The Hunt Family Fiddlers
The Hunt Family Fiddlers are an award winning family of Irish step dancers, fiddlers and singers that excite crowds everywhere! This family of nine performs Celtic, bluegrass, inspirational and popular tunes, offering a unique blend of diversity to every show. Audiences love to experience their high-powered step dancing, fast fiddling, and vocal harmonies, as well as their other instrumental talents including drums, accordion, keyboard and guitar. Songwriters and performers Clint and Sandy, along with their seven children Jessica, Jennifer, Joshua, Jonathan, Jordan, Justin and Jamison, have released four albums and have won numerous awards in fiddle, Irish dance and singing contests around the nation and the world.
34th Army Band Rhythm Majors
The 34th Army Band’s Rhythm Majors dance orchestra was first formed during World War II. During the war, the Rhythm Majors performed in support of allied troops and civilians throughout England, Ireland, Italy and Africa. Today, the 18 piece Rhythm Majors is led by SFC Roscoe E. Porch JR. In recent years, the Rhythm Majors have performed throughout the United States, as well as Italy, and Greece. The Rhythm Majors are made up of citizen soldiers from throughout Iowa and Illinois. The Rhythm Majors perform numerous concerts and dances each year, providing music ranging from traditional big band to contemporary. The concert and dance music will start at 6pm on the north end of Main Street in between the Jefferson County Courthouse and the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center. The performance will run about two hours with a small break in the middle. “We are excited to have the 34th Army Rhythm Majors provide this free concert on Armed Forces Day. I hope everyone can come out and enjoy the music”, stated Andy Nelson, Director of Events, Fairfield Arts & Convention Center. The Iowa National Guard’s 224th Engineer Battalion will be displaying some military equipment and having a Rock Wall that kids can climb. For more information on the 34th Army Band Rhythm Majors performance and future events at the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center, call (641) 472 -2000 or check out our website www.fairfieldacc.com .
Lorie Line
Spend an intimate afternoon around the piano with Lorie Line as she plays all the favorites from over the years. Lorie will play solo piano and also be joined by select performers from her Pop Chambers Orchestra. You'll enjoy this casual setting where the evening is all about Lorie and her center stage grand piano.
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University's International Folk Dance Ensemble performs a rich repertoire of dance and culture with choreography from around the world in this free performance at the Sondheim Center. Sponsored by the Fairfield Convention & Visitors Bureau.
This performance is provided at no charge and will be accepting free will donations.
For more information please contact the Fairfield Iowa Convention & Visitors Bureau at 641-472-2828 or info@travelfairfieldiowa.com.
Pippin
Fairfield's oldest community theatre company will produce its summer production at Fairfield's newest performance center. The Fairfield Area Community Theatre plans to produce "Pippin" for this summer's production at the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center.
"We are anxious to perform in Fairfield's new theatrical venue," said Judith Ward, FACT president. "Since it's gala opening this winter, and its continued shows this spring, we are eager to be on its schedule for our summer production."
The show will take the stage June 11th – 14th at 7:30 p.m.
Brigham Young University
This uplifting and inspiring musical performance features talented professionals from leading roles on Broadway, film, television and popular musical recordings at the Sondheim Center. There will be a free-will offering to assist the funding of the Arts and Convention Center endowment. Sponsored by the Arts and Convention Center and the Fairfield Convention & Visitors Bureau. For more information, call 641-472-2000.
Banjo Boy
The world premiere of the biography musical about Iowa native Meredith Wilson, author and musical composer of the Music Man. Book, music and lyrics by Randolph Hobler.
Season Tickets go on sale May 13 - May 22. Individual tickets go on sale May 19
Lynn Trefzger
Lynn Trefzger is a ventriloquist/comedienne with a trunk full of zany characters that have accompanied her to stages throughout the country. Her vocal illusion talents were first brought to national audiences on TV's popular "Star Search" and she has since performed with artists including Jeff Foxworthy, Ray Romano, Smothers Brothers, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. Her off-the-wall audience interplay is riotously funny, and her performances are tailored for both family and adult audiences. Lynn (and her many voices) has appeared on ABC, TNN, A&E and Lifetime.
Fact: Your voice is not necessarily your own when you're in an audience for Lynn Trefzger's show. You could find yourself next to a rather inebriated camel -- or with a new baby you didn't even realize you had.
Warning: Be extra nice to her old man Judd… he can get quite cranky and forthright. He's a cantankerous old man and he holds little back.
All performances have a 15 minute intermission where the facility will be selling alcoholic/non-alcoholic beverages and snack items.
The Ahn Trio
Born in Seoul, Korea, and educated at Juilliard in New York City, the members of the Ahn Trio "sisters Maria, Lucia, and Angella" are redefining the art and architecture of chamber music, breathing new life into the standard piano-trio literature with commissioned works from visionary composers like Kenji Bunch, Maurice Jarre, Nikolai Kapustin and Michael Nyman. The trio's latest CD, Lullaby for My Favorite Insomniac (recorded by their own label, L.A.M.P), is a showcase of this vibrant and original music.
Lucia, Angella, and Maria thrive on dissolving the barriers between art forms. They have fused their work with that of dancers, pop singers, DJ's, painters, installation artists, photographers, lighting designers, ecologists, and even kite makers. Most recently, they performed live at the Czech Grammys with the Tata Bojs, and received critical acclaim for their collaborative project with the David Parsons Dance Company.
Possessing an enviable combination of talent and style, they have long been natural subjects for the international press. They made their magazine premiere very early on, in Time's cover story, "Asian American Whiz Kids". They have gone on to frequent fashion pages of the likes of Vogue and GQ. In 2003, they were named three of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.
The Ahn Trio is in high demand, performing and leading master classes and workshops across the United States and around the world. Wherever the Ahns go, they share their innovative spirit and ever-evolving vision of music.
Their first recording, of Ravel and Villa-Lobos trios, brought raves, such as Audio Magazine's "this is one of Ravel's best and never better played", and the next, an EMI recording of trios by Dvorak, Suk, and Shostakovich, won Germany's prestigious ECHO Award. A 1997 MTV appearance on Bryan Adams' "Unplugged" program led to the development of "Ahn-Plugged", which typifies the excitement and energy of the Ahn Trio. Mostly recently, they have created their own label, L.A.M.P (Lucia Angella Maria Productions), to allow them greater freedom to further explore the new, cutting edge projects they have always pursued. It is precisely this vitality and commitment to innovation that has the Ahn Trio continually drawing new audiences to classical music.
All performances have a 15 minute intermission where the facility will be selling alcoholic/non-alcoholic beverages and snack items.
The Lion in Winter
"I know. You know I know. I know you know I know, we know Henry knows, and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family."
James Goldman's 1966 masterpiece ‘The Lion in Winter' has been described as the best script ever written. For an actor, King Henry II (played by Peter O'Toole in the 1968 movie) is literally a crowning role. "God, but I do love being King!" His Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (for which Katharine Hepburn won an Oscar) is arguably the best role ever written for a woman. "Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs?"
The two together are explosive, witty, wicked magic, as they plot, trick, love, hate, wound, double-cross and laugh together. Their three sons: Richard (later the Lionheart), Geof the Calculating and John the Slovenly ("He's got pimples, and he smells of compost"), are plotting who will get the throne when Henry finally dies. Henry backs John, Eleanor backs Richard. 18 year old King Philip of France devilishly skirts the seething scheming, as his sister Alais, Henry's mistress, watches sadly.
Plotting, betraying, making and breaking alliances; it is the royal family sport. "I've snapped and plotted all my life: there is no other way to be king, alive and fifty all at once". ‘The Lion in Winter' makes for a hugely entertaining night of theater.
Stephen White, Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Ensemble, plays Henry and directs a talented ensemble. Founded in 2006 to develop a core of trained actors to present mostly classical works, the Ensemble's previous shows include The Tempest, As You Like It, and Moliere's The Miser.
The Fairfield Arts & Convention Center is a full-service event facility located in the heart of downtown Fairfield, Iowa. The Center is located on one square block north of Central Park and features 7,700 square feet of exhibit space, along with an additional 5,000 square feet of flexible meeting space.
Two meeting rooms and an Executive Conference Suite offer multiple sizes and configurations, and our experienced staff is here to assist in making your event a success.
The Center is conveniently located just 25 minutes from the Interstate 218 interchange, and is easily accessed via US 34 and US 1. We invite you to find out more about what we have to offer.
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