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November 12, 2007
The Hot Club of San Francisco to Perform at the Grand
Tracy, Calif.—City of Tracy Cultural Arts Division will host The Hot Club of San Francisco in Silent Surrealism on Friday, December 7, 2007, at 8:00 p.m. The performance will take place at the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts, located at 715 Central Avenue, between Seventh and Eighth Streets, in downtown Tracy, Calif.
Silent Surrealism, which recreates the ambience of the refined lounges of the Hotel Ritz and the smoky clubs of Paris in the 1093s, is a multi-media show combining live gypsy jazz with short, silent films, Now You Tell One, It’s a Bird, The Fall of the House of Usher and The Land Beyond Sunset. It takes audiences back to a time when the artistic and literary style emerged as a means of expressing imagination and when writers and filmmakers were interested in the implications of words and images and providing the opportunity to vicariously experience the unknown.
The Hot Club of San Francisco is an ensemble of accomplished musicians who celebrate the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli’s Hot Club de France. Like the original group, the ensemble performs all-string instrumentation, but presents innovative arrangements of classic tunes and original compositions from the group’s lead guitarist, Paul Mehling. The Hot Club of San Francisco has produced eight albums and has performed internationally for more than 10 years, most recently at the Monterey Jazz Festival in September. “Acoustic Guitar magazine calls the group’s playing “intricate, scorching and often brilliant.”
Ticket prices to the December 7 performance are $25, $30, $35, $45 & $50. They can be purchased online at www.atthegrand.org, by phone at (209) 831-6TKT (6858) or in person at the Grand Theatre Center for Arts Box Office. Box office hours are Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. and one hour prior to each performance.
Tickets are also on sale for all upcoming performances during the premiere season at the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts. Coming in January are Rhapsody in Taps on January 19, Brazilian Guitar Quartet on January 20, and Trailer Park Musical, January 24-27, 2008.
About the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts
The four buildings on the corner of Central Avenue and Seventh Street originally included two early hotels, retail space and Tracy’s original firehouse, constructed in 1900. The Grand Theatre opened in 1923 as a vaudeville theatre and centerpiece of downtown Tracy. Its Art Deco tower and marquee, which were designed by prominent San Francisco architect Alexander Aimwell Canton and added in 1939. The theatre building closed in 1977 and was used as a storage facility for the next two decades.
In 2002, the City of Tracy purchased the Grand Theatre and the adjoining properties and hired the architectural firm of ELS Architecture and Urban Design of Berkeley, Calif. to develop a renovation design for the new arts center. McFadden Construction Inc. of Stockton was awarded a $12.2 million contract to build the center and broke ground in June of 2005.
Total cost for the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts project was $18 million, which includes acquisition of the city block and relocation of residents. The funding for the project came from redevelopment funds and contributions raised by the Arts Leadership Alliance.
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