by Brianna Suazo | Jun 29, 2021
Door Time: 6:30 PM
Showtime: 7:30 PM
Nashville-based, Oregon-born Mat Kearney is back with his new studio album January Flower. Written between an isolated retreat in Joshua Tree and his home studio, January Flower sees Kearney in his rawest form, distilling the songwriting process and rediscovering the joy of making music. Over his career, Kearney has released five studio LPs, claimed the #1 spot on iTunes, topped multiple Billboard charts, made four entries into the Hot 100, amassed over 2.5 BILLION global streams. Kearney, a Multi-Platinum songwriter and producer, has performed live on TODAY Show, Ellen, The Tonight Show, Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel Live! and has garnered raves from USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, People, Billboard, PARADE and Marie Claire. He also has an incredible touring history, sharing the road with everyone from John Mayer to NEEDTOBREATHE.
Artist Bio
Unexpected, unplanned moments often yield the most beautiful results. That’s how Mat Kearney arrived at his sixth album, January Flower, a collection of honest, stripped down songs that brings the Nashville-based, Oregon-born musician back to his singer-songwriter roots.
In January of 2019, Mat packed up his recording gear and decamped to an isolated house in Joshua Tree with his childhood friend Marshall Roeman, a painter, and songwriter Eli Teplin. The plan was to use their two weeks in the desert to create with a full recording studio, but a massive storm hit, deluging the area in record rainfall and shutting down their power. With the light of the wood burning stove to guide the way, Mat took the opportunity to explore music from a new angle, armed with only his voice and an acoustic guitar.
The album’s reflective opening number “Powerless” came from those sessions, with Mat considering what it means to lose power – both literally and figuratively – and embracing the feeling of your life being pleasantly out of control. “That mirrors our experience in life,” Mat notes. “We have all these grand plans and then something else happens and it can become even better than you planned.”
This event is co-produced in collaboration with Z2 Entertainment.
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by Brianna Suazo | Jun 29, 2021
Door Time: 6:30 PM
Showtime: 7:00 PM
Join us for the much-anticipated return of Chautauqua’s Silent Film Series at the Chautauqua Auditorium! Featuring the pianist Hank Troy providing musical accompaniment, this time-honored tradition at Chautauqua promises to entertain and delight with a unique performance for all ages. A curmudgeonly riverboat captain (Ernest Torrence) receives a visit from his long-lost son (Buster Keaton), who turns out to be a dandy college kid who wears foppish clothes and plays the ukulele. But when fate intervenes — in the form of a hurricane — Buster proves he has the strength and courage of his father. This comedy features some of the most incredible stunt work of Buster’s career. We will be screening Rodney Sauer’s tinted 16mm print of this film, along with the rare Charley Chase comedy Limousine Love, which is still not available on digital video.
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by Brianna Suazo | Jun 29, 2021
Door Time: 6:00 PM
Join us for the much-anticipated return of Chautauqua’s Silent Film Series at the Chautauqua Auditorium! Featuring the pianist Hank Troy providing musical accompaniment, this time-honored tradition at Chautauqua promises to entertain and delight with a unique performance for all ages. The charming actress Marion Davies (recently depicted as a character in this year’s Oscar-nominated Mank) has been very popular at Chautauqua in Show People and The Patsy. This film was long unavailable, but just this year, the Library of Congress made a new digital scan from their archival print. In this adventure-comedy-Western, Marion plays a spunky orphan who flees an abusive orphanage to look for the long-lost father of her adoptive brother Alexander (“Zander” for short). They end up in Arizona, where they fall in with a trio of smugglers lead by Harrison Ford (no, not that one, the first Harrison Ford). Marion must contend with criminals, a crowd of bandits, and a dust-storm, before discovering the truth of Zander’s parentage.
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by Brianna Suazo | Jun 29, 2021
Door Time: 6:00 PM
Join us for the much-anticipated return of Chautauqua’s Silent Film Series at the Chautauqua Auditorium! Featuring Mont Alto Orchestra providing musical accompaniment, this time-honored tradition at Chautauqua promises to entertain and delight with a unique performance for all ages. Like many other movies from 1928 and 1929, the epic film made from Erich Maria Remarque’s devastating wartime novel was filmed both as a sound film and as a silent film. The silent version was intended for those theaters — and countries — that had not converted to sound. These dual films reveal an interesting time in film history: silent filmmaking was a mature art, but sound films were often clumsy, being in their infancy. The sound version of All Quiet on the Western Front took the Oscar for best picture. But the silent version is every bit as much a masterpiece, perhaps more-so. This epic-length silent film will feature music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, joined by a pit-crew of sound effects technicians.
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by Brianna Suazo | Jun 29, 2021
Door Time: 10:30 AM
Join Arts in the Open for a fabulous, fun-filled, family-friendly theater workshop on the beautiful grounds of Chautauqua. The young and the young at heart will play side-by-side with our teaching artist as they are led on an imaginative journey where they explore storytelling, character building, and more. No experience necessary, just a willingness to play! Participants should wear clothes that they can move and play in and bring a water bottle and sunscreen!
Arts in the Open fuses nature with the arts and invites our audiences and participants to enjoy the best of what Colorado has to offer. Our events are a healthy option that gets the whole family up and moving. As a Leave No Trace Company, our goal is to educate the public about Colorado trail preservation as well as reach a wide range of audiences and expose them to a variety of theatrical productions and artistic experiences.
Minimum Age: 8 Years old
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