Showcase New CD “Dancing Into Silence” The Wilde Boys return to central Arizona’s premiere intimate concert venue, Old Town Center for the Arts, for two shows on Saturday, March 13, 7:30 pm and Sunday, March 14, 2:00 pm. The concerts kick off the Second Annual Sedona – Verde Valley Spring Planting Festival and feature the Native American flutes and chants of R. Carlos Nakai, the harp-guitars and multi-stringed instruments of William Eaton, and the pan-global percussion of Will Clipman. William Eaton, a musician, composer, and instrument maker whose imaginative harp guitars and multi-stringed instruments have been recognized world-wide, is the Director and co-founder of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery, a guitar making school in Phoenix, Arizona. Eaton began playing stringed instruments when he was given a ukulele as a boy, and built his first guitar in 1971. He has composed for and performed with the Amadeus Trio, Nouveau West Chamber Orchestra, and the Nebraska Chamber Orchestra, and leads his own group, the William Eaton Ensemble, with whom he has released four albums on Canyon Records. Eaton’s work has garnered three GRAMMY® nominations and a Billboard Critics Choice® award. His musical partnership with R. Carlos Nakai commenced with their 1988 Canyon Records release Carry the Gift, and has continued with six more collaborations, including their GRAMMY®-nominated album Ancestral Voices. Will Clipman has been a drummer since the age of three, and has since then mastered a pan-global palette of instruments in addition to the traditional drumset. He has recorded over fifty albums, half of those for Canyon Records, where he is regarded as the house percussionist. He became the third Wilde Boy fifteen years ago with the release of Feather, Stone & Light, the trio’s first Canyon Records album. Clipman is a five-time GRAMMY® nominee, a two-time Native American Music Award® winner, a New Age Reporter Music Award® winner, and a two-time Tucson Area Music Award® winner, and has been inducted into the Tucson Musicians Museum for his contributions to the musical community in his hometown. Pathfinder, his first solo album for Canyon Records, received a 2009 GRAMMY® nomination for Best New Age Album. The Sedona Verde Valley Spring Planting Festival is dedicated to the education, awareness and practice of gardening and ‘growing’ a local food system. Events will take place all week, including the “Backyard Gardening Expo” held at Old Town Center for the Arts on Saturday, March 20, from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm, and will be followed by “Home Grown Music Night” that begins at 7:30 pm. For more information about the Spring Planting Festival please contact Ruth Hartung at 928-203-4400. Tickets for The Wilde Boys concerts are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. A special discount of $5 per ticket is offered to seniors, and for anyone purchasing tickets for both concerts.
Tickets are available online at showtix4u.com and at our Ticket Outlets 2 weeks in advance of show
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