We are delighted to announce that the Carson City Arts & Culture Coalition [CCACC, also known as “the Coalition”] is providing a $500 college scholarship to a high school artist/a graduating senior who is going to college. CCACC  selected the winner from the work submitted from the Capital City Arts Initiative High School Pic[ks] show. Dayton High student, Hannah Gray, was awarded the scholarship for her “Bellow Yike” photograph.

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NEVADA ARTIST ASSOCIATION GALLERY AT THE BREWERY ARTS CENTER

http://nevadaartists.org/

Nevada Artists Association Gallery

The NAA is a showcase for Nevada artists. It opened it’s doors in 1979 and is now a destination

for Nevada art patrons as well as tourists. It is also included in Carson City’s famous historic tours.

The art gallery provides an attractive space for artists to display their works, including sculpture,

photography, framed and un-framed paintings as well as jewelry and crafts.

The gallery is open Monday – Saturday 10 am -4 pm

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MILE HIGH JAZZ BAND

The Mile High Jazz Band, an 18-member “big band” composed of 17 instrumentalists and a vhttp://milehighjazz.com/index.htmocalist, began performing in 1997. The group features music in the Count Basie-Duke Ellington-Woody Herman tradition, as well as more contemporary styles, selected from a repertoire of over 200 tunes. They play ballads, high-powered jazz tunes, and dance music arranged by Nestico, Niehaus, Taylor, and other great arrangers.

Mile High Jazz Band performs for community events, fundraisers, dances, receptions, private parties, and in concert. They have played benefits for New York Firefighters, Red Cross Disaster Relief, Carson-Tahoe Hospital Foundation, Douglas County Library Foundation, and the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. They have been featured in concerts at the Brewery Arts Center and on the Carson City Symphony’s “Holiday Treat” and “Pops Party” concerts. They play monthly at Comma Coffee and collaborate with local poets in quarterly “Jazz and Poetry” events, alternating poetry readings with related musical selections. Mile High Jazz Band has performed in Carson City, Reno, Minden, Fallon, Yerington, Stateline, Incline Village, Virginia City, and Crystal Bay.

In 2002, Mile High Jazz Band won “Best Band” award in Carson City’s “Taste of Downtown.” In 2003, American Composers Forum selected Mile High Jazz Band and Bella Voce women’s choir for a national Continental Harmony project. In 2007, leader David Bugli received the Nevada Governor’s Arts Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, and the band played for the awards ceremony. Mile High Jazz Band plays annual benefits with the Carson High Jazz Band to help the high school band attend the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. Also, the Mile High Jazz Band Association founded and produces or co-produces the annual, multi-day Jazz & Beyond Music Festival in Carson City each August since 2004.

The band performs around the Carson City area. You can catch us on most second Tuesdays of each month at Comma Coffee, across from the State Legislature Building.

Nick Jacques – tenor sax – Nick teaches band and orchestra at Carson Middle School.
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Derek Fong – tenor sax – Derek joined the MHJB in early 2015. He started out on clarinet and is a 2010 graduate of Vacaville (CA) High School. He is a student at the University of Nevada, Reno. He performed with the UNR jazz band in April 2015 at American River College, where he was a jazz studies major in 2012. Derek got to play with Wynton Marsalis when the legendary jazz musician dropped by the Vacaville Jazz Festival in 2010. Derek can be seen and heard playing soprano sax with his quartet on “Summertime” at the 2012 Vacaville Jazz Festival on YouTube.
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Carson City Symphony – General Information About Us

                   Read about Carson City Symphony’s Strings in the Schools program.

The Carson City Symphony was founded in 1984 as the Carson City Chamber Orchestra and gave its first concert in October that year. It is a community orchestra open to amateur and volunteer professional musicians. Members come from all walks of life and have ranged in age from middle school students to senior citizens. The Symphony performs five or more concerts each year for audiences in Carson City. It also has performed in Minden, Gardnerville, Fallon, South Lake Tahoe, Reno, and Virginia City.

The Symphony plays many works by contemporary composers and has commissioned and premiered several pieces. In 1991, the Symphony received a community award from the Carson City Chamber of Commerce for outstanding volunteer services. In 1999, it was selected as Nevada’s Continental Harmony organization by the American Composers Forum and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Symphony Assoc. was named Organization of the Year 2004 by the Nevada Appeal and Carson Access Television in recognition of its contributions to the community.

The Carson City Symphony and Carson Chamber Singers were selected to be part of the Continental Harmony Project for the year 2000.

http://ccsymphony.com/

David C. Buglie, Music Director and Conductor, has a Bachelor of Science Degree in music education from Ithaca College, New York, where he studied composition for four years with Karel Husa. He has a Master of Music degree from the University of Massachusetts. In addition to conducting,  he plays classical and jazz piano, tuba, and, trombone, and composes and arranges music. He is also adjunct faculty at Western Nevada College.

Contact us:
David C. Bugli, Music Director and Conductor
Carson City Symphony
PO Box 2001
Carson City, NV 89702-2001
Phone: (775) 883-4154
Fax: (775) 883-4371

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Wild Horse Children’s Theater past production photo.

http://www.wildhorsetheater.com/

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Music brings us together in celebration

Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company is where you can find the best of Broadway, right here at home. As one of the largest regional theater companies in the state of Nevada, we draw talent from several Nevada and Northern California cities. WNMTC productions are featured at the Carson City Community Center, an 800 seat proscenium theater located in the heart of the state capitol. This critically acclaimed company draws tour buses and season ticket holders from all over the states of Nevada and California, attracting as many as 7,000 people to a single production. WNMTC presents two productions a year, one in May and one in November.

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