Nicolet Live!
Arts & Speakers Series
February
Locally Grown
Scott Kirby
Tuesday, February 3, 7:30 p.m.
Admission: $7
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Northwoods resident Scott Kirby is an emerging artist who crafts poetry and melody into an undeniably original sound. Showcased as part of our local artists series, Kirby combines exquisite guitar-playing, harmonica and a supple voice to deliver a Anice, clean organic sound that gets a little wild.@ His second album, Good Morning, Jo, features tunes written about universal themes that lodge the lyrics right into your head. With influences ranging from Ray Charles to Neil Young to John Mellencamp, one reviewer said, Ait=s alternative rock meets bluegrass. It=s as if O.A.R. is playing the Grand Ole Opry.@
GeoCinema
Ten Questions for the Dalai Lama with Rick Ray
Monday, February 9, 7:30 p.m.
Admission: FREE
More About Rick Ray
As part of GeoCinema’s award-winning film and lecture series from around the world, Rick Ray, a Lonely Planet backpacker turned cinematographer, writer and director, hosts a program that includes his full-length film about a journey he made to the monastery of the Dalai Lama, where he was allowed a 45-minute audience with the holiest man in the Buddhist faith. Ray soul-searched to ask questions the Dalai Lama would want to answer. The film weaves in a contemporary look at the struggles of the Tibetan people, their relationship with China and the amazing history behind the Dalai Lamas of Tibet.
Theatre
ArtsPower Presents
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Saturday, February 14, 11:00 a.m.
Admission: $7 general public, $5 children, students and senior citizens
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ArtsPower has created an enchanting new musical drama inspired by E.L. Konigsburg’s Newbery Medal-winning classic, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Claudia Kincaid and her brother Jamie dash up the stone steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and right into the middle of an adventure that is sure to captivate children and the young-at-heart of all ages.
ArtsPower’s mission is to provide young people with the unforgettable experience of theatre that entertains, stimulates and educates, and through this experience foster sound moral development, encourage self-expression and ignite the desire to read. Appropriate for grades 3-6.
Locally Grown
Community Music Festival
Wednesday, February 18, 7:30 p.m.
Admission: FREE
The Northwoods is rich in musical talent and you’ll get a sampling of its range and energy in one dynamic evening of performance by five local music groups: the Rhinelander Community Band, the Nicolet Male Chorus, the Nicolet Choraliers, the Hymns and Hers and the Lakeland Barbershoppers. Each group will take the stage to perform the highlights of its season’s repertoire. The music will be sweet and you’ll be smiling as your friends and neighbors entertain you with all their "heart and soul."
Concert
That 1 Guy
Saturday, February 28, 7:30 p.m.
Admission: $15
More About That 1 Guy
Mike Silverman of Berkeley, Calif., delivers a hip, dazzling performance with his huge, geeky-beautiful, handmade electronically-enhanced instrument that combines bass, drum and a mini-orchestra. A classically-trained bassist, Silverman played with the best during the progressive jazz scene of the ‘90s, but longed to get more "sound" out of his instrument—so he built his own.
Described by the New York Times as "channeling Frank Zappa’s avant-garde spirit," That 1 Guy rolls lightshow, video and smoke into a high-energy repertoire of blues, funk, trance and dance that is guaranteed to pump you up.