Solstice Stroll ( 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm )

 

Organized by Dane Buy Local, Solstice Stroll is an opportunity for various locally owned businesses in Dane County to stay open late to celebrate the upcoming longest day of the year!

 

Visit businesses to mingle, enjoy refreshments, demonstrations, special incentives and learn more about what you do to help keep our community vibrant and thriving. More info coming soon.

 

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Contact Info : 608-729-7344 Email : marketing@danebuylocal.com

BDDS Concert: Stacked Deck (Stoughton Opera House) ( 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm )

When you face a Stacked Deck, the cards have been unfairly arranged to your advantage or disadvantage. It's a situation that many composers faced in their lifetimes. Our program begins with Ferdinand Ries's Flute Quartet in D minor, a great work by a great composer who languished in the shadow of his illustrious teacher Beethoven. Ned Rorem's War Scenes are settings of excerpts from Walt Whitman's Civil War diaries, in which Whitman chronicles the stacked deck faced by both Union and Confederacy soldiers. Gabriel Fauré faced long odds against political opposition in pursuit of his career. We conclude with Fauré's great Piano Quartet in G minor, a breakthrough work that helped establish his reputation. Musicians will include artistic directors Stephanie Jutt, flute, and Jeffrey Sykes, piano; Emily Birsan, soprano from the Chicago Lyric Opera; Timothy Jones, baritone from the University of Houston; and our own beloved John DeMain, artistic director of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and Madison Opera. CONCERT LOCATION: STOUGHTON OPERA HOUSE

Contact Info : (608) 255-9866 BDDS ticket office Email : info@bachdancinganddynamite.org Url: http://bachdancinganddynamite.org

BDDS Concert: Put Your Cards On The Table ( 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm )

When you Put Your Cards on the Table, you show the world the thoughts and feelings you've been playing close to your chest.  Our musical version of this expression revolves around the complicated relationship between Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck Schumann, and Johannes Brahms. These three great composers, rarely able to express their feelings in their own words, put their cards on the table in the form of incredibly expressive songs. Our program links together songs, readings from letters, and short instrumental works by all three composers in a narrative exploring this complicated emotional saga. Musicians will include artistic directors Stephanie Jutt, flute, and Jeffrey Sykes, piano; Emily Birsan, soprano from the Chicago Lyric Opera; Timothy Jones, baritone from the University of Houston; and our own beloved John DeMain, artistic director of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and Madison Opera. CONCERT LOCATION: OVERTURE CENTER, THE PLAYHOUSE

Contact Info : (608) 255-9866 BDDS tickets or Overturecenter.com for Overture tickets Email : info@bachdancinganddynamite.org Url: http://bachdancinganddynamite.org

Identity Theft Seminar ( 7:30 am - 9:00 am )


Contact Info : Ron or Scott Perkins at 608-232-9977 Email : badger64@perkinsfinancial.net

BDDS Concert: Poker Face (Stoughton Opera House) ( 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm )

A Poker Face gives no hint of whether you're telling the truth or bluffing. Our musical take involves works written for one instrumental medium that are so artfully transcribed for another, you can't tell they've been transcribed at all. We begin with Aaron Copland's great Flute Sonata, transcribed from his violin sonata. Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 22 is presented in a masterful version for piano, flute, violin, and cello created by Mozart's pupil Hummel. We conclude with one of Brahms's masterpieces, the String Sextet in G Major, arranged by Theodor Kirchner for piano trio.Musicians will include artistic directors Stephanie Jutt, flute, and Jeffrey Sykes, piano; the San Francisco Piano Trio, which includes Sykes; violinist, Axel Strauss, from the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal; and cellist, Jean-Michel Foneneau, from the San Francisco Conservatory; and concertmaster, Naha Greenholtz, from the Madison Symphony Orchestra.

Contact Info : (608) 255-9866 BDDS ticket office Email : info@bachdancinganddynamite.org Url: http://bachdancinganddynamite.org

BDDS Concert: Play The Hand You've Been Dealt ( 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm )

When you Play the Hand You've Been Dealt, you make the most of whatever situation you've been handed. Our musical version features composers who were handed lemons and made lemonade. Dick Kattenburg was Dutch Jew who died in the Holocaust. Despite the terrible hand he was dealt, he composed fantastic music, including the Quartet for flute, violin, cello, and piano. Erich Wolfgang Korngold was commissioned to write a work for pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in World War I. The Suite for two violins, cello, and piano left-hand is a thrilling work in which Korngold literally plays the hand he was dealt. Our season concludes with Beethoven's "Archduke" piano trio, one of his greatest creations. The premiere performance of this trio was Beethoven's last appearance as a pianist in public, for deafness soon overtook him. Musicians will include artistic directors Stephanie Jutt, flute, and Jeffrey Sykes, piano; the San Francisco Piano Trio, which includes Sykes; violinist, Axel Strauss, from the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal; and cellist, Jean-Michel Foneneau, from the San Francisco Conservatory; and concertmaster, Naha Greenholtz, from the Madison Symphony Orchestra. CONCERT LOCATION: THE PLAYHOUSE, OVERTURE CENTER

Contact Info : (608) 255-9866 BDDS tickets or Overturecenter.com for Overture single tickets Email : info@bachdancinganddynamite.org Url: http://bachdancinganddynamite.org

The Re-Art SWAP ( 9:00 am - 3:00 pm )

It is time once again for Absolutely Art's award winning Re-Art SWAP.   We are proud to host our eighth Re- Art SWAP taking place in our beautiful backyard, 2322 Atwood Ave.  This is your opportunity to clean out your studios, closets and garages of art supplies and useable items. 

How do you SWAP?  Bring your items to Absolutely Art and we will assist you in finding the tables where they belong.  Then wander the aisles of items to find your inspiration.  Trades are made on a "leave what you don't want, take what you will use" basis.  No items to trade?  That's OK, we simply ask for a $5 contribution.  These contributions go toward purchasing art supplies for local schools and community groups. 

Ideas for trade and donation:  beads, broken ceramic items, brusehs, buttons, calendars, cardboard and mat board, clay, crayons, fabric samples, findings, gears, glass, industrial scrap/end caps & rolls, magazines, metal office supplies, old vases, packing materials, paint, paint swatches, pens pencils, wood, paper, wallpaper books, screws, spools, stock photos, tools, unused yarn & string...

Volunteers are needed for this event.  Please contact Meghan Blake-Horst at 608-249-9100 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you are interested in helping make this event a success!  Shifts are availabel on Saturday, 6/29 to bring up items from the basement and Sunday, 6/30 from 7a-5p.  Refreshments will be provided for voluntees as well as a gift certificate to Absolutely Art.

Visit our website www.absolutelyartllc.com or our Facebook page for updates on this year's Re-Art SWAP.  We are conveniently localted nextdoor to Cafe Zoma and on the Capital City Bike Trail.  We have more bike parking than car parking so bike, bus or walk if you can.  This is a green event!  A rain date is scheduled for Sunday, September 22nd form 9a-3p.

Contact Info : Meghan Blake-Horst 608-249-9100 Email : meghan@absolutelyartllc.com Url: http://www.absolutelyartllc.com