Wyoming Folk & Arts

Hot Springs Greater Learning Foundation

Tentative Spring Calendar

January

15 Bluegrass Community Jam Session, Shell Station, Highway 120. Everyone welcome – bring your instruments!

15-17 Big Horn Basin Nature & Discovery Center – Big Horn Basin Outdoor Education Symposium. Sponsored by Hot Springs Greater Learning Foundation and Big Horn Basin Resource Conservation & Development Council. Keynote speaker: Dr. Randall Eaton, Cincinnati, Ohio. Special guests: Dr. Karl Milner, Gillette; Anne Hatch, Wyoming State Folklorist; Kathy Crofts, Cody, Wyoming Game & Fish. Moderator: Eric Decker, Big Horn Basin RC&D Council. Open to the public without charge.

New community arts venue! Broadway Bygones, 535 Broadway, has restored an 1865 square grand piano and will be providing opportunities for informal music salon sessions. More information soon.

February

12 Bluegrass Community Jam Session, Shell Station, Highway 120. Everyone welcome – bring your instruments!

16-19 Bob Berky, Jackson Hole, nationally acclaimed clown/mime, playwright & philosopher; physical movement coach to Hollywood stars. School residency with workshops and sessions tailored to specific groups. Performances at Senior Citizens Center, Pioneer Home.

19: Bob Berky, public performance, 7 p.m., High School Auditorium.

March

17-18 Colin Ross, Reno, Nev., composer and multi-instrumentalist, blues, jazz & more. American Masterpiece Grant Award Recipient. 17: Morning: Ralph Witters elementary; afternoon: Lights On concert. Evening: Pioneer Home. 18: Schools. Afternoon: Senior Center Concert. Evening: Public Concert, High School Auditorium. Read more at http://colinrossmusic.com

19 Community Music Jam Session (celebrating St. Patrick’s Day). Shell Station, Highway 120. Everyone welcome – bring your instruments – come sing along.

April

16 Community Music Jam Session. Shell Station, Highway 120. Everyone welcome – bring your instruments!

17 Spur of the Moment, Billings, Mont., folk/bluegrass/traditional music, 6:30 p.m., High School Auditorium.

May

28-30 Wyoming Annual Old-time Fiddle Contest. Workshops, classes, fiddle contest, pig roast.

Ross

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Colin Ross plays a large and ever-shifting repertoire of original music, jazz standards and blues classics. Beginning with classical piano at the age of five, Colin has continued to study and grow throughout his career, playing a variety of instruments and styles.
While maintaining a full time performance schedule, Colin has recorded and released five CDs on his own label, Oharaross Productions:

Refractions – original new age piano music.

The Once and Future Swing – five piece band recorded live, playing a set of swing standards and new songs.

Good For You – studio project with original blues and  jazz songs and lots piano and slide guitar.

Refried Boogie – boogie-woogie and roots/blues piano.

Soliloquy – a series of introspective classical improvisations.