Arts & Entertainment

  2017 Event Schedule Thursday, June 15 3:15 p.m. - Slow Jam (Back Porch Stage) 5:30 p.m. - Meet & Greet Luau/Potluck (Picnic Shelter in Campground) All Day & All Night - Camp Jam (Campground is a “Wristband Area Only”)   Friday, June 16 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. - Taylor’s Camp - First Half (Back...

Balsam Range
  Kick start your bluegrass summer with the Fifteenth Annual Wenatchee River Bluegrass Festival (WRBF), June 16, 17 and 18, featuring superstar bluegrass bands that will put the kick in your bluegrass start. The 15th annual extraordinary line up goes like this….  Balsam Range is one of the genre’s...

The Spektral Quartet is comprised of, from left, Doyle Armbrust, Clara Lyon, Maeve Feinberg and Russell Rolen. (Photo submitted by Jennifer Korfiatis)
  The groundbreaking Spektral Quartet is coming to Leavenworth. The recently Grammy nominated group, which is based in Chicago, includes cellist Russell Rolen, who grew up in Cashmere and Wenatchee.  His mother is noted local piano teacher Joan Johnson.  “I started from a very young age, four years...

Prepare to be transfixed when Dangerous Women return to Snowy Owl Theater April 23 at 2 p.m. to present “Spellbound.” This year’s production features 12 mystical women from history who dared to embrace their own power and vision. (Photo submitted by Rhona Barron)
  Four years ago, a group of local women got together wanting to honor Women’s History Month. Local thespians Susan Butruille and Mandi Wickline began having performances at Faith Lutheran Church to honor Women’s History Month. Last year, they moved to the Snowy Owl Theater in partnership with the...

The Cashmere Community Concerts spring fever concert, Saturday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m., welcomes Rural Delivery, one of the Pacific Northwest’s longest reigning, tried and true bluegrass bands. (Photo submitted by Marie Vecchio)
  The Cashmere Community Concerts spring fever concert, Saturday, April 22nd, at 7:30pm, welcomes Rural Delivery (RD), one of the Pacific Northwest’s longest reigning, tried and true bluegrass bands.  A contemporary bluegrass band based out of the Seattle area, they have been performing since 1976...

Cashmere Community Concerts present Fern Hill Bluegrass Band on Saturday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Riverside Center in Cashmere. Featuring bluegrass music in the style of the classic bands of the 1950s. (Photo submitted by Marie Vecchio)
  Cashmere Community Concerts and Fern Hill Bluegrass Band, will ring in the Spring Saturday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. Fern Hill approaches its bluegrass music in the style of the classic bands of the 1950’s and are one of the few bands in the Northwest that plays in the traditional style of Jimmy...
  The late Eleanor Culling loved to sit in the front row, closest to the musicians, during classical concerts at Icicle Creek Center for the Arts. She found a way to remain close to the music even after her passing last April.  Culling, a music educator, entrepreneur, photographer and world...

Connie Fritz (Photo submitted by Susan Hufman)
  The Leavenworth Summer Theater Board of Directors recently welcomed two new board members, Rollie Schmitten and Connie Fritz. Rollie has been a career natural resource manager; focusing on timber, fish and wildlife for the past four decades. He served as the Washington State Director of Fisheries...
Royal Lady
Cindy Hassinger (Photo by Heidi Swoboda)
  Leavenworth native Cindy Hassinger has been named the Royal Lady of the Autumn Leaves for 2017. Being the Royal Lady never really crossed her mind. Her mother, Pauline Watson, was the Royal Lady in 1980. Her sister-in-law, Nancy Watson, was Royal Lady in 2011. “I happened to be here from England...

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