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Twilight Concert Series

Presented by Fairytale Town at Fairytale Town

June 10-August 19, 2009

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Fairytale Town has expanded its popular Twilight Concert Series as part of its 50th Anniversary Year. This year's line-up features music from around the world, played by musicians from our own backyard. The Concerts are held every other Wednesday evening from June 10 through August 19, 2009.

June 10: The Series kicks off with the Capital Jazz Project. The ensemble includes five regular members bolstered by guest artists. CJP's concert themes have included original music as well as works by Wayne Shorter, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, Horace Silver, Brazilian composers, Duke Ellington, Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, and more.

June 24: Grammy-award winner Mary Youngblood returns to the Mother Goose stage with her eclectic musical style. Youngblood is the first woman to professionally record the Native American Flute, and the first woman to win not just one, but two Grammy Awards for "Best Native American Music Album." When she lets the wind flow through her Native American flutes the result is always one of beauty and joy.

July 8: Salsambo spices things up with the Latin beats of Salsa, Mambo and more. This ensemble provides its audience with an experience that is both entertaining and contagious to music lovers and dancers alike.

July 22: Steinway Artist Lara Downes graces the stage with up and coming stars in classical music. Downes is an Artist-in Residence at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis. Lara also serves as director of UC Davis' ArtsBridge, a university/K-12 arts education partnership, and is the founder and artistic director of the Mondavi Center Young Artists Competition. Lara is strongly committed to introducing classical music to youth, and will have some accomplished students join her during her performance.

August 5: Hometown favorite Mumbo Gumbo performs. Mumbo Gumbo blends many genres, from rock to soul, afropop to lush balladry, zydeco to country, into a celebratory, danceable noise. Over nearly 20 years, on the septet's eight albums and during countless gigs around their native Northern California, Mumbo Gumbo has created something that is less a specific style than a particular feeling: The sound of sheer joy.

August 19: Closing out the series on is the Freilachmaker's Klezmer String Band. This 5-piece ensemble from Sacramento has issued two critically acclaimed CDs, The Flower of Berezin (1998) and And I in the Uttermost West (2005), and is currently working on its third. They have defined what may be called "the Sacramento sound" in klezmer and Sephardic Jewish music, using a particularly infectious blend of strings and reeds, with vocals in Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino and English.