Red Dragonfly Productions Blog

Labels: Benicia Historical Museum, Spenger Garden, Volker Strifler

Spenger Garden Music Series is currently accepting submissions for their concert series June 2009-October 2009. All genres are accepted, but the series will focus on Alternative, Blues, Classical, Country, Folk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Rock, Urban/R&B, World, Reggae, Gospel, Acoustic, Americana, Children's Music, Standards, Broadway, Cabaret, Contemporary Classical, Avant-garde, Celtic, Funk, Adult Contemporary, Bluegrass, Spoken Word, Singer/Songwriter, Comedy, Classic Rock, Soul and A Capella. Please submit your EPK through Sonic Bids at http://www.sonicbids.com/RedDragonflyMusicSeries. All other submissions can be mailed to:

Red Dragonfly Productions
Attn: Rhonda Lucile Hicks
310 Military West
Benicia, CA 94510

Submission Deadline: 01/27/09 for June through October 2009 dates.

The museum is planning on going to year round programming and submissions will be accepted year round. Preference given to Sonic Bids submissions.

Labels: Artist Submissions, Benicia Historical Museum, Spenger Garden

Music is coming this summer to the Benicia Historical Museum! It's cold and dark now, but come June, we'll be sitting outside in shorts and tank tops, sipping wine and listening to the first of many outdoor concerts to come.

The museum has built a beautiful garden in back of Stone Hall. We'll be able to seat 100 people and have planned eight concerts from June to October 2009. The museum is well known for it's Celtic concerts in Stone Hall, and with the addition of the new garden will be able to program new and different music.

I've been named Artistic Director for the Spenger Garden Music Series and I have been given the task of bringing music to the garden. The museum has charged me with their mission to be a center of culture and community. They feel a deep responsibility to bring music that will electrify, educate, enlighten and entertain. I am thrilled to have this artistic freedom and I look forward to building this small series into a gem of musical enjoyment.

My mission is bring new, different, unusual, illuminating, ecletic, enlightening, boundary pushing music to the Spenger Garden Music Series. I plan to focus on bringing some of the best in music to the museum.

I asked my music teacher this past year "What makes music 'good' music?" His answer was simple -- "When it moves you."

I look forward to the opportunity to move the audience, the musicians and all that will come to experience the community of the Spenger Garden Music Series.

Stay tuned! We'll be announcing the series in March!

Labels: Benicia, Benicia Historical Museum, music series, Spenger Garden