Saturday, Mar. 31, at Sangamon Auditorium, UIS, guest conductor Andrew Sewell, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra music director, leads the Illinois Symphony Orchestra in a concert of swashbuckling overtures, brilliant symphonies and the beautiful Brahms Violin Concerto featuring extraordinary world-renown violinist, Vadim Gluzman. Gluzman is an Israeli violinist who appears regularly around the world with major orchestras. […]
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Star power
If spring has sprung, the University of Illinois Springfield has also opened its telescope apertures on the heavens for those in Springfield with a hankering to look closer at the stars and planets. The popular Friday Night Star Parties begins the last week in March and runs every Friday through April during clement weather. Host […]
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All the right moves
Sunday, March 25, is the Central Illinois premiere, and national tour kickoff, of the film Romanza by director and producer Michael Miner. The 87-minute documentary captures the complete Golden State works of Frank Lloyd Wright, with unprecedented access to all 25 buildings. Even his unfinished structures are featured in this movie, as is his smallest […]
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Ethereal harmony
The Springfield Classical Guitar Society welcomes California-based voice and guitar duo Chanson du Soir on Saturday, March 24, at Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church. You are in for a treat. Soprano Chelsea Camille has the voice of what a goddess would sound like if she could sing heaven down from its fixed paradise. Classical guitarist David […]
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Gem of a journey
After 16 years, the internationally-acclaimed show Riverdance is hanging up its stepdancing shoes. Don’t miss the last dance in Springfield, March 25 at Sangamon Auditorium, UIS. The ensemble’s “The Farewell Tour” touts the energizing and awe-inspiring Irish dance, music and song with an amazing cast of accomplished dancers accompanied by a five-piece band. If you’ve […]
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Marooned motorists
Internationally recognized New York City photographer Amy Stein will have her exhibit, “Stranded,” at the University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery from mid-March through mid-April. A reception takes place on March 22 from 6:30-8 p.m. preceded by an hour-long talk at 5:30 p.m. when Stein will discuss her photographic series. The sequence features people […]
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Rock show
The Pink Floyd Experience comes to Sangamon Auditorium, UIS on Friday, March 16 at 8 p.m. Six amazing musicians present the legendary rock band’s Wish You Were Here, also the name of the popular album and a favorite of Pink Floyd members Richard Wright and David Gilmour. The show includes interpretive videos, plane crashes, a […]
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African grace
Get ready to put your hands together as you head to Sangamon Auditorium, UIS on Sunday, March 18, to hear the multi-Grammy Award winning Soweto Gospel Choir. The concert, titled “African Grace,” features the vibrant rhythm movement and the renowned vocal harmonies of this 52-member worldwide acclaimed group. Since its formation in 2002, the choir […]
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Irish fte
The luck of the Irish, or at least the green, descends on downtown Springfield during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Saturday, March 17, at high noon. The parade is emceed by Amie Menenghetti of COOL 101.9 and Liz Willis of 100.5 WYMG who are stationed at the reviewing stand in the family friendly area on […]
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Growing knowledge
The University of Illinois Extension Sangamon and Menard County Master Gardeners are putting on a Gardeners Day Saturday, March 17, at Cherry Hills Baptist Church. Nine one-hour seminars are slated to be facilitated by the U of I Extension specialist, Master Gardener volunteers and local horticulture experts. Seminar topics include: Native Wildflowers, Growing Gourds, Prairie Home Herbs, […]
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Colorful comedy
This Tony-award winning musical features puppets, with their masters in full view, but don’t let the furry little guys fool you – these fellows are more like the older dudes on Fraggle Rock than the young’ns on Sesame Street. And their bite of sarcasm and realism makes this an adult-audience-only show. The story follows recent […]
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Creative cluster
Ask anyone with a creative neuron in their noodle or an appreciation for spectacular art and the place to be Saturday night is The Pharmacy, at its second location, 1022 S. Pasfield, two blocks north of The Pharmacy studio. The March 10 warehouse exhibit features the work of fourteen members of this hip art colony, […]
