The Dia de los Muertos Festival is a collaboration between many local businesses and community partners, and is inspired by the “Day of the Dead” holiday where people throughout Latin America gather to celebrate the lives of departed friends and family.
Walla Walla band Wildwood Park celebrates the release of their first album with a concert event.
The Atomic Bombshells have taken the international burlesque scene by storm, from New Orleans to Amsterdam. This polished and perfectly-choreographed, professional burlesque troupe, presents a show to remember on Saturday, November 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Gesa Power House Theatre.
Inspired by the TV show, Shark Tank, the “Pitch It!” competition provides a vehicle for students to design and develop innovative business concepts, create a presentation of their concept for a panel of judges and pitch their innovation in-front of a live audience.
Adventist Health Walla Walla General Hospital presents the return of The Great Kaplan - a comedic magician, juggler, and entertainer that will delight the whole family.
Shakespeare Walla Walla and Northwest Public Television invite you to a free screening of Season 6, Episode 1 - a month before its US Broadcast date.
Holiday-inspired sketch comedy from The Second City, the premier comedy theater and school of improvisation that launched the careers of everyone from Alan Arkin to Tina Fey.
Ireland's foremost Celtic classical crossover trio Affinití returns for a special Holiday concert in Walla Walla with guest performer Howard Crosby, nephew of the legendary Bing Crosby.
A Friends of Children of Walla Walla fundraising event: Gary Hemenway and Mark Brown on grand pianos, plus many local guest performers!
Working from the assumption that "science" and "magic" are the same thing, Doktor Kaboom declares that Mr. Claus must be the world's greatest scientist and sets out to recreate Santa's wonders in his onstage lab. What could possibly go wrong?
Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival artists, Brittany Boulding (violin), Alistair MacRae (cello), Maria Sampen (violin) and Timothy Christie (viola) are joined by special guest artists, PRISM Quartet for a wild exploration of music for string and saxophone quartets respectively.
Shakespeare Walla Walla presents a staged reading of Whitman College Professor Emeritus Patrick Henry's "Auschwitz and After" followed by a talkback/Q&A.
Please join The Moms' Network of Walla Walla for a screening at the Gesa Power House Theatre on January 24, 2016, at 1:00 p.m. of "Having It All" a documentary film by Vlada Knowlton. A panel discussion with the film's director and local mom's will follow.
Paula Poundstone is a stand-up comedian, author, actress, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's weekly news quiz show "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me". Her ability to be spontaneous with a crowd is legendary.
Judy Collins is best known for her interpretations of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" (Grammy Hall of Fame), and Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns" (Song of the Year at the 1975 Grammy Awards).
A highly-anticipated documentary film by Jason Wise about the world of wine.
PLEASE NOTE NEW VENUE INFORMATION: "Fame! (they're not going to live forever)" will be performed at the Walla Walla Community College Performing Arts and Science Center on Thursday, February 18, at 7:00 p.m. This is a highly-entertaining reading series where intimate, private letters, written by some of history’s most famous (and infamous) people, are read…
Featuring Robert Convery's Songs of Children, remarks by Richard Kaplan and James Winchell, Hana Szenesh's Walk to Caesaria and Grigori Frid's one-act opera, The Diary of Anne Frank. Performers will include the Walla Walla Symphony, led by Music Director and Conductor Yaacov Bergman, the Whitman College Chamber Singers and Ani Maldjian, soprano. This concert is…
Featuring Robert Convery's Songs of Children, remarks by Richard Kaplan and James Winchell, Hana Szenesh's Walk to Caesaria and Grigori Frid's one-act opera, The Diary of Anne Frank. Performers will include the Walla Walla Symphony, led by Music Director and Conductor Yaacov Bergman, the Whitman College Chamber Singers and Ani Maldjian, soprano. This concert is…
Columbia REA presents Dena Blizzard in "One Funny Mother...And I Am Not Crazy" for the second annual Comedy Night fundraiser to benefit The Moms' Network of Walla Walla. See this hilarious one-woman show before it opens Off-Broadway at the end of the month!
Hope Heals provides support to people in need, with an overall goal of spreading Hope, Love and Kindness, to everyone, everywhere.
Experience Handel's Messiah like never before! Sing-along to Handel's "Messiah" with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, through a live video feed.
Danza Classica Ballet Foundation holds their third-annual fundraising gala evening at Gesa Power House Theatre.
Mission Church presents "Life Outside the Tomb" - an Easter program at Gesa Power House Theatre on Sunday, March 27 at 10:00 a.m.
Madeleine Peyroux is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and guitarist, noted for her vocal style, which has often been compared to that of Billie Holiday.
The 2016 Little Watts Children's Series is presented by Walla Walla Valley Honda and Gesa Credit Union. Bring the whole family to enjoy an evening of acrobats, aerialists, jugglers, live orchestra and more.
Light burlesque meets carnival meets circus, backed up by a live orchestra. Portland's largest evolving collective of acrobats, aerialists, contortionists, and more, perform a cabaret-style show geared towards ages 18 and up.
International blues sensation Sugaray Rayford will open the 5th Annual Coyote Kings Invitational Walla Walla Guitar Festival at Gesa Power House Theatre on Friday, April 8, 2016 at 7:00 p.m.
Walla Walla couple Brian and Carrie Spradlin are launching a new wellness company Thrive Ecology. Come celebrate with Thrive Ecology and discover how you can THRIVE, not just survive in mind, body and life.
The Northwest Community Gospel Choir is a diverse singing group which performs under the direction of Gary Hemenway. Its members are comprised of musicians of all ages and backgrounds from the Gospel Music Workshop of America, churches, and various other music ministries in Portland and surrounding cities.
An inspirational evening of worship music by local performers to support worthwhile charities.
The WWU Steel Band reprises their annual concert at Gesa Power House Theatre. Joining the band this year is soloist Liam Teague - the "Paganini of the Steelpan".
Twisted Flicks is a movie experience like none other! Seattle’s most popular comedy theater merges improv and great old “B” movies for a unique and hilarious comedy experience.
Earshot Magazine’s 2010 Northwest Vocalist of the Year, Gail Pettis joins forces with one of America’s most respected and busiest Hot Club style groups - Pearl Django, for an evening of jazz at Gesa Power House Theatre.
The 2016 Festival Series gets underway with the first performance at the Gesa Power House Theatre. As is our tradition, we begin with the World Premiere of a work commissioned for the occasion, a set of duos for two violins by composer, John Berners.
Next, we encounter an American masterpiece of minimalism by Steve Reich, Different Trains for string quartet and tape.
To bring the performance to a close, WWCMF is delighted to welcome back the Volta Piano Trio for the Brahms Piano Trio in B, Op. 8.
For the second performance on the 2016 Festival Series, the piano goes silent. In its place are intimate works for strings, clarinet and voice.
WW Valley Honda and Gesa Credit Union present a play for children of all ages. A young athlete takes you on an Olympic adventure in "Vladimir Goes for Gold"!
Meet Vladimir Cashewninski: Champion Badminton player, and sole athlete from the tiny People’s Republic of Insurgistan, as he prepares to compete at the Olympic Games. The night before his big day, he has an enthralling dream that takes him to Ancient Olympia, where he meets the Olympic Herald and teams up with the audience to explore the first Olympic Games.
Celebrate Walla Walla Valley Wine weekend kicks off with an informative talk by two sommeliers on the World of Cabernet Sauvignon. Coffee and pastries will be served. Complimentary tickets are required.
The 2016 Festival Series 3 is a veritable potpourri of great music. What makes a good potpourri? I think a combination of something sweet, something exotic, something familiar, and something savory balanced in perfect proportion.
The 2016 Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival comes to a close with a program any Hollywood producer would admire.
Shostakovich, String Quartet in A flat, Op. 118
Schumann, Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 105
Dvorak, Piano Quartet in E flat, Op. 87
Participants in a week-long "Witty Fools" Improvisational Theater Camp try-out their newly-honed comedic skills in a performance on Sunday, June 26.
A free concert by the 133rd Washington Army National Guard featuring The General's 7 Dixieland Band and the Patriot Brass.
Singer/songwriter David Luning is part of a new generation of indie musicians whose genre blurs the lines of Americana/Alternative Country, Folk and Blues. With insights beyond his years, David’s poignant songwriting and warm, rich timbre voice captivates audiences and draws them into an Americana world both familiar and new.
Richard O’Brien’s, The Rocky Horror Show, comes to The Gesa Power House Theatre in a live theatrical production by New York City Director/Producer, and Walla Walla native, Tyson Kaup.
Dress up! Call out! Bring props! This live version of the popular movie (featuring local actors) will have you dancing and singing along to Rocky Horror Picture Show classics: "Science Fiction Double Feature", "Damn it Janet", "Time Warp", "Sweet Transvestite", "Hot Patootie", and more.
Four shows over two days.
Seattle Rock Orchestra pays symphonic tribute to psychedelic rock and roll through a retrospective that spans from Pink Floyd's debut album "The Piper At the Gates of Dawn" to their bestselling double-album "The Wall", including a complete performance of "The Dark Side of the Moon" and several of their orchestral and instrumental suites.
With a "voice that could stop traffic" (Hamilton Spectator), musical comedienne Sharron Matthews serves up her signature irreverent wit with solid gold mash-ups by artists such as Lady Gaga, Guns 'N Roses, Radiohead, Beyonce, Queen and more in a comedic tour-de-force concert.
Entertainer Adam Trent will bring his modern brand of "magic show" to Gesa Power House Theatre on Friday, September 30 at 7:00 p.m.
Trent began performing for friends, families, and birthday parties at young age, was performing on the streets of L.A. by age 14, and while still a teenager became the youngest and only magician to ever win back to back medals in the P.C.A.M. Pro Magic Challenge - one of the most prestigious magic competitions in the world. Trent has performed all over the world as a professional magician, and was recently one of seven magicians to perform in the Broadway show "The Illusionists" where he was billed as "The Futurist".
Walla Walla celebrities take to the stage at Gesa Power House Theatre on October 8 at 7:00 p.m. for the first ever "Dancing with the W2 Stars" - a fundraising event for Valley Residential Services. Local participants will be paired with professional dancers and have a week of rehearsals to learn a ballroom dance routine before the live performance and a judging panel.
Valley Residential Services has enlisted participation from a fantastic lineup of local "celebrities".
W2 Stars Dancers: Katie Christianson, Dean of Students - Willow Public School; Amy Figgins, Leonetti Cellar; Terra Luthi, General Manager of Courtyard Marriott Walla Walla; Andrae Bopp, Owner of Andrae's Kitchen; Lawson Knight, Co-founder of Intermountain Impact Investments; Nabiel Shawa, Walla Walla City Manager
W2 Stars Judges:
Janet Byerley, Jazzercise; Zachary Frasier, President of Walla Walla Sweets Baseball; Damien Sinnott, Washington State University
Additional support provided by
Walla Walla County,
Port of Walla Walla,
City of Walla Walla, City of College Place
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