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Sun & Suds Draw Crowd To Bands, Burgers & Beer Bash

George Hrbek enjoys a craft beer at the Bands, Burgers & Beer Bash Saturday at the Pajarito Brewpub and Grill. The event was co-sponsored by the Brewpub and Bathtub Row Brewing Coop. More than 36 craft beers were available at the event. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Hot dogs and burgers were the fare at Saturday’s Bands, Burgers & Beer Bash at the Pajarito Brewpub and Grill. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
A happy face during the Bands, Burgers & Beer Bash. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Zoltan and the Fortunetellers
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More Scenes From LAAC’s 2017 Kite Festival

A young kite flyer gets some assistance during the Los Alamos Arts Council’s Kite Festival Saturday in Overlook Park. Photo by Mairen Hoch

A kite enthusiast works to get her kite to take flight. Photo by Mairen Hoch

A kite gets a colorful design put on it during the kite building workshop Saturday at Overlook Park. The workshop was part of Los Alamos Arts Council’s annual Kite Festival. Photo by Mairen Hoch

The kite workshop was busy Saturday. Photo by Mairen Hoch

Vivian Sintay flies her kite high during the Kite Festival Saturday. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

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Crowd Packs First Summer Concert Of 2017

The audience filled the ground floor of Fuller Lodge and the rafters to hear jazz music Friday at the first show of the 2017 Los Alamos County Summer Concert series. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

Fuller Lodge was packed to the rafters Friday night with community members checking out the Los Alamos Middle School Big Jazz Band.

The show kicked off this year’s Los Alamos County Summer Concert Series. The concert, which was originally scheduled for Overlook Park in White Rock, was moved indoors due to the weather.

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Art Of Icon Painting Workshop June 12-17

Participants at an icon painting workshop display their work. Courtesy photo​

COMMUNITY News:

An icon painting workshop in the Byzantine-Russian tradition is June 12-17 in Santa Fe. The Prosopon School of Iconology introduces students to the practice and theory of the ancient Christian art of icon-writing in the Byzantine-Russian tradition.

In the intensive, “hands-on” workshop each participant will paint an icon using traditional techniques and materials. Tuition for the six-day workshop is $675, which includes tuition, a traditionally gessoed icon board and all materials. Read More

Daily Postcard: Spring Flower Baskets Line Central

Daily Postcard: Workers from Los Alamos Landscaping hang spring flower baskets Thursday along Central Avenue in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

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Scenes From 2017 Kite Festival At Overlook Park

Scene from the Los Alamos Art Council’s 2017 Kite Festival today at Overlook Park in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Scene from the LAAC’s 2017 Kite Festival today at Overlook Park. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Scene from the LAAC’s 2017 Kite Festival today at Overlook Park. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

 

Staff Report

 

The Los Alamos Arts Council’s Kite Festival officially turned 20 Friday at Overlook Park in White Rock. The festival began at 7 p.m. in conjunction with the Los Alamos Summer Concert Series. The festival Read More

Griggs: Dateline – 2017 New Orleans Jazz Fest

The ‘Cream of the Crop’ features three little girls singing the chorus on songs for J. Monque’D and his band in the Blues tent. Photo by David Griggs
 
Amedee Frederick VI, 5, plays guitar next to his father, Amedee V at the 2017 Jazz Fest in New Orleans. This is another strong Louisiana musical family. His sister Victoria is the girl on the left in ‘Cream of the Crop’, and their grandfather, Amedee IV, was in the audience. Photo by David Griggs
 
By DAVID GRIGGS
Foreign Correspondent
Los Alamos Daily Post
 
An estimated 425,000 fans packed the fairgrounds for another memorable
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Daily Postcard: Snowy Spring In Los Alamos

Daily Postcard: Spring flowers and plants are sprinkled with snowflakes Friday morning in Los Alamos. Photo by Trisha Ancell

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Los Alamos Choral Society Reaches End Of Era As Director Mary Badarak Retires

Los Alamos Choral Society Director Mary Badarak. Courtesy photo
 
By CHARMIAN SCHALLER
Los Alamos Choral Society

Los Alamos Choral Society will reach the end of an era on Memorial Day Weekend: Mary Badarak, director of Choral Society for more than a decade, is retiring.

Her last concert with Choral Society, “Popular Favorites from Broadway to Beatles to Badarak and Beyond,” is 4 p.m. Sunday, May 28, at the United Church, 2525 Canyon Road, in Los Alamos.

Tickets to the Los Alamos concert, available at the door, are $15 for adults. Students may attend for free.

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Los Alamos Summer Concert Moved To Fuller Lodge Tonight

Chuchito Valdes. Courtesy photo
 

MUSIC News:

The Los Alamos County Summer Concert Series show at 7 p.m. tonight has been moved to Fuller Lodge. Promoter Russ Gordon wishes to give a special thanks to Dianne Marquez at the County’s Park and Recreation Department.  Still a free show starring Cuba’s piano jazz maetro, Chuchito Valdes.

This week’s concert performer is Afro-Cuban  piano maestro, Chuchito Valdes. The band is a trio and they’re world renowned as masters of Cuban music including Son, Danzon, Cuban Timba and Guaguanco. They play Cuban dance music Read More

Daily Postcard: Snowfall At Los Alamos Golf Course

Daily Postcard: Snowy weather this morning at the Los Alamos Golf Course. The National Weather Service predicts a high today of 49 degrees and a 60 percent chance of rain. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com Read More

Coro de Cámera Presents ‘Rhapsody’ This Weekend

A string quartet and a pianist will be joining Coro de Cámara in concert this weekend, From left Brian Newnam, pianist Nathan Salazar, Dana Winograd, Kay Newnam, and Ari Le. Courtesy photo
 

By KELLY DOLEJSI
Los Alamos

This weekend, Los Alamos and Santa Fe audiences will have a chance to experience the music of Antonín Leopold Dvořák performed in Czech.

Coro de Cámara’s “Rhapsody,” a concert featuring works by Dvořák, Brahms, and Fauré, will be offered at 7 p.m. Friday at Immaculate Heart Chapel in Santa Fe, at 7 p.m. Saturday at the United Church of Los Alamos, and at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Unitarian

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Authors Speak: Anne Hillerman Discusses New Book

Author Anne Hillerman signs books at a recent event. Courtesy photo

 

COMMUNITY News:

Santa Fe author Anne Hillerman will speak at 7 p.m., Thursday at Mesa Public Library in the Upstairs Meeting Rooms, in the latest offering from the library system’s Authors Speak series.

Anne Hillerman

 

Hillerman has just released Song of the Lion, her third mystery since taking up the series started by her late father Tony Hillerman. Tony Hillerman created the characters Jim Chee, Joe Leaphorn and Bernadette Manuelito, and he put those characters to work as detectives on the Navajo Reservation Read More

LAAC’s Executive Director Marlane Hamilton Retires

Marlane Hamilton at Fuller Lodge recently has announced her retirement after 16 years. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

 

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
​Los Alamos Daily Post

 

The Los Alamos Arts Council (LAAC) has made significant contributions to the local arts scene and its long-time executive director, Marlane Hamilton, plays a major role in making these contributions happen.

 

Hamilton has worked as the LAAC’s executive director for 16 years. She has seen the organization grow, add new programs as well as remove old ones. Hamilton has played an active role in all of them. Read More

Karen Wray Gallery Hosts Grand Opening Thursday

ART News:

The community is invited to the grand opening celebration of The Karen Wray Art Gallery, 5-7  p.m. Thursday at 1247 Central Ave., Suite D-2.

The event includes refreshments, live music by local musician Richard Hannemann and an opportunity to meet artists and friends in this lovely new gallery!

Since opening its doors in December 2016, the one comment most frequently uttered by visitors to the new Karen Wray Gallery is, “I don’t remember this space being here before! What was here previously?” The truth is that the space was originally two unconnected spaces, one a windowless Read More

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