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4A Daily News – Thursday, May 23, 2013 Pastimes & Arts entertainment Tooby named Artist of the Month Patriotic concert Newly elected Recording Secretary Janet Tooby is Red Bluff Art Association's May Artist of the Month. RBAA President Kathy Brehm states: "Janet has a wonderful and unique style of painting. We are so pleased to have her as a member of RBAA and are thrilled that she has accepted the position of Recording Secretary." Janet Merritt Tooby was born in Fort Worth, Texas, (a cattle town) and loves living in Red Bluff (also a cattle town). She moved here two years ago from San Diego with her husband Paul. Janet wore boots from the time she was three and feels very much at home here with the rodeo, the Bull and Gelding sale, and especially the Western Art Show of the Bull and Gelding Sale, which she recently entered and is already drafting her 2014 entry. In Fort Worth (home of the famous FW Museum of Western Art) she grew up viewing the paintings of Remington and Russell and was strongly influenced by their western style realism and atmosphere. Early training was at the Fort Worth Children's Museum and the Fort Worth Museum of Art. She developed her drybrush watercolor technique at the University of Texas at Austin. After graduation she studied interior design at UCLA. "But, life has a way of taking you on a circuitous journey," Janet says. "I did a lot of art as a child and young adult, but to earn a living I became a secondary and elementary school teacher with a specialty in English, art, and music. After a number of years, I had an entrepreneurial epiphany and opened a private piano studio in Cardiff-by-theSea, teaching hundreds of students over two Courtesy photo Janet Merritt Tooby at recent Bits 'n Pieces Open House where she was featured artist and her prints are available. decades." She is an advocate of promoting the strong link between music and art in her students. Janet says, "Art and Music are wondrous, opening us to our creativity and emotions, and both contribute to cognitive development in young or old." As an aside, their son Scott Tooby's career has been deeply influenced. A young adult now, he is a composer and performer, living in Los Angeles. He combines the best of music and art. "On hiatus from teaching piano, I'm so glad to be getting back to drawing and painting. I feel that this is my true purpose in life." Janet attends regularly the RBAA's weekly Thursday Drawing Class, 12:45 –3:30. "It's the best art class I've ever attended," she says. "I still enjoy practicing piano daily to maintain skills." Janet relates that she truly "loves" music, music theory and history, teaching and playing J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach, Chopin, and Satie. She says, "But I am passionate about Art and the doing of it. Art is at the very base of my brain. I drew and colored from a very young age (three). Music came at the age of seven." "Music is ethereal and momentary and develops the emotions, coordination, and cognitive skills. You practice hard, you play it, and the memory of something beautiful lingers in your mind's ear. Art is more of this earth–you draw and draft and practice using handto-eye coordination while working with lines, colors, and composition. It is very hard work to produce a finished physical representation of something that you see or envision. For all art lovers, I recommend studying the art and writings of Vassily Kandinsky, see Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Point and Line to Plane. I truly admire his writings and his art serves as great inspiration. Also, I recommend the art and Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci." As a change of pace, Janet also enjoys painting nonrepresentational spiri- tual art and hosts a monthly spiritual art and plein aire painting session the third Saturday of every month at the Park of Study and Reflection, 13499 State Hwy 99E, Red Bluff. All artists welcome. Janet is a spiritual Messenger of Well Being at the Park. Janet took two first place ribbons at the Tehama County Fair for landscape and mixed media. Most recently Janet was featured artist at the recent May 10 Open House for Bits n'Pieces gift shop, where her prints are available. She is also an award-winning book designer. Janet welcomes commissions and can be contacted at (530) 690-2201 or jmtooby@yahoo.com. RBAA, bringing art opportunities, education and enrichment to the North Valley, meets morning and afternoon, Thursdays, at the Snug Harbor Mobile Home Park Recreation Room, 600 Rio Vista Ave. in Red Bluff. For information call 529-1603 or go to the website redbluffartists.com. The Red Bluff Masterworks Chorale and Orchestra will present a patriotic concert at 7 p.m. on Sunday, May 26, at the First Church of God, corner of Luther Road and S. Jackson Streets, in Red Bluff. The community is invited to attend. The program featuring the fiftyvoice Masterworks Chorale and twenty member Orchestra, will be filled with songs that celebrate and honor God, the United States America and the men and women of the Armed Force. The concert will be under the direction of Mark Delcid Franklin. The featured soloist in this concert is Mr. Raphael Delcid. Mr. Delcid will graduate in June from CSU, Stanislaus with a degree in Voice Performance. He is a Young Artist Winner with both the Shasta/Simpson Symphony and the North State Symphony. He has also traveled throughout the Northwest singing a variety of roles in many local opera companies. Some of the titles on the concert program are The StarSpangled Banner, A Salute to the Armed Forces honoring the men and women of the Armed Forces. Also on the program are three songs from the Civil War era. The Masterworks Orchestra will play An American Salute based on When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again and the Stars and Stripe March by J.P. Sousa The Masterworks Chorale is a volunteer choral ensemble that began in 1996 to bring good choral music to the people of Tehama County. Singers come from Tehama and Shasta counties for the love of good singing and to prepare concerts for the community to enjoy. The Chorale first presented Messiah tby G.F.Handel at Christmas time and has continued to perform major choral works in three or four concerts each year. This weekend concert is will be the Chorale's sixth Memorial Day Celebration. This is an important day when as a people we remember the men and women who serve in the armed forces. There is no charge for this concert. Donations will be received at the door to help with future concerts. For more information call 527-4203. Music Armada Canoe Tour The Sacramento River Music Armada Canoe Tour will have a performance Monday May 27 by the Hypno Folk Pioneers Twin. The musical canoe tour down the Sacramento River will start in Redding May 24 and conclude in San Francisco June 23. The Red Bluff performance will be 6 p.m. May 27 at the Round Up Saloon. Once again Canadian Hypno-Folk act Twin and friends are changing music history with their River Armada Concert Series taking themselves, others, all their gear and instruments down the river by canoe sharing song, stories and seed everywhere they go. Twin will be performing with a variety of California artists, speakers and performers at the various stops along the Sacramento River until their final stop in San Fransisco. The tour starts at 8 p.m. Friday May 24 at the Bohemian Art Loft, 3304B Bechelli Lane in Redding, followed by 69 p.m. Saturday, May 25 at the Woodside Grill & Gaia Hotel in Anderson. The group will be at the Mill Creek Restaurant in Los Molinos Tuesday, May 28. 2013 Tribute to the Trees Concert scheduled in Dunsmuir Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens will play host to the 23rd annual Tribute to the Trees Concert featuring the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra with Benjamin Simon on Saturday, June 15. Here's your chance to dress like a penguin with the concert theme Puttin' on the Ritz A Black and White Affair. The June 15 event begins with the park open at 3:30 p.m., dinner at 5 p.m. and the concert at 6:30 p.m. Box Office opens May 14 The Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens are located in the Dunsmuir City Park, 4821 Dunsmuir Ave., with ticket prices at concert only $20 adults, $10 students; dinner and concert $45 adults, $25 students. Membership and cards are accepted. For more information visit dunsmuirbotanicalgardens.org or on Facebook: Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens and click "Like" to link to us. Special Concert Activities include a silent auction, raffles and garden boutique. There is a No host bar. Proceeds from the annual concert are the primary funding source for Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens, a non-profit tax deductible organization. Help us keep the Gardens alive and blooming. RED BLUFF Group discounts are available Reservations can be made by calling the box office, Dunsmuir Recreation District, at (530) 2354740 or by e-mail info@dunsmuirbotanicalgardens.org. Major credit Sierra Sound DAILY NEWS Classified NEW & USED CD's Special Orders Avail. Car Stereo Sales - Service Installation We make house calls! CALL 1-855-667-2255 Website: redbluffdailynews.com E-Mail: advertise@redbluffdailynews.com CALL (530) 844-3483 OR (530) 300-5171 226 So. Main St., Red Bluff 527-3735