Latest Events in Spruce(January Updated)

Experience the enchanting melodies of Lynn Patrick as she graces the stage at eTown Hall in Boulder on May 16, 2024. Accompanied by violinist Sandra Wong and bassist Chris Engleman, Lynn will transport the audience through a musical journey enhanced by captivating visuals curated from diverse global scenes. Known for her intricate acoustic guitar compositions, Lynn Patrick has established herself as a prominent figure in the music industry, with a career spanning over two decades. Hailing from Boulder, her music resonates with millions worldwide and has been featured in various TV shows and media platforms. Embracing the natural beauty of Colorado, Lynn's music reflects her deep connection to nature and the outdoors, creating a unique and uplifting atmosphere for her listeners. Garnering praise for her uplifting and diverse musical style, Lynn's performances have garnered critical acclaim, with accolades such as winning Best New Age song in the Independent Music Awards. Immerse yourself in Lynn Patrick's musical tapestry at eTown Hall for an unforgettable evening of soul-stirring melodies.

Attend the "Big Bubble Circus" event at Louisville Public Library on June 20, 2024. Witness world-class clown, Jim Jackson, as he mesmerizes audiences of all ages with his extraordinary bubble circus performance. With over thirty years of experience in the art of bubbles, Jim combines magic, juggling, balancing, and comedy to create a captivating show filled with wonder and science. Prepare to be amazed as he showcases the beauty of ordinary soap bubbles, even possibly engulfing you in one during the show. This family-friendly event is perfect for all ages and guarantees a memorable experience. Tickets for this enchanting performance will go on sale on June 6 at 12:00 AM. Don't miss the opportunity to be part of this magical extravaganza at 951 Spruce Street, Louisville, CO 80027.

Get ready to witness an epic showdown at THE FIGHT NIGHT - it's going down on September 14, 2024. Welcome to THE FIGHT NIGHT! Get ready for an epic evening of boxing action at the Beaver Boxing Club. Join us on Sat September 14 2024 at 6:30 PM for an adrenaline-pumping event you won't want to miss. Watch as fighters go head-to-head in the ring, showcasing their skills and determination. Whether you're a die-hard boxing fan or just looking for a fun night out, THE FIGHT NIGHT promises to deliver an unforgettable experience. See you there! Information Source: Beaver Boxing Club | eventbrite

Siptember at The Arts League: Sip & Paint Come join us for a fun and creative evening at The Arts League! Get ready to unleash your inner artist while enjoying your favorite beverages. Our Sip & Paint event will take place in person at 4226 Spruce St. No experience is necessary - just bring your creativity and we'll provide the rest. Let's sip, paint, and make some unforgettable memories together! Information Source: The Arts League | eventbrite

From the people that bring you Miss Sobriety, come breathe in the fresh AiR!Arts in Recovery, or AiR, is a celebration of the rediscovery of our artistic gifts in recovery. There will be art on display, amazing performances, refreshments to enjoy, and fellowship!So, grab your friends and come out for an afternoon of fun and art!If you are in need of a scholarship ticket, please contact Matthew C. at 267.366.1039 Information Source: Philadelphia Freedom Roundup | eventbrite

Learn more about the Velocity Fund's grant application — open now through November 24! We'll cover eligibility, all parts of the application, selection criteria — and any of your questions. Applications open: September 16 – November 24, 2024 This Info Session is co-hosted by William Way LGBT Community Center. Please email info@velocityfund.org with any accessibility requests or questions. Browse our other Info Sessions here. The William Way LGBT Community Center seeks to engage and support the diverse LGBTQIA+ communities in the greater Philadelphia area through arts & culture, empowerment, and community connections. Regular art exhibitions in the Center's lobby showcase the work of locally- and nationally-known LGBT artists. The Art Gallery's exhibits, which rotate with new bi-monthly shows, include opening receptions that usually take place at the start of each exhibition. Accessibility Details: This event will be in-person. Masks are optional. The main entrance includes 7 stairs. There is a wheelchair accessible ramp at the back of the building and this entrance can be made available upon request. The event will take place in a meeting room on the first floor, where there is a single-stall accessible restroom. velocityfund.org/ facebook.com/thevelocityfund/ instagram.com/thevelocityfund/ info@velocityfund.org The Velocity Fund offers twelve Philadelphia-based artists and collectives $5000 to develop and present new projects — particularly those that are experimental in genre, collaborative in practice, grounded in their communities, and thoughtful in their impact. Independent artists, collaborative groups, and non-incorporated collectives are welcome to apply. The Velocity Fund intends to directly support artists and arts-based cultural organizers who conduct their practice outside the studio, and who present them outside traditional art spaces. Velocity has funded multidisciplinary and varied work that use visual arts — including (but never limited to) printmaking, performance, video, puppetry, sculpture, and curation — to expand, archive, learn with, and lift up their publics. The Velocity Fund is a Regional Regranting Program supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and hosted by Asian Arts Initiative. Information Source: The Velocity Fund | eventbrite

Join Beer and Ballet and Jacksonville Dance Theatre in an hour ballet class to '80s and '90's music at the bar. Afterward, join the Brew Hang Out to connect with new people, talk dance, talk brews, and anything else that pops up in conversations. Your ticket donation will go to JDT dancer pay. Thank you! The safety of our participants is our number one priority, therefore we are holding a 15-person limited capacity. Reserve your spot today on Eventbrite. Tickets for this event are $15. All proceeds will go towards Jacksonville Dance Theatre's Dancer Pay. Additional donations may be placed at the door. Some common questions about class are...What if I have never taken a ballet class before? No worries at all! This class was created on the foundational belief that everyone no matter what level is welcomed in the space. We are all here to have fun, enjoy some brews, meet new people, and move together. What do I wear? We suggest wearing something comfortable that you may move fully in. As far as footwear goes, we suggest bringing comfortable socks (that don't slip easily) or (if you have them) ballet shoes. Are we allowed to enjoy a brew while taking class? Oh yes! However, we highly suggest drinking water throughout your participation. It's recommended to bring a personal water bottle. Can I bring a friend? Of course! The more the merrier! Just have them sign up and they will be good to go. See you at the barre! For more information on Jacksonville Dance Theatre, click the link below. https://jacksonvilledancetheatre.org/ For more information on Beer and Ballet, click the link below. https://www.amberdaniels.net/beer-and-ballet Information Source: Jacksonville Dance Theatre | eventbrite

BU Bobcats vs. U of S Huskies Volleyball Game Come watch the BU Bobcats take on the U of S Huskies in an exciting volleyball match at Estevan Comprehensive School! Get ready for a night of intense spikes, blocks, and serves as these two teams battle it out on Fri Oct 11 2024 at 6:00pm. Don't miss your chance to cheer on your favorite team and witness some top-notch volleyball action. See you there! 50/50, Raffle Items and Canteen will be available! Information Source: ECS Elecs Senior Boys Volleyball | eventbrite

Doors: 6 PM Show: 7 PM All Ages Welcome No Refunds or Exchanges About JoJo Hermann: JoJo Hermann is an American musician best known as the longtime keyboardist for the Southern rock jam band Widespread Panic. Born in New York City in 1962, he grew up with a passion for blues and New Orleans-style piano, influenced by artists like Professor Longhair and Dr. John. After studying at college in Mississippi and immersing himself in the local music scene, Hermann joined Widespread Panic in 1992, adding his signature blend of boogie-woogie piano and organ to the band's improvisational sound. His dynamic performances and deep love of roots music have made him a fan favorite and a vital part of the band's enduring success. In addition to his keyboard work, JoJo Hermann has contributed vocals on several notable Widespread Panic songs, showcasing his distinctive style. Some of his standout performances include fan-favorites like Ain't Life Grand, Blackout Blues, and One Arm Steve, all of which highlight his soulful voice and bluesy piano flair. Beyond his work with Widespread Panic, Hermann has pursued other musical projects, including his solo work and collaborations with various bands. He formed the band Missing Cats with singer-songwriter Sherman Ewing, focusing on a more stripped-down, folk-rock sound. He has also played with JoJo and His Mojo Mardi Gras Band, which reflects his deep love for New Orleans funk and R&B, bringing a celebratory, improvisational feel to his performances. Hermann’s diverse musical influences and his collaborations have solidified his reputation as a versatile and passionate musician. Information Source: eTown | eventbrite

Doors: 6 PM Show:7 PM All Ages Welcome No Refunds or Exchanges About Jeffrey Martin On a small corner lot in southeast Portland, Oregon, Jeffrey Martin holed up through the winter recording his quietly potent new album Thank God We Left The Garden. Long nights bled into mornings in the tiny shack he built in the backyard, eight feet by ten feet. What began as demos meant for a later visit to a proper studio became the album itself, spare and intimate and true. Recorded live and alone around two microphones, Jeffrey often held his breath to wait for the low diesel hum of a truck to pass one block over on the busy thoroughfare. During the coldest nights, he timed recording between the clicks of the oil coil heater cycling on and off. Martin's fourth full length album, Thank God We Left The Garden arrived on Portland's beloved Fluff and Gravy in 2023. He produced and engineered it himself, recalling, There was a magic quality to the sounds I was getting in the shack with these two cheap microphones, some lucky recipe of time and place that allowed my voice and the way I play guitar and the shape of these new songs to come together with the kind of honesty I was craving. So much has happened in the world since the release of his previous album One Go Around (heralded by No Depression as 'the poetry of America'), and Jeffrey has filled the time doggedly, but happily, touring the US and Europe, watching it all unfold in a stream of small town conversations and city sprawl. In a moment where depth is so often traded for the instantaneous, where tech billionaires are building rockets to escape the planet, where the dead-eyed stare of artificial intelligence is promising to existentially upend our world, and where divisiveness in our culture is breeding delusional levels of certainty, Jeffrey Martin's new record feels like a hopeful and fully human antidote. There are holes in all the side walls where the wind it brings the rain in And the gold crowns have been found out to be brass that has been painted There are holes in all our bibles where we make secret compartments To hide the broken treasures we smuggled out of the garden -Quiet Man The sounds feel warm, close, and refreshingly real, all held up by the richness and rare candor of Jeffrey's voice. Production is restrained mostly to his guitar and vocals, with flashes of classical guitar for a tumbling wash of melody and low end color. Martin's voice sits high above everything, reaching into new melodic territory that goes beyond his earlier work. I feel like I've only just learned how to sing, Martin said. Like I've been chasing this record since my very first recordings. I wanted to really see what I could do, just my guitar and my voice and little else. I don't think it was conscious. I think maybe it was a reaction to the pace of life these days. The churning news and entertainment and politics and violence of it all. I needed to know that even in this day and age, just a few simple ingredients still hold up. Beloved Portland-based guitarist Jon Neufeld added electric guitar to three tracks. Sticking to the same less-ismore approach, his playing skillfully and subtly elevates the lyrical intention. Neufeld's touch is best displayed on Red Station Wagon, a searing story about one man's transformation from a narrow-minded bigot into a person who feels deep remorse for the ugliness of his youth. In his transformation he discovers the clarity of empathy and compassion. The devastating and redemptive four minute song contains the emotional arch of an entire film, and each turn is beautifully punctuated by Neufeld's guitar. In addition to his guitar work, Neufeld mixed and mastered the album, and was such a crucial part of the final feel of the record that Martin also credited him as a producer. Jon and I really produced this album together, he said. Me in the shack, and then him in his studio working with what I brought him as he mixed and mastered. It was such a treat to work with him. I brought this pile of rough songs and he was able to dial it in and make up for my complete lack of recording know-how. I love the performances I got, but Jon's magic is what helped them breathe and truly come to life. No less lyrically weighty than his previous work, Thank God We Left The Garden holds a new kindness and easy solace that feels timeless and full of generosity. The title is a paradoxical nod to Martin's own spiritual conclusions, a theme that is subtly woven throughout the album. The son of a pastor, he touches on his religious upbringing then carries us well beyond his past where the weight of his deepest questions are free to unfold. It's always bothered me how uptight religion gets around the messiness of our human natures, always trying to tell people they're broken and flawed from the get go. The only God I can imagine is one who is overjoyed with the mess. Who revels in the edgeless mystery. I imagine hanging around with angels all day gets boring pretty fast. So maybe we got the story wrong. Maybe we were supposed to leave the Garden all along. Maybe that was the first good thing we ever did. After all, I can't think of anything that has an ounce of meaning or dimension that doesn't come from failure. This is an album that craves your full attention, best experienced as a whole. Each song further illuminates the scene until you find yourself resting in the strangely comforting tangle of aliveness and meaning (and full spectrum of being alive./what it means to be alive.). At its core Thank God We Left The Garden is an album made of questions, humble and nuanced, a reverent celebration of the asking. In my mind there's a garden, full of beauty and darkness Full of sorrow and sweet things where my heart can be honest In that garden there's a fruit tree and I eat from it daily The same that Adam and Eve ate / what does that make me? -Garden Whether singing about his own internal landscape, telling a story of someone else's, or reflecting on the elusive relationship between scarcity and contentment, Martin's writing never pushes the listener away, never points a finger. He sings of things we can all pin a memory on, holding the rough shorn gem of human experience up to the light. There's a treasure that we all know but we can't have it / It's a place beyond the measure of our minds It is where we go when we forget we're living / It is where we go when we forget we die . . . And all the tools we use to feel important / they are useless as a sailboat in the sky Where old bones and heart aches are forgotten / It's a place we don't have words to describe The sun will rise like it always does on the day that I die The world will spin, the sun will go on burning Never even knowing I was alive -There Is A Treasure About Bart Budwig: Bart Budwig is a son of Idaho, a cosmic country crooner, a rousing trumpet player, and cryin’-style soul singer. His music is made up of seemingly incongruous parts; thrum & strum country rhythms, jazz guitar melodies, R&B vocals. When Bart sings he draws out words into meditative mantras, whole note neologisms that keep you hanging on until his raspy voice trails off in a ragged edge. His forthcoming album, Another Burn On The AstroTurf (January 24, 2020, Fluff and Gravy Records) was recorded over five days by a seven-piece band inside the OK Theater. It’s a melancholy rhapsody that recalls the uncorked rock n’ roll spirituality of king mystic Van Morrison, the gloomy nostalgia of dark prince Nick Drake and the songcraft sans self-seriousness of 70s Muscle Shoals. Like those psycho-spiritual song crafters, his power comes from vocal idiosyncrasies – intonations of love, impermanence, hope, humor. The album opens with Budwig originals “Time For Two”, “First To Go”, and “Strong Coffee”– originally presented with just solo guitar (and crackling wood stove) on the album Sabai. The songs are recorded here live, full band, in medley, with hot electric guitar, woody double bass, and drums. The band electrifies and scourges the flesh of the songs into fully formed folk rock stunners. There is what the Romans called a “divine lustre” about Bart Budwig. His blonde hair and beard wrap around his collar,and frame his smile in a nimbus of gold. His radiance belies the loyalty he commands of an army of talent. He’d sooner tell you a joke than reveal to you he’s recorded dozens of albums and hundreds of songs in the last few years. Bart’s mastery of dramatic irony turns his work with complex emotional states of being into comforting, uplifting, relatable music. It’s this ability to combine tragedy and comedy in his humanist hallelujahs that makes Budwig a gravitational force and industry chimera. The studio general, the clown prince, the sensitive songwriter with a rugged voice. The soul singer with a cosmic country band. The creator of a folk universe drawing musicians from everywhere to the middle of nowhere. It’s this juxtaposition that makes Another Burn On The AstroTurf another success for Bart Budwig, and a must listen for you. “Sometimes when Bart sings, I forget what we’re talking about. I’m sure he knows though. I trust him. He sounds like John Prine, plays like Hoyt Axton, and looks like well… Bart Budwig. He’s a cosmic country lawn gnome.” – Sean Jewell, American Standard Time Information Source: David Arkenstone (QDV Productions) | eventbrite