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Members-Only Twilight Garden Stroll
Thursday, June 26 or Tuesday, September 16
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Filoli cordially invites you to spend a beautiful evening
strolling through the House and Garden, while enjoying
wonderful music, drinks and catered hors d’oeuvres. It
is our way of saying “Thank You” for your membership
during this past year. In order to accommodate as many
members as possible, please select only ONE of the two
dates listed above. There is NO charge for the Stroll but
space is limited.
The Membership Office will begin taking reservations for
the June 26 Stroll on Tuesday, May 27. The cut-off date for
reservations will be either when the maximum number
of reservations has been reached or June 20, whichever
occurs first. For the September 16 Stroll, the Membership
Office will begin taking reservations Monday, August 18
until September 10, unless the maximum number of guests
is reached prior to that date. Please call 650 364-8300,
extension 508 to make your reservation.
In 2007, Filoli experienced a significant number of “noshows.”
We ask that if you have made a reservation and
find that you are unable to attend, that you notify the
Membership Office as soon as possible and at least 48 hours
prior to the Stroll. This gesture will allow the Office to
contact other members on the waiting list. Thank you for
your courtesy.
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Tickets on sale to members Monday, May 5
Tickets on sale to non-members Monday, May 19
Paul Blystone, 2008
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June 15 through September 14, 2008
Filoli is proud to present our 18th season of jazz... an ambitious and exciting lineup of quality musical acts that guarantees to please you... our fun-loving audience. It is a satisfying and varied menu featuring six great musical courses:
- 1st Course: June 15, individual concert tickets SOLD OUT
available through series purchase only.
Fred Berry Big Band with Jamie Davis
“A big band plate featuring the tastes of Basie, Ellington, and Bellson”
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2nd Course: June 29,
Karrin Allyson Quartet
“A sultry hot and spicy twice Grammy nominated jazz vocalist”
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3rd Course: July 13,
Le Jazz Hot
“The best of Parisian gypsy jazz fare, served with Vin Blanc”
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4th Course: August 10, individual concert tickets SOLD OUT
available through series purchase only.
Mitch Woods’ Big Easy Boogie
“A Fats Domino gumbo with earthy New Orleans roots” (Extra Hot!)
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5th Course: August 24,
Grant-Matheny Duo/Dmitri Matheny Quintet
“A double delight of flugelhorn and piano, mixed with a quintet of soul”
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6th Course: September 14,
Sammy Figueroa
“A tasty Miami-based Latin jazz treat; À la mode if you wish”
Six different servings cooked to perfection by prominent musicians using their own special ingredients; all set in one of the best outdoor concert venues anywhere. Please join us for another great Season of Jazz at Filoli. With parking, snacks and drinks included in your ticket price, these are all high entertainment values. The shows sell out quickly, so make your reservations soon. We look forward to seeing you.
SHOWTIMES
Concerts are from 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Filoli's garden stage. Seating begins at 1:00 p.m. Gates open at 11:00 a.m. and you may tour the house and gardens before the concert. Parking is free.
REFRESHMENTS/BOX LUNCHES
Concertgoers receive complimentary snacks, wine, beer and sparkling water. Orders for gourmet box lunches ($15) must be placed in advance using the Order Form. If you prefer, you can bring your own bag lunch. We have a few guidelines:
- Please, no coolers or picnic baskets. Think disposable. Pack lightly and go home empty-handed.
- Lunches may be eaten only in the concert area. There is no picnicking anywhere else on the Filoli grounds.
- Filoli is a smoke-free property.
PURCHASE TICKETS
Filoli members, purchase your tickets by calling 650 364-8300, extension 508 Mondays through Fridays from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. beginning Monday, May 5th. Non-members may purchase tickets beginning Monday, May 19th.
You may prefer to download the Jazz at Filoli order form and fax to 650 503-2090. Or, purchase tickets by mail by filling out the Jazz at Filoli order form and sending it to Jazz at Filoli, 86 Cañada Road, Woodside, CA 94062. Include a check made out to Friends of Filoli or credit card number and self-addressed stamped envelope.
Special thanks to:
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Jazz at Filoli performances:
(Please note: sold out dates are indicated with a strikethrough)
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FRED BERRY BIG BAND WITH SPECIAL GUEST SINGER JAMIE DAVIS
JUNE 15, individual concert tickets SOLD OUT
available through series purchase only.
Generating the big sounds of the Basie/Ellington/Bellson tradition, Fred Berry combines his 18 piece top-flight big band with the silky smooth vocals of Jamie Davis. Now that’s entertainment!
Director Fred Berry, professional trumpet player and jazz educator, has resided in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1966, teaching at the College of San Mateo and working as a freelance performer. He is also Director of the Jazz Ensemble at Stanford University. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music from Southern Illinois University and graduate work at Stanford. Fred is actively involved in jazz education as a director, clinician and adjudicator. A frequent performer on trumpet in professional Bay Area jazz ensembles, Mr. Berry has performed or recorded with such artists as Count Basie, Bennie Carter, McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Lou Rawls, Max Roach, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Nancy Wilson, Lena Horne, Billy Eckstine, Steve Allen, Hubert Laws, Bobby Hutcherson, and Louis Bellson.
“A star in Europe and Clint Eastwood's favorite jazz singer” (ABC News), baritone singer Jamie Davis is a member of the Count Basie Orchestra, the big band that is carrying on the legacy of the deceased bandleader who defined the 1940’s Kansas City swing style. Gifted with a smooth and buttery tone, Jamie first found his voice as a choir soloist, but soon immersed himself in soul and R&B. After attending Ohio State University, where he sang liturgical music, Jamie toured the world with numerous ensembles before joining the Basie Orchestra in 2000. The program will include favorites from the Basie standard repertoire, as well as contemporary material from Jamie’s new CD, “It’s a Good Thing.”
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KARRIN ALLYSON QUARTET
JUNE 29
Karrin Allyson is one of the most versatile and exciting performers on the scene today. It’s not just critics who love Karrin. It’s the rest of the world, too—musicians, concertgoers and connoisseurs of quality music. The two-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated singer has been gathering fans everywhere jazz can be heard or seen since 1992. Her body of work, documented on her eleven critically-acclaimed Concord CD’s, ranges from ballads, blues, and bebop to Brazilian songs, French chansons and the Great American Songbook.
Karrin and her band have performed around the world. She has appeared in the best venues everywhere, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, the 92nd St.Y in New York City and Tanglewood. The singer has been a popular and welcomed guest of Garrison Keillor on Public Radio International’s A Prairie Home Companion on several occasions. Notable jazz critic and historian Gary Giddins affirms, “Allyson coolly stakes her claim. She brings a timbre that is part ice and part grain...incisive, original, and emotionally convincing.” The Houston Press agrees wholeheartedly, “If there’s a choir in heaven, someday the exquisite vocalist Karrin Allyson will lead it. She’s such an otherworldly talent that the creator probably already has her on heavy rotation.”
The classically-trained Karrin Allyson is also a great bandleader—she is a musician’s musician. If you listen carefully, you will hear highly developed musical interplay with her band that sounds so effortless and natural that it conceals the deep level of musical sophistication. This is one of Allyson’s great achievements, and it is the result of working for more than a decade with an ensemble of fearless and powerfully committed jazz virtuosi. Together, they have developed a powerful and flexible language and style unique among current groups.
Her extremely personal style and the top-notch musicianship of her collaborating players will leave the Filoli audience wanting more.
"...a complete performance by a complete artist - one of the jazz world's finest."
— L.A. Times
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LE JAZZ HOT
JULY 13
Le Jazz Hot (the Hot Club of San Francisco) is an ensemble of accomplished and versatile musicians celebrating the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli’s pioneering Hot Club de France. The ensemble borrows the all-string instrumentation of violin, bass and guitars from the original Hot Club, but breathes new life into the music with innovative arrangements of classic tunes and original compositions from the group’s superb lead guitarist Paul Mehling.
Hearing the ensemble live, or on any of their ten albums, carries the listener back to the 1930’s and to the small, smoky jazz clubs of Paris or the refined lounges of the famous Hotel Ritz. Often called gypsy jazz, the music of The Hot Club of San Francisco has entranced audiences around the globe for over 15 years. From American festivals such as Monterey and Chautauqua to festivals in Mexico and France and concert halls across North America, The Hot Club of San Francisco keeps this historic music fresh and alive. Critics have hailed the group’s playing as:
“intricate, scorching and often brilliant…” -Acoustic Guitar
"...the most cohesive and entertaining gypsy swing bands in the US." -San Francisco Chronicle
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MITCH WOODS' BIG EASY BOOGIE
AUGUST 10 individual concert tickets SOLD OUT
available through series purchase only.
Pianist/vocalist Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88s have been the torchbearers of a great American blues musical heritage, not for two years but two decades. Taking their inspiration from the great jump n' boogie outfits of the late 40's and early 50's, they breathe fresh life into the music that gave birth to rock 'n' roll. Woods styled his group after the jumpin' 'n' jivin', shoutin' n' honkin', pumpin' n' poundin' bands of Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, Joe and Jimmy Liggins, Amos Milburn, and Roy Milton. Adding a healthy dose of New Orleans rhythm and blues, piledrivin' piano, and some of his own contemporary playful lyrics, Woods and His Rocket 88s forge their own brand of music they call "rock-a-boogie."
For our Filoli show, Mitch brings together an unsung inner circle of rock 'n' roll royalty in his latest project, Mitch Woods’ Big Easy Boogie. It is vintage rock’ 'n' roll and boogie inspired by New Orleans piano greats Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, and Little Richard, performed in Mitch’s joyous entertaining style that makes you feel like you are not only in the audience but on stage with him having a ball! Mitch will feature one of New Orleans’ legends of the original Fats Domino band, Herb Hardesty, making the sound true to New Orleans R&B roots.
"A two-fisted love letter to Fats Domino and Professor Longhair" – Blues Revue
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GRANT-MATHENY DUO /
DMITRI MATHENY QUINTET
AUGUST 24 Since their debut at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 1996, the classically-trained jazz duo of Darrell Grant (piano) and Dmitri Matheny (flugelhorn) has solidified a reputation as "pioneers and champions of the chamber jazz movement" (Public Radio International). Exploring the lyricism, the swing, and the soul of songs, GRANT & MATHENY blends the intimate elegance of European chamber music with the playful, spontaneous spirit of American jazz.
The duo performs a large and diverse repertoire, with material drawn from many musical genres: classical works of Barber and Bach, jazz standards by Ellington and Monk, contemporary songs of Keith Jarrett and Sting, negro spirituals, New Orleans second line, American popular song, Argentinean tango, ambient film music, and more. Spicing each performance with personal stories, impromptu vocal riffs, and warm camaraderie, the GRANT & MATHENY duo is the modern day heir to a legacy that reaches back to the days of early jazz and vaudeville.
Appearing on major concert stages and festivals around the country, they follow in the footsteps of legendary teams of entertainers who pioneered the art and craft of duo performance: Williams & Walker, Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, Mitchell & Ruff, Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines. Now in their 12th season, Darrell and Dmitri continue to refine the singular "chamber jazz" style they first defined over a decade ago. According to Stereophile, "GRANT & MATHENY are intense listeners, sometimes anticipating and instantly echoing ideas, yet always weaving one fabric." All About Jazz agrees, "GRANT & MATHENY have played together for years, and it shows: they share the lead; they finish each other's phrases. Both players have refined their instrumental technique to the essentials, giving the music a relaxed, uncomplicated sensibility that makes it fun to listen to. Not surprisingly, the audience loves them."
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SAMMY FIGUEROA
SEPTEMBER 14 Two-time Grammy nominated Sammy Figueroa is one of the music world's most prominent percussionists, providing the rhythms for hundreds of hits. He was born in the Bronx, New York, the son of the well-known singer Charlie Figueroa. His first professional experience came at the age of 18 with the band of bassist Bobby Valentin. During this time he co-founded the innovative fusion Brazilian/Latin group Raices, which broke ground for many of today’s bands.
Since then, Sammy has recorded and performed with artists ranging from Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, the Brecker Brothers, Quincy Jones, Houston Person, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Dave Valentin and Tania Maria to Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan, David Bowie, Average White Band, James Taylor, Whitney Houston, Annie Lennox, David Lee Roth and Natalie Merchant. Sammy played on many classic R&B hits such as Chic’s “We Are Family,” “Luther Vandross’ “The Night I Fell In Love” and Ashford and Simpson’s “Solid Like A Rock.”
Sammy Figueroa is best known as one of the music world's most prominent percussionists, providing the rhythmical framework for hundreds of hits. Well-known for his versatility, humor and professionalism, he is one of the few percussionists equally comfortable in a multitude of styles, from R&B to rock to pop to bebop to Latin to New Age.
For our Jazz at Filoli show, Sammy will be joined by a tight ensemble of jazz virtuosos such as Venezuelan pianist Silvano Monasterios and prominent trumpet-player Alex Pope Norris. They will be playing a combination of original material, such as the title track from their latest album "The Magician" and tunes by Michel Camillo, Hermeto Pascual, Cedar Walton, Horace Silver and Miles Davis.
Sammy “advances a bright ideal of Latin jazz" - NEW YORK TIMES
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From the Greenhouse to Your House
Thursday, July 17 through Sunday, July 20
Celebrate Succulents
Stars of the Greenhouse — Orchids
Meat Eaters! — Carnivorous Plants
Something for Everyone!
Hailing from the deserts, the tropics and somewhere in between, discover the wet, the dry and the amazing! This new program features three plant collections not usually seen by our visitors. You can go on a greenhouse tour, attend one of the informative talks, watch revealing demonstrations or help the younger ones discover the garden and have fun doing a hands-on activity.
Pick your favorite or do it all! A selection of all three plant collections will be on display throughout the entire program.
Unless otherwise noted, programming is free for members
or with paid admission to Filoli. Space is limited; reservations are highly recommended.
Celebrate Succulents Reserve Now!
Thursday, July 17, 10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Visit today’s feature table and learn more about these versatile plants.
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Greenhouse tours.
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Demonstration: Succulents make great companions in Floral Arrangements.
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. For young visitors! Grow a desert plant. All ages; please bring your grown-ups.
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Talk and Visual Presentation: Growing and Caring for Succulents. Presented by Robin Stockwell, proprietor of Succulents, Inc., Castroville, CA.
Robin shares his knowledge about these water-wise plants. Watch him plant a spectacular dish garden.
Fee: $10 members; $15 non-members
Stars of the Greenhouse — Orchids Reserve Now!
Friday, July 18, 10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Visit today’s feature table brought to you by the Peninsula Orchid Society.
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Greenhouse tours.
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Demonstration: Unique and Unusual Floral Arrangements.
12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Demonstration: Dividing and re-potting Orchids.
1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Demonstration: Dividing and re-potting Orchids.
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Talk and Visual Presentation: Growing Orchids in the Bay Area.
Presented by members of the Peninsula Orchid Society. Learn how to select and grow orchids in the Bay Area.
Fee: $10 members; $15 non-members
Meat Eaters! Carnivorous Plants Reserve Now!
Saturday, July 19, 10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Visit today’s feature table and find out about these interesting plants.
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Greenhouse tours.
12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. For young visitors! What are carnivorous plants and how do they eat? All ages; please bring your grown-ups.
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Demonstration: Handling and Planting Carnivorous Plants.
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Talk and Visual Presentation: Growing Carnivorous Plants.
Presented by Barry Rice, author of Growing Carnivorous Plants. Watch, listen and learn as Barry and his carnivorous companions enlighten visitors! A book sale and signing immediately following the presentation. Fee: $10 members; $15 non-members
Something for Everyone! Reserve Now!
Sunday, July 20, 11:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
11:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Visit our displays of all three featured plant collections and learn something new.
11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. For young visitors! Have fun creating or planting something. All ages; please bring your grown-ups.
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Greenhouse tours.
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Donate Your Used Books to Filoli
Filoli’s annual Book Sale will be Friday, August 1 through Sunday, August 3. Proceeds from the sale are used to purchase new books for the libraries. We sell books on gardens and gardening, cooking, art, history, and travel (no novels, please).
Please bring your donations to the Visitor Services counter in the Visitor & Education Center or drop them off at the gate house by July 24th.
We need your book donations to make this fundraiser a success.
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The Newest Fruit at Filoli Cookbook
Available for purchase in the Garden Shop and Café.
Note: If you have purchased a cookbook, please make this correction: On page 25 for the Tart Crust recipe 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar should be 1/2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar. We apologize for the error.
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