ANNOUNCING….. The Gold Souls & DJ LUKE ROSS Ring in the New Year at Whiskey’s on Main at our Glitter, Glitz, & Glam NYE BASH! Dress in your finest sequins, glittery suits, and fanciest dress. Nothing it too over the top. We’ll be partying all night long as we say goodbye to 2024. Live music by The Gold Souls, a funk and soul band out of Northern California. Local favorite, DJ LUKE ROSS will be spinning beats upstairs and keep the party going. 21+ Tuesday December, 31, 2024 9pm-Late VIP GROUP EXPERIENCES AVAILABLE: Email Adam@whiskeysonmain.com GA: $200 (tax included) Tickets ON SALE NOW! v(ia EventBrite)
Dinner with Celebrity Chef Brother Luck
“Four” Course Taste of the Southwest with Chef Brother Luck Join Sun Valley Culinary Institute and Food Network Top Chef, Beat Bobby Flay Champion and James Beard Award nominee Chef Brother Luck for an exciting Taste of the Southwest dinner benefiting student scholarships. Chef Brother redefines Southwestern cuisine with a seasonal four-course tasting menu that transports your taste buds to the four corners area of the country where Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet. “Four” figures large for Chef Brother as it also represents the four symbolic providers of ingredients: hunter, gatherer, fisherman, and farmer. We hope you will join us for this one-of-a-kind event.
Gallery Walk: The Echo of Our Voices – Photographs by Nick Brandt
Come join us for an evening celebrating The Echo of our Voices, photographer Nick Brandt’s poignant visual narrative showing the impact of water scarcity on a group of Syrian refugees, mostly families, in the parched deserts of southern Jordan. Brandt’s portrayal is both respectful and tender, as he captures the resilience of the human spirit and the stabilizing effects of human connection in the face of adversity.
Gallery Walk: SUNGAZING – New Works by Kelly Ording (Artist in Attendance)
Join us for an evening of art, conversation, and celebration, showcasing new paintings by Bay Area artist Kelly Ording in her exhibition “Sungazing.” Ording’s minimalist works draw viewers into a vivid realm where saturated colors and delicate lines capture fleeting moments that shape the passage of time. Through a visual language of vibrant hues and rhythmic forms, we are invited to clear our minds of distractions and embrace an alternative realm beyond words. The works in this series are inspired by Ording’s practice of sungazing, a meditative ritual in which she stands outside and gazes at the sun to absorb its radiant energy. For Ording, the slow, methodical act of painting becomes an extension of this practice, transforming each piece into a contemplative object that suspends time and grounds us in the present moment.
Holiday Spirt with Music & Dance
Footlight Dance and Sun Valley Music Festival Music Institute students will be spreading holiday cheer bringing a performance to the WRHS Performing Arts Theater at the Community Campus in Hailey, on Saturday, December 14, 7:00 pm, a free event. This annual collaborative event will have the dancers and musicians performing together! “Both programs are excited to bring the two arts disciplines together to perform for our 2nd year. For the dancers, we usually perform to pre-recorded music as live musicians are an expense we cannot afford to add onto our production costs, and for the musicians they rarely get the opportunity to play for dance. The experience brings challenges and rewards for both as they learn to pay closer attention to details from the conductor in regard to tempo, and the dancers must listen to the subtle differences of the final version from recorded to live.” A highlight of this program will be a solo danced by Footlight Company member, Romina Zavala, who is a Senior in High School. This piece, choreographed by Mackenzie King is set to the Overture from Suite No. 3 in D Major, by J.S. Bach. A Quartet to be played by Leila Brickley and Cora …
ENTER THE REEL ROCK UNIVERSE
A WORLD OF ADVENTURE AWAITS For two decades, Reel Rock has been sharing the biggest stories from the world of climbing, celebrating the human side behind the sport’s greatest adventures and achievements. This year, Reel Rock 19 brings a new selection of the best climbing films on tour worldwide. Founded in 2005 by Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer, and Nick Rosen – creators of the iconic feature documentaries Valley Uprising, The Dawn Wall and The Alpinist – Reel Rock has grown into the premier global platform for award-winning climbing films.
Stargazing – Paintings by Kelly Ording
The paintings in this series are inspired by Kelly Ording’s practice of sungazing, a meditative ritual that that involves standing outside and gazing toward the sun to absorb its radiant energy. For Ording, the slow and methodical process of painting becomes an extension of this meditative ritual. Through rhythmic lines and geometric motifs, Ording’s luminous works evoke a sense of transcendence and invite viewers to connect with the natural rhythms of the world. Each line marks a fleeting moment and the passage of time, echoing the pulse of the universe and the cycles of the sun.
Nick Brandt – The Echo of Our Voices
Gilman Contemporary presents THE ECHO OF OUR VOICES, acclaimed photographer Nick Brandt’s poignant visual narrative showing the impact of water scarcity on a group of Syrian refugees, mostly families, in southern Jordan. Brandt’s portrayal is both respectful and tender, as he captures the resilience of the human spirit and the stabilizing effects of human connection in the face of adversity. Jordan is considered the second most water-scarce country in the world. The Syrian refugees depicted in these photographs were forced to flee Syria due to war. Now in Jordan they are forced to relocate multiple times a year in constant search of adequate rainfall for growing crops. Families are perched on stacks of boxes that aim skyward, implying a sense of strength and defiance. They also serve as pedestals for the individuals who typically go unseen and unnoticed. No longer able to avert our gaze, we are invited to look into the eyes of these courageous individuals and hear the soft echo of their voices.
IDAHO in the Movies – November
The Hailey Public Library celebrates Native American Heritage Month with an award winning coming-of-age comedy-drama recognized as the first feature-length film written, directed and produced by Native Americans. Filmed in part on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho, the film follows two Indigenous youth on a road trip to recover the ashes of one boy’s adoptive father. Known for its mix of poignancy and off the wall humor, the film won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in 1998. Rated PG-13. Visit www.haileypubliclibrary.org to learn all the details, including the title!
Marcus King: An Intimate Acoustic Evening Featuring Drew Smithers
Marcus King faces heartache, addiction, and mental health head-on in his music. Pain quakes below the vibrato of his voice, and his delivery weighs heavy with booze-drenched regrets and mistakes in lonely hotels. The GRAMMY® nominated fourth generation musician from Greenville, SC, started playing guitar at 8-years-old following in the footsteps of his guitarist Father and Grandpa. Logging thousands of miles on the road as “The Marcus King Band,” he established himself with unparalleled performance prowess. During 2020, he linked up with Dan Auerbach and cut his solo debut El Dorado, garnering a GRAMMY® Award nomination for “Best Americana Album.” Between headlining venues he performed alongside Chris Stapleton, Greta Van Fleet, and Nathaniel Rateliff in addition to gracing the bills of Stagecoach and more. King has launched various mental health initiatives, including a guitar auction collaboration with MusiCares. Now, his 2024 album Mood Swings feels like the moment of baptism when water washes away a life’s worth of sins and degradation and all that’s left is a revived, yet still real-as-hell primal scream. It’s as if King strained raw soul straight from his gut up through that broken heart and on to the record under the watchful eye of Rick …