pretty good, too.

craft 64

Main Ingredient Ale House

2922 N. Hayden Road Scottsdale A restaurant that focuses on balance and quality, Pig & Pickle doesn’t skimp when it comes to their craft beer selection, either.

2000 E. Rio Salado Parkway Tempe Plenty of great taps and plenty of room to hang out, let someone else do the shopping at Tempe Marketplace.

Flanny’s Bar and Grill

14 E. Pierce Street Phoenix The Phoenix Public Market Café is a casual urban hangout offering breakfast, lunch, dinner and great beer.

4860 N. Litchfield Road Litchfield Park Fresh roasted coffee and an ever-changing selection of good beer, including a fantastic import selection, make this one of the top spots in the West Valley.

The Brass Tap

1033 N. Dobson Road, Suite 104 Mesa Over 60 Taps of great craft beers and over 300 total craft beers from around the globe available! Casually upscale atmosphere, open-air patio that is cigar-friendly, nice menu, daily specials, live music and knowledgeable staff. What more could you ask for!

Uncle Bear’s Brewery

4921 E. Ray Road, Phoenix Stop by to enjoy some local craft beer including Uncle Bear’s and other guest taps as well as delicious bites and a great happy hour!

Artisan Wood Fired Pizza 36 all LOCAL Arizona beers on tap In the heart of Scottsdale

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Feb 11th - Feb 20th All 3 Locations Will Donate $1 For Every Pint Of Uncle Bear’s Craft Beer Purchased Sat Feb 20th 15% Of All Sales From All 3 Stores Will Be Donated

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elicious food and tasty craft beer is never in short supply at The Attic Ale House. You can grab a brew, head to the patio and take in a gorgeous view of Camelback Mountain. We asked bartenders Tiffany Plourde and Lindsay Helm why craft beer holds a special place in their hearts and why The Attic should be your next stop for an ice cold brew. What do you think makes craft beer special? Plourde: Considering the time, thought and hard work that’s put into brewing a beer, it’s not something you can pour a few ingredients [into] and hope for the best. You have to know what you’re doing. I know it’s very time consuming. Helm: I think you can taste the difference between domestic beers and craft beers. There are so many different varieties and so many different flavor profiles you can get. It’s just so enjoyable to consume. How did you get interested in craft beer? Plourde: I actually didn’t know anything about craft beer until I started working here. I helped open it and the GM was very helpful in explaining what beer profiles are. Helm: I’ve always loved craft beer. I started off in Ohio and there’s a very big craft beer scene there. When I moved here there wasn’t much of a craft beer scene and I just happened to stumble on this place and it’s still one of those few places that have a 21 constantly rotating tap list.

What is your favorite part about the beer culture in the Valley? Plourde: I think the coolest part is that it’s all different kinds of people. There’s not really one set crowd that likes craft beer. Everyone is from a different walk of life, doing different things. Helm: The clientele alone are such an awesome, interesting bunch. I love coming in here because everyone is so passionate about what they’re consuming. It’s an awesome learning experience every day. Why is Attic Ale House the perfect place for craft beer? Plourde: I think the fun environment helps a lot, and the service. We definitely make the buzz around here. We try to make everyone have a great experience and have fun while they’re here. It is work, but it’s not a job you hate going to. Helm: The variety. The view. The food. What is your favorite beer at the moment? Plourde: My heart has been set on the Avery Liliko’i. We do have it on tap right now and it’s like a hefeweizen. It’s a witbier brewed with a Hawaiian passion fruit. It’s got a nice tartness, it’s not too sweet. It’s something I can drink all the time without getting a belly ache from drinking too many sour beers. Helm: I would have to agree. I seen that beer when I came in here and I was looking forward to the end of my shift.

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4247 E. Indian School Road, Phoenix, 602.955.1967, theatticaz.com

TASTY TRIVIA

What makes my beer taste the way it does?

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n a time not long ago, beer was like a Model T Ford—one color, one model and no choices. It’s quite the contrary as there are more styles of beer than ice cream flavors at Baskin-Robbins! The more consumers know about what’s in their beer, the better decision they can make about which to choose. Today we discuss the four main ingredients in beer and how they make your beer look, smell and taste. Beer contains four main ingredients—malt, hops, yeast and water. Water often makes up over 90 percent of the beer. A good water source is imperative to brewing great beer. Malt is the “flavor” of the beer. The term malt comes from the process of malting grains, making them usable in the brewing process. Malt comes in many flavors and colors, much of which is determined by how it is kilned. Kilning is the process of heating malted grains to attain different levels of flavor and color. Imagine a piece of white bread going through a toaster. The longer it’s in the toaster, the darker it becomes. Malt acts exactly the same way. The majority of malt used in brewing is called “base malt” which is very lightly kilned, leaving it light in color. Base malt projects breadlike qualities into the beer. There are a few main base malts such as two or six-row, pale ale malt and pilsner malt. Character malts add color and complexity to the beer. Toasted malts

such as Munich and Vienna can provide a rich, toasted bread crust character to beer (and can also be used as base malts in styles such as Oktoberfest). Crystal malts are kilned with water which “stews” the grain, creating a sweeter character. Roasted malts, popular in porters and stouts, are kilned until burnt, projecting roasty, chocolately flavors. Adjuncts such as rice and/or corn are popular in domestic, mass produced beers because they provide consistency, lighten the beer’s body and make it cheaper to produce. Hops are the “spice” of the beer. Much like cigars, wine or coffee, terroir is very important. Hops grow along certain parallels around the world (48th parallel being ideal) in both hemispheres. Depending on where they are grown, they produce completely different characteristics. Washington/Oregon hops provide pleasantly aromatic hops with grapefruit, pine and citrus characteristics. Hops from Germany provide floral, spicy notes. UK hops are earthy and subtler than their American counterparts. In the southern hemisphere, tropical fruits notes abound in hops such as Galaxy (Australia) and Nelson Sauvin (New Zealand). Besides providing the beer’s alcohol, yeast will provide slight, moderate or intense flavor and aroma characteristics, depending on its origin. Belgian beers are known for their “phenolic” yeast character while German hefeweizen’s banana and clove flavors are entirely yeast derived. British yeast strains are known for their addition of esters (fruity flavors) while most American strains are clean and lack additional flavors and aromas. Knowing a little more about what goes into beer will help a consumer understand what they are looking for and put them on a path to better understanding of the countless options that are available in the market. Dave Clark is a certified cicerone and BJCP judge who lives in Gilbert.

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Forget about wine pairings! We hail the hop. We’re all about pairing our favorite craft brews with delicious dishes from Valley restaurants.

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“The Sleepy Dog Wet Snout is an excellent complement to one of our most popular dishes at Salty Sow, the beef shoulder. The full-bodied beer and saucy, rich hearty flavor of the beef pairs perfectly! [It] is a 7-ounce beef shoulder seared and served with mirepoix, garlic and tomato paste, deglazed with red wine, veal stock, juniper berries, tarragon and thyme. It’s braised in the oven at 250 degrees and cooked for four to five [hours] until it’s tender. It’s served with Yukon gold mashed potatoes and root vegetables [carrots, turnips, rutabagas] and cooked in butter and sugar and then topped with a fried egg.”—Kevin Bird, general manager. Salty Sow

4801 E. Cactus Road, Phoenix, 602.795.9463, saltysow.com

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BottleLoft

Your beers can live in the lap of luxury with the BottleLoft. UncommonGoods has done it again by bringing you these premium neodymium magnetic strips that were designed to keep a six-pack (or more) of your favorite beers chilled to the ceiling of your fridge. Grabbing an ice cold beer used to mean rummaging through a crowded icebox. With the BottleLoft, finding a beer amongst your chilled goods is easier than ever. Each strip includes three secure magnets that help keep bottles out of the way for the items that can’t hang. Your precious brews will thank you for this valuable piece of real estate. Available at uncommongoods.com

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TASTES AND TUNES Barbecue, beer and country music come together at Chandler fest

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othing beats a cold draught beer and sweet smoky barbecue. No one combines the two better than the Great American Barbeque & Beer Festival set for Saturday, March 19, at Chandler’s Dr. AJ Chandler Park East and West. Founded in 2010, the culinary and craft brew celebration has expanded each year and picked up impressive accolades along the way, winning the APS AzTEC Awards for outstanding event in 2012 and 2013. The seventh iteration promises to be the best yet with an impressive collection of 60 nationally renowned barbecue masters, as well as SanTan Brewing Company suds, entertainment zones and kicking country music led by headliner Granger Smith. “I wanted to create an amazing community style event for the East Valley, celebrating three things that everyone loves—barbecue, beer and bands,” says Landon Evans, the festival’s event coordinator. “Since its beginning, this event has had huge growth, the grounds have expanded to include the entire downtown Chandler area. We have worked closely with the City of Chandler to grow it into a destination event that’s recognized nationwide.” Conceived as a barbecue pit master contest, the occasion has morphed into an entertainment experience. “When we started the Great American Barbeque & Beer Festival, it was actually called the BBQ Throwdown, it was more about the competition elements of barbecue,” says Evans. “But, we quickly learned that a festival-style event was

better suited to the area and demand from consumers.” This year there is more for patrons to enjoy including: SanTan Brewing Tailgaters’ Lawn, Ultra Star March Madness Lounge, Ak-Chin Community’s Family Zone, Jack Daniels Experience and Arizona Inflatable Events Kid Zone and Play Land. There is plenty of food and beverage offerings for attendees, too. More than 20,000 pounds of delectable pork, brisket and chicken and 200 kegs of Devil’s Ale, Hefeweizen and other SanTan tastes are expected to be served. With a SunSpot Gold brew and pulled pork sandwich in hand, visitors can enjoy acts other than Smith; Ben Miller Band, Zack Deputy and Georgia Chrome are on the itinerary. “Granger Smith is a super talented up and coming artist, he’s rocking the charts currently,” says Evans. “He will have a huge draw in the Chandler community.” Evans is anticipating up to 30,000 guests for the one-day festival. “I want people to truly look forward to barbecue as a destination event, have a good time, get a barbecue education, full bellies, an affordable opportunity to see national entertainment and have a good time,” says Evans. “There is something for everyone.” Patrons attending the festival will not only enjoy tastes and tunes, they are contributing to a great cause. Twenty-five percent of liquor proceeds will be donated to the Boot Campaign, a nonprofit serving military personnel and their families, according to Evans. “The charitable benefit from this event helps Boot Campaign further our mission of promoting patriotism, raising awareness of the needs our military

face, and provide awesome assistance opportunities through our program grants,” says Myra Brandenburg, the organization’s chief of staff. The Boot Campaign connected with the festival three years ago when a friend at KNIX radio recommended that Evans’ company, HDE, contact the nonprofit. “We are so grateful they did,” she says. For Evans, Boot Campaign is a great fit with the festival. “The Boot Campaign is doing great things for our veterans, a group that I feel is in great need of support,” he says. “They are also very involved in the country music world. So, once we decided to rebrand the event to country music, it made sense that the charity be involved in the same music culture.” The event certainly garners a great deal of attention. Sponsors include Bashas’, Ak-Chin Indian Communities, 102.5 KNIX and Crescent Crown Distributing. Attendees can experience the festivities from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Bashas’ shoppers can purchase $10 tickets. With the 2016 plan in place, Evans is already configuring the event for 2017. “My vision is to continue to grow and expand the activity elements and to provide a more family-friendly experience,” he says.

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Dr. AJ Chandler Park, 3 S. Arizona Avenue, Chandler, chandlerbbq. com, Saturday, March 19, 12 p.m. to 10 p.m., $10 to $15.

CRAFTY AND CREATIVE

Smooth lagers, ales and stouts characterize Scottsdale Beer Company

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wo years ago Tom Davidson and Doug Ledger decided to pursue the idea of owning and operating a craft brewery. Neither were experienced brewers, so they knew they needed to find someone who was top-notch at the craft. Ledger heard from an acquaintance about Brad Williams. Ledger and Williams met. Ledger learned that Williams had honed his skills by brewing beer in his garage. Ledger, and later Davidson, were impressed with the quality and taste of Williams’ brews, and his painstaking attention to detail, so they hired him as their official head brewer. “He has such a passion for beer,” Davidson says of Williams. “You can walk in (the brewpub) and he’ll be reading a book about water.” Today Davidson and Ledger are managing partners of the Scottsdale Beer Company, a brewpub on the northwest corner of Shea Boulevard and the Loop 101, offering a variety of Williams’ brews ranging from blonde (light lagers) to a bourbon barrel-aged Texas tea (a stout). SBC, which seats 60 on the patio and 217 total, opened in January 2015. With the water in Phoenix so heavily treated, the Scottsdale Beer Company uses four steps to prepare the water for brewing: softener, charcoal infiltration, an RO system to bring the water to three WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

parts solids per million, and UV filtration to kill the bacteria. “He’ll then add salts, solids and minerals to build the water back up then,” Ledger says of Williams. “It will mimic the solid count from Scotland 100 years ago.” That enables Williams to create a Scottish ale, even to the mineral count. In its first year, SBC has brewed 71 beers in 900 barrels or the equivalent of 1,800 kegs. Ledger and Davidson make sure customers know what brews are available with a list online on the brewery’s website at scottsdalebeercompany.com and send out email blasts and Facebook alerts. In early February, selections ranged from a Scottish Ale to a Texas Tea Imperial Stout. Fermenting at the time were the Robust Porter, Big Mouth Blonde, Downshift Session IPA, Uncle Nevis Scottish IPA and a special brew with Kevin Binkley, part of the brewpub’s Chef Collaboration Series. SBC also features a Seasonal Brewer’s Handle in which Williams expands on his creative repertoire. Seasonal tastes range from cherry to chili stout. Last fall featured pumpkin ales; this spring yields wheat beers. Citrus accents sprout in the Orangedale Ale, with citrus grown locally, Ledger says. The Salsa Cezanne features habaneros, ancho, saronno chilis with cilantro, which the brewery serves like commercial salsas―three different brews with heat ranges of mild, medium and

hot, Davidson says. Davidson and Ledger know that there is a demand for good-tasting lagers, ales and stouts, especially when they see the response from locals and confidence in the freshness, variety and creativity of Williams’ brews. Davidson and Ledger say the response has been phenomenal and believe the menu is sophisticated to fit the distinguished palates of customers, buying beer that is only two or three days old. The managing partners showed just how serious they are about satisfying the discerning customer tastes with their food offerings when they hired Justin Olsen, who worked closely with James Beard-nominated chef Kevin Binkley for several years. The brewpub’s beer products are circulating in town, at 24 restaurants, hotels and resorts, including Talking Stick Resort and Casino Arizona. At any given time, the brewpub has 7,000 to 8,000 gallons of beer in its system of five 10-barrell fermenters and five 10-barrel serving tanks built by Diversified Metal Engineering in Prince Edward Island, Canada. The brewpub has scheduled spring specials just in time for Spring Training, St. Patrick’s Day and the Easter holiday. In March, SBC plans to serve an express lunch special for the choice of one of five entrees for $11 with a nonalcoholic beverage, a special St. Patrick’s Day

Irish stout and menu, and an Easter brunch on March 27. The owners advise customers to check the website for those and the specials during the Masters golf tournament in April. The brewpub is expected to start offering special barrel-aged brews in March. SBC also features a happy hour from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday with pints for $3.50. What are the owners’ personal preferences? “I change all the time,” Davidson says. “I go with the seasons and I like a lot of stouts and porters.” Ledger prefers pale ales and IPAs. “I appreciate the quality of beer, no matter what the style is,” Ledger says. “I do like the stouts and the barrel-aged.” Brewing sounds like an absolute blast to the reporter. He asks Davidson: “Aren’t you guys having fun?” Davidson smiled slightly and says, “Well, you know how people say ‘if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life’?” “It’s true.”

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Elizabeth Scarborough makes a living off of her love of Taylor Swift

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lizabeth Scarborough is, admittedly, the biggest Taylor Swift fan. Back home in South Carolina, she would even act like Swift and sing the country cutie’s songs at little girls’ birthday parties and nursing homes. When she decided to upload videos of her performances to Facebook, her life changed. “Legends in Concert” saw her clip, invited her to audition and the rest is history. Now she serves as a Swift tribute act in “Legends in Concert: Tributes to Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift, Rod Stewart, Madonna and Steven Tyler.” The show comes to The Showroom at Talking Stick Resort from Wednesday, March 16, through Sunday, March 20. “With Legends, we do the biggest hits,” says Scarborough, 22. “I have some things off 1989, some things off the Red album. We try to keep it current with the new artists since their catalog of hits is still growing. Of course I include ‘Love Story,’ one of her biggest songs ever.” Her set is “upbeat and exciting,” she says. There is a lot of dancing and choreography. I’m really into it because I love all of the songs. It’s going to be a really good time.” Scarborough discovered Swift when she was 12. She admired her from the start. “She brought country music back to the younger artists and connected with girls my age. We just loved her loved her

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songs, loved her look and she’s so genuine and humble—characteristics that remain true with her today. I’ll always be thankful for her for that.” Scarborough has been performing Taylor Swift tunes since she was in high school. “I had no idea that there was a tribute world out there,” she says. “I came down to Myrtle Beach and auditioned. They sent the tapes to Vegas while I was still in college. I had two more years of school left.” “Legends” worked around her schooling, for which she earned a bachelor of arts degree in public relations and Spanish at the University of South Carolina. “It’s been really fun,” she says. “It has been an incredible experience. I’m really thankful to have this opportunity.”

Legends in Concert: Tributes to Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift, Rod Stewart, Madonna and Steven Taylor

Talking Stick Resort, 9800 E. Talking Stick Way, Scottsdale, 800.745.3000, ticketmaster. com, 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, Thursday, March 17, Friday, March 18, Saturday, March 19, 5 p.m. Thursday, March 17, Friday, March 18, Saturday, March 19, $20-$30.

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THE BEST CASINO EVENTS IN MARCH Gordon Meredith Lightfoot

MARCH 4 Occasionally referred to as Canada’s greatest songwriter, Lightfoot has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. Some of his songs have been recorded by the world’s most renowned artists, such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Eric Clapton. Don’t miss your chance to see this legend on stage. Wild Horse Pass, 5040 W. Wild Horse Pass Boulevard, Chandler, 520.796.7777, wingilariver.com/ wildhorsepass

Joe Satriani

MARCH 5 This American instrumental rock guitarist started out as a guitar instructor before starting his successful solo career. Now, nearly 40 years later, he is a 15-time Grammy Award nominee and has sold over 10 million albums—the biggest selling instrumental rock guitarist of all time. He has toured with Mick Jagger and Deep Purple and is now stopping by the Valley! The Salt River Grand Ballroom at Talking Stick Resort, 9800 E. Talking Stick Way, Scottsdale, 480.850.7777, talkingstickresort.com

BoDeans

MARCH 12 This Midwest rock band formed in 1983 and it hasn’t looked back since. Their sound is characterized as heartland rock and alternative rock and they have several hot singles in both the ‘80s and the ‘90s, including the song “Closer to Free” which peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the theme song for the very popular TV series “Party of Five.” The Showroom at Talking Stick Resort, 9800 E. Talking Stick Way, Scottsdale, 480.850.7777, talkingstickresort.com

Terri Clark

MARCH 4 This country singer hails from the Great White North and has gained much success in Canada and the United States since her start in the mid90s. She’s had more than 20 radio hits, with six of them hitting number one in both countries. Come listen to the 8-time CCMA Entertainer of the Year live on stage at The Lounge with guitar in hand. Harrah’s Ak-Chin, 15406 Maricopa Road, Maricopa, 480.802.5000, caesars.com/harrahs-ak-chin

Tesla Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers

MARCH 11 After performing on 33 Top 40 singles, Larry Gatlin and his brothers Steve and Rudy are official legends and deserve to be treated as such. The American country music group are well known for their hits such as “Broken Lady,” “Houston (Means I’m One Day Closer to You)” and “She Used to Be Somebody’s Baby” and know you can see them perform those hits on the stage at Wild Horse Pass. Wild Horse Pass, 5040 W. Wild Horse Pass Boulevard, Chandler, 520.796.7777, wingilariver.com/ wildhorsepass

MARCH 25 This 1980s rock band out of Sacramento was originally formed as City Kidd before changing their name

to Tesla in 1986. They took a four-year break in the late ‘90s but reformed in 2000 to the band we know and love today. Together, they have sold 14 million albums in the United States. Do not miss this opportunity to see them live! The Showroom at Talking Stick Resort, 9800 E. Talking Stick Way, Scottsdale, 480.850.7777, talkingstickresort.com

Richard Marx

MARCH 26 Since the 1980s, this adult contemporary singer, songwriter, musician and record producer has sold over 30 million records with popular ballads like “Right Here Waiting” and “Endless Summer Nights.” He’s also written and composed songs for other top artists like NSYNC, Luther Vandross and Keith Urban. You can come see this talented performer when he hits the stage at Wild Horse Pass. Wild Horse Pass, 5040 W. Wild Horse Pass Boulevard, Chandler, 520.796.7777, wingilariver.com/ wildhorsepass

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Sylvia’s Arizona Dance Band

An Evening with David Crosby

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MARCH 4 Urban Skies-Keith Urban Tribute Band

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Terri Clark

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Dion Pride Presents a Tribute to His Father Charley Pride

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The Leon Olsen Show

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Magic of Manilow

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The Softones

Lone Butte Comedy-With Barry Neal and Debbie Praver

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Latin Royale-Tribute to Gloria, Santana, Selena and Ricky

Bonfire-Tribute to AC/DC

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Pesado

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Richard Marx

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Motown Magic-Tribute to the Music of Motown Vee Quiva Hotel and Casino, wingilariver.com

MARCH 31 The Varitones

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The Showroom at Casino Arizona, casinoarizona.com

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HEAVEN Belinda Carlisle finds peace in yoga mantra music

o-Go’s singer Belinda Carlisle greets a caller with an accent that’s been affected by her days overseas and living in America. Her affectation gets stronger as the conversation goes on, especially when she begins speaking about her yoga mantra album that’s due to hit stores in 2017. “It’s a pop record, but it’s yoga mantra,” she says. “It’s probably going to come out in 2017 because I’m sort of busy this year. I want to put the time into it to promote it properly. Carlisle, who performs solo at Wild Horse Pass Hotel and Casino on Friday, April 1, feels confident about the yoga mantra album. She’s a qualified Kundalini yoga teacher. “For this album, lyrics are very important,” she adds. “I don’t like literal lyrics. Obviously, I have instant lyrics. What I was able to do was create a pop song around them. Believe it or not, nobody’s really done this before. We’ll see if it works.” In the meantime, she’s entertaining fans with music from her solo career, such as the singles “Circle in the Sand” and “Heaven is a Place on Earth,” and a handful of Go-Go’s tracks. “I’m fortunate in that I have a big back catalog to draw from,” Carlisle says. “I do a lot of my solo hits, a few Go-Go’s songs and I usually do a couple cover songs, too. I have a lot to draw from. I’m very lucky in that way.” Carlisle’s own musical tastes are eclectic. She’s into world music, like songs from France, Maria Callas, the Bee Gees and yoga devotional music. “As far as things on the charts, I don’t really buy new music, to be honest,” she says. “There isn’t anything that’s interesting to me. I do love Justin Bieber. I think he’s great. “I discovered opera about 15 years ago. I thought it was like discovering punk rock. I felt that way about Arabic music. I’m really into Arabic music. I never had an appreciation for Miles Davis, but I even think he is amazing. There are a few artists I think are really amazing, though, like Lady Gaga is amazing. I think Justin Bieber is amazing.” After this summer, Carlisle will pursue once again a full-time solo career as the Go-Go’s are calling it quits. “I think everybody’s on the same page,” she says. “It’s not sad at all. We’re doing [a farewell tour] as a celebration of the legacy of the band because fans do want to see that. “I’ll be bittersweet, I’m sure. But we don’t want to go on too long where it’s kind of sad up to a certain point. Whether we recognize it or not, pop is, for the most part, about youth. It’s much easier for men to age in public than women. We don’t want to get it past the point where it’s sad. Five old women singing ‘We Got the Beat’ doesn’t sound very appealing to me.”

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MARCH 17 Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day the right way, by running a marathon of course! Don all the green you can find, choose between a 5K or 10k and cap it off by rewarding yourself with a complimentary brew at the onsite beer garden. Jack’s Place, 6830 E. 5th Ave., Scottsdale, 4peaksracing.com

MARCH 26 The 2016 Arena Football League season is fast approaching and the five-time Arena Bowl champion, Arizona Rattlers, are back to relieve your Cardinals’ woes in a big way. Fan Fest will kick-off the 2016 season in style, providing supporters with the opportunity to interact with the players, purchase tickets to the Fan Express and even hang out with their mascot, Stryker. UltraStar Multi-tainment Center at Ak-Chin Circle, 16000 N. Maricopa Road, Maricopa, azrattlers.com

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Arizona Coyotes vs Florida Panthers MARCH 5 As the regular season winds down, the ‘Yotes are still very much in the discussion for playoff contention. Saturday’s face-off against the visiting Florida Panthers should prove to be a tough test against one of the NHL’s best. Gila River Arena, 9400 W. Maryland Avenue, Glendale, coyotes.nhl.com

Phoenix Suns vs. New York Knicks MARCH 9 What better way to spend a Wednesday night than to soak in a Suns game at the Talking Stick Resort Arena? Catch a glimpse Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks as the Suns aim to avoid a season sweep. Talking Stick Resort Arena, 201 E. Jefferson Street, Phoenix, nba.com/suns

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Camping World 500 MARCH 11 THROUGH MARCH 13 Watch the stars of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series align when the Camping World 500 visits Phoenix International Raceway. Navigate your way around the stock car haven while enjoying pre-race ceremonies, qualifying runs and a combined 512 miles of racing. Phoenix International Raceway, 7602 S Avondale Blvd, Avondale, phoenixraceway.com

Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Kansas City Royals- 2016 Cactus League Spring Training MARCH 12 The return of Diamondbacks’ baseball makes Arizona springs that much better. Salt River Fields at Talking Stick will be the site when the reigning World Series champion Kansas City Royals take the field opposite the D-backs. 7555 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale, arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com

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Run for Ryan House: Half Marathon/10K/5K/ Family Fun Run MARCH 13 Looking for a family-friendly race/ festival? The Run for Ryan House is that event. Jog through the McDowell Mountain foothills at the pace you choose, select your own race team to help Ryan House raise funds for children with life-threatening conditions and win awesome incentives while doing it. DC Ranch, 20555 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale, runforryanhouse.com

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JTBC Founders Cup MARCH 14 THROUGH MARCH 20 The premier golfers of the LPGA Tour take to the greens of the Wildfire Golf Club at JW Marriott Desert Ridge for the annual Founders Cup. Established five years ago, the competition has raised more than $2.5 million from proceeds advancing the LPGA-USGA Girls Golf Program. Wildfire Golf Club at JW Marriott Desert Ridge, 5350 Marriott Drive, Phoenix, thelegendstour.com

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Spring training beckons fans to hit the Valley ballparks Ken Abramczyk » The Entertainer! “People ask me what I do in the winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” Rogers Hornsby

he first pitch soon will be thrown in the Valley when Spring Training begins for the Cactus League’s 15 teams, bringing an estimated $809 million in revenue to the state. Is there a better way to enjoy a moderate winter day (OK, it’s 70 degrees) than at one of the ballparks? The 15 teams listed here (eight National League and seven American League) play at stadiums in the following cities: Goodyear, Peoria, Surprise and Phoenix (Maryvale and Glendale) in the West Valley and Scottsdale, Mesa and Tempe in the East Valley. Hope springs eternal for these teams at this time of year, as many of them made off-season moves to improve their chances to win their divisions and/or make the playoffs. The Spring Training season officially begins March 1 when the Cincinnati Reds take on the Cleveland Indians at Goodyear Ballpark and the Arizona Diamondbacks play the University of Arizona Wildcats at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, to kick off the Cactus League schedule. Fans can check the websites of their respective teams for tickets. Visit cactusleague.com for information about the league. WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS Salt River Fields at Talking Stick 7555 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale 888.490.0383 saltriverfields.com azdiamondbacks.com The Diamondbacks finished third in the NL West division with a 79-83 record, and 18 games back of the Dodgers in 2015, a 15-game improvement over 2014. The D-backs signed right-hander Zack Greinke to a $206.5 million contract for six years and traded for right-hander Shelby Miller. On offense, the Diamondbacks are led by Paul Goldschmidt, who started in last year’s All-Star game, finished second in the Most Valuable Player Award voting, and set career-highs for batting average (.321), slugging percentage (.570) and on-base percentage (.435), and All-Star A.J. Pollock (20 homers, .315 average). CHICAGO CUBS Sloan Park 2330 W. Rio Salado Parkway, Mesa 480.668.0500 or 800.The.Cubs mlb.com/chc/mesa/ chicago.cubs.mlb.com The Cubs clinched a wildcard playoff appearance with 97 wins, then beat the Pirates in the Wildcard Game and the Cardinals in the Division Series, only to get swept by the New York Mets in

the NL Championship series. Pitcher Jake Arrieta won the Cy Young award after posting a 22-6 record and a 1.77 earned-run average and striking out 236 batters. The Cubs rode a youth movement last season, led by third baseman Kris Bryant, the NL Rookie of the Year, who was joined by Addison Russell, Kyle Schwarber and Jorge Soler. CHICAGO WHITE SOX Camelback Ranch-Glendale 10710 W. Camelback Road, Phoenix 623.302.5000 Camelbackranchbaseball.com whitesox.com The White Sox finished 19 games behind the Royals with a 76-86 record and 19 games back in the AL Central. The club acquired second baseman Brett Lawrie and third baseman Todd Frazier, and made free agent acquisitions to improve that dismal won-loss record. Pitching ace Chris Sale broke the club record for most strikeouts with 274. First baseman Jose Abreu finished with 30 home runs and 101 RBIs, joining Albert Pujols as the only players to reach those milestones in each of their first two seasons. CINCINNATI REDS Goodyear Ballpark 1933 S. Ballpark Way, Goodyear 623.882.3120 goodyearbp.com reds.com OK, so the Reds had the worst record in the majors, finishing 36 games behind the Cardinals in the NL Central in probably, with the Pirates, Cubs and Brewers, the toughest division in baseball. That said, first baseman Joey Votto returns after he

clubbed 29 homers, had 80 RBIs and a .314 batting average. The Reds appear to be in the rebuilding mode, recently trading All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman for starting pitcher Rookie Davis, third baseman Eric Jagielo, second baseman Tony Renda and reliever Caleb Cotham. CLEVELAND INDIANS Goodyear Ballpark 1933 S. Ballpark Way, Goodyear 623.882.3120 goodyearbp.com indians.com The Indians finished one game above .500 (81-80), third in the AL Central Division and 13 1/2 games behind the Kansas City Royals. The Indians hope outfielder Michael Brantley can return quickly from off-season shoulder surgery, and that AL Rookie of the Year runner-up Francisco Lindor can continue his torrid hitting of the latter part of the 2015 season. The Indians rest their hopes of a postseason playoff run on a young pitching staff that shows a lot of promise. COLORADO ROCKIES Salt River Fields at Talking Stick 7555 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale 480.362.9467 saltriverfields.com coloradorockies.com The Rockies look to improve on the 6894 record of last year, and look to third baseman Nolan Arenado who smacked 42 home runs and tied Bryce Harper for the NL lead, and collected 130 RBIs, which led the majors. Arenado now will lead Colorado’s offensive punch and the team, especially after the trade that sent shortstop Troy Tulowitzki to the Blue Jays

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for a slew of young pitching prospects. The Rockies hope the move regenerates the team’s chances to reach the playoffs down the road. KANSAS CITY ROYALS Surprise Stadium 15850 N. Bullard Avenue, Surprise 623.222.2222 surpriseaz.gov/files/springtraining/ kcroyals.com How do you build on a World Championship? Simple. You win another one. The Royals hope to do just that in 2016. The Royals easily won the AL Central last year with 95 wins, and enjoyed a 12-game cushion over the Minnesota Twins. Who can forget the team’s magical postseason run with the classic comeback and clutch hits in wins over the Houston Astros in Game 4 of the American League Division Series and the domination of the Mets in the World Series? The Royals spread the offense around the lineup, with Lorenzo Cain’s .307 batting average and 28 stolen bases, the 65 total home runs between Kendrys Morales, Mike Moustakas and Salvador Perez, and Morales’ 106 RBIs. Good luck trying to pitch around this lineup. LOS ANGELES ANGELS OF ANAHEIM Tempe Diablo Stadium 2200 W. Alameda Drive, Tempe 480.350.5205 tempe.gov/diablo angels.com The Angels competed up until the last game of the season, but were eliminated from possible postseason play when the Angels dropped the finale to Texas. The Angels finished with 85 wins. Mike Trout remains the most consistent player in the majors, hitting 41 homers and for a .299 batting average, finishing in the top two in MVP voting for four consecutive years. After Garrett Richards, who went 15-12 last season, the pitching staff may be adequate, but it remains a big question mark for this club.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS Maryvale Baseball Park 3600 N. 51st Avenue, Phoenix 623.245.5500 http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb. com/spring_training/ballpark. jsp?c_id=mil brewers.com The Brewers are in the midst of rebuilding their team after a fourth-place finish in the NL central, 32 games behind the St. Louis Cardinals, with a 68-94 record. Ryan Braun, who had been bothered by a thumb injury the last two seasons, managed to find his batting stroke again, hitting 25 homers, 84 RBIs and 144 hits for a .285 batting average. In 2015, the Brewers traded nine established major league players in exchange for young pitching prospects. OAKLAND A’S Hohokam Stadium 1235 N. Center Street, Mesa 480.644.4451 hohokamstadium.com oaklandas.com The Athletics compiled a 68-94 record in the AL West last season, 20 games behind Texas. After missing the postseason for the first time in four years, the team looks to address its bullpen issues by signing Ryan Madson and John Axford. With a healthy Sean Doolittle, the bullpen should be improved to compliment ace starter Sonny Gray (14-7, 2.73 ERA). Injuries plagued this team throughout 2015, but a few bright spots emerged with center fielder Billy Burns hitting .294, and fellow rookie Mark Canha hit 16 homers and finished with 70 RBIs.

SAN DIEGO PADRES Peoria Sports Complex 16101 N. 83rd Avenue, Peoria 800.677.1227 peoriaspringtraining.com padres.com

SEATTLE MARINERS Peoria Sports Complex 16101 N. 83rd Avenue, Peoria 623.773.8700 peoriaspringtraining.com mariners.com

The Padres finished with a 74-88 record and in fourth place in the NL West division, 18 games behind the Dodgers, so it looked to improve its run production with the signing of center fielder Jon Jay, who the Padres hope can get on base for first baseman Wil Myers, who hit .291 with five home runs and 10 doubles until he injured his wrist in May, and Matt Kemp, who hit 23 homers and knocked in 100 runs.

The Mariners (76-86) finished fourth in the AL West, 12 games back of Texas, but look for this team to move up and compete for the division title. On paper, Seattle has a strong “core of four” with Robinson Cano, Nelson Cruz, Felix Hernandez (18 wins) and Kyle Seager, and new additions are Nori Aoki, catcher Chris Iannetta (.351) and Adam Lind (.332). If Hernandez gets support from others in the rotation, this team may see some postseason action.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS Scottsdale Stadium 7408 E. Osborn Road, Scottsdale 480.312.2586 scottsdaleaz.gov/scottsdale-stadium sfgiants.com The Giants finished 84-78, and eight games behind the Dodgers in second place in the NL West. While the Giants didn’t make the playoffs, the team is unquestionably the most consistent in the majors since 2010, winning the World Series three times. Madison Bumgarner (18-9, 2.93 ERA) returns as the ace of the pitching staff, and catcher Buster Posey (19 homers, .318 batting average) and shortstop Brandon Crawford (21 homers, 84 RBIs) are expected to continue to generate offense for the Giants.

TEXAS RANGERS Surprise Stadium 15850 N. Bullard Avenue, Surprise 623.222.2222 surpriseaz.gov/files/springtraining texasrangers.com The Texas Rangers won the AL West with an 88-74 record, but lost in the postseason to the Toronto Blue Jays in a tight series, 3-2. The Rangers re-signed starter Colby Lewis and traded for reliever Tom Wilhelmsen, outfielder James Jones and infielder Patrick Kivlehan. They also signed outfielder Justin Ruggiano. Veterans Adrian Beltre, Josh Hamilton and Prince Fielder, the AL Comeback Player of the Year with 23 home runs and a .305 batting average, return. The Rangers hope Yu Darvish can return with his consistency to help boost the pitching staff once he returns from Tommy John surgery in May or June.

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DESCRIPTION: The Giants are always among the hottest tickets in town. With its downtown location, Scottsdale Stadium is crammed with preand post-game activity options. Make sure to secure tickets before heading down to the game; scalpers typically get top dollar, especially on weekends. PARKING: Public parking is available throughout downtown Scottsdale; or consider parking at a bar with shuttle service. TICKETS: $12-$48, available at sfgiants.com; 480.312.2580

Game Schedule March/April  Home  Away

Games start at 1:05 p.m. (unless noted) Sunday

Monday

Dates, times and teams are subject to change.

TX 14

3:05 p.m.

20 1:10 p.m.

CIN

7:05 p.m.

MIL

COL

CIN

In SF

Saturday

5 CLE

1:10 p.m.

22 CWS 23

6:05 p.m.

SEA 18

12 ARI

LAA

1:10 p.m.

7:10 p.m.

25 KC

CHI

LAD

4:05 p.m.

7:05 p.m.

April 1

OAK

6:05 p.m.† 7:15 p.m.† 7:15 p.m.‡

BEST PLACE TO SIT: Spring the extra money for assigned seating in the lower section. Bleacher seating is brutal, especially during afternoon games—it’s squished and hot. Between bleacher and lawn, we’d choose lawn.

OAK

7:05 p.m.

SRC

ARI

MIL 17

SEA

ARI

1:10 p.m.

ARI

Friday

7:05 p.m.

7:10 p.m.

CWS

Thursday

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In Sacramento

7:05 p.m.

OAK

Wednesday

LAA

OAK

COL

March 1

LAD 13

Tuesday

†

April 2

OAK

1:05 p.m. in Oakland

CONCESSIONS: Among the best in the Cactus League; multiple beer, drink and food options.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS Maryvale Baseball Park 3600 N. 51st Avenue, Phoenix 623.245.5500 brewers.com

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DESCRIPTION: The Brewers remain one of only a handful of Cactus League teams to have its own stadium. The 7,000-capacity Maryvale Baseball Park. Maryvale is a spectators’ park, with beautiful sightlines, a huge concourse and a massive lawn. Tickets are generally easy to come by, even on weekends. PARKING: Onsite. There are 2,000 parking spaces; during crowded games, several strip malls across the street from the complex offer pay parking.

Game Schedule March/April  Home  Away

Games start at 1:05 p.m. (unless noted) Sunday

Monday

Dates, times and teams are subject to change.

SD 14

CLE 20

LAD

March 1

ARI

3 SF

In Houston

SEA 11

OAK

COL 19

CIN 25

Saturday

COL

In Biloxi

CWS

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Friday

CHI

KC 16

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Thursday

CWS

LAD 21 LAA

Wednesday

UWM 8

CLE 13

Tuesday

LAA 26

CHI

ARI

April 1

April 2

6:40 p.m.

CLE

CIN

7:05 p.m.

CIN

COL

1:10 p.m.

TICKETS: $8-$27 at brewers.com, the stadium box office or 800.933.7890 BEST PLACE TO SIT: Brewers infield seats are among the cheapest in the league at $27. The lawn is massive, and at $8, tickets are almost always available.

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BIL

7:10 p.m.† 1:10 p.m.† 1:15 p.m.‡

CONCESSIONS: The standards, plus some Milwaukee-area favorites like brats. Built-in food stands, and roaming concourse and seat vendors available.

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Game Schedule March/April  Home  Away

Games start at 1:05 p.m. (unless noted) Sunday

Monday

Dates, times and teams are subject to change.

CHI

LAA

CLE

SEA

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April 1

April 2

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19 CIN

CLE

7:05 p.m.

ARI

7:10 p.m.

CIN

CHI

SEA

1:10 p.m.

MIL

ARI

Saturday

1:10 p.m.

Friday

4 COL

CWS

COL

In San Francisco ‡ In Oakland

7:05 p.m.

CWS

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Thursday

LAA

Wednesday

1:10 p.m.

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Tuesday

OAK‡

12:05 p.m. 7:15 p.m.† 7:15 p.m.†

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BEST PLACE TO SIT: Most of the Terrace Box seats, sections 200 through 212, are shaded. Or grab a blanket and enjoy the outfield lawn. Ticketholders should make sure they’re within sight of the largest HD scoreboard display in the Cactus League.

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Game Schedule March/April  Home  Away

Games start at 1:05 p.m. (unless noted) Sunday

Monday

Dates, times and teams are subject to change.

6 CWS

CHI

3:05 p.m.

LAD

TBD†

SEA

SEA 1:10 p.m.

ARI

CIN

7:10 p.m.

1:10 p.m.

CWS

1:10 p.m.

LAD

1:10 p.m.

SEA

EPC

12:10 p.m. 6:35 p.m.‡

BEST PLACE TO SIT: For afternoon games, those seated sections 205 to 219 and 105 to 121 on the third base line and lawn seating in left field have the sun at their backs.

7:10 p.m.

Saturday

COL

1:10 p.m.

CWS

CLE

1:10 p.m.

2:30 p.m.

7:05 p.m.

ARI

In El Paso

7:10 p.m.

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Friday

CLE

1:10 p.m.

CHI

In Mexico

1:10 p.m.

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Thursday

1:10 p.m.

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LAA

Wednesday

ARI 1:10 p.m.

1:10 p.m.

March 1

MIL

OAK

Tuesday

6:05 p.m.

April 1

CWS

COL 1:10 p.m.

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CWS

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CONCESSIONS: Beer, soft drinks, brats, hamburgers, hot dogs (including the “Ruthian foot-long”) and snacks. Great “beer man” coverage in the stands.

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Surprise Stadium 15850 N. Bullard Avenue, Surprise 623.222.2222 surpriseaz.gov/files/springtraining texasrangers.com DESCRIPTION: The 10,500-seat Surprise Stadium opened in 2002 and features a spectacular lawn that wraps around nearly the entire outfield. The venue, which the Rangers share with the Kansas City Royals, is routinely praised for its wellconceived design with lots of shaded seating. PARKING: Park at the stadium. The lot is huge and the parking is free. TICKETS: $8-$30 (depending on opponent) at 800.745.3000, texasrangers.com or ticketmaster. com

Surprise Stadium 15850 N. Bullard Avenue, Surprise 623.222.2222 surpriseaz.gov/files/springtraining/ kcroyals.com

Game Schedule March/April Games start at 1:05 p.m. (unless noted) Sunday

Monday

Dates, times and teams are subject to change.

LAA 27

COL 28

ARI

6:05 p.m.

CHI

1:10 p.m.

CWS

7:05 p.m.

LAD 11

MIL

18 SEA

1:10 p.m.

OAK 19 ARI

1:10 p.m.

7:05 p.m.† 2:05 p.m.†

6:05 p.m.

April 1

COL

1:10 p.m.

April 2

CLE‡

CLE

12:05 p.m.

BEST PLACE TO SIT: Much of the stadium is shaded in the afternoon, but the infield upper-deck provides canopied seating. The lawn, too, is very spacious, often giving attendees plenty of room to spread out.

7:05 p.m.

MIL

24 OAK 25

CIN

Saturday

CWS 17

Friday

LAD

at Alamodome ‡ in Arlington

CIN

CLE 22

†

Thursday

2 KC

OAK

CLE

1:10 p.m.

 Home  Away Wednesday

Charity Game

LAA

March 1

SEA 13

Tuesday

7:05‡

CONCESSIONS: Plenty of options, from cotton candy to brats to beer. Surprise also lets visitors bring in packaged food in a clear, sealed bag.

DESCRIPTION: The World Series champions play in the 10,500seat, 14-year-old Surprise Stadium that features a spectacular lawn. The 124-acre site is routinely praised for its well-conceived design with lots of shaded seating.

Game Schedule March/April Games start at 1:05 p.m. (unless noted) Sunday

Dates, times and teams are subject to change.

LAA

PARKING: There are two main parking lots at the complex, both accessible from 83rd Avenue, at a cost of $5 per car and $10 per RV. TICKETS: $7-$32, available mariners.com or 800.677.1227

Monday

Dates, times and teams are subject to change.

TX 13

CIN

1:10 p.m.

20 1:10 p.m.

1:10 p.m.

14 ARI

1:10 p.m.

COL

1:10 p.m.

15 1:10 p.m.

1:10 p.m.

30 12:10 p.m.

BEST PLACE TO SIT: For afternoon games, those seated sections 205 to 219 and 105 to 121 on the third base line and lawn seating in left field have the sun at their backs.

1:10 p.m.

COL

1:10 p.m.

MIL

CHI

7:10 p.m.

6:05 p.m.

OAK

Saturday

1:10 p.m.

Friday

OAK

CLE

Thursday

2 SD

1:10 p.m.

Wednesday

LAA

LAD

 Home  Away

CLE

Wednesday

COL

9 SEA

1:10 p.m.

TICKETS: $8-$30 (depending on opponent) at 800.745.3000, kcroyals.com or ticketmaster.com

LAD

SEA

1:10 p.m.

ARI

6:05 p.m.

18 TX

ARI

1:10 p.m.

19 TX

7:00 p.m.† 2:00 p.m.†

LAD

LAA

CWS 12

CWS

CLE

6:05 p.m.

28 SD

CHI

OAK

7:10 p.m.

CIN

PARKING: Park at the stadium. The lot is huge and parking is free. Gates open 90 minutes prior to all home day games.

TEX

Saturday

MIL 15

Friday

TEX

CWS

CHI

Thursday

SEA 26

MIL

12:05 p.m

OAK

April 1

April 2

ARI

6:40 p.m.‡ 12:10 p.m.‡

CONCESSIONS: Plenty of options, from cotton candy to brats to beer. Surprise also lets visitors bring in packaged food if it’s in a clear, sealed bag.

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1:10 p.m. Charity Game

CHI

March 1

ARI

CLE

Tuesday

March 1

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Glendale Camelback Ranch 10710 W. Camelback Road, Glendale 623.302.5000 camelbackranchbaseball.com dodgers.com

Game Schedule March/April Sunday

Tuesday

OAK

CLE

SEATTLE MARINERS

Games start at 1:05 p.m. (unless noted)

7 CHI

1:10 p.m.

Peoria Sports Complex 16101 N. 83rd Avenue, Peoria 623.773.8700 peoriaspringtraining.com mariners.com DESCRIPTION: Opened in 1994, the 12,000-plusseat Peoria Sports Complex is home to the San Diego Padres and Seattle Mariners. The stadium features some of the better grass seating in the Cactus League, including a berm that extends the length of the entire outfield.

Monday

LAA

1:10 p.m.

12 CIN

7:05 p.m.

LAD

7:40 p.m.

1:10 p.m.

CWS

1:10 p.m.

April 1

COL

7:10 p.m.

19 KC

ARI

7:10 p.m.

LAD

7:10 p.m.

April 2

COL

12:10 p.m.

CONCESSIONS: Beer, soft drinks, brats, hamburgers, hot dogs (including the “Ruthian foot-long”) and snacks. Great “beer man” coverage in the stands.

DESCRIPTION: The Sonoran Desert-inspired home to the Dodgers and White Sox, Camelback Ranch was completed in 2009 and boasts a capacity of 13,000—including 3,000 lawn seats, 12 luxury suites and a party deck. It is adjacent to a manmade lake and a traditional Dodgertown orange grove that sits on the east side of the property beyond the leftfield wall of replica Dodger Stadium. PARKING: Parking in the complex’s 4,000 parking spots is free. The west lot off 107th Avenue is the closest to

Game Schedule March/April Games start at 1:05 p.m. (unless noted) Sunday

Monday

Dates, times and teams are subject to change.

Tuesday

March 1

†

In Los Angeles

Thursday

Friday

CLE

CHI

LAA

Saturday

CWS 8

 Home  Away

Wednesday

TX 11

OAK

LAA

ARI 12 SEA

7:40 p.m.

CHI

7:05 p.m.

COL TBD

20 SD

CIN

7:05 p.m.

CLE

ARI

CLE

KC 24

6:05 p.m.

1:10 p.m.

COL

7:05 p.m.

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CWS 22

SEA

MIL 27

MIL

7:05 p.m.

CWS 26 CWS

7:05 p.m.

SEA

1:10 p.m.

April 1

April 2

LAA

7:10 p.m.† 7:10 p.m.† 6:05 p.m.†

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After devastating injury, pitcher Evan Marshall sees a silver lining Christina Fuoco-Karasinski » The Entertainer!

llison Marshall still gets choked up when she thinks about her husband, pitcher Evan Marshall, getting hit in the face with a line drive. Pitching for the Arizona Diamondbacks’ minor league affiliate Reno Aces in El Paso on August 4, 2015, Marshall laid on the ground motionless after Jason Haggerty hit a rocket up the middle. He suffered a skull fracture and nearly died. Evan takes it in stride when asked about it. “I was in Triple A and really pitching as good as I can,” Evan says. “I was Pitcher of the Month and ready to go back to the big leagues. One swing of the bat and it’s all taken away from you and next thing you know you’re staring at the ceiling in the hospital. That’s kind of a morale killer, but I had to find a silver lining in everything.” That silver lining was Butters, the couple’s Cavachon, a dog that is a cross between a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and a Bichon Frise. “The Diamondbacks were flying me out to El Paso and he had to come with me,” Allison says of Butters. She says there was no one to take care of Butters plus, “He’s our fur baby. He was coming with me no matter what.” It’s a good thing he did. As Evan was being weaned off medication that placed him in a drug-induced coma, he wasn’t responding to doctors or nurses. “His neurosurgeon said to come into the room with the dog to see what would happen,” Allison explains. “When I got into the room, it was a miracle just to watch. I figured Butters was going to take one whiff of Evan and want to give him puppy kisses and want to jump all over him. “But he was so calm. He was so perfect. I laid across Evan and said, ‘Baby, if you wake up you can see Butters.’ When I did that, Butters put his paw on Evan’s chest. Within a few moments, one eye opened and the other one followed. It was a miracle.” From that point onward, Butters would act as a therapy dog, helping Evan with physical—as well as emotional— trauma he suffered. “The first memory I have is opening my eyes and seeing my wife and dog there,” he says. “It can’t get any better than that. That’s one of the few things I remember in the first 48 hours after surgery.” WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

The Marshalls are so thankful for Evan’s recovery that they have teamed up with the charity organization D-back Nation to sell a line of T-shirts emblazoned with the words “There’s a New Marshall in Town” and a cartoonish version of Butters. All of the funds raised go Phoenix Children’s Hospital’s AnimalAssisted Therapy Program. The T-shirts, which sell for $20, will be available indefinitely. “We were already [considering] a shirt that said ‘There’s a New Marshall in Town’ when he came up to the majors,” says Adrienne Knoblock of D-back Nation. “After Allison said that everything was going to be OK, we wanted to do something a little more specific to what Evan had just gone through. The AnimalAssisted Therapy Program seemed like a natural fit.” Working His Way Back to the Majors Butters stayed in Evan’s hospital room through his recovery. He proved to be Evan’s motivation to get up and start walking. “The left side of his body was a lot slower than usual,” Allison says. “He was the motivation for Evan to walk down the hallway, to keep eating, to do multiple different things. He was a morale changer for all of us. To watch the miracle of my husband wake up because of my dog— words cannot describe it.” Allison adds that she, too, saw the good in Evan’s injury. “I had no idea why Evan had to be hit like that,” Allison says. “I don’t think I’ll ever be able to wrap my mind around it. But all the good that has come from it, the strength he has had from it, the strength of all of his loved ones, it’s been an amazing and beautiful process. If he hadn’t gone down this path, we wouldn’t have known about the program. “Everything happens for a reason. I truly, truly believe this. You don’t always know that reason. But I refuse to think that good cannot come from something bad like this to happen.” Incidentally, Evan was just cleared to play in the majors and is participating in Spring Training at Salt River Fields to vie for a spot on the D-backs’ roster. “I had to find the silver lining in all of this and make it a goal and dedicate myself to getting all the way back,” he says. “Rehab’s done and I just want to be a baseball player again.” To order the T-shirt, visit dbacknation.com/store/.

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CHICAGO CUBS

Sloan Park 2330 W. Rio Salado Parkway, Mesa 480.668.0500 or 1.800.THE.CUBS chicago.cubs.mlb.com

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PATIO WEATHER!

DESCRIPTION: The Cactus League’s newest stadium is the 146acre Sloan Park, a 15,000-capacity ballpark owned and operated by the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs relocated from Hohokam Stadium in Mesa to Sloan Park in 2014. PARKING: Parking is $10 (reserved) or $5 (general) per vehicle or motorcycle. Buses or RVs are charged $14. General lots are located to the east of the ballpark. Spots are available on a first-come basis. Parking lots open four hours prior to game time. TICKETS: $10 to $50, available at http://mlb. mlb.com/chc/mesa/

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Game Schedule March/April n Home n Away

Games start at 1:05 p.m. (unless noted) Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

March 1

Dates, times and teams are subject to change.

ARI

1:10 p.m.

In Las Vegas ‡In Los Angeles

Friday

LAD

COL

CLE

1:10 p.m.

LAA

April 3 LAA 1:10 p.m.

1:10 p.m.

12:05 p.m.‡

12 LAD

7:05 p.m.

CWS CLE

7:05 p.m.

MIL

April 1

April 2

4:05 p.m.

COL

CIN

CWS

BEST PLACE TO SIT: The Bleacher Bum atmosphere lives on in the outfield lawn seating, but, even better, it houses the “ultimate rooftop experience” in Eighteen | 76. It features bleachers and high-top tables to remind fans of the Wrigley Field Budweiser Bleachers. Info: mesa@cubs.com.

CIN

4:05 p.m.

OAK

LAA

ARI

CIN

Saturday

SEA

1:10 p.m.

KC 27 SEA

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Thursday

MIL

7 KC

OAK 20

Wednesday

NYM†

NYM

7:05 p.m.†

More than 60 percent of the seats in the stadium are shaded. CONCESSIONS: Windy City Dog and A Taste of Chicago are among the six different concession areas that have themes tying to Chicago or the Southwest.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX

Glendale Camelback Ranch 10710 W. Camelback Road, Glendale 623.302.5000 camelbackranchbaseball.com whitesox.com

Come and check out the HOTTEST patio in Old Town from the cool shade of one of our new cabanas

DESCRIPTION: Home to the White Sox and Dodgers, Camelback Ranch was completed in 2009 and boasts a capacity of 13,000—including 3,000 lawn seats, 12 luxury suites and a party deck. It is adjacent to a manmade lake.

our outdoor and upstairs bars are now open and we're pouring the tastiest margaritas in town!

PARKING: Parking in the complex’s 4,000 spots is free. The west lot off 107th Avenue is closest to the stadium.

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TICKETS: $9-$39, available at whitesox.com or 623.302.5000

Game Schedule March/April Games start at 1:05 p.m. (unless noted) Sunday

Monday

March 1

Dates, times and teams are subject to change.

OAK 16

CLE

In San Diego Friday

1:10 p.m.

10 KC

CLE 11

BEST PLACE TO SIT: Avoid sun in the eyes and enjoy a close-up view of the bullpen in the left-field grass seating. The Ranch has no bleachers, so every seat has a back.

LAA 31

CIN

KC 12

CHI

1:10 p.m.

CHI 24

Saturday

MIL

COL

LAD

†

Thursday

TX 15

OAK 27

MIL

1:10 p.m.

LAA

ARI

 Home  Away

Wednesday

LAD

Tuesday

SEA

1:10 p.m.

LAD 26 CIN

12:05 p.m.

LAD

7:05 p.m.

April 1

April 2

7:10 p.m.† 1:10 p.m.†

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ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS Salt River Fields at Talking Stick 7555 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale 480.362.9467 saltriverfields.com azdiamondbacks.com DESCRIPTION: The Diamondbacks defected from Tucson in 2012 to play at the Salt River Fields, a luxurious, massive facility that boasts healthy foods, huge concourses, lots of seating and a massive lawn. PARKING: Onsite. Salt River Fields has 3,000 spaces. Gates open at 9 a.m. for afternoon games. $5 for cars, $15 for RVs and buses. TICKETS: $11-$32 at 480.362.9467, azdiamondbacks. com or ticketmaster.com

Game Schedule March/April  Home  Away

Games start at 1:10 p.m. (unless noted) Sunday

Monday

Dates, times and teams are subject to change.

CHI

1:10 p.m.

SEA

1:05 p.m.

CWS

1:05 p.m.

27COL

1:05 p.m.

6:40 p.m.

U of A

8 SD

COL 9

CIN

6:40 p.m.

7:10 p.m.

7:05 p.m.

1:05 p.m.

LAD 25

OAK

LAD

1:05 p.m.

12 KC

1:05 p.m.

19 TX

SEA

7:10 p.m.

COL

4:05 p.m.

Saturday

OAK

CHI

Friday

LAA

at Chase Field

COL

LAA

†

Thursday

4:10 p.m.

MIL

Wednesday

3:10 p.m.

CIN

March 1

SEA

1:05 p.m.

Tuesday

CLE

MIL

1:05 p.m.

April 1

April 2

COL

12:05 p.m. 12:15 p.m. 6:40 p.m. † 12:10 p.m.†

BEST PLACE TO SIT: Check out the two party decks, on the top deck of the stadium, in the infield. The section has seats and a standup bar for more casual viewing.

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CONCESSIONS: Tons. Healthy food, pizza, southwestern, ice cream, beer, some cocktails and additional vendors.

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Salt River Fields at Talking Stick 7555 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale 480.362.9467 saltriverfields.com coloradorockies.com

Monday

Dates, times and teams are subject to change.

CIN

CHI 14

LAD 20

1:05 p.m.

Thursday

1:05 p.m.

ARI

CHI

1:05 p.m.

BEST PLACE TO SIT: Check out the two party decks, on the top deck of the stadium and in the infield. The section has seats and a standup bar for a more casual viewing experience.

CLE

ARI

12:10 p.m.

MIL

1:05 p.m.

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LAA 25

SEA

SD 12

30 MIL

OAK

1:05 p.m.

CIN

LAA

Saturday

MIL 29

ARI

1:05 p.m.

LAD

Friday

OAK 22

CWS

TX 28

ARI

 Home  Away

Wednesday

ARI

SEA

SF 27

March 1

1:05 p.m.

Tuesday

SD 26

CIN

April 1

April 2

1:05 p.m.

SEA

7:10 p.m.

SEA

12:10 p.m.

CONCESSIONS: Tons. Healthy food, pizza, southwestern, ice cream, beer, some cocktails and additional vendors.

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CLEVELAND INDIANS

Goodyear Ballpark 1933 S. Ballpark Way, Goodyear 623.882.3130 goodyearbp.com indians.com

18th Annual Litchfield Park

Art and Wine Festival March 5-6, 2016 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. daily

Old Litchfield Rd. & Wigwam Blvd.2 miles north of I-10 Exit 128 (Litchfield Rd.)

FREE Admission and FREE Parking • Featuring over 200 Fine Artists and Craftsmen

• Culinary and Ice Sculpting Demonstrations

• Wine Tasting and Microbrews offered by 10 Arizona Wineries and Breweries

• Entertainment by Sahnas Brothers, Bluesman Mike & The Blues Review Band, Inka Gold and Mary Hoffman

For more information, please call the City of Litchfield Park at 623-935-9040 or visit www.litchfield-park.org

DESCRIPTION: The 10,000-seat Goodyear Ballpark, opened in 2009, plays host to the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians. It’s one of the more familyfriendly parks in the Cactus League, featuring inflatable attractions and a kid-sized Whiffle ball field on the first base concourse. PARKING: Parking is $5 ($10 for RVs) and is plentiful. TICKETS: $8-$40 (depends on opponent), available at indians.com

Game Schedule March/April Sunday

Monday

Dates, times and teams are subject to change.

1:10 p.m.

BEST PLACE TO SIT: A right field pavilion ticket includes food and nonalcoholic beverages, and some seats are shaded. If you sit in the outfield grass ($8), aim for left field to avoid the sun and to have a view of the center-field scoreboard.

CIN

April 1

April 2

1:10 p.m.

6:05 p.m.

CHI

7:05 p.m.

ARI

7:05 p.m.

LAD

2:30 p.m.

OAK

LAD

SEA

12:10 p.m.

1:10 p.m.

CIN

SF 12

COL

29 LAA

LAA

Saturday

CWS

OAK

CIN

CHI 16

Friday

CIN

In Arlington, TX

Thursday

MIL

SEA

TX 21

SEA

Wednesday

CIN

LAD

KC 20

March 1

MIL 13 MIL

Tuesday

†

 Home  Away

Games start at 1:05 p.m. (unless noted)

CIN

TX†

12:05 p.m.

7:05 p.m.

TX†

7:05 p.m.

CONCESSIONS: Beer, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, Mexican food and Italian ice. Large souvenir-cup soft drinks.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS OF ANAHEIM Tempe Diablo Stadium 2200 W. Alameda Drive, Tempe 480.350.5205 tempe.gov/diablo angels.mlb.com

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Sunday

Dates, times and teams are subject to change.

1:10 p.m.

7 CIN

CWS

1:10 p.m.

Tuesday

March 1

1:10 p.m.

MIL

 Home  Away Wednesday

ARI

4:10 p.m.

† In Salt Lake City ‡ In Los Angeles

Thursday

CIN

OAK

1:10 p.m.

SEA

1:10 p.m.

22 Bees 23

COL

4:00 p.m.†

18 COL

1:10 p.m.

CWS

OAK

27 SD

1:10 p.m.

CHI

CLE

April 3 LAD 1:10 p.m. 12:10 p.m.

before game time, until 30 minutes after the game. TICKETS: $15-$55 (varies by opponent), available at angels.mlb.com BEST PLACE TO SIT: It’s tough to beat the sizeable grass berm seating in left field for only

April 1

LAD

7:10 p.m.‡ 7:10 p.m.‡

12:05 p.m.‡

1:10 p.m.

MIL

1:10 p.m.

OAK

LAD

SEA

1:10 p.m.

LAD

1:10 p.m.

CLE

CHI

ARI

Saturday

1:10 p.m.

LAD

Friday

1:10 p.m.

April 2

LAD

6:05 ‡

$15, but the latter rows of field box seats on the first-base side are shaded during afternoon games. CONCESSIONS: Domestic and microbrew beers, hot dogs, fries, sodas and soft drinks. Some outside food allowed; check for restrictions.

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DESCRIPTION: Tempe Diablo Stadium was built in 1968 and underwent an extensive renovation in 2005. Perched on the side of Tempe’s rocky Twin Buttes, the stadium complex shares the landscape with the adjacent Buttes Resort and is one of the Cactus League’s most centrally located ballparks.

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CINCINNATI REDS

Goodyear Ballpark 1933 S. Ballpark Way, Goodyear 623.882.3130 goodyearbp.com reds.com DESCRIPTION: Opened in 2009, the 10,000-seat Goodyear Ballpark plays host to the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians. It’s one of the more family-friendly parks in the Cactus League, featuring inflatable attractions and a kid-sized whiffle ball field on the first base concourse. PARKING: Parking is $5 ($10 for RVs) and is plentiful. TICKETS: $8-$40, available at Reds.com

Game Schedule March/April Games start at 1:05 p.m. (unless noted) Sunday

Monday

March 1

Dates, times and teams are subject to change.

LAA

1:10 p.m.

LAD

1:10 p.m.

SF 11CHI

OAK 18

CLE

6:40 p.m.

CHI

COL

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SEA

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Tuesday- Saturday 11:30-6 and Sunday all day

MIL 25

6830 E 5th Ave, Scottsdale, AZ

Saturday

OAK 26 OAK

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CWS

12:05 p.m.

7:05 p.m.

COL

CHI

7:10 p.m.

ARI

Friday

CLE 10

TX 16

1:10 p.m.

MIL

LAA

Thursday

CLE

7:05 p.m.

ARI

SEA

 Home  Away † In Indianapolis

Wednesday

CLE

COL

Tuesday

MIL

CWS

BEST PLACE TO SIT: A right-field pavilion ticket includes food and nonalcoholic beverages, and some seats are shaded. If you sit in the outfield grass ($8), aim for left field to avoid the sun and have a view of the center-field scoreboard.

April 1

CLE

12:05 p.m.

April 2

PIT

1:35 p.m.†

CONCESSIONS: Beer, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, Mexican food and Italian ice. Large souvenir cup soft drinks, as of last season, are $3.50. Enjoy a delicious Sunday brunch in the Right Field Pavilion before the March 6 game, which includes an exclusive Reds autograph session.

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DREAM Arizona Rattlers wide receiver calls playing for AFL dynasty a blessing

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fter an unsuccessful stint in the NFL, Chase Deadder was looking for a different opportunity. The wide receiver dabbled in the Arena Football League before finding his home with what could be called an AFL dynasty—the multiple world champion Arizona Rattlers. “This team is really where you want to be in the AFL,” Deadder says. “In the AFL, you want to be a part of the

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Arizona Rattlers because of their history, the coaching staff and their whole support system. The owner and the players, they really treat it like an NFL team and they treat you the way you’re supposed to be treated.” That positive attitude rubs off on fans as well. As a result, the Arizona Rattlers are hosting open training camp practices March 12 through March 25 at Copper Sky Regional Park, 44345 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Maricopa. The training camp will wrap up with Fan Fest from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 26, at the UltraStar Multi-tainment Center at Ak-Chin Circle, 16000 N. Maricopa Road, Maricopa. Players, Sidewinders dancers and Rattlers mascot, Stryker, will be in attendance. Fans will have the opportunity to purchase a limited number of tickets to ride the Fan Express, providing roundtrip transportation from Talking Stick Resort Arena to the UltraStar Multi-tainment Center at Ak-Chin Circle. “Our training camp is down in Maricopa because they’re big sponsors of our team,” says Deadder, as his pug plays with his little football. “It’ll be good to give back to the community.” Fans are enamored with the Rattlers. Tickets to games at Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix are at a premium, and fans regularly visit practices during the season at Gene Autry Park, 4125 E. McKellips Road in Mesa. “It’s just such a fast-paced game and there is a lot of scoring back and forth,”

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Deadder says about why arena football is such an attraction. “The drama during the game, the light show, the fireworks before the game all make it a great sporting event. “As a wide receiver, this is a dream come true. It’s an all-passing league. It’s just so fast.” Growing up in Modesto, California, Deadder has played football since he was 8, participating in Pop Warner as well as sports in school and college. “It’s something I’ve been doing my whole life,” he says. It was during his senior year of high school that he realized he could make football his living. “I started to have some interest from Sacramento State and some other schools,” he says. “I realized that I could go to the next level and turn this into something as long as I follow it and push hard. It’s led me in the right direction and here I am.” The athletes on the Rattlers are close. Deadder regularly practices with quarterback Nick Davila and wide receiver Rod Windsor about three to four times a week. “We get out there and throw and run around and work really hard with each other to get on the right page and get ready for this next season,” he says. It’s really nice to be a part of a team where all of the players hang out. We like to do stuff together and I believe it really helps our team chemistry out there on the field as well.”

The Arizona Rattlers

play their first home game of the season at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 16, against the Tampa Bay Storm at Talking Stick Resort Arena, 201 E. Jefferson Street, Phoenix. Tickets are $5 to $132.25. For more information, call 800.745.3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.

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P Bull rider Matt Triplett, PBR expected to return to Phoenix

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rofessional bull rider Matt Triplett admits that his occupation can be a bit frightening at times, but it’s not for the reasons that fans would think. “Sure, we’re dealing with an animal that weighs anywhere from 1,500 pounds to 2,000 pounds,” Triplett says via telephone as he was recovering from Tommy John surgery or ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction. “We don’t know what’ll happen, like if they’re going to buck really hard. Fans see us get thrown in the air; some get stepped on and hurt. It’s a good, action-packed event. But I’ve been doing it for so long that the only fear is the fear of failure. I like doing good and I don’t like losing. That’s the only fear I’ve got. A lot of bull riders know they’re going to get hurt. It’s just a matter of when and how bad.” Triplett is expected to be one of the “toughest men on dirt” who will take on the rankest bucking bulls March 5 through March 6 at the 2016 Built Ford Tough Series’ Phoenix Invitational at Talking Stick Resort Arena, formerly US Airways Center, in Phoenix. The Top 35 bull riders in the world will compete to earn their piece of a $140,000 total purse. “It’s one of my favorite events,” Triplett says about Phoenix. “I was bummed that we didn’t have it last year. I love the weather during the winter. The fan base that comes to the event is pretty awesome. They get into it a lot. It makes it a little more enjoyable for us when the fans get into it. “It makes us want to ride good.” The 24-year-old Montana native has been riding professionally for five years. He was inspired by his father, who was also a bull rider. “He was one of my heroes in life,” Triplett says. “It was nice to follow him. I started in high school and started working my way up to what I am doing now. But I love it. It’s something that, like any other professional athlete, every day I wake up training for it and preparing myself to do good at it.” Triplett’s training regimen includes working out at a gym, as well as hot yoga. “For bull riding, we have to be really flexible and we need to be a smaller person because the gravity will

pull you,” he says. “It sucks when you’re working against it, if you have a lot of muscle. To keep that from happening, I do a lot of yoga, hot yoga.” Triplett has been using yoga to recover from his Tommy John surgery, a procedure common among Major League Baseball pitchers. He calls the injury devastating. “The Tommy John surgery on my elbow was the worst thing that’s happened to me,” he says. “Being a bull rider, it’s only one movement with the elbow. It takes [baseball players] a lot more time to recover because their elbows lead every pitch they throw.” Thanks to the reconstructive elbow surgery, Triplett will be able to inch toward his goal of capturing the world title. “I’m going to try to get the gold buckle at the end of the year,” he says. “It takes a full year of being on the playing field where you keep your training down the straight line. You gotta ride as many bulls as you can. You gotta stay on the same playing field. You have to stay on the same line you started the year on. “Bull riding’s really mental. When you buck off one or two, it kind of gets to your head. When you’re fighting your head in bull riding, it’s hard to overcome it. The guys who overcome adversity are the ones who do well at the end of the year.” It’s the fans who encourage the bull riders to reach their goals, Triplett says. The more they cheer, the more enthusiastic they become. The fans include fellow riders as well. “We’re really good buddies,” he says. “We support each other and help each other. A lot of us travel together. It’s a sport where we’re going against the animal. If we win our part of the battle, it’s cool to see your buddies win as well. We’re not really going against each other. We are, but in reality we’re going against the bulls.”

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SOCAL ON AN EMPTY STOMACH

THE FUNNEL CAKE BLOG: WHAT’S NEW IN SoCAL

Prepare to eat your way through area theme parks Randy Montgomery » The Entertainer!

outhern California theme parks offer a variety of rides, shows and attractions...and this spring, they are focusing on food! Plan your trip and go on an empty stomach. Foodies are excited to see the return of the Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival. This was a popular event that was put on hiatus after construction began on Cars Land. Full details were not available at press time, but, in the past, there were celebrity cooking demos, a variety of gourmet foods and wine pairings. What has been announced is a “new ‘Festival Marketplace,’ where guests can sip and savor delicious flavors from throughout California.” One of the premiere events at Knott’s Berry Farm is the annual Boysenberry Festival. Every boysenberry in the world can be traced back to Walter Knott’s farm. Knott, along with local farmer Rudolph Boysen developed the berry, which is a delicious hybrid of a blackberry, loganberry and raspberry. Knott’s culinary team has created its own boysenberry barbecue sauce and line of jams. These are used in a variety of foods found around the park during the festival. From sautéed chicken sandwiches, to boysenberry relish hot dogs, to decadent desserts, you will want to try one of everything! There is also a variety of wines and beer to sample (boysenberry, of course!). In addition to food, the festival is accompanied by live music, shows and games.

While not a festival, the April opening of “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter” at Universal Studios will draw crowds. Smack dab in the middle of Hogsmeade is the Three Broomsticks restaurant. The massive restaurant features a variety of European specialties, including bangers and mash, shepherd’s pie, potato leek soup and more. At a technical rehearsal in February, the restaurant was open as a trial run and the food was amazing! While not a part of the overall Harry Potter marketing campaign, the food is a highlight. Make sure and try the nonalcoholic Butterbeer. The drink has a cream soda/butterscotch taste, served in a liquid or frozen form, with a buttery, whip cream topper. DETAILS: Disney California Food & Wine Festival (Anaheim) Weekends, April 1 through May 1 www.disneyland.com Knott’s Berry Farm Boysenberry Festival (Buena Park) Daily, March 19 through April 3 www.knotts.com Three Broomsticks Restaurant Universal Studios Hollywood (Universal City) Opens April 7 www.universalstudioshollywood.com

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Valley Youth Theatre continues to make stars

ordin Sparks. Emma Stone. Chelsea Kane. Kimiko Glenn. What do these big celeb names have in common? They’re all alum of Valley Youth Theatre (VYT), Phoenix’s premier youth theater company, where kids can get their start in entertainment and learn lifelong skills no matter what profession they choose. “VYT has helped craft some great talent,” says Skye Fallon, director of marketing and communications for VYT. “Not just celebs or those in the entertainment industry but the program helps to train kids for all of the things that are going to happen in their lives.” The theater company is in its 27th season (each season goes from August through June). VYT puts on six shows a season, including two at the Herberger Theater Center. In the productions, kids ages 5 through 19 perform in classic and new shows. Cast size depends on the show and some of this season’s favorites include “A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Tail,” “Pinocchio,” “Pinkalicious” and “Disney’s The Little Mermaid.” WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

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This month, Fallon says, some of the youth theatre’s key staff members are celebrating two decades with the company. “Bobb Cooper, the producing artistic director; Karol Cooper, resident costume designer; and Mark Fearey, resident music director have all been with VYT for 20 years this March,” she explains. “Their passion for the children they work with is amazing.” In her own career, Fallon—who has worked in youth theater for years—came to work at VYT because she wanted to work with Bobb Cooper. “I’ll totally admit that I’ve wanted to work with him since 2010 and I’ve been here since fall 2015,” she reveals. In fact, she believes that Bobb Cooper’s presence is one of the key things that set VYT apart from other youth theater companies in the area. “It’s amazing the respect kids have for Bobb; he has a set of principles for each show called ‘Bobb’s Rules of Respect.’ It’s the same rules for 7 year olds as it is for 18 year olds. He genuinely loves the kids and to see him work with them is sheer joy,”

Fallon says. “Bobb is one of the reasons the same kids keep coming back show after show.” Another unique aspect of VYT, Fallon explains, is that kids who are cast in a production do not have to pay a fee to participate. Instead, their family members are asked to volunteer if possible. “We have kids who take the bus to practice and kids who are dropped off in a Mercedes-Benz, but once they walk through that door they are all equal,” Fallon says. Instead of cast fees, production costs are covered through grants, donations and other routes. “We have the best supporters you can imagine and believe that every kid should be involved in a show if that’s where their heart is,” Fallon explains. “In addition to actors and singers, kids can be a part of the backstage crew. Not all kids are on stage.” Much like a professional theater company, there is an audition for each show. Once in a production, rehearsals last between four to seven weeks, with practices mirroring that of a professional company.

“VYT is a professional quality youth theater; when it gets closer to show time there are some eight- to 10-hour days. It can get brutal,” Fallon says. “We’re community theater, yes, but there’s such a high quality to it.” “Anyone can come audition but VYT also has an education component where kids can learn about theater,” she adds. “Oftentimes we encourage kids from our educational programs to try out for the shows.” The education branch of VYT does have fees associated with it but it offers unique programs like spring and summer camps. “For those who can’t afford the education component, though, we always try to make sure scholarships are available,” Fallon says. “Bobb is very big on the fact that, if a child wants to work hard to be on stage, nothing should hold them back.” The next show VYT is putting on is “Pinkalicious,” based on the popular children’s book. Fallon describes the production as “so fun and perfect for little girls and kids of all ages.” “Pinkalicious” will be performed from April 8 to April 24. Another show that VYT is revving up for is “Disney’s The Little Mermaid,” which will be presented at the Herberger Theater from June 10 to June 26. “I’m especially excited for ‘The Little Mermaid’ because the set is sure to be fantastic,” Fallon says. For community members who want to become involved in VYT, there are a variety of volunteer positions available and “professionals to show them how to do different things,” Fallon says. From lighting to ushering, VYT staff members appreciate the assistance of volunteers of all ages. “The beauty of youth theater is that kids can not only relate to the characters they play but also the characters they see in the shows,” Fallon says. “The mission of VYT is to guide every child to be the very best they can be, and that’s done with the devotion of the leaders and caring volunteers.” To learn more about Valley Youth Theatre, including info on upcoming shows and educational opportunities, visit www.vyt.com.

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THE BEST FAMILY EVENTS

IN MARCH

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Dolly Sanchez Memorial Easter Egg Hunts

MARCH 26 Meet the Easter Bunny and search for eggs at this 40th annual familyfriendly event. There will be Easter egg hunts for eight age groups along with one for people with disabilities. Other activities include face painting, a petting zoo and pony rides. Admission and parking are free with a donation of canned goods to St. Mary’s/Westside Food Bank Alliance. Centennial Plaza, 9875 N 85th Ave Peoria, 623.773.7137, peoriaaz.gov.

Charlotte’s Web

MARCH 4 THROUGH MARCH 20 Based on the beloved classic written by E.B. White, “Charlotte’s Web” comes to life on stage. When Wilbur, the farm pig, is in danger of being eaten, all of the farm animals come together to save him. A friendly spider, Charlotte, weaves a crafty plan to rescue Wilbur. After creating a web saying “Some Pig,” Charlotte changes Wilbur’s life forever. Theater Works, 8355 W. Peoria Avenue, Peoria, 623.815.1791, theaterworks.org.

Ancient Technology Day

MARCH 12 Part of Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month, this free event encourages hands-on learning for all ages. Visitors can sample roasted agave, weave a piece of cloth, among many other activities. Artists will teach technologies used by the Hohokam people such as pottery and shell jewelry. Arizona pioneer technology such as adobe brick making will also be on display. Pueblo Grande Museum, 4619 E. Washington Street, Phoenix, 602.495.0900, pueblogrande.com.

Arizona Aloha Festival

MARCH 12 THROUGH MARCH 13 Each year Hawaiian culture takes over downtown Tempe to celebrate the archipelago’s signature style. Vendors line the streets selling food while dancers perform traditional movements on stage. Families can purchase original items such as leis and necklaces displayed around the park. Performers are scattered throughout the festival for guests to enjoy as well. Tempe Beach Park at Tempe Town Lake, Mill Avenue and Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe, 602.288.7028, azalohafest.org.

Ostrich Festival

THROUGHOUT MARCH The nationally recognized festival is back this month, promising fun and laughter for the entire family. To kick off the festivities, the Chandler Chamber of Commerce is hosting the Mayor’s Fun Run and Festival Parade on Saturday, March 5, in downtown Chandler. At the festival itself the following weekend (March 11 through March 13), new attractions such as 1001 Nachts and the Inversion boast fast speeds and greater heights. This year’s main stage headliners include Parmalee and Ozomatli. Tumbleweed Park, 2250 S. McQueen Road, Chandler, 480.963.4571, ostrichfestival.com.

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

MARCH 28 THROUGH MARCH 30 Witness the enchantment of Disney magic in this Broadway musical spectacular. Sing along with Belle and her friends as they perform classics such as “Be Our Guest” and “Beauty and the Beast.” On select nights enjoy a preshow barbecue buffet featuring sliced beef and oven roasted chicken. Mesa Arts Center, One E. Main Street, Mesa, 480.644.6500, mesaartscenter.com.

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GETTING HIS Granger Smith is geared up to succeed with new SHOT album, Remington

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ountry singer Granger Smith is a modest man of few words. Known for his No. 1 track “Backroad Song,” Smith doesn’t take the credit for its success. “We have a really good team behind us, Wheelhouse Records,” says Smith, who is playing The Great American Barbecue and Beer Festival on Saturday, March 19, in Chandler. “They have been complete rock stars. I’m very grateful and extremely excited and on cloud nine because of the success of it. But am I surprised? Not so much because of the team that works with me.” “Backroad Song” will be found on Smith’s forthcoming album, Remington, which is due to hit stores March 4. The Texas native had a hand in writing the songs. “It’s important to me to have a hand in all that and to write the songs,” he says. “It represents who I am more. It’s my

eighth studio album. Each one represents a snapshot of my life during that time. That’s the way that I can express myself and tell my stories is through songs.” He explains that his songwriting process changes from song to song. “Some songs could take years to write—and they have,” Smith says. “Some songs you can write in 20 minutes. There’s no rhyme or reason why. It’s the way your brain works.” The hardest song to write on Remington was the title track. Smith says he just worked on it until he thought it was finished. “It doesn’t really ever get discouraging,” he says. “You don’t have to keep your morale up. It’s like when you lose your keys in your house. You know they’re in your house. You don’t get discouraged because you know they’re in there. You just have to look a little longer.” Inspired by George Strait, Smith

is looking forward to the barbecue and beer festival—things that he says go hand in hand with country music. Tracks from Remington are sure to be on the setlist, he says. “A lot of the new ones and a lot of the ones that people expect to hear,” Smith explains. “We like to have a lot of energy. It’s a fun experience and a blast to be on stage.”

The Great American Barbecue and Beer Festival

Dr. AJ Chandler Park, 3 S. Arizona Avenue, Chandler, chandlerbbq.com, 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 19, $10-$15.

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Hank Mowery & The Hawktones

Rhythm Room, 8 p.m., $5

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LIVE MUSIC

CALENDAR

MARCH 1 Vance Joy w/Elle King

Marquee Theatre, 8 p.m., $28-$38

MuteMath w/Paper Route

Crescent Ballroom, 8 p.m., $24-$25

Simo w/The Glorious Sons Pub Rock Live, 8 p.m., $10-$12

Big Sandy & His Fly Rite Boys Rhythm Room, 8 p.m., $12-$14

Martha Redbone Roots Project Musical Instrument Museum, 7 p.m., $33-$45

Penny And Sparrow

Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $12-$14

Levi Parham

MARCH 3

Liza Anne

Basia Bulat w/The Weather Station

Yucca Tap Room, 9 p.m., free Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $10-$12

MARCH 2 Galactic

Livewire, 7 p.m., $27

Rebel Lounge, 7:30 p.m., $12

Passafire

Crescent Ballroom, 8:30 p.m., $13-$15

Koffin Kats

Last Exit Live, 9 p.m., $10

Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band

Jerkagram w/Larkspurs

Pell w/Daye Jack

Agent Orange w/In The Whale

Last Exit Live, 9 p.m., $10

Pub Rock Live, 8:30 p.m., $12-$15

The Photo Negatives

Yucca Tap Room, 9 p.m., free

Trunk Space, 7:30 p.m., $6

Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., $15

Negative Approach

Nile Theater, 6:30 p.m., $15

Musical Instrument Museum, 7:30 p.m., $35-$45

Freakwater

Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $12-$14

AJ Odneal w/Foxheart, Justin Moody Rhythm Room, 7 p.m., $5-$7

Karla Bonoff

MARCH 7

Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $12-$15

The Soft White Sixties w/ Banana Gun

Crescent Ballroom, 8 p.m., $10-$15

Anuhea w/Through The Roots Club Red, 6 p.m., $15-$20

Henchmen w/Gamblers Mark Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., $10-$12

Make Them Suffer

Nile Theater, 6:30 p.m., $10

John Primer Chicago Blues Showcase Rhythm Room, 9 p.m., $15

MARCH 5 The Undead Can Dance Rebel Lounge, 11 p.m., $2

Sundressed w/Naked Walrus, Goldengoat, Adult Feelings Rebel Lounge, 7:30 p.m., $8-$10

Johnny Mathis

Celebrity Theatre, 7 p.m., $39-$133

Pub Rock Live, 7:15 p.m., $10-$12

Sugar Skull Explosion Pub Rock Live, 7 p.m., $5

Berner

Club Red, 7 p.m., $15-$18

The Nodnarbs

Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., free

Azilla Music Festival Nile Theater, 3 p.m., $10

Joe Satriani

Talking Stick Resort, 8 p.m., $40$100

Blues Blast After Party w/Bob Margolin, Bob Corritore

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Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., free

Limbeck w/Reubens Accomplice, Ticker Tape Parade

Never Let This Go

Livewire » 7 p.m. » $22 We were all jealous of Meghan Trainor at the AMAs. Even if you can’t lock lips with this heartthrob, you can still see him perform some of his top hits at Livewire like “Marvin Gaye” and “We Don’t Talk Anymore.”

One Ton Project

Musical Instrument Museum, 7 p.m., sold out

Last Exit Live, 8 p.m., $8-$10

MARCH 7

Crescent Ballroom, 8 p.m., $16-$65

MARCH 4

Keith Secola, Highest Conspiracy w/Casper Lomayesva

Charlie Puth

Ron Pope + The Nighthawks

General Mojo’s w/The Bittersweet Way

Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $5-$8

Charlie Puth

Livewire, 7 p.m., $22

MARCH 8 Luke Sweeney w/Flower Festival, Sonoran Chorus Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $5-$8

Shawn James & The Shapeshifters

Last Exit Live, 8:30 p.m., $5-$8

Stone Soul

Yucca Tap Room, 9 p.m., free

Born Of Osiris

Nile Theater, 6 p.m., $18

MARCH 9 $5 Feature

Club Red, 6 p.m., $5

Bur Gur w/Snailmate

Yucca Tap Room, 9 p.m., free

Emily Kinney

Musical Instrument Museum, 7 p.m., $27-$32

Shannon And The Clams Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $12-$14

MARCH 10 Futuristic

Livewire, 7 p.m., $25-$50

UFN w/Them Guns

Club Red, 6 p.m., $10-$13

Tongue w/Lifesize Monsters Yucca Tap Room, 9 p.m., free

Dead Kennedys

Nile Theater, 7 p.m., $22-$26

MARCH 11 Sigala

Rhythm Room, 7:30 p.m., $10-$12

Maya Day + Nightclub, 9 p.m., $10

Kneedelus

Property Six w/24 Thorns, Latino Rebel Band

Musical Instrument Museum, 7:30 p.m., $28-$38

MARCH 6 Dirty Dishes w/Twin Ponies Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $8-$10

Last Exit Live, 7:30 p.m., $7-$10

Unwritten Law and Fenix TX Pub Rock Live, 8 p.m., $13-$15

Computer Class w/Moonraker Trunk Space, 7:30 p.m., $5

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Cannibal Corpse

Club Red, 6:30 p.m., $25-$30

The Noodles

Yucca Tap Room, 9 p.m., free

The Walter Trout Band

Rhythm Room, 5:30 p.m., $15-$20

Fred & Toody

Valley Bar, 7:30 p.m., $12-$14

MARCH 12 Viva PHX: A Downtown Phoenix Music Festival

Multiple venues in Downtown Phoenix, 7 p.m., $19

Jugg-Fest 2016 w/ Spawnbreezie, Casper 602 Band Livewire, 7:30 p.m., $20-$24

YG & Friends

The Pressroom, 9 p.m., $30

The Mustache Massacre Pub Rock Live, 7 p.m., $5

Lollipop Records SXSW Phoenix Showcase

A Great Big World

Trunk Space, 6:30 p.m., $8

MARCH 17

Bongzilla

Crescent Ballroom » 8 p.m. » $25-$65 We all remember the touching “Say Something” duet featuring A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera. Well now, this duo is headed to the Valley to perform even more hits on the big stage.

Club Red, 6 p.m., $18-$20

Skizzy Mars

Club Red, 7 p.m., $18-$20

Gungor

Nile Theater, 8 p.m., $15-$100

Foster Body w/Neighbors, Expiration Date

BoDeans

Trunk Space, 7 p.m., $7

Cold Shott & The Hurricane Horns

Musical Instrument Museum, 7 p.m., $33-$43

Talking Stick Resort, 8 p.m., $25-$35

Rhythm Room, 9 p.m., $8

MARCH 13 Wolf Eyes

Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $12-$14

Antonio Zambujo

Bronze Radio Return

Pot of Gold Music Festival w/ Big Sean, 311, Muse Powell

Nile Theater, 6 p.m., $13-$15

MARCH 17

MARCH 15

Quilt

Pillar Point

Hero Jam

Crescent Ballroom, 8 p.m., $12

Tal National w/Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra

Wheelchair Sports Camp

I See Stars

Last Exit Live, 9 p.m., $8-$10

Gnash: Me & My Friends Tour

Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., free

Club Red, 7 p.m., $13-$15

Southside Suicide

Haunted Summer w/Edith Crash, Emby Alexander

Nile Theater, 6 p.m., $20

Electric Six

Pub Rock Live, 7:15 p.m., $15-$18

Counterparts

Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $12-$15

Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $10

Livewire, 7 p.m., $55-$150

MARCH 19

Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., free

Tonight Alive w/Set It Off

COH w/Brandon Nickell, Shredded Nerve Rebel Lounge, 11:45 p.m., $5

The Sloths

EOS w/Eigenlicht

Nile Theater, 6 p.m., $18-$20 Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $10

Pot of Gold Music Festival w/ Slightly Stoopid, Atmosphere Rawhide, 2:30 p.m., $40-$50

MARCH 18

Dreamers w/Arkells, Karma Killers Rebel Lounge, 7:30 p.m., $10-$12

Adara Rae & The Homewreckers

Last Exit Live, 8:30 p.m., $5

Tramps & Thieves

Yucca Tap Room, 9 p.m., free

Madeleine Peyroux

The Smith Street Band w/Hard Girls, Diners

Last Exit Live, 9 p.m., $10-$12

Talia Roya

Crescent Ballroom, 8 p.m., $15-$17

Trunk Space, 7:30 p.m., $7

The Expanders w/E.N. Young

La Luz

MARCH 14

Mommy Long Legs w/ Boyfriends

MARCH 20

Celebrity Theatre, 8:30 p.m., $40-$80

Kingdom Of Giants

Autolux

Pub Rock Live, 7 p.m., $14

Marisela

MARCH 16 Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $5-$8

Sol w/Brothers From Another

Rebel Lounge, 8:30 p.m., $10-$12

Nile Theater, 6 p.m., $13-$15 Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $13-$15

Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $10-$12

Musical Instrument Museum, 6 p.m., $43-$58

Ghost Mother

A Lot Like Birds

Conan w/Serial Hawk

Calabrese

Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $14-$16

Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., free

Rawhide, 2:30 p.m., $40

Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., free Nile Theater, 6 p.m., $10-$12

Sugar Thieves

Rhythm Room, 9 p.m., $8

John Hiatt

Musical Instrument Museum, 9:30 p.m., $68-$73

Rebel Lounge, 7 p.m., $12-$14

Big Smo

Crescent Ballroom, 8:30 p.m., $17-$20

Katie Day

Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., free

Nap Eyes

Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $10

MARCH 21 One Nation w/DJ Roonie G Livewire, 6 p.m., $10

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MARCH 26 Migos

The Pressroom, 9 p.m., $30

Marmalade Skies

Cactus Jack’s, 8 p.m., $10

Black Tusk

Pub Rock Live, 7 p.m., $15-$17

Darren Styles

Club Red, 7 p.m., $20-$25

Matamoska

Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., $10

Yuck

Elephant Revival

Violent J w/Lil Eazy E

Denzel Curry

Crescent Ballroom, 8 p.m., $24-$25 Pub Rock Live, 7 p.m., $15-$17

Crescent Ballroom, 8 p.m., $15-$18 Pub Rock Live, 7 p.m., $15-$18

Rhythm Room, 9 p.m., $8

MARCH 27 Murder By Death

Crescent Ballroom, 8:30 p.m., $20$22

Combust

MARCH 28

Musical Instrument Museum, 7 p.m., $33-$38

Ra Ra Riot

Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $20-$22

MARCH 22 Hey Marseilles w/Hibou, The Senators Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $15-$18

Polica

Crescent Ballroom, 8 p.m., $20-$22

French Horn Rebellion

Last Exit Live, 8 p.m., $10-$12

Michale Graves

Pub Rock Live, 7 p.m., $15-$17

Weedeater w/Author & Punisher Club Red, 6 p.m., $18-$20

MARCH 24 Body of Light w/HighFunctioning Flesh

Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $7-$9

Young Thug

Finish Ticket and Vinyl Theatre Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $15-$18

MARCH 23 Milk & Bone

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The Marcho Man Tour Part 2 w/Bermuda Nile Theater, 6 p.m., $13

Suzy Bogguss

Musical Instrument Museum, 7 p.m., $30-$35

Foxing w/O’Brother

Rebel Lounge, 7:30 p.m., $12-$15

Anders Osborne

Crescent Ballroom, 8 p.m., $25-$37

Coast To Coast Mixtape Showcase

Yucca Tap Room, 9 p.m., free

Orthodox

Nile Theater, 6 p.m., $10-$12

The Brothers Reed

Rhythm Room, 7:30 p.m., $7

Hanggai

Musical Instrument Museum, 7:30 p.m., $33-$45

Matthew Logan Vasquez Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $13-$15

Yucca Tap Room, 7:30 p.m., $10

Secrets

Pub Rock Live, 7:30 p.m., $13-16

Scattered Guts

Yucca Tap Room, 9 p.m., free

Freebo

Rhythm Room, 7 p.m., $14-$18

Prince Rama

Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $10-$12

The Decibel Magazine Tour w/ Abbath, High On Fire

Rhythm Room, 7 p.m., $10-$12

Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., free

Last Exit Live, 8:30 p.m., $5-$7

Citizen Turnover

Guantanamo Baywatch

Manifest Sound

Harrison Fjord

MARCH 25

Nile Theater, 6 p.m., $15-$18

Suzy Bogguss

Livewire, 7 p.m., $35-$55

Eerie Wanda

Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., free

Rhythm Room, 7 p.m., $15-$18

Moxie

The 5 AM Rumble Strip

Sierra Hull

Quantic

Sean Rowe

Letlive

Rhythm Room, 8 p.m., $7

Nile Theater, 6 p.m., $15

MARCH 31

Death Hymn Number 9

Nile Theater, 7 p.m., $13-$15

My Digital Escape

Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., free

The Dwarves

Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., free

Yucca Tap Room, 9 p.m., free

MARCH 30

Musical Instrument Museum, 7 p.m., $25-$33

Yucca Tap Room, 7:30 p.m., $15-$18

Nio

The Yellow Pages Soul Power Band

Talking Stick Resort Arena » 7 p.m. » $25-$55 If you were a teen back in the early 2000s, you probably had every Fall Out Boy CD. With radio hits like “Dance, Dance” and “Thnks fr the Mmrs” we can’t blame you. Catch them in the Valley this month!

MARCH 29

Musical Instrument Museum, 7 p.m., $30-$35

Rhythm Room, 6 p.m., $8

MARCH 25

Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $10-$12

David Crosby

Talking Stick Resort, 8 p.m., $40-$85

Fall Out Boy

Night Beats

Livewire, 6:30 p.m., $23

Tempe Art-A-Gogh-Gogh Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., free

Tesla

Talking Stick Resort Arena, 8 p.m., $60-$150

Tommy Dukes

Rhythm Room, 9 p.m., $8

Justin Bieber MARCH 30

Gila River Arena » 7 p.m. » $50-$116 It will be too late to say sorry if you miss this show! The Biebs just released his new Purpose album, won a Grammy, and is going on tour. Get ready and get excited.

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Rapper Futuristic excited about what lies ahead

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uturistic hopes to be “the biggest rapper that there is”— and that’s not just lip service. With nearly 1 million followers on Facebook and 65,000 on Twitter, Futuristic shows what could be ahead for the Arizona rap scene. Even though Futuristic—who, as Zachary Lewis Beck, attended McClintock High School in Tempe—makes that bold statement, he is still conflicted about how successful he wants to be. “I go back and forth,” he says, traveling to a Midwest tour date. “I think, ‘Oh I don’t want to be too huge.’ But the

more successful you get, the more you want. “My goal is to keep pushing as long as I’m happy. I want to be able to do what I do and not be pressured. I just want to be creative, be myself and be happy doing music.” Now living in Los Angeles, Futuristic will return to the Valley—specifically Livewire in Scottsdale—Thursday, March 10. He’s thrilled to be coming back home. “That’s the only show I ever stress over,” he says. “‘Yo, it’s got to be sold out. It’s got to be this. It’s got to be that.’ I go all out for the Arizona shows. “You have everybody hitting you up from family and stuff. Everyone forgets that you have so many other things going

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on. I have to turn my shit off those days.” That said, family is important to Futuristic, who appears on A Great Big World’s single “We Hold Each Other” (See related story). “I’ve been rapping since I was 6 years old,” says the 24-year-old who was influenced by Will Smith, Ludacris, Eminem and Busta Rhymes. “My family’s in music. My pops is a drummer. My older brothers—one’s a drummer/ guitarist/bassist. My other older brother raps. My little brother plays drums. From a very young age, I was always around music. “When you’re in a house and it’s there, you do [music] without even thinking.” So far, his innate talent has deemed him a success. His latest album, Coast 2 Coast with Devvon Terrell, peaked at No. 12 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Futuristic knew he was on the right path when he sold out the former location of Club Red in Mesa. “It was just crazy,” he says. “I was backstage talking on the mic before I went on and everyone went nuts. I was like, ‘Holy shit.’ They knew every word. It was a 500-cap [capacity] room, the old Club Red. It was nuts to me that it sold out. “It’s always tight, especially when it first starts happening. When it happened in other cities, people knowing all the words, it was like, ‘Damn.’” Futuristic has accomplished what he has only with the help of a manager. His DIY work ethic was recently featured in Forbes magazine, an impressive feat not only for a rapper, but an independent artist at that. “It’s definitely been a lot of hard work,” he says. “Literally, it’s been hard work and just being creative. You have to come up with new ways of introducing yourself to new people. At a certain point, you can get [record labels] to work for you, instead of working for them.” Despite the ups and downs of his career, Futuristic has managed to keep a positive outlook, in life and in his music. “I do that just because kids are so influenced by everything,” he says. “If you have a positive message and something that people need to hear and you’re an influential person you should speak it.”

Futuristic w/Devvon Terrell

Livewire, 7320 E. Indian Plaza, Scottsdale, livewireaz.com, 7 p.m. Thursday, March 10, $20-$50. WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

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LOVING PLAY TO

E Street Band’s Nils Lofgren shows versatility, depth Ken Abramczyk » The Entertainer! WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

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ast year Nils Lofgren toured England with his long-time collaborator and multiinstrumentalist Greg Varlotta. Lofgren’s wife, Amy, was on the road with them, helping sell T-shirts on the tour. Show after show, fans asked Amy for CDs of the music they had just heard. These live songs hadn’t been released yet. She thought the fans were onto something special.

“She said, ‘Look, these are the best shows I’ve seen you do, you should record them,’” Nils Lofgren says. “We set up a [sound] board, recorded it and she was right.” After six or seven shows, the UK2015 Face the Music Live CD was put together and Amy had something for the fans to embrace and a show memory. “It was a great idea and I’m glad she came up with it,” Lofgren says. The album highlights what Lofgren enjoys the most: performing. The CD conveys a deep sense of mood conveyed by Lofgren’s nimble guitar work and haunting vocals, and excellent accompaniments from Varlotta. The 15 tracks span Lofgren’s career from his early days fronting Grin with “Lost a Number,” “No Mercy” from the late 1970s to “Miss You ‘C’,” a tribute to his former E Street bandmate Clarence Clemons. His cover of Danny Whitten’s “I Don’t Want to Talk About It” is touching. Juxtapose this work against some of Lofgren’s searing guitar leads with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band of Springsteen’s “Youngstown” (Live in New York) and “Tunnel of Love” and you will come away with a respect for Lofgren’s versatility, talent and depth. Lofgren chalks his latest work with an ability to reference to a voluminous repertoire of work over the past 48 years highlighted on his monumental Face the Music box set, a nine-CD/one-DVD retrospective, which was released in 2014. Lofgren doesn’t show signs of slowing down. Once his current tour with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band ends, Lofgren expects to resume his tour to promote his live CD. Springsteen and his band make a stop Thursday, March 10, at the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix. “I’m working in my 48th year now, and you’re always trying to make the most comprehensive, emotionally powerful show you can of the ammunition of, at this point, hundreds of recordings that I’ve written and made, and of course the immediacy of each night,” he says. “Yes it’s a duo, but as opposed to a thin folk sound or folk music, it might be great. We’ve added a lot of bottom, body and guitars and keyboard, so there’s a lot more air being moved, and we might take a piano, I’ll sit at the piano, and after a while I’ll like to have some strings to fade into a midsection to just get another dynamic into it. “It’s just a function of wanting to keep the intimacy of the duo, but not lose the power of the band and just walk that line as best we can.” Lofgren describes Varlotta as a very powerful player and great on the road. “Amy was right. It was a great time to commemorate these types of shows.” Lofgren appreciates and respects Amy’s opinion, realizing that he didn’t

have the overview that Amy did, and just kind of let it fall into place on its own. “It was totally out of left field, and kind of in a good way, you didn’t have to worry or belabor making a live recording at all,” Lofgren says. The CD received great reviews. “People who saw me for 40 years says I hadn’t been better, I said, ‘Really, I just thought I did a good job.’” After listening to it, Lofgren was pleased as well. “I haven’t had a record in 20 years, that’s the neat thing about being a grassroots, off-the-grid artist, is she had an idea for that.” Lofgren liked how quickly the album was conceived, recorded and released to the public. There wasn’t the usual record company red tape and meetings to discuss the music, whether the album should be live, and the corporate foot-dragging. There’s a lot of those issues with the industry, Lofgren says, but there was none of that. “Can we have a recording system by tomorrow night, yes, bang, eight shows later record it, I go home, I listen, and I still was not expecting it to be that quality and it was and hats off to Amy on that.” “We didn’t overthink it, I just kind of recorded it and it led to a great record.” Lofgren was touring in the United States to promote UK2015 Face the Music Live late last year when he was called for another Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band tour, this one to celebrate and commemorate the 35th anniversary of The River which was re-released in The Ties That Bind: The River Collection box set. At the time of this interview, Lofgren is in New York City, between a show in Albany and one in Connecticut. He jokes that he is “a little delirious” the day after a three-and-a-half-hour show, but grateful and getting his “sea legs” on the tour after seven or eight shows. It’s a quick change for him from lead performer to sideman, which he doesn’t mind. “It’s a different pressure. Pressure is a rough word, because it is an environment I thrive in, [whether it’s] being in a band in front of an audience or being with an audience with a guitar and wanting me to sing for them. It’s my favorite thing to do and what I’m best at.” He remembers when he was 18 driving in a car with David Briggs, who produced Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush, when Lofgren who played piano, guitar and sang for Young, thought about how great it was not to be the band leader and just playing with great musicians. Band leaders generally sing and play lead or rhythm guitar, Lofgren says, but that same leader can sing harmonies and play different instruments in a different band. With E Street, Lofgren learned a little beginner bottleneck, lap steel, pedal steel and six-string banjo and prior to that, in the early 1970s, piano in Young’s

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band. “I’ll pick up a tambourine, I’ll play anything. I just like to contribute and I have good instincts.” When Lofgren does his show and isn’t in the mood to play a particular song, he won’t play it, but if he is playing with Springsteen’s E Street Band, Young or Ringo Starr, if they call out a song, his first instinct is how he will “pick it up.” “It is kind of effortless for me, because I was pulled in at a young age,” Lofgren says. At the show in Albany, Springsteen and the E Street Band played “Meet Me in the City,” the entire The River album, then the band rolled into the “Detroit Medley,” the Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels songs of “Jenny Take a Ride,” “Devil with the Blue Dress,” “Good Golly Miss Molly” and “C.C. Rider.” The tour is all about The River. “Bruce’s intent is to present that album and what it means to him and the stories,” Lofgren says. Once the band finishes The River, it turns to other songs from the Springsteen catalog. And sometimes, Springsteen ventures off the set list. “It’s funny, we have only 12 or 13 songs to choose from [to play], but you’ve got 300 great songs to choose from. Well, how the hell are you going to do that? The good news is I don’t have to do that. I just look at Bruce, he thinks about it, he walks over to me in the dark, he gives me a title, I go play Paul Revere and run over to everyone to tell them what’s up next, and a few seconds later, we’re off to the races.” Lofgren enjoys the spontaneity of the shows, but Springsteen sometimes will pull something out of nowhere for a little improv. “You have to allow for some rough edges. And he does. He’s got a great sense, if the guys are down in it, the girls are down in it, and rolling with it, then that’s OK. Is there going to be some rough edges, of course, there are, when you’re playing a song you never played before in your life, and you’re working on an arrangement at your mic and they’re scrambling online to put the lyrics you never saw on the teleprompter and in 18 seconds, you going to go ‘one, two, three, four,’ it’s quite exhilarating.” Lofgren and Amy, a professional cook by trade, have lived in Arizona for 20 years. Nils, who grew up in the Washington, D.C., area, doesn’t miss the winters of the Northeast. “It’s a steady, slower pace than either of the coasts,” Lofgren says of Phoenix, a pace that suits him just fine.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

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WHOLE NEW

WORLD A Great Big World slated to play first Phoenix concert Christina Fuoco-Karasinski » The Entertainer!

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ith incredibly personal songs like “We Hold Each Other” and “One Step Ahead,” A Great Big World is a band that pulls at the heartstrings. That’s the same effect the songs have on their founders, Ian Axel and Chad King, who released their latest album, When the Morning Comes, on Nov. 13, 2015. “‘One Step Ahead’ is, for me, a difficult song to sing,” Axel says of one of the new tracks. “That’s was the song I proposed with to my fiancée. Playing it for the first time at a show—with my fiancée there—that was really, really difficult. I felt exposed.” King, who swaps vocal duties with Axel, shares that “We Hold Each Other” is tough. “But sometimes, for me, it’s different,” he says about the song’s effects. “Sometimes it’s for someone in the audience who I imagine needs to hear that message and can hopefully be affected by it, inspired by it or moved by it. “It depends on where my headspace is at. It’s never the same from any performance.” When the Morning Comes is A Great Big World’s second album. The first one, Is Anybody Out There?, spawned the

successful single, “Say Something,” a duet with Christina Aguilera. King says the two albums were recorded very differently. “The last record definitely felt like we were taking a bunch of songs that we had written over the course of five to eight years and saying, ‘Let’s take this one and that one.’ It was like a potluck,” he says. “This one felt that it had a direction. It had a path. It needed to because we had three months to write and three months to record the record. We felt the pressure of time on the record, more than the last one. We felt the pressure of ‘Say Something’ and what that did to us and how to proceed in the world we wanted to live in.” That “world” is a pop environment, one in which King and Axel try to stay honest and authentic. “I think Ian and I are both really proud of this record and what came out of it,” King adds. The duo is especially excited about the inclusion of rapper Futuristic, who attended McClintock High School in Tempe, on “We Hold Each Other.” (See related story about Futuristic.) “He’s so freaking talented,” Axel says. “We’re falling in love with everything he’s doing and everything he’s putting out in the world. We’re so lucky to be able to collaborate with him.”

The duo discovered Futuristic after the rapper did a cover of “Say Something” and posted it on YouTube. “It was as easy as it could be to work with anybody,” explains Axel, who is marrying in April. “We get along with him perfectly. It felt like we were supposed to be doing this. There was no resistance from the universe.” They are trying to get Futuristic to perform with them when A Great Big World plays the Crescent Ballroom on Thursday, March 17. The show marks what Axel and King call their first “proper” Arizona gig. They last appeared at the Phoenix Pride Festival. “It’s a whole new show than the last time,” Axel says. “It feels like a new band in a lot of ways. The instrumentation is a lot different. The songs are produced to be a lot bigger than on the last album. We’re trying to recreate the album live, so it has a bigger sound. It’s still going to be fun. It’s still an emotional rollercoaster, but it feels like a new band.”

A Great Big World w/ Genevieve

Crescent Ballroom, 308 N. Second Avenue, Phoenix, 602.716.2222, crescentphx.com, 8 p.m. Thursday, March 17, $25-$65.

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ords are important to music legend David Crosby. So much so that he regularly books acoustic shows in the same format as MTV’s “Storytellers.” “The solo acoustic shows mean a whole lot of songs and some of the more off-the-beaten path stuff than you would normally run into and the words count,” says Crosby, who brings his jaunt to the Fox Tucson Theatre on Friday, March 25, and Talking Stick Resort on Saturday, March 26. “That’s the part I like very much about solo acoustic shows. You get to actually tell the tale. That means a great deal to me. I like words.” He isn’t too thrilled about a lot of the music that’s out these days, as it seems

that words no longer matter. “If you go for the pop stuff, the pop stuff is about as deep as a bird bath,” he says with a laugh. “But there are singersongwriters who are putting out really good works and worthwhile stories to hear. That’s what I want to hear.” Among his favorites are The Beatles, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and James Taylor. “Lately I’ve been listening to this jazz band called Snarky Puppy,” he says. “I’m making two solo albums and Snarky Puppy’s band leader and composer, Michael League, produced the first one, which I just finished. “The second one is being produced by my son, James, who produced by last Croz album. I can hear him doing it in the background. I want to jump up and run in there.” Crosby’s new collections are coming along nicely, he says. The songs are flowing out of him.

“It would be daunting if I didn’t have the songs,” Crosby explains. “I’ve been very, very fortunate about songs lately. They’ve been coming to me really well. Mike and I co-wrote five songs. Me and James have four songs that we co-wrote already and we have more coming.” Crosby and his son have “incredible communication,” he says. The two didn’t always communicate. James’ mom put him up for adoption and Crosby didn’t know James’ location or name until about 20 years ago. “We found each other and he was really wonderful,” Crosby says. “He gave me a chance to earn my way into his life. We became very, very close. Normally that kind of meet up doesn’t go very well, but we’re very close and we have incredible musical communication “James is doing great work—really great work. He’s a jazzer. He’s a better musician than I am. He listens to a lot of jazz. The music that he and I write

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together seems to get really complex. I love complex music. That’s why I’m such a Steely Dan fan.” When he’s writing songs, he takes into consideration a bit of advice he received from Mitchell. “When I get few words that I like, write them down,” he recalls. “You don’t know when it’ll spur you into an entire song. I do the same thing with the music, but I don’t write it down. I remember it.” Back to his acoustic shows, Crosby mixes up the arrangement of songs to keep it fresh to him and his fans who have repeatedly watched him perform. “The older songs, I don’t play them the same way,” he says. “I change them as I go along. That’s one of the things I like about solo acoustic shows. I pull out songs that I can’t do with Crosby, Stills and Nash or Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. These songs would never see the light of day. This way, I can do them.”

MAKING WORDS COUNT

David Crosby continues to tell his tales David Crosby

Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress Street, Tucson, 520.547.3040, foxtucson.com, 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 25, $32-$90. Talking Stick Resort, 9800 E. Talking Stick Way, Scottsdale, 800.745.3000, ticketmaster.com, 8 p.m. Saturday, March 26, $40-$85. WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

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Justin Bieber finds new ‘Purpose’ after tumultuous time

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ustin Bieber is experiencing a rebirth; this process started almost exactly one year ago, as he began making public appearances after months of self-imposed exile. Bieber posted an emotional video repenting to his diehard fans for his “arrogant” behavior. Call it a spiritual enlightenment or coming of age, but whatever it is, the Canadian singer has achieved a remarkable transition over the past year, converting critics into Beliebers with a string of chart-dominating hits and a sell-out world tour faster than you can say “Sorry.” Bieber’s reincarnation is even the more remarkable, given his impressively dramatic fall from grace. A split from long-term, fan favorite girlfriend Selena Gomez, a night in prison, and a spell of community service saw the young star struggle through a rough patch at the end of 2014. “I’ve made myself so unrelatable the past year with all the stuff that I was doing,” he admits. “Not even bad stuff sometimes, just outrageous stuff.” However, Bieber has his own explanation for what can spark that sort of behavior. “I would like people to understand that when you have so much going on and you’re constantly under scrutiny it’s a very tough place to be. “I started feeling very cynical and wanting to do my own thing and not listen to anyone. It was a hard time for me and I needed to rebel against everything.” His depiction in the media, including the crowing headlines when he was arrested, played its own role in the decisions and behaviors he now regrets. “A lot of it was about that,” he says. “I was frustrated that every stupid thing that happened was getting blown out of proportion...it was almost like I was a

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reality star rather than a musician. I started believing the hype and acting in a certain way. I just was giving them [the press] ammo, and they were feeding into it, and I was feeding into it, and I wasn’t caring. I was just like...being a jerk, a little bit.” Having got through these darker times—he was reportedly temporarily estranged from his devoted mother, Pattie, during his bad boy phase—Bieber has come out the other side, and began his comeback in earnest with a performance at the MTV VMAs, which saw him break down in tears of contrition and gratitude. Through trial and error, he now has an album—the aptly titled Purpose—with a critically acclaimed, progressive pop sound that reflects the lessons he’s learned. An album track, “I’ll Show You,” features some telling lyrics: “My life is a movie and everyone’s watching/So let’s get to the good part and past all the nonsense…This life’s not easy. I’m not made out of steel/Don’t forget that I’m human, don’t forget that I’m real.” That “realness” is a far cry from the throwaway lyrics of his previous work. Now decidedly more self-aware, Bieber is reflective of his journey through adolescence and music. “If I would’ve came into the industry at a young age and never had any failures, people would’ve been like, ‘Who is this kid? He’s not relatable.’ Now, I went through my s--t, I came out on the other side, and I’m going to show you it gets better,” he says, with equal parts defiance and optimism. A variety of successful projects have seen Bieber return to the spotlight in slick fashion, showcasing the fun side to his personality and reinforcing the aura that made him the superstar. A self-deprecating skit involving him playing “Carpool Karaoke” with comedic tour de force

James Corden on “The Late, Late Show” has reached 48 million views on YouTube and was one of the most watched videos of 2015. In February, he was seen in Ben Stiller’s “Zoolander 2.” The movie trailer hinted at a fabled assassination attempt on his life, as he posts one last video to his 52 million Instagram followers with his last words: “Peace out, world.” Fully back on track with his primary line of work, he became Spotify’s most-streamed artist in a single day in 2015 (a casual 36 million plays) and the Purpose World Tour, kicking off in March, has already sold out. Encompassing shows across the United States, Canada and Europe, tickets were in extremely high demand. As with any international pop star, Bieber understands the power of surrounding himself with the right people. “Over the last year, I’ve done a lot of thinking and I’ve been hanging around with some very cool people who have made a big difference,” he says. “I had gotten away from who I was and wanted to be when I was younger. Now I can turn to people who aren’t afraid to tell me what’s real.” As with all aspects of his superstar fame, Bieber’s complete lack of privacy has proven to be highly problematic. “It’s hard to imagine what it’s like never being able to go anywhere on your own without people following you,” Bieber says. “It really depresses me sometimes...I miss just being able to go to theme parks and go on rides and not have people go crazy.” Those closest to him provide the stability he needs to cope with the immense amounts of attention. “I went through some really dark times the last year...Like I didn’t know

myself. [You think] you’re not good enough. People hate you...I turned to my father for advice and he just told me, “You got to be like a rock.” With the right people, and most importantly, the right music, firmly in position, Bieber has all the essential elements in place for a highly successful— and profitable—year ahead. The petulant teenager of the police deposition video is long gone, and in his place, a more mature, contemplative Bieber is ready to retake his rightful place in center stage.

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Charlie Daniels continues success by doing things his own way Christina Fuoco-Karasinski » The Entertainer!

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or Charlie Daniels, live performances are about entertaining his fans. He’s says he’s not like other selfish artists who play all new material or deep tracks because they’re tired of the hits. “We do the songs that people are familiar with,” says Daniels, who performs at Mesa Regal on March 1 and Valley Del Oro on March 2 and March 3. Both parks are in Mesa. “Every year we change the show a little bit. We play a lot of the same places. We don’t do exactly the same thing, but at the same time, we do the songs people remember. You’ve gotta fill in around the edges with the new things and the things people haven’t heard us play before. But my aim is to entertain.” Playing some new songs is one way in which Daniels keeps it fresh. There are other ways as well. “You’re constantly in competition with yourself to play it perfect,” he adds.

“I’ve never done that. I’ve never played one song perfect in all the years I’ve been playing—or at least what I call perfect. I am just trying to do that night after night after night.” Many of Daniels’ shows sell out quickly because of his penchant for entertaining. He chalks that up to doing what he does best. “We never followed trends or fads,” he says with a matter-of-fact tone. “We never got involved in disco or anything. We always did our own thing. “Our music is basically not part of an era. It’s not something that has to be frozen in the ‘50s, ‘60s or ‘70s or any other time. It means the same thing today as it did yesterday, last year or 20 years ago. It sticks around—thank God.” Daniels is a proud supporter of U.S. veterans. On his recent 79th birthday, he and his more than 290 guests raised funds for the 501 (c)(3) nonprofit The Journey Home Project. “We have been doing a benefit for

veterans in that time for year for a long time,” he says. “For the first time in many years, my birthday fell into that area of time when we were thinking about doing a benefit birthday bash. It worked out well. All of my life I’ve been a patriot. I have the greatest respect for the folks who serve in our armed forces.”

Charlie Daniels

Mesa Regal, 4700 E. Main Street, Mesa, 480.981.5118, cal-am.com/ concerts/, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, $60-$80. Valle del Oro, 1452 S. Ellsworth Road, Mesa, 480.984.5076, cal-am.com/concerts/, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, and Thursday, March 3, $60-$80.

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Baby-faced Charlie Puth is fixated on success Christina Fuoco-Karasinski » The Entertainer!

inger-pianist Charlie Puth is overwhelmed. The 24-year-old rookie artist has been nominated for Golden Globes, Oscars and Grammys—all before the release of his debut album Nine Track Mind, which hit No. 6 on The Billboard 200 album chart. His U.S. tour, which comes to Scottsdale’s Livewire on Monday, March 7, is completely sold out. Up next for the baby-faced pop star: He’s opening for Billy Joel in Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., in early July, and supporting Selena Gomez in Los Angeles on the last date of her jaunt. “It’s fricking awesome,” Puth says. “Even just hearing you say all that now, I never thought I’d be playing with Billy Joel, Selena Gomez and having a tour that’s sold out. It’s kooky.” Puth—who has scored hits with “See You Again,” “Marvin Gaye” and “One Call Away”—always dreamed that he would be this successful, if not more.

“I thought it would take a little bit longer, though,” he explains. “It seems to have all happened in one year.” He has a theory about why this has happened to him and not the millions of others worldwide who pray for the same sort of marketability. “I think the main thing people have to remember is that people are genuinely interested in hearing other people’s stories, especially when they’re surrounded by catchy melodies,” Puth says. “I made music that I was happy with and I wanted to listen to. It was genuine to me. Once I stopped making music that other people would like and I started making music that I knew I would like, that’s when people started gravitating toward it.” Besides his own music, Puth penned “Celebrate” for Pitbull, produced “Slow Motion” for Trey Songz and arranged sessions with Jason Derulo and Lil Wayne. “The key is to make sure that the artist that you’re working with doesn’t

fall out of love with the record you’re making,” he says. “You want to keep them excited. As you’re presenting updated versions of the song, you want to make sure that it is sounding really pristine and almost finished. You can add on top of that. “If you give them a reason to critique it and become less excited about it when they originally wrote it with you, it’s not good. You want to perfect it every time and inspire them.” Himself, Puth was inspired by rapper Wiz Khalifa, with whom he sings “See You Again,” the Paul Walker tribute from the “Furious 7” soundtrack. The duo cowrote the song. “I get stuck in my own ways when I’m making a record,” Puth admits. “I think the person who I learned the most from was Wiz because the song was so big. “Outside of producing and songwriting, I learned how to basically perform the song that I wrote for him. I was not a performer before ‘See You

Again.’ Seeing Wiz up there relaxed and ready to work and super chill, I took that and grabbed it and ran with it. Now I’m a better performer because of it.” He’s learned a few tricks of the trade from watching Joel perform as well. “There are no gimmicks,” he says about his own show. “There is no crazy light show or things that’ll distract people from the music. It’s just me on the piano playing with my band. Like Billy Joel, I want to showcase the true musicianship and I aspire to be someone like Billy Joel. Music itself will always be the most entertaining factor.”

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Livewire, 7320 E. Indian Plaza, Scottsdale, livewireaz.com, 7 p.m. Monday, March 7, sold out.

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Charlie Puth

MARCH 7 Witness the man whose vocals on the late Paul Walker tribute track, “See You Again,” made everyone cry. The supremely talented singer is another gem from the era of YouTube sensations. Puth unleashed his debut album, Nine Track Mind, in January and kick-starts his album tour in San Francisco before making his way to Livewire. Joining him on the billing will be Phoebe Ryan and Sophie Beem. Livewire, 7320 E. Indian Plaza, Scottsdale, 480.970.6980, livewireaz.com, 7 p.m., sold out.

Futuristic

MARCH 10 The Arizona-based MC has been known to trump headlining acts on tours, courtesy of his ever-growing stream of fans, but nowadays he’s the headliner. A connoisseur of rhymes since the first grade, Futuristic is not afraid to get his hands dirty promoting himself; and, with a blue-

collar work-ethic to boot, he’s proving that he’s no fluke. Find out what the hype is all about when the rapper puts on a homegrown show at Livewire. Livewire, 7320 E. Indian Plaza, Scottsdale, 480.970.6980, livewireaz.com, 7 p.m., $20-50.

Sigala

MARCH 11 A London-based house DJ, Sigal, leapt onto the mainstream scene after the release of his debut single, “Easy Love,” last fall. He hasn’t done wrong since, continuing to feed music lovers his genre-defying blend of tropical house music. It should come to no surprise that “Sigala-style” is starting to collaborate with some of your favorite artists as 2016 is shaping up to be a momentous year for the lad. On Friday night at Maya, he will be debuting as the headliner. Maya Day + Nightclub, 733 E. Indian Plaza, Scottsdale, 480.625.0528, mayaclubaz.com, 9 p.m., $10

Benny Benassi

MARCH 13 The groundbreaking Italian turntablist is a regular on the Top 100 DJ Poll

annual rankings. The 2002 summer anthem, “Satisfaction,” propelled his career and in 2008, he even won a Grammy for Best Remixed Recording. Spring break will be in full swing as Benassi presides over the DJ booth spinning while everyone else at Maya is dancing and swimming. Maya Day + Nightclub, 733 E. Indian Plaza, Scottsdale, 480.625.0528, mayaclubaz.com, 12 p.m., $20-40

Dirty South

MARCH 18 The Australian mixologist used to have to improvise with an outdated mixer, tape decks and the family computer; now he regularly graces the world’s premier stages. Having released several remixes to critical acclaim, Dirty South has charted in numerous countries and picked up a few Grammy nods along the way. Make sure to wear something somewhat comfortable because you probably won’t leave the dance floor all evening. Maya Day + Nightclub, 733 E. Indian Plaza, Scottsdale, 480.625.0528, mayaclubaz.com, 9 p.m., $15

Young Thug

MARCH 24 Rising to fame in 2013, the flamboyantly fashionable rapper stormed onto the scene via his foottappingly infectious debut single “Stoner.” It wasn’t long before the Thugger started generating raving reviews from Complex, Pitchfork, The Guardian and Rolling Stone. His eye for the eccentric is what draws the crowds, make sure to get your ticket before they sell out. Livewire, 7320 E. Indian Plaza, Scottsdale, 480.970.6980, livewireaz.com, 7 p.m., $35-55

Freddie Gibbs

MARCH 26 A hip-hop veteran of 13 years, mixtape marvel Freddie Gibbs is as consistent as they get. His body of work covers 10 mixtapes, eight EPs and three albums. Gangsta Gibbs gifted fans with his second studio album titled Shadow of Doubt in November, and will embark on a promotional tour throughout March, April and May; including a pit stop at the modish Monarch Theatre. Monarch Theatre, 122 E. Washington Street, Phoenix, 480.289.0607 monarchtheatre. com, 8 p.m., $20-30

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Chavez has been bartender at Salty for three and a half years. He beats the heat by spending time at the pool with cocktails and going to outdoor patios with misters. He enjoys being a bartender because he gets to meet patrons with different personalities. Chavez says he is passionate about finding the perfect drink for every guest and ensuring he or she has the best experience when interacting with him or any of the other bartenders. Salty Senorita is known for handcrafted margaritas with an original menu and beautiful outdoor patio that is visible from Scottsdale Road. “It is a great party spot any day of the week especially if you want to see others and be seen,” Chavez says. It’s always a celebration at Salty Senorita with its amazing tacos and great daily specials. Grab the free Tipsy app and enjoy any of the well-crafted drinks and specials at this amazing spot. With more than 4,000 people enjoying Tipsy weekly, the free app is the golden card to find the best bars, restaurants and clubs around you. For more information about Tipsy, visit imtipsy.com. Let’s Get Tipsy!

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Rawhide in Chandler on Saturday, February 13

Featuring EDM stars Billy Kenny, Borgeous, Jauz, Keys N Krates and Netsky, Crush Arizona returned for its seventh year bigger and better than ever before. We still aren’t sure who had a better time—the performers or those of us in the audience? PHOTOS BY KIMBERLY CARRILLO

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SEEING THE ‘LIGHTS’ Kaskade calls his upcoming show ‘life changing’ Christina Fuoco-Karasinski » The Entertainer!

J/producer artist Kaskade has a simple reason for wanting to return to the Valley to play Phoenix Lights in early April. “I love it there—that’s why I keep coming back,” says Kaskade via email as he’s overseas. “It’s an interesting spot because of its proximity to L.A. and Vegas [and] it stays really current. But more than that, people there love to be outside, which is fun for me.” Kaskade will be part of a myriad of acts playing Phoenix Lights Saturday, April 2, and Sunday, April 3, at Margaret T. Hance Park in Phoenix.

“It will, for certain, be the most important and life-changing experience, musical or otherwise, for everyone who comes within a 50-mile radius of what I’m going to do,” he boasts. His last Valley show was “all-out madness,” according to Kaskade, born Ryan Raddon. “It’s been cool to watch it go from little tiny club shows in Arizona to my most recent show there which was, like, 25,000 in a tent,” he says. “I’ve been able to witness this growth over the years and it’s a good indicator of what’s happening in North America as a whole.” Another “huge victory” for dance music are the Grammy nominations that artists have garnered. But it doesn’t necessarily mean a lot to him. “I’ve been nominated for and attended the Grammys over the past four years,” he says. “It’s fun and a great night to celebrate music and be recognized by your peers. “However, being nominated doesn’t validate me personally. I’ve not ever been that guy on any level that is gunning for awards and acclaim. You won’t see me pleading for votes online for any contest, and you won’t see me staking my career on a trophy. Would it feel good to win? Sure. But a Grammy isn’t a goal. It’s a perk.” In mid-February, Kaskade released three remixes and a video of his track “Whatever,” featuring KOLAJ, from his ninth studio album, Automatic, released by Arkade/Warner Bros. Records on

September 25. “Whatever,” remixed by NEUS, ATTLAS and Robotaki, carry elements of disco, new wave and funk. Kaskade says sometimes remixing can be challenging. “Remixing is tricky because you need to reimagine a song,” he explains. “The majority of the time, the song will come to me with something in it that I know I want to change. I will know what I want to do immediately. It’s not a matter of liking or disliking the song. It comes down to the strength of the song. I won’t take a weak song and try to remix it. For instance, with Galantis, I loved the original but I needed something heavier to work in my set so I created a remix that would work for me on the floor.” Kaskade, who recently collaborated with the clothing line Imperial Motion, says if he could change one thing about his career, it would be the speed of his ascent. “This has been a slow but constant progression,” he says. “I think the only downside is that the progression could have been a little faster. I am extremely proud of what I’ve been able to do, and luckily, I’m doing exactly what I love.”

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hoenix Lights in April is set to be one of the largest Electronic Dance Music festivals that the city has yet to see. After a stellar Decadence on New Year’s Eve and an incredible Crush Fest just last month, Relentless Beats has proven that it can deliver on its promises. But before we embrace the impending Phoenix alien mystery-themed festival, we have to prepare for all-out musical abduction. To do so, Before the Lights, the official Phoenix Lights pre-party, comes to the Pressroom in Downtown Phoenix on March 26 one week before Phoenix Lights. Before the Lights, a complete trance takeover, will feature Andrew Rayel and Heatbeat, both of whom are established WWW.ENTERTAINERMAG.COM

names in the euphoria-filled and highenergy genre. Rayel, born Andrew Rata, hails from Chisinau, Moldova, where he began producing music at the age of 13. In his formative years as an established musician, Rayel received heavy support from trance legend Armin van Buuren, who signed the young talent to his label, Armada Music. From there, the rising star and the legend created a collaboration of their own, “EIFORYA.” The rest is history. Heatbeat is an Argentinian trance duo, also signed to Armada, who have been producing together as far back as 2006. The duo Matias Faint and Agustin Servente are skilled in piano, guitar and drums, leading to a virulent takeover of electronic production skills. Prepare for the lights with Andrew Rayel and Heatbeat at the Pressroom.

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ARIES »

March 21 – April 20 You may be taking from Peter to pay Paul as you start out the month. Once Mars enters another sign on March 8, you will have some available funds to join forces with friends. Lunar Eclipse on March 23 in your sign, guarantees a fresh new relationship or partnering of some sort. Circle the Full Moon on March 23.

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April 21 – May 20 You’ll be more active—attending events, getting together with likeminded people—in mid-March. The Eclipse toward the end of the month tests a relationship. Be patient as strong relationships will survive. Your health improves as do job opportunities or working conditions (March 23 to March 31).

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July 23 – August 22 Pay down a debt or get a handle on your spending this month. Two Eclipses this month will keep everyone on edge. March comes out like a political roar of the Lion. This twice-a-year occurrence—March and September—gives you a chance to redesign your life.

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August 23 – September 22 Luck seems to surround you. Don’t be surprised if you receive an offer to relocate. Focus on what’s really important to you. Schedule time off and be active, socially. An unexpected expense or obligation is a catalyst for a financial change on March 23.

May 21 – June 20 Your work and social activities will be more consistent by mid-month. Compromise may be necessary at work. Do some fun things the week of March 11. Love is happy, but serious.

November 22 – December 21 There is likely going to be big changes with your job or career. You will have a clearer sense of this on March 23. Focus on home and family this month. Romance takes on a more committed tone.

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December 22 – January 19 You will lighten up and take a risk. March is filled with unexpected action so your daily routine won’t be “as usual.” Mid- month patterns are happier for you.

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LIBRA »

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SAGITTARIUS »

September 23 – October 23 The next month ahead continues your nonstop pattern, bringing changes in your job or work conditions. Keep an eye on your health. March’s Eclipses ask you to redefine yourself. Change your look and self-image.

January 20 – February 18 Your month may be unpredictable. Look for an event that could affect your finances. There’s no excuse for being bored. This is a good month to settle accounts or prepare tax returns. There’s a potential for a job change the next few months. Romantic encounters could be frequent.

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CANCER »

June 21 – July 22 You’ll receive good news about your finances this month. You may travel, too. Expect to be more professionally active. Like Taurus, you prefer a committed relationship and that’s exactly what you may encounter this month. You may purchase a new car in the months ahead.

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SCORPIO »

October 24 – November 21 Who would think you could be so open minded? You’ll be making even more financial changes than you have been. If you are not with the love of your life, then get out there and find one. There’s no rush, though, as you have six months to partake in romantic hunting. Make the most of your solo time. Romantically, it’s an amazing time because of excessive energies.

February 19 – March 20 This is very important and influential month for you. Eclipses are in affect for six months and will provide you with many challenges and positive opportunities for personal growth. Don’t limit yourself or expect to make hardcore decisions. Why not take a chance? Trust your gut feelings. You’re right on, Pisces!

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In Irish lore, St. Patrick was credited for driving all the snakes off the land. The first St. Patrick’s Day parade took place in New York in 1766—

137 years before Ireland’s event debuted.

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