Harris Center for the Arts Program Guide 2023-2024
Long envisioned as a critically important element for Folsom Lake College, the visual and performing arts center was initially conceived as a facility to instruct, develop, and guide talented students to become actors, musicians, dancers, visual artists, and behind-the-curtain technicians. In February, 2011 the Center opened as "Three Stages at Folsom Lake College" and by the end of its second full season it had already attracted over 300,000 patrons to its offerings. The Harris Center for the Arts seeks to enrich the lives of people throughout California’s capital region by providing venues and opportunities to experience artistic work, celebrate cultural traditions and participate in the creative process.
Long envisioned as a critically important element for Folsom Lake College, the visual and performing arts center was initially conceived as a facility to instruct, develop, and guide talented students to become actors, musicians, dancers, visual artists, and behind-the-curtain technicians. In February, 2011 the Center opened as "Three Stages at Folsom Lake College" and by the end of its second full season it had already attracted over 300,000 patrons to its offerings.
The Harris Center for the Arts seeks to enrich the lives of people throughout California’s capital region by providing venues and opportunities to experience artistic work, celebrate cultural traditions and participate in the creative process.
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Johnny Cash – The Official Concert Experience<br />
Thursday & Friday, January 18 and 19, <strong>2024</strong>; 7:30 pm<br />
BIO JOHNNY CASH – THE OFFICIAL CONCERT<br />
EXPERIENCE brings songs and stories from <strong>the</strong><br />
“Man in Black” to <strong>the</strong> stage in a way that audiences haven’t<br />
seen or heard be<strong>for</strong>e. With video of Johnny from episodes<br />
of The Johnny Cash TV Show projected on a screen above<br />
<strong>the</strong> stage, a live band and singers will accompany him in<br />
perfect sync.<br />
This concert experience will showcase iconic per<strong>for</strong>mances<br />
from <strong>the</strong> TV show and highlight <strong>the</strong> spirit of <strong>the</strong> legend by<br />
revisiting some of his memorable words and anecdotes.<br />
Cash will per<strong>for</strong>m some of his biggest hits, including<br />
“Folsom Prison Blues,” “Ring of Fire,” and “I Walk <strong>the</strong> Line,”<br />
and share stories of people he met along <strong>the</strong> way whose<br />
causes he championed – <strong>the</strong> working man from all walks of<br />
life. Plus, onstage male and female singers will split vocal<br />
duties per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>the</strong>ir own takes on Cash hits. The music<br />
never stops in this concert event!<br />
Johnny Cash is one of <strong>the</strong> most important, influential, and<br />
respected artists in <strong>the</strong> history of recorded music. From<br />
<strong>the</strong> monumental live prison albums to his extraordinary<br />
series of commentaries on <strong>the</strong> American spirit and human<br />
condition to a mesmerizing canon of gospel recordings<br />
to his remarkable and unprecedented late-life artistic<br />
triumphs of will and wisdom, his impact on our culture is<br />
profound and continuing.<br />
John R. Cash was born into a family of Arkansas<br />
sharecroppers in <strong>the</strong> middle of <strong>the</strong> Great Depression, and<br />
that hard-scrabble life instilled in him a reverence <strong>for</strong><br />
family, <strong>the</strong> earth, God, and truth that in<strong>for</strong>med his incredible<br />
life and vision over a half-century career. Johnny broke onto<br />
<strong>the</strong> music scene in 1955 on Memphis’ fabled Sun Records.<br />
It was here, at <strong>the</strong> “birthplace of rock and roll,” where <strong>the</strong><br />
world was introduced to his singular voice and compelling<br />
songwriting, through such eternal classics as “I Walk <strong>the</strong><br />
Line,” “Big River” and “Folsom Prison Blues.”<br />
While most artists follow Neil Young’s adage, and ei<strong>the</strong>r<br />
burn out or fade away, Johnny did nei<strong>the</strong>r. In his later<br />
years, new audiences flocked to hear his consideration of<br />
what it means to be human. His powerful statements on<br />
love, <strong>for</strong>giveness and life and death spoke across time and<br />
generation, and still do today.<br />
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