Tag: SVCA

Sun Valley Museum OF ART | Bodies of Work: Art & Healing

Bodies of Work: Art & Healing January 12–March 23, 2024 Bodies of Work: Art & Healing, a group exhibition that features artwork by contemporary artists who have used their artistic practice as a way of exploring and processing their own experience of medical illness and the experiences of others. Through […]

International Guitar Night by Courtney Lauck

Returning to the Valley on their North American tour, four masterful guitarists will perform at the Sun Valley Opera House on International Guitar Night—described as the world’s premier, and longest running, mobile guitar festival. Due to popular demand, the event has been expanded into two nights, February 5 and 6, […]

Tyler Ramsey by Hayden Seder

When the weather changes to cold, wet days, I begin to long for a certain type of soundtrack: melodic, slightly melancholy tunes that make me pensive while driving home at night through a snowstorm, or that simply make me want to lie back on my warm bed listening to the […]

Las Migas by Courtney Lauck

In Idaho, our landlocked, typically wide-brimmed state, one is much more likely to hear the echoes of country music than the passionate rhythm of flamenco. But our Valley is also a place of cultural transcendence, and in this spirit Sun Valley Center for the Arts is hosting the critically renowned […]

Las Cafeteras: East L.A. Musical Fusion by Courtney Lauck

“This will be our first time in your state,” Hector Flores says, in reference to our gem state of Idaho. And it’s true, as a member of Las Cafeteras, a genre-bending, musically revolutionary Chicano band from East Los Angeles, Flores knows that their group will find themselves in a very […]

Korby Lenker by Hayden Seder

Even though Idaho native Korby Lenker has lived in Nashville, Tennessee, for the past decade, his hometown roots are strong and clear. The singer, songwriter, author, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist just released his latest album, Thousand Springs, and Lenker spent weeks traveling and recording in various outdoor locations in southern Idaho. […]

Emmylou Harris with Ian Janco by Hayden Seder

Our parents’ music is the soundtrack of our formative years, shaping our memories and cultivating our tastes until we begin to develop passions of our own. In my parents’ household, the folksy singing of artists like Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and, of course, Emmylou Harris, was a constant presence. Without […]

Black Violin by Hayden Seder

Black Violin is all about breaking stereotypes; so much, in fact, that their newest album is titled Stereotypes and comes with a message of staying true to one’s self even though others may judge you. Violinist Kevin Sylvester (stage name Kev Marcus) and viola-player Wilner Baptiste (stage name Wil B) […]