Arts and Entertainment

Carson’s Got Talent, a talent show featuring performers from Reno, Lake Tahoe, Carson City, Douglas County, Dayton and Yerington, hits the stage at the Bob Boldrick Theater in Carson City Saturday, April 14 at 6:30 p.m.

Hold onto your hats, Carson City, we’re in for a busy weekend. Several events over the last few weeks were re-scheduled due to weather: today you’ll find the make-up for The Greenhouse Project's Early Spring Plant Sale and the Carson High Safe Grad 5K Run/Walk. Get your Roller Derby fix with a scrimmage and a Junior Victory Rollers bout against Santa Cruz. The Bob Boldrick Theater at the Community Center is where you’ll find ‘Carson’s Got Talent.' Cheer on your favorite local performer and help raise funds for the Senior Center’s Meals on Wheels Program. You’ll have to keep reading, this is just the tip of the fun-time iceberg.

Derby Day is the Reno Chamber Orchestra's major fundraiser of the year! Dress up in fashionable attire and enjoy a wonderful luncheon, wine, mint juleps, and watch the Kentucky Derby on big screen televisions! The event includes a live and silent auction and a wine raffle! There is also a hat contest with prizes, so remember to wear your best hat!

Special Auction Items Include:
"Hamilton" Tickets!
San Francisco Getaway - 2 night stay in San Francisco, including tickets to the June 23 San Francisco Symphony performance and tickets to the Giants vs. Padres game!
Celebrity Home Dinners

Sierra Music Society is pleased to announce that the always popular “P’Opera!” is planning a fun-filled evening with its “¡Olé!” at Napa-Sonoma South in Reno at 7671 S. Virginia Street on Sunday, May 6th.

With more than 65 breweries, every flavor imaginable will be offered at The Great Eldorado, BBQ, Brews & Blues Festival — even Vanilla Ice.

Fortunate Strangers, a West Coast band featuring Scottish and Irish songs, will perform at Carson City’s Brewery Arts Center this Saturday, April 14 from 7 to 9 p.m. The concert will be filled with anthems that celebrate humorous and serious songs of love, loss, adventure and yearning.

CARSON CITY — Like other masters of the arts world, the creations of the famous Native American basket maker Datsolalee, are timeless. Ninety-three years after her death in Carson City, Datsolalee is widely regarded as one of the most innovative, important and famous basket makers in the world.

Wild Horse Children’s Theater in Carson City presents the Northern Nevada premiere of “Junie B Jones Jr. The Musical," a hilarious adaptation of Barbara Park’s wildly popular best-selling book series.

Join the celebration! For 17 years, Mile High Jazz Band has been performing monthly jazz performances in Carson City. Celebrate this milestone on Tuesday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. Hear sensational big-band music with vocalist June Joplin at Living the Good Life Bistro, 1480 N. Carson Street in Carson City. Admission is free, donations welcome.

One-time Carson City resident Mark Twain once described genuine music as the kind that will "suffuse your system like strychnine whisky."

To experience it, Twain's advice was to "just smash your piano and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!"

Wire wrapped wind chimes class taught by Jo Ann and Gail Grace.

Create your own wind chimes using sea glass and colorful tumbled glass. Welcome spring with yard art!

Class is $50, limited to eight students; supplies and refreshments included.

Sign up in advance at Artsy Fartsy Art Gallery, 405 North Nevada Street in Carson City.

Class is held at Artsy Artsy Creative Center, 220A West Telegraph in Carson City.

For more information call 775-885-2787.

With soggy weather here, some cancellations are inevitable. One thing you can count on, however, is the monthly Downtown Business Association’s wine walk; it’s a rain, shine, or blizzard event. Stay dry and well-fed with the Kiwanis annual BINGO Spaghetti Feed at the Carson Senior Center. The Brewery Arts Center hosts some pretty amazing vocalists for their newest fundraiser, ‘Evening with the Divas.’ Keep reading for even more Carson City, Carson Valley, and Dayton options.
SATURDAY:

Calling all Craft Vendors! Casino Fandango would like to invite you to join us for our first ever Fandango Rockin’ Rib Fest! Not only is this event free of charge, but vendors will also be able to enjoy live music, a festive atmosphere, and the opportunity to be a part of our community’s history as we mark the beginning of an event that will flourish with years to come.

Casino Fandango's Rockin' Rib-Fest will happen May 25- 28, 2018 Memorial Weekend. Free Admission! All Ages Welcome!

The festival will feature rib cookers, arts and crafts vendors, games and prizes, a rib competition, live entertainment and more all weekend long.

The event runs Friday, May 25 from noon to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Monday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Are you a crafter and would like to be in our crafter show? We are seeking talented crafters with unique, quality products. We are strictly juried with a different show format than all other craft shows. Our show dates are October 25-27 (3 full days) at the Carson Valley Inn, Shannon Ballroom. You can check out our website www.atouchofclassnv.org to see if this would be a show that you would like to be a part of.

Celebrating the arts and the region's most talented vocalists, the Brewery Art Center will feature "Evening with the Divas” billed as a once in a lifetime event, this Saturday in Carson City.

The Moonshot Coup and Sassafras proudly present: A Very Special Evening with Tom Rhodes and Josiah Knight. This free, all-ages show is a very special evening featuring Rhodes, star of NBC's The Voice and an international recording artist.

Mike Bond is known locally for his Western Art, which he creates from his home in Sparks. This Friday, April 6th, from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM, please join Carson City Art Gallery for a special Artist Reception for this very talented man that works in oils.

CARSON CITY — Carson High School Theatre Arts is proud to announce our upcoming production of "The Secret Garden," a hauntingly beautiful adaptation of the classic children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this Thursday through Sunday April 5-8 at the Carson City Community Center.

MiXed Company, your favorite local Rock/County/Dance band is returning to Living the Good Life Nightclub-Bistro-Lounge on April 7, 2018, beginning at 8:30pm. Come dance the night away to Dave, Keith & Jake performing your favorites and a few originals.

Living the Good Life at 1480 N Carson St, Carson City, Nevada 89701, is an upscale cocktail lounge with live entertainment & craft cocktails, serving Lunch from 11:30 am Monday - Friday and Appetizers and Dinner specials from 4:30pm.

Come for Dinner, Stay for Fun!

Songwriter and cowboy Mike Beck will appear in concert on April 29th at the Silver City School House in Silver City. The concert is a benefit for the Silver City School House and arts events held there.

Mike Beck is asolo artist who is a regularly featured performer at The National Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering in Elko. He has cowboyed on some of central Nevada's largest cattle ranches.

The Nevada Artists Association is presenting “Spring Has Sprung,” a new show of works by member artists at its gallery at 449 King Street in Carson City. The show will run from April 2 to May 4 at the spacious, recently refurbished gallery, adjacent to the Brewery Arts Center complex.

The Brewery Arts Center, Carson City’s premiere epicenter for the arts since 1975, will be hosting Southern Drawl Band for a live concert.

We’ve got a beautiful spring weekend to enjoy. I’d like to make this easy on you: if you are only looking for Easter-related fun, you’ll find it all HERE in my list of everything Easter. Those events are also included in this list, but there is so much more going on. Take a hike with Muscle Powered, get down to some live music, or cheer on your favorite roller derby girl.

Carson City isn't particularly known for its night or dance clubs. But one local non-profit group caters to the needs of some residents who like to cut a rug or bust a groove for a good time.

RENO — “The Ox-bow Incident,” a 1943 motion picture adapted from an iconic novel by the same name by one of Nevada’s most famous authors, will be shown at April’s High Noon Shootout with Neal Cobb at the Nevada Historical Society.

The film will be shown on April 19 at noon at the Historical Society, 1650 N. Virginia St., in Reno. Admission is $5, free for members and children 17 and younger.

Join Earl Dutton & Friends for a night of fun, food, and music at Sassafras Eclectic Food Joint, Saturday March, 31, 2018 beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Join local favorites such as: CW & Mr. Spitmore, Canyon White, Makayla Taylor, Giants of Zen, Harmony Pines, with many more, plus a few surprises perhaps.

This concert is free but Earl is asking for donations to help support cancer research. So please dig deep and bring a donation of how much you can afford or maybe even a little more.

Sassafras is at 1500 Old Hot Springs Rd., Carson City, Nevada 89706

A real southern gentleman, born in Tulsa OK, Grew up in Tulsa, Dallas TX & Atlanta, GA. Guitar player & singer almost his whole life. Influences are varied - from Willie Nelson & the outlaws of the 70s to modern country and rock.

Check out his FB page @KeithAlanBarnettmusic & search Keith Alan Barnett on YouTube or visit http://www.keithalanbarnett.com/ for more info and videos of performances.

This Friday (3/30) and Saturday (3/31) from 9PM - 1AM, The Loft presents Deception! Classic Rock at it’s best. 70’s, 80’s, 90’s 2000’s Big sound from a small band, Formed by key members of Bad Intent, Deception is a power trio that slays covers! Rick and Joe played together for years in Bad Intent and they added Oscar in the summer of 2012 to form Deception. They have played shows in most of northern Nevada so far!

Born in Texas and raised in Augusta, Georgia, Billy Anderson is stand-up comedian currently living in Los Angeles. Billy has written for Cracked.Com, performed in SF Sketchfest, was a finalist in the 2016 Seattle International Comedy Competition and as of 2013 he has performed stand-up comedy in every US state. Billy can be heard on Audibles Sounds Like America hosted by Jackie Kashian and seen on season 3 of the syndicated program Laughs on Fox television. In 2017 he released his first live comedy special titled Americas Sweetheart through The Harmon Brothers VidAngel Dry Bar Comedy series.