Lopez Center for Community and the Arts

01/22/2025

Don't miss WOLFCHILD, performing this Saturday night at Lopez Center!

Check out Gabriel Wolfchild's cover of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" featured on The Voice!

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01/14/2025

Join us for our first concert of 2025! Come see dynamic duo WOLFCHILD at Lopez Center on Saturday, January 25 at 7:30pm.

Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, San Juan Islands, Washington

01/14/2025

Spend an evening observing, absorbing and connecting with Rosie Cayou James, Coast Salish Elder, and her partner Julian Sultan. Together they will share stories, ancestral wisdom and techniques to stay fluid in the time of great change.

January 17th from 5:00-7:00pm
Lopez Center for Community and the Arts
Entrance is FREE
There will be Indian frybread and tacos for sale.

01/10/2025

WOLFCHILD is coming to Lopez Center on January 25th!

This duo has been playing together since their earliest years and have performed on stages such as The Troubadour, Mississippi Studios, “The Egg” (Albany, NY), Folklore (UK), and Java (Paris). Together they weave cathartic storytelling with dynamic soundscapes, from dreamy shoegaze-esk weightless atmosphere, to meditative orchestral overtones, and a rhythmic cinematic sound that could be the love child of Jonsi (Sigur Ros) and Nick Drake.

🎟️ Get your tickets below:

Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, San Juan Islands, Washington

12/19/2024

Join us this Saturday for the last performance of the year at Lopez Center! Get your tickets for the Winter Solstice Concert soon!

Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, San Juan Islands, Washington

12/09/2024

Tickets for the Winter Solstice Concert are now on sale! Come celebrate the solstice on Saturday, December 21st with live music at the Lopez Center. Experience a new quintet ensemble bringing influences from Scotland, the British Isles, Brittany, Bulgaria, Argentina, and beyond!

Get your tickets online here: http://www.lopezcenter.org/goto.php?page=event&id=2911

Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, San Juan Islands, Washington

11/22/2024

It’s opening night for Lopez Original Theater’s inaugural performance! Enjoy eight original one-act plays written by playwrights from the Salish Sea region - including three bona fide Lopezians!

Catch the show tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. Get your tickets here:
http://www.lopezcenter.org/goto.php?page=tickets

JOIN US for our Inaugural Performance!
Nov. 22-24
7pm Fri & Sat, 2pm Sun
Lopez Center for Community and the Arts

Tickets on sale through LCCA:
http://www.lopezcenter.org/goto.php?page=tickets

OR in person at Paper Scissors on the Rock

We are thrilled to showcase eight original one-act plays written by playwrights from the Salish Sea region - including three bona fide Lopezians!

We've been working hard and can't wait to share these stories with you....

10/28/2024

It's coming! The 3rd Annual Dia de los Mu***os celebration!! November 9th from 3:00-6:00pm at the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts! Join us for a community celebration guided by Voices and Visions leaders. There will be prizes, activities, food for sale, FREE pan de mu**to and atole for everyone. This event is open to the entire community. Come dressed as Catrina o Catrin, build an altar to display or take part in a communal offering, or simply come spend the day in community.

10/28/2024

Don't miss the Andrew Collins Trio performing this Sunday, November 3 at Lopez Center! Snag your tickets soon:

http://lopezcenter.org/goto.php?page=event&id=2861&fbclid=IwY2xjawGM0ehleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZK7NrVOJ5OpDJfR6p7hw_c0T9bmLtIVjLI4c5SUBdfBsFB_v77V4l5AdA_aem_41mKhI8YnP0SHVsVpthe3A

Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, San Juan Islands, Washington

10/19/2024

The Andrew Collins Trio is coming to Lopez Center on Sunday, November 3rd at 7pm!

A blend of folk, jazz, bluegrass, celtic, and classical music, this trio showcases a range of styles and instruments, including mandolin, fiddle, guitar, mandola and mandocello. It's going to be a fantastic performance!

🎟Get tickets online HERE: http://www.lopezcenter.org/goto.php?page=tickets&eid=2861
Or pick them up in person at Paper Scissors on the Rock in the village.

Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, San Juan Islands, Washington

10/05/2024

The Virtual Lopez Island Home Tour is now online at www.lopezcenter.org

Join us as videographer Ken Kortge brings his narrative style to the Home Tour. The six videos are longer and we get to hear more of the homeowners’ stories and connection to our wonderful island.

Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, San Juan Islands, Washington

09/17/2024

Come see the Good Lovelies perform at Lopez Center this Saturday evening! More info and tickets here: http://www.lopezcenter.org/goto.php?page=event&id=2872

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09/04/2024

Canadian Folk Duo West My Friend
is performing Friday, Sept. 13th at Lopez Center!

Tickets are $15 / Youth $10
Click here to purchase online: https://lopezcenter.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d13242f0882bf92a0d1111e3&id=46d5b3a99b&e=d5266285fb
or visit Paper Scissors on the Rock
Indoor concert with riser seating

In the modern musical landscape, it’s rare to hear something as put-together as Cascadian folk duo West My Friend - something so layered, deeply symphonic, baroque, and mysterious in its own winking way while still courting an edge of disaster. Simple is safe, but complex is fiery, intricate, and ultimately more rewarding.

Steeped in the visual styles of western Canada, West My Friend are veterans of the Victoria music scene and recently released their Independent Music Awards-nominated fourth album “In Constellation”. On this latest work, the band continues to refine the art of creating achingly poignant folk music, only this time, they’re backed by a full symphony orchestra, heavily layered while remaining lighthearted. Intricate yet accessible. Melancholic yet optimistic.

Mingling grassroots guitar, accordion, mandolin, orchestral instruments, and interweaving harmonies, In Constellation (produced by Joby Baker, co-produced and arranged by Adrian Dolan) features longtime members conceiving a new box, then thinking outside of it. Punctuated by musings on anxiety and belonging, song structures vary and dynamics change from moment to moment, painting powerful lyrical portraits over backgrounds of violins and trumpets that swell, collapse, and tumble between bold harmonies.

With over 750 performances and countless tours under their belt, West My Friend is bringing forth a new sound you’ve never known you’ve wanted and new meaning to the things you’ve never known you needed.

Guitar, Vocals / Eden Poynter
Accordion, Vocals / Jeff Poynter

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08/19/2024

Acrobatic Conundrum presents the Circus of Second Chances at Lopez Center this weekend! Saturday at 7:30pm and again on Sunday at 2pm!
http://www.lopezcenter.org/goto.php?page=tickets&eid=2788

On a relentless quest for wonder, three veteran acrobats let their imaginations run wild to fulfill secret longings. Fluent in the language of circus, Acrobatic Conundrum's principal performers melt the fourth wall to reveal their fatal flaws and journeys to redemption. The audience plays a vital part in The Circus of Second Chances, in which ropes are dancescapes, trapezes are windows to the soul, and spinning hoops are portals to infinite possibility. In our homes we are out at sea, on our living room couch we find ourselves on an epic odyssey; so much rests upon the fate of a half-full bottle of ketchup lying unseen in the back of the fridge. Leveraging their long running friendships with each other, Emma Curtiss, Melissa Knowles, and Terry Crane put all their talents and quirky craftiness into this dada circus romp. They climb, cavort, invert, revert, and subvert in a capricious acrobatic tale for the ages. Featuring ropes, trapezes, Cyr wheel, equilibrism, handbalancing, and clown.

Appropriate for all ages. 85 minutes.

08/06/2024

Tickets are now on sale for the amazing Circus of Second Chances! Coming to Lopez for two performances this month
http://www.lopezcenter.org/goto.php?page=tickets&eid=2788

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07/24/2024

Alice Di Micele & Force of Nature in Concert on Saturday, July 27th at 7pm at the pavilion!

"Alice’s music has that great combination of earthiness & groove that keeps in funky from the inside out. She’s for real.” - Bonnie Raitt

Get your tickets at: http://www.lopezcenter.org/goto.php?page=tickets&eid=2821 and Paper Scissors on the Rock!

The first thing you'll notice about Alice Di Micele is her voice. With a five-octave range that is intense, sensual, rich and soulful, Di Micele has been known to turn a noisy bar silent within a few notes. Her warm presence and humor disarm and create a rare intimacy between audience and performer. Whether singing a jazzy-folk number, belting a sassy blues, crooning a hushed ballad, or rocking out on one of her trademark rhythmic earthy grooves, Alice is a vocalist that moves people. A kick-ass guitarist as well, whether playing solo or with a band "Force of Nature" her acoustic guitar conjures percussive poly-rhythms, bass lines, and melodies that perfectly frame her vocals.��

With seventeen solo recordings to her credit her songwriting has covered a lot of ground. Her early albums are filled with folky anthems to the earth and as her music has grown so has her ability to express universal themes touching on politics and environmental concerns, human relationships and emotions all in a very musical way. Di Micele cannot be pegged into one category or style as she is truly unique. On her latest album "Interpretations: Vol 1," Alice shares her skill as an interpreter of other people’s songs including tunes from Neil Young, Kate Wolf, Rev. Gary Davis, Sting, the Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, Christine McVie, and Abbey Lincoln.��

Her band "Force of Nature" consists of her long-time bassist Rob Kohler, drummer/back up singer Nick Kirby, and guitarist Andy Casad.

Rob has toured with Alice for over 30 years and has also taught music at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, NOCA in New Orleans, and plays jazz with the Peterson-Kohler Collective, Halie Loren, and many others.

Nick started playing drums at 2 years old with his dad Sonny Boy Kirby and is not only an amazing drummer, but a bassist, singer, and guitarist as well.

Andy Casad is an award winning finger style guitarist and his duo The Fret Drifters have toured the US and Australia to rave reviews and wide acclaim.

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02/07/2024

Calling for 2023 Lopez Spirit Award Nominations!

This year marks the 24th year of Lopez Center for Community and the Arts’ Andy and Dolly Holland Spirit Award. The Spirit Award Committee is seeking nominations for the 2023 Lopez Spirit Award recipient(s).

The folks who have received the award in years past were dedicated to community volunteerism in various ways; visioning and building the Community Center, starting the KLOI community radio station, farming, sharing music, facilitating community celebrations, being great neighbors and volunteers and the list goes on and on!

The Lopez Spirit Award, is sponsored and given by the Community Center to a Lopez individual, couple or partners, who have consistently improved the lives of Lopezians through their volunteerism. These folks give to the community in extraordinary ways: unselfishly, reliably, lovingly, with tolerance and integrity.

Who comes to mind for you for 2023 for this sweet award? Let us know! The Community Center is now accepting nominations until February 20.

The Award Recipient(s) will be selected in March followed by a Community Celebration in late spring! We also encourage you to think of how you'd like to be involved in creating the celebration if your nominee is selected.

Click here to submit your nomination:

Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, San Juan Islands, Washington

01/29/2024

Windborne Singers in Concert on Thursday February 8 @ 7pm

Ticketed $20/ Youth $10
Buy Tickets Online: http://www.lopezcenter.org/goto.php?page=tickets&eid=2800
Available also at: Paper Scissors On The Rock

"The most exciting vocal group in a generation," Windborne's captivating show draws on the singers' deep roots in traditions of vocal harmony, while the absolute uniqueness of their artistic approach brings old songs into the present. Known for the innovation of their arrangements, their harmonies are bold and anything but predictable.

With a 20-year background studying polyphonic music around the world, Lauren Breunig, Jeremy Carter-Gordon, Lynn Rowan, and Will Rowan share a vibrant energy onstage with a blending of voices that can only come from decades of friendship alongside dedicated practice. The ensemble shifts effortlessly between drastically different styles of music, drawing their audience along on a journey that spans continents and centuries, illuminating and expanding on the profound power and variation of the human voice.

BBC Traveling Folk describes Windborne as "subverting expectations and redefining the genre [of vocal music]… just absolutely phenomenal!" Audiences and critics lavish praise upon the singers not only for their technical mastery, but for the passion, engagement, and connection with each other and the audience that imbues each performance with a rare power.

But there's another, crucial dimension to Windborne that guides and roots their artistry. They are adherents to folk music's longtime alliance with social activism, labor and civil rights, and other movements that champion the oppressed, the poor, and the disenfranchised. Their songs burst with lyrics that, while penned decades or centuries ago, still ring true in modern times, and Windborne's dynamic harmonies breathe new life into these songs.

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