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    Montalvo Arts Center

    Montalvo is a nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging people in contemporary concerns through the arts and captures the innovative and diverse spirit of Silicon Valley. Located in the Saratoga hills, Montalvo occupies a Mediterranean-style villa on 175 stunning acres, which Senator James Duval Phelan left to the people of California for the encouragement of art, music, literature, and architecture.

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      Montalvo Arts Center

      P.O. Box 158
      Saratoga, CA 95071-0158

      Phone: 408-961-5800

      Fax: 408-961-5850

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    • Upcoming Events
      09/26/08  Kim Gordon Meets Phantom Orchard
      Montalvo Arts Center
    • Member Reviews
      • Event Name: Divide Light
        5 out of 5 stars rating "Phenomenal!"
        Review posted by: Opera fan from San Jose, Aug 14, 2008

        This was such an awesome show. Too bad it only had the one performance. Singers, musicians, costumes, video ... all of it made for an outstanding, spectacular performance.

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        This was such an awesome show. Too bad it only had the one performance. Singers, musicians, costumes, video ... all of it made for an outstanding, spectacular performance.

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      • Event Name: Missoula Children's Theatre's Rumpelstiltskin
        "awful"
        Comment posted by: Sally Field from Memphis, TN USA, Jun 02, 2008

        The absolute worst audition format I have ever seen. The missoula children's theatre is the most unprofessinal peice of trash!!

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        The absolute worst audition format I have ever seen. The missoula children's theatre is the most unprofessinal peice of trash!!

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      • Event Name: HAPA, The Barefoot Natives: Willie K & Eric Gilliom
        "Eric Gilliom to Perform in Hawaii!"
        Comment posted by: Franzi from Honolulu, Feb 07, 2008

        Eric Gilliom will be performing at the Hawaii Romance Festival on Friday May 9th, 2008 at the Waikiki Shell. He will be alongside Hapa members, Barry Flanagan and Nathan Aweau, Robert Cazimero,... Expand

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        Eric Gilliom will be performing at the Hawaii Romance Festival on Friday May 9th, 2008 at the Waikiki Shell. He will be alongside Hapa members, Barry Flanagan and Nathan Aweau, Robert Cazimero, Cecilio and Kapono and Smokey Robinson. See you there! Collapse

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      • Event Name: Col. Matthew Bogdanos and Donny George
        "The Humanities Foundation"
        Comment posted by: Founder & Director from New York, NY, Oct 04, 2007

        We recognize Colonel Matthew Bogdanos as preserving and restoring art and history to humanity. Thence far, no one else was fighting for the sake of humanity to protect Iraq's and human history. This... Expand

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        We recognize Colonel Matthew Bogdanos as preserving and restoring art and history to humanity. Thence far, no one else was fighting for the sake of humanity to protect Iraq's and human history. This is one heart touching tale. His endeavors add a united sense to the aftermath we will see once Iraqi's and Americans realize we are just... spirits in the human body...people. He is a brave fellow - The Humanities Foundation, New York, NY www.thehumanitiesfoundation.org contact@thehumanitiesfoundation.org Collapse

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      • Event Name: Keali'i Reichel
        4.5 out of 5 stars rating "Redwood City Review"
        Review posted by: Jeri Chrysong from Huntington Beach, CA, Nov 19, 2006

        I would have given this performance a perfect "5" but for the fact Keali'i didn't perform one chant. However, that being said, the evening was wonderful, and well worth the 800 miles round trip I... Expand

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        I would have given this performance a perfect "5" but for the fact Keali'i didn't perform one chant. However, that being said, the evening was wonderful, and well worth the 800 miles round trip I drove to get there. The energy Keali'i brought to the Fox Theatre was electric! He is one performer who sounds just as good, if not better, LIVE than he does on his cd's. Every performer on stage with Keali'i was first rate, and it was apparent how much this group enjoys performing together. My favorite moment was when Keali'i sat on the edge of the stage with just his guitar, singing "Ka Nohona Pili Kai" while his cousin danced alone behind him. It was a tender performance with the two cousins "telling us" about their beloved gramma's house by the sea. Another show highlight was friend and mentor Puakea Nogelmeier dancing to a mele which he himself wrote 20 years ago. Sadly, the show ended too soon, but I left Redwood City with an overflowing spirit of Aloha. Collapse

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      • Event Name: Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks w/ Michelle Shocked
        4 out of 5 stars rating "Michelle Shocked, but not senseless"
        Review posted by: Anonymous from Cupertino, CA, Sep 09, 2006

        Although we didn't stay for Dan Hicks (there was an interim act "Mary's Corvette?" that would have been acceptable had she bothered to tune her guitar - it was painful - a pity. Michelle... Expand

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        Although we didn't stay for Dan Hicks (there was an interim act "Mary's Corvette?" that would have been acceptable had she bothered to tune her guitar - it was painful - a pity. Michelle Shocked was extremely entertaining, animated, crazed, self-medicated, funny, irreverent and all-in-all whacky musically tight fine time. The horn player (Chris Armstrong or something like that) was beyond elegant - first time I can recall hearing solo trumpet that was what I'd call "delicate" - great variety, much too short - whole show could have been this most fine group (Michelle on guitar, electric bass, lead electric guitar, drummer, keyboard and trumpet) - 5+ stars on this - can't speak to Dan Hicks as we didn't stay for him - wish that the interim group hadn't happened... Collapse

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      • Event Name: The Blues Guitar Extravaganza
        5 out of 5 stars rating "john wedemeyer rocks"
        Review posted by: s kesey from san jose, ca use, Nov 08, 2005

        John wedemeyer is the best blues guitar

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        John wedemeyer is the best blues guitar

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    • Past Events
      08/13/08  Divide Light
      Montalvo Arts Center
      08/08/08-
      08/09/08 
      Starry, Starry Night - Art and Astronomy Slumber Party
      Montalvo Arts Center
      08/01/08  Missoula Children's Theatre's Rumpelstiltskin
      Montalvo Arts Center
      07/20/08  An Unreasonable Man-Ralph Nader: How Do You Define a Legacy? - CANCELLED
      Montalvo Arts Center
      06/27/08  Missoula Children's Theatre's Hansel and Gretel
      Montalvo Arts Center
      06/18/08  Jason Moran In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall 1959 and Gunn HS Jazz Band with Steve Bernstein
      Montalvo Arts Center
      06/01/08  Fifth Annual Food and Wine Classic
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/23/08  My Brightest Diamond with Special Guest Noe Venable
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/22/08  Anita Amirrezvani
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/18/08  Greenberg Lecture Series with Afiara String Quartet - Dmitri Shostakovich: The Thaw
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/18/08  Montalvo's Open Studios
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/14/08  Vladimir Feltsman
      McAfee Performing Arts and Lecture Center
      05/09/08  Erin McKeown and Sean Hayes
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/08/08  Jerry Douglas Band
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/04/08  Salon Series with Cypress String Quartet - Beethoven String Quartet Op. 130 in B-Flat Major
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/03/08  Jose-Luis Orozco
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/02/08  Iva Bittova, Don Byron, Marc Ribot
      Montalvo Arts Center
      04/25/08  Debashish Bhattacharya
      Montalvo Arts Center
      04/20/08  Mutanabbi Street Broadsides - Poetry Reading & Panel Discussion
      Saratoga Library
      04/18/08  Behind the Scenes in American Politics with PF Bentley
      Montalvo Arts Center
      04/17/08  Salon Series with Cypress String Quartet - Kurt Rohde Call & Response
      Montalvo Arts Center
      04/13/08  The Wailin' Jennys
      Montalvo Arts Center
      04/12/08  Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus!
      Montalvo Arts Center
      04/12/08  Antares
      Montalvo Arts Center
      04/11/08  Brian Turner
      Montalvo Arts Center
      04/06/08  Greenberg Lecture Series - Dmitri Shostakovich: Strange Bedfellows
      Montalvo Arts Center
      03/30/08  The Sounds of Desire with Heather Raffo and Amir Elsaffar
      Montalvo Arts Center
      03/17/08  Filmmakers Maysoon Pachachi, Kasim Abid, and Fady Hadid
      Montalvo Arts Center
      03/16/08  Salon Series with Cypress String Quartet - Mendelssohn String Quartet Op. 13 in A minor
      Montalvo Arts Center
      03/16/08  Strings of Fire - Cuerdas de Fuego
      Montalvo Arts Center
      03/15/08  Tin Hat and Dusan Bogdanovic
      Montalvo Arts Center
      03/09/08  Pre-Code Film: Wonder Bar
      Montalvo Arts Center
      03/02/08  Greenberg Lecture Series - Dmitri Shostakovich: An Ill Wind
      Montalvo Arts Center
      03/01/08  Col. Matthew Bogdanos and Donny George
      Montalvo Arts Center
      02/27/08  Mariane Pearl in Conversation with Journalist Angie Coiro
      Montalvo Arts Center
      02/24/08  Pre-Code Film: Queen Christina
      02/17/08  Bo Caldwell
      Montalvo Arts Center
      02/13/08  The Bad Plus
      Montalvo Arts Center
      02/08/08  Distributed Memory with Anthony Discenza and Michael Zbyszynsk/Brent Green and Tim Rutilli
      Montalvo Arts Center
      02/07/08  Salon Series with Cypress String Quartet
      Montalvo Arts Center
      02/06/08  Ishmael Beah in Conversation with journalist Angie Coiro
      San Jose State University - Barrett Ballroom
      02/03/08  Hangin' with the Giants
      Montalvo Arts Center
      01/13/08  Salon Series with Cypress String Quartet
      Montalvo Arts Center
      12/06/07-
      12/08/07 
      Richard Thompson
      Montalvo Arts Center
      12/05/07  Salon Series with Cypress String Quartet
      Montalvo Arts Center
      12/02/07  Susan Vreeland
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/24/07  The Snow Dragon
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/18/07  Red Grammer
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/13/07  Suzanne Vega
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/04/07  Salon Series with Cypress String Quartet
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/03/07  Jon Nakamatsu, pianist, and Jon Manasse, clarinetist
      Montalvo Arts Center
      10/18/07  Salon Series with Cypress String Quartet
      Montalvo Arts Center
      10/13/07  Double Bill - Hip-Hop Sulha/The Narcicyst
      Montalvo Arts Center
      10/07/07  Gaayatri Kaundinya and Anuradha Sridhar's Trinity Center for Music
      Montalvo Arts Center
      10/05/07  Charlie Louvin with Danny Barnes
      Montalvo Arts Center
      09/30/07  Pre-Code Films: Baby Face (1933)
      Montalvo Arts Center
      09/28/07  Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill
      Montalvo Arts Center
      09/16/07  DSN Teen Arts Fair
      Montalvo Arts Center
      08/10/07  Starry, Starry Night - Art & Astronomy Slumber Party
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/20/07  Salman Rushdie
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/20/07  Robert Greenberg - The Piano Sonatas of Beethoven (Session 5)
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/18/07  Kronos Quartet
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/17/07  Jesse Cook
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/13/07  Mother's Day Champagne Brunch
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/06/07  Robert Greenberg - The Piano Sonatas of Beethoven (Session 4)
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/05/07  The Asia America Orchestra, with David Benoit
      Montalvo Arts Center
      05/04/07  Yiyun Li
      Montalvo Arts Center
      04/27/07  Eroica Trio
      Montalvo Arts Center
      04/21/07  The Guthrie Family Legacy Tour
      Fox Theatre
      04/13/07  Saul Williams
      Fremont High Scool - Sunnyvale
      04/05/07  Sarah Chang, violin
      Montalvo Arts Center
      04/01/07  Robert Greenberg - The Piano Sonatas of Beethoven (Session 3)
      Montalvo Arts Center
      03/31/07  The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
      Montalvo Arts Center
      03/28/07  Gilberto Gil
      Fox Theatre
      03/22/07  Erik Larson
      Montalvo Arts Center
      03/17/07  The Black Brothers
      Montalvo Arts Center
      03/14/07  Hossein Alizadeh and the Hamavayan Ensemble
      Montalvo Arts Center
      03/11/07  La Guitara, featuring Patty Larkin, Badi Assad and Ellen McIlwaine
      Montalvo Arts Center
      03/11/07  Robert Greenberg - The Piano Sonatas of Beethoven (Session 2)
      Montalvo Arts Center
      12/21/06-
      12/22/06 
      Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Extravaganza
      Fox Theatre
      12/20/06  Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band
      Fox Theatre
      12/09/06  American Family Theater's A Christmas Carol
      Montalvo Arts Center
      12/08/06  A Scottish Christmas featuring Bonnie Rideout
      Fox Theatre
      12/05/06  An Evening with Earl Klugh
      Montalvo Arts Center
      12/03/06  Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Christmas Show
      Fox Theatre
      12/02/06  Bay Shore Lyric Opera's Hansel & Gretel
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/30/06  Keola Beamer's Ki Ho' Alu Christmas
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/27/06-
      11/29/06 
      Richard Thompson
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/19/06  Sonny Landreth
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/18/06  The Legends of Chicago Blues
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/17/06  The Romeros
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/11/06  Ballet Folklorico
      Fox Theatre
      11/11/06  The Wolf & The Seven Little Goats
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/10/06  Keali'i Reichel
      Fox Theatre
      11/10/06  California Guitar Trio with Robert Fripp
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/09/06  Vienna Teng
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/05/06  Slaid Cleaves, Jimmy LaFave & Joel Raphael
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/04/06  Tellabration!
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/04/06  Alexander & the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
      Montalvo Arts Center
      11/03/06  David Finckel, Cello and Wu Han, Piano
      Montalvo Arts Center
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