Melissa Manchester to Perform 
at the Festival of Arts

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Melissa Manchester
Melissa Manchester

Singer Melissa Manchester and actress Mira Sorvino lead off the Festival of Arts’ one-night only celebrity benefit concert and performance of the Pageant of the Masters on Saturday, Aug. 29.

Other guest celebrities from television scheduled to appear are Paget Brewster, Raymond Cruz, Tony Denison and many others.

Guests will enjoy a 6 p.m. concert on the Festival green by the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated recording artist. She has recorded 20 albums across her four-decade career, releasing her most recent album, “You Gotta Love the Life,” earlier this year.

After the concert, Sorvino will draw the winning tickets for a $30,000 new Mazda and a Honolulu trip valued at $6,000, concluding the summer-long raffle. Tickets will continue to be sold until 8 pm that night.

Culminating the evening, guests will enjoy a performance of the pageant, “The Pursuit of Happiness.”

Tickets are available at www.PageantTickets.com or 800 487-3378.

 

Green Series Closes with the Ferrante, Mintzer

 

Russell Ferrante
Russell Ferrante

The Russell Ferrante Trio with special guest Bob Mintzer will perform from 1 – 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22, on the Festival of Arts stage.

Concerts on the Green, 650 Laguna Canyon Rd. are free with Festival of Arts admission, $10. Limited reserved seating is available for $25. Call 800-487-3378 for information and tickets or visit: LagunaFestivalofArts.org.

 

 

 

 

 

Experience Live Jazz at The Ranch

Patrick Bradley
Patrick Bradley performs  outdoor at The Ranch.

Contemporary jazz keyboardist and Southern California native Patrick Bradley is a man on a reconnaissance mission to bring back engaging instrumental music from the sleepy predictable brink.

Bradley’s compositions feature thoughtful and energetic alternatives to the standard smooth jazz realm, inspired by life, philosophy, people dear to his heart and his roots in both jazz-rock fusion and progressive rock.

Bradley’s six-piece group performs at the Live Jazz Wednesdays summer series Aug. 26 at The Ranch, 31106 S. Coast Highway.

Tickets $17-$22, include valet parking. Doors open at 5 p.m. when a taco dinner for $30 can be purchased. For more information call: 949-715-9713 or visit www.lagunabeachlive.org/concerts/jazzwednesdays.

Two more concerts on Sept. 9 and 23 round out the season.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Knowing The Dust

 

The filmmakers on location.
The filmmakers on location.

Turquoise jeweler Greg Thorne, prolific acrylic painter and musician Doug Miller, first-time exhibitor Mira Lisa Schiratisa and watercolorist Sandra Weir are the stars of “Collecting Dust,” a feature documentary film about the Laguna Beach Sawdust Art Festival.

The film by Kailee McGee and Rich Costales screened by the Laguna Beach Film Society to a sold out audience in 2011 is now available to rent online at collectingdustmovie.com. The film chronicles how the community of now 200 artists struggle to get along and stay afloat during the economic downturn of 2010-11.

McGee and Costales, schoolmates at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, received permission to shoot on the Sawdust grounds in 2010. McGee knows her way around the festival founded in 1965; she has sold her mother September McGee’s paintings at the festival since she was 8. “There were a lot of bumps along the way. At one point during production, we had $2 in the bank. We just cut back on food and kept filming,” Costales said.

“The film reveals secrets about The Sawdust that most people don’t know. People think they know ‘The Dust’, but there’s so much more than wood chips and dancing going on in that eucalyptus grove,” McGee said.

 

 

 

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