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COURTESYPHOTO Connie Maxey's watercolor painting "He Turned....Our Eyes Met" is pictured. VINA The Tehama Mas- terworks Chorale under the direction of Steve Ack- ley will be giving a concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 10 at the New Clairvaux Cha- pel in Vina. The concert will feature a variety of sacred hymns and psalms including some old favorites such as "Amaz- ing Grace" to "Blessed Be the One" written in 2008. There will be psalms that have been put to music such as Psalm 121, "I will lift up my eyes," and others that will be accompanied by Darlene Lee. There will be only one performance of this music this spring and it seemed fitting to have it take place within the monastery's cha- pel walls. It should be a beautiful spring day to enjoy some beautiful and inspiring mu- sic. The chorale's next con- cert will be a patriotic con- cert on May 29 at the First Church of God. Those who have previ- ously sung with the Mas- terworks group are en- couraged to come join in rehearsals for this concert at 6:45 p.m. beginning Mon- day April 11 at the Presbyte- rian Church. Everyone who enjoys singing, with or without the patriotic music, is welcome to join Masterworks. For more information, call Darlene Lee at 529- 0911. MASTERWORKS CHORALE Sacred hymns and psalms concert scheduled Sunday Joe Godburn and Scott McGee are directing in Mis- soula Children's Theatre's presentation of Sleeping Beauty set for 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday at the State Theatre and featuring local children. Godburn is also playing the Court Jester. The production is pre- sented by Tehama County Arts Council and audi- tions were held Monday at the Red Bluff Union High School gymnasium. The cast has been rehearsing each day this week. For the audition, 91 young people came out for one of the many parts in the play, 60 were cast as actors and 4 as assistant directors. The Missoula Children's Theatre is the nation's larg- est touring children's the- ater and has been touring extensively for more than 40 years from Montana to Japan. It will visit nearly 1,200 communities this year with up to 44 teams of tour actors and directors. A tour team arrives in a given town with a set, lights, cos- tumes, props and make-up, everything it takes to put on a play except the cast. The team holds an open audi- tion and casts 50-60 local students to perform in the production. The show is rehearsed throughout the week and two public per- formances are presented on Saturday. All MCT shows are orig- inal adaptations of clas- sic children's stories and fairy tales with a twist on the classic stories that you know and love. Three en- richment workshops are presented by the teams. Creativity, social skills, goal achievement, commu- nication skills and self-es- teem are all characteristics that are attained through the participation in this unique, educational project. Godburn is a gradu- ate of Lees McRae College in Banner Elk, North Car- olina with a BS in theater arts studies. McGee holds a BA in acting and directing as well as a master's degree in screenwriting. Local youth to stage Sl ee pi ng B ea ut y PHOTO BY BOB MCCONNELL Auditions were held Monday at the Red Bluff Union High School gym for Saturday's Missoula Children's Theatre presentation of Sleeping Beauty. MISSOULA CHILDREN'S THEATRE The Tehama Country Visitor Center is host- ing Red Bluff Art Associ- ation's spring art exhibit through May 27 at 250 An- telope Blvd. in Red Bluff. Visitor Center hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. There are 31 paint- ings created by 25 mem- bers of the Red Bluff Art Association including works in oil, acrylic, wa- tercolor, pastels, alcohol ink, color pencil and col- lage. Five members who recently joined the asso- ciation are participating for the first time. Paint- ings depict flowers, ani- mals, landscapes, birds, abstract and non-repre- sentational subjects. This event is free to the public and provides an op- portunity to acquire orig- inal works of art by tal- ented local artists. An artists' reception to be an- nounced for a later date is being planned and will of- fer a time to meet the art- ists and enjoy light re- freshments. The Visitor Center is a resource for information about Tehama County and showcases local area attractions and features local agricultural prod- ucts. The association meets at 10 a.m. Thursdays at the Tehama District Fair- ground, 650 Antelope Blvd. in Red Bluff. For more information, call 529-1603, visit redbluffa- rtassociation.com or find the association on Face- book. ART ASSOCIATION Ex hi bi t op en s at visitor center This summer Shasta College is producing the widely popular musical The Producers adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan. The musical is based on Brooks' 1968 classic com- edy of the same name and will show at 7 p.m. July 7-9, 14-16 and 21-23, with two matinee performances at 2 p.m. July 10 and 17. All per- formances will be at the Shasta College Theatre. Auditions will be at 6 p.m. April 12 and 13 in room 638 at Shasta Col- lege. Everyone in the com- munity is welcome to au- dition with casting ages ranging from teenagers to senior citizens. Perform- ers should prepare a co- medic monologue no lon- ger than 2 minutes and a 16 bar song from the mu- sical The Producers or an- other musical comedy. Auditioners should bring sheet music, or re- corded accompaniment if required for their perfor- mance. Call-backs will be April 14. If you are inter- ested in auditioning but cannot make these times, write to Dr. Gregory Thor- son at gthorson@shasta- college.edu to set up a dif- ferent audition time. The story of the play re- volves around two theater producers who scheme to get rich by producing an unsuccessful musical on Broadway. This hilarious show draws on ridiculous events, characters and sit- uations. The original Broadway production is among the most successful musicals of all time. It won a record number of 12 Tony awards and ran for 2,502 perfor- mances. This production is rated PG-13 and some ma- terial may not be suitable for children. The production is di- rected by Thorson with musical direction by Dr. Elizabeth Waterbury, Da- vid Fraser as the set de- signer, costumes by Hil- ary Fahey and hair and makeup by Matthew Mc- Donald. For more infor- mation, call 242-2369 or visit www.shastacollege. edu/theatre. AUDITIONS Shasta College's production of The Producers The Second Annual Chico Comedy Festival is coming to the Big Room in Chico Sunday, April 24. Los Angeles' Drennon Davis and Nick Stargu will headline the show, featur- ing a number of well-known California comedians. Da- vis was recently featured on Comedy Central's new show "Adam Devine's House Party," NBC's "Last Call" and "Last Comic Stand- ing." He was featured in LA Weekly's "Top 10 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2014" and his appearance on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in 2015 is a viral sensation. Davis and Stargu will be joined by host DNA and a lineup of regional "best of" comedians and an all-star comedy band. Doors at 6 p.m. with show at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 and available at si- erranevada.com or by call- ing 893-3520. SIERRA NEVADA BIG ROOM Second annual Chico Comedy Festival is April 24 By Matthew Manfredi Correspondent In 1967, Arlo Guthrie re- leased "Alice's Restaurant Massacre," an 18-minute and 20-second song that distinguished a defining moment in his career. On Sunday, he will bring the folk saga and nearly 50 years of prolific storytell- ing to Laxson Auditorium. "I've always loved good stories and I've loved tell- ing tall tales," Guthrie said. Celebrating the 50th an- niversary of "Alice's Res- taurant," Guthrie has been touring since January 2015 and he doesn't plan to stop for a few more months. "I've been doing this since I was a kid, begin- ning in 1965," Guthrie said. "I guess what I love most about it is going places and making music and finding new friends." Guthrie was only 19 years old when the "Al- ice's Restaurant" record, the catalyst to his long ca- reer as a folk musician and counter-culture trouba- dour, was released to the public. Portraying actual and satirical events that hap- pened on Thanksgiving Day 1965, the "talking blues" saga transformed into an ironic commen- tary on the war in Viet- nam, military draft and crooked presidential poli- ticians. Guthrie claims it's an "anti-stupidity" song rather than anti-war folk- anthem. "Sometimes it's the id- iocy of authority which gives us all hope," he said. "These times are no less hopeful." Only performing the "Al- ice's Restaurant Massacre" live every 10 years, he in- cludes news items and ar- ticles from past decades that are still relevant to- day with political figures and controversial issues. He has been known to span the song's duration to 25 minutes, accompany- ing the folk narrative with figure-style guitar and har- monica. Though years later, Guthrie finds a way to tell the story like it happened yesterday. Equipped with a modern and vibrant stage production — lights, video and archival photos — Guthrie continues to fill venues across the country, bringing the nostalgia and tradition to every tour stop along the way. Born in Coney Island, New York, Guthrie grew up with the art of storytell- ing and the sounds of folk music from a very young age. Going to the Board- walk with "a guitar in one hand and harmonica in the other" would be something he would do all throughout his childhood. His father, Woody Guth- rie, was and still is one of America's fabled folk he- roes and the family leg- acy resonates during Arlo Guthrie's performances. He remembers his fa- ther's best piece of advice: "It is better to fail at being yourself than to succeed from being somebody else." Guthrie passed down the art of storytelling to younger generations just like his father did. Sarah Lee, Guthrie's daughter, will be opening the night of the show, lending her unique voice to the Guth- rie family legacy. "Folk music is not a genre. It's the way every- one learns to play almost anything that's not classi- cal music," Guthrie said. "It's another way music is handed down from gener- ation to generation." Arlo Guthrie plays Lax- son Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are available online at www. chicoperformances.com or at the University Box Office by calling 898-6333. MUSIC Guthrie to bring folk saga to Chico on Sunday CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Folk musician Arlo Guthrie, son of folk legend Woodie Guthrie, is set to perform at Laxson Auditorium with his daughter on Sunday. A+E » redbluffdailynews.com Thursday, April 7, 2016 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS A5