Mike Brown Group

The New Pornographers
2023-11-17 20:00 UTC | Knitting Factory, 416 S 9th St, Boise, Idaho, 83702
For what purpose the popular song? Does the popular song have a purpose? Is it just a sequence of auditory gestures, desperate acts, adrift in the bigger broader silence of an unforgiving cultural landscape? In what follows, we will assume that the purpose of the popular song is to unite warring disputants and to repair the manifold puncture wounds of life, so that life is revealed, again, as less accursed than it appears. And let’s assume that we go on listening to the popular song, which in the vast majority of its iterations is a failure, because we are chronic in our need for this rehabilitation of our puncture-wounded selves. Take any fine example, take “All You Need Is Love,” by the Beatles, or “Walk Away, Renee,” by the Left Banke, or “Tears of a Clown,” by Smokey Robinson. Try listening to these songs. Almost immediately, your suppurations begin to clot.
Into this tryingly difficult history of the popular song stride The New Pornographers, into a period in which it has to be acknowledged that the medium is mostly dead, is passed, is no longer a uniting force, but, more frequently, a medium of division, one entirely controlled by the Ownership Society and made profitable according to shareholders who don’t give a fuck if your puncture wounds are healed over as long as the product ships. The New Pornographers, stunningly, do not seem to understand that the popular song is dead, is passed, and The New Pornographers, despite their complete and nearly monastic understanding of the Secret Knowledge of the popular song, will themselves into being, characterized by a uniform devotion to the great history that precedes them by only a couple of decades, and their coming into being in a somewhat unlikely place, Vancouver, not previously noted for a unvarying profusion of rock genius, is particular not only for uniformity of purpose but because they manage, in this uniformity, to bring a considerable cast of local adepts all as one into the tent. The cast of adepts is now well known, but includes at least two startlingly good songwriters, three spectacularly good singers, one of the very best drummers in all of contemporary music, an in-house filmmaker-and that is merely to scratch the surface on the question of bench strength, the shocking amount of bench strength in a band in which everyone seems to be able to produce quality audio emanations from any instrument and to sing, and in which the studio is an instrument as it is in few bands.
Their first album is great, and is power pop, power pop, and more power pop, their second album (Electric Version) refines the form and tinkers, with more studio brilliance on display, the third, viz., Twin Cinema, is an artier thing and a proggier thing, revealing a breadth of confidence, and a breadth of confidences, both senses, and a command of lyrical nuance and anthemic talents that display themselves in unusual spots, in songs that don’t begin anthemically, but which then reveal urgencies; Challengers, the fourth, has some quieter annunciations on it, seems to come from a place of adulthood, from a recognition that urgency can be in the theme, and the affirmation of the song is not in the lyric necessarily, but in the commitment, in the commitment to the sonnet-like cadences of the popular song, and the title song herein, “Challengers,” a miniature about a romantic entanglement that literally walks past the narrator, takes us far beyond the adolescences of the popular song into the adult spot where really great songwriters begin to ply their craft.
Which brings us to the ineradicable present, which is the moment when The New Pornographers have already done everything they can do, in some senses; they have had songs in films and on television, they have toured the world, they are respected and covered and well reviewed and lionized, and everyone in the band has a justifiably earned reputation for excellence and admirability, chief among them A. C. Newman, first among equals with respect to these musical bulletins, Neko Case, the singer who never met a line of lyrics that she could not in same way make indelible, and Dan Bejar, the stealth member and interpretation-resistant Mandarin troubadour.
There are no more interesting rock and roll bands, you know, there are opiate-addicted white boys who cannot play very well and who are unwilling to turn down the amplifiers so as to be heard, and there are machines and auto-tuned fembots, and there are hip hoppers with public-relations simulated gangster simulations, and there are working-class guys with a lot of tattoos who can play really, really fast. But there are no more interesting rock and roll bands, and there are no longer songs that make you want to get out of bed. Still, The New Pornographers are unable not to behave like underdogs of yearning, like a united front of yearning, and they are also unable, it seems, to resist the challenge to make a perfect album, a form so dead that it is on its seventh wave of maggotry, and so they have an eye on history, and they do love a windmill, they love to charge, and they do not know how to do otherwise now, which means that theirs is a contagious form of yearning, and if in part their longing is postmodern, which is to say that they often writes songs that are about other songs (“Crash Years,” e.g., is about “You” by George Harrison, and “Moves” is, in part, about “25 or 6 to 4,” by the beleaguered Chicago), they are not able to treat the form simply as a kind of commentary (which has caused others fatefully to go awry), but also as a surgical intervention for puncture-wounded civilians everywhere, as a joy delivery-system, and in this joy-delivery system there are new and interesting twists, for those who are curious about what the ineradicable contemporary moment sounds like, sound-wise, and the twists on this new album, have to do with strings, really, and with a sort of chamber pop orientation, lots of cello, that is, of a sort that calls to mind the amazing Sister Lovers LP by Big Star, around whose open wounds A. C. Newman has orbited in the past but more fearfully than now.
Fewer keyboard flourishes, and fewer things that sound like they necessitated a good computer programmer, and more things that sound like A. C. Newman and the rest of the band playing in a room. This is probably an illusion, this playing together, but it is an illusion with a purpose, because there are at least two songs on this album that use togetherness as the assembling cement, the epoxy of their composition. The first of these is a big rock song, “Your Hands (Together),” and as you would expect the putting of hands together also occasions a silver bullet, of the mortally inflicting variety, which is the paradoxical sort of thematic approach that we would expect from songwriters who are no longer young, and who are willing to write a couplet that answers the question “What’s love?” with the response: “What turns up in the dark.” All of this is perforation for the tearing away of the final track, “We Get Together,” in which the hook, the title, is at the very end, buried in the mix, and the whole is about familial dynamics, much in the way that “Oh, Sister,” from Bob Dylan’s Desire is about familial dynamics, which is to say not at all, and more about the injunction to “do damage” than it is about familiar unity, “I’m for damage, sweet damage,” Newman and Case sing, and the cellos come back around, with their genteel bolshevism, with a hint of the early Electric Light Orchestra, and Carl goes in and out of his falsetto as he does when he’s winding up like a violent debater, and they hold back on the drumming, which is what they do, until it’s absolutely necessary, and that is a big advantage when the drummer is this great, and then we come to the out chorus, in which Case seems to be singing “ma ma ma ma,” as if to mislead you into thinking that the song, is about familial dynamics, and Newman sings “we end up together,” and then there is guitar feedback. End credits.
What does he mean about ending up together? What would it mean for a popular song, while clearly supporting an aesthetic palette devoted to “sweet damage,” nonetheless to support the idea of ending up together? Is it, paradoxically, about the kind of romantic failure that makes for all the best popular songs? Is it a recognition that the only unifying that can come from the contemporary popular song is the kind of togetherness that recognizes the truth of human life, namely that all is apartness, and all is lonesomeness, and this even if the principle songwriter in the band is recently married, and, by all evidence, reasonably content? Yes, it’s all about the ship going down, and the rats leaping from the sinking vessel, the vessel of the popular song, and there is nothing to do but to celebrate a recognition of this rats-going-down business, and, nonetheless, to view the articulation of same as a joy and a responsibility, such that the best joy-delivery system is the song itself, so that the medium is dead and yet is being used to celebrate its death, and it’s in our mutual recognition of apartness that we are most together. (The band setting is no different, in this way, from quotidian human life. It is a triumph over the entropic energy that would drive it, the band, apart.)
This is an eschatological approach, and, indeed, some of what you are hearing on Together, by the New Pornographers, is a band of ghosts who are mining their fin de sicle imagery for all its worth, even though we are at the beginning of a century. They are from Vancouver (mostly), they still believe that they have something to say, they are adults, they don’t use drum machines, they are not emcees. What could they possibly have going for them? Everything they stand for is over, they are the last iteration, they are the bitter end, the sweet aftertaste of something intoxicating. And yet they believe in doing it, still, together. We are so much the better for it

Canyon County Christmas Show
2023-11-18 11:00 - 19:00 | Ford Idaho Center
Hours: Fri. & Sat. 11am-7pm, Sun. 11am-4pm
Admission: Adults $5, Seniors(62+) $4, Children 12 & under FREE
FREE PARKING!
Ford Idaho Center is located at:
16200 Idaho Center Boulevard, Nampa, Idaho 83687
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A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY EXPERIENCE
FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY

Harvest Hustle
2023-11-18 13:00 - 15:00 | Reid Merrill Park, 637 East Shore Drive, Eagle, ID, 83616, United States
This family friendly event is raising money for Domestic Violence. It will include vendors, a 3K and 5K fun run, and of course family fun!
Join us for the Harvest Hustle!
Come and celebrate the bountiful season at our exciting in-person event, the Harvest Hustle. Get ready for a fun-filled day on Saturday, November 18, 2023, starting at 1:00 PM (Mountain Standard Time). The run will start at 1:30 sharp. Come and experience the joy of autumn as we bring together a vibrant community of families, and friends.

Agenda

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Check in

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Fun run

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Socialization

Freddie Gibbs
2023-11-18 20:00 | Knitting Factory, 416 S 9th St, Boise, Idaho, 83702

Ryan Hamilton
2023-11-18 20:00 | Morrison Center, 2201 West Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, Idaho, 83725
Ryan recently released his first stand-up special. The one-hour Netflix original Happy Face follows a wealth of television appearances and a non-stop headlining tour. Armed with the unique perspective of growing up in rural Idaho to becoming a favorite in the New York stand-up comedy scene, he’s one-of-a-kind. He’s been named one of Rolling Stone’s Five Comics to Watch, and recent appearances include The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan, and opening spots for Jerry Seinfeld as well as Gad Elmaleh at Carnegie Hall. Ryan is an endearing stand-up lover, and his future is bright.

Real Friends, Knuckle Puck, One Step Closer, Arm’s Length
2023-11-19 19:00 | Knitting Factory, 416 S 9th St, Boise, Idaho, 83702
KNITTING FACTORY – BOISE
416 S. 9TH ST. – BOISE, ID 83702
SUN
NOVEMBER 19
7:00 PM
(DOORS: 6:00 PM)
ALL AGES

Ian Bagg
2023-11-19 19:00 | The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, Idaho, 83702
Ian Bagg is a world-touring comedian whose comedy was recently described as “dangerously flawless” on the JRE. But he is not just a comedian he is also the cohost of the weekly hockey podcast, “Enjoying Orange Slices with Jeff and Ian.”
Early in his life, he discovered a love for hockey. Whether he was involved in minor, junior, pro, or friends getting together to play shinny, he loved hockey! He went to some camps and was cut, realizing he had no chance of making the pros. He knew it was time to use his natural talent to make people laugh.
Life has been fantastic for this energetic and wildly funny boundary-pushing entertainer. Touring nonstop across North America, he has started taking over the world with Australia, China, and the Middle East. With Europe being one of his latest stops. His fast-paced, off-the-cuff, quick-witted, animated style has him winning over television audiences. He placed in the finals of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing.” He made appearances on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and “The Tonight Show,” A popular guest on WTF, YMH,a half-hour comedy featured on Comedy Central and HBO, not to mention one-hour specials on Showtime “Getting to know you” and Amazon Prime “Conversations”! It also has earned him roles in award-winning movies like MVP 2! (humble brag)
His fast-paced multi-direction show has made patrons want to see multiple shows on a weekend. The audience becomes characters in his performance as they answer questions. Most comedians have a monologue; Ian has a dialogue. Attend a show immediately and see why his high school history teacher asked Ian’s parents if there was something he should know about Ian.

The 5 Browns
2023-11-20 19:00 | Morrison Center, 2201 West Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, Idaho, 83725
The 5 Browns are delivering on their dream to wake up classical music by introducing it to the most expansive, largest, and most excited audience they can find. Whether performing individually or together in various combinations, from duo to complex five-piano arrangements, The 5 Browns reveal a deep connection to the intent of their material while bringing a fresh energy and dynamic character to the color and tonal spectrum of their sound.
The 5 Browns – Ryan, Melody, Gregory, Deondra, and Desirae – attended New York’s Juilliard School. They became the first family of five siblings ever accepted simultaneously. The quintet enjoyed their first wave of critical attention in February 2002 when People magazine dubbed them the “Fab Five” at about the same time they were featured on Oprah and 60 Minutes. The 5 Browns have released 3 CDs that each went to #1 on Billboard Magazine’s Classical Album Chart. The New York Post has proclaimed: “One family, five pianos, and 50 fingers add up to the biggest classical music sensation in years…When these kids do Rachmaninoff, they’ll make you forget about Marshall amps.”

Jeremy Zucker
2023-11-20 19:30 | Knitting Factory, 416 S 9th St, Boise, Idaho, 83702
Before entrancing listeners across the world, 21-year-old singer, songwriter, and producer Jeremy Zucker had been quietly carving out his distinct sound from a bedroom in suburban New Jersey. A fusion of organic airy beats, lush soundtrack-style soundscapes, and biting tumblr-worthy lyricism, Zucker’s catalog is eclectic: equally care-free and effortless as it is introspectively cathartic. A self-described “social introvert,” Zucker cites Jon Bellion, Blackbear, EDEN, Bon Iver, and Wet among his strongest influences.

Festival of Trees
2023-11-21 - 2023-11-27 | Boise Centre, 850 W Front St, Boise, ID, 83702
Festival of Trees

All About the Magic of the Season
For 39 years now the Saint Alphonsus Festival of Trees has kicked off the holiday season in the Treasure Valley. The holiday season is a time for coming together to celebrate and revel in tradition. It is also a time for thinking of others and giving of ourselves. We are excited to launch the 2023 Saint Alphonsus Festival of Trees! Mark your calendars for November 21 (Gala), November 22-26 (General Exhibition) and November 27 (Fashion Show.) Let’s celebrate!

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas
2023-11-22 19:30 | Morrison Center, 2201 West Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, Idaho, 83725
Celebrate the magic of Christmas with Mannheim Steamroller at the Morrison Center.
Mannheim Steamroller, founded by composer and musician Chip Davis, has become the soundtrack for many during the holidays. And now, they will bring their distinctive blend of music coupled with spectacular lighting effects, mesmerizing visuals, and a meticulously designed stage set up to create a captivating backdrop for a memorable way to usher in the holidays.
Join us this holiday season and let the sounds of Mannheim Steamroller ignite your spirit and fill your heart with the joy of Christmas. Prepare to be captivated, inspired, and transported to a world where the magic of music reigns supreme.

The Struts, Mac Saturn
2023-11-22 20:00 | Knitting Factory, 416 S 9th St, Boise, Idaho, 83702
THE STRUTS, MAC SATURN
KNITTING FACTORY – BOISE
416 S. 9TH ST. – BOISE, ID 83702
WED
NOVEMBER 22
8:00 PM
(DOORS: 7:00 PM)
ALL AGES
TICKETS

Winter Garden aGlow
2023-11-23 - 2023-12-31 | Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N Old Penitentiary Rd, Boise, Idaho, 83712
Celebrate the wonders of the season at Winter Garden aGlow, a magical event, Wednesdays through Sundays, Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve. Wander through a mesmerizing world of twinkling lights, enchanting displays, and the sweet aroma of nightly cookies and hot chocolate. Let the kids explore this Winter Wonderland, while you enjoy intimate moments by the fire pits and sip holiday drinks at the Snow Globe Bar. Write heartfelt letters to Santa, witness the creativity of our community at the Gingerbread Village, and capture unforgettable memories. Join us and embrace the joy of togetherness in this luminous winter wonderland!

Nampa Pumpkin Spice 5K
2023-11-23 08:00 - 10:30 | 310 W Iowa Ave Nampa, ID 83686, 310 W. Iowa Ave., Nampa, ID, 83686, United States
Nampa Pumpkin Spice 5K
Thu November 23, 2023Nampa, ID 83686 US Directions

Event: Nampa Pumpkin Spice 5k

Start Time: 8:00am MST
End Time: 10:30am MST
Price: $40.00 Race Fee + $3.40 SignUp Fee
Registration: Price increases to $45.00 after October 31, 2023 at 11:59pm MDT

Running and walking on Thanksgiving morning! What could be better?? Make room for those second helpings by joining us at 8:00am Thanksgiving morning for an invigorating 5k on the beautiful greenbelt in Nampa! Thanksgiving themed costumes are highly encouraged!! This event is family friendly and runners and walkers of all levels are welcome.
Enjoy the out and back 5k course that features pumpkin pie bites on the greenbelt at the halfway point, and hot cocoa at the finish!
Help us help our Nampa food banks! All runners and walkers are encouraged to bring at least one canned good or non-perishable food item on race morning. All items will be donated to our local Nampa food banks and pantries.
The 8:00am run/walk starts at Gem Prep School, 310 W Iowa Ave, Nampa, ID 83686, and turns onto the Wilson Pathway for a beautiful out and back on the greenbelt.
Register now for best pricing!

Turkey Day 5k
2023-11-23 09:00 | ID
Your Holiday Tradition
Turkey Day 5k
Boise & Caldwell, Idaho
November 23, 2023

Boise

DATE: November 23rd, 2023
RACE START: 9:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Downtown Boise, Capitol & Idaho

Caldwell

DATE: November 23rd, 2023
RACE START: 9:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Downtown Caldwell, Indian Creek

Blippi - The Wonderful World Tour
2023-11-24 18:00 | Ford Idaho Center
Friday, November 24, 2023
Ford Idaho Center Arena
Blippi is coming to your city for the ultimate curiosity adventure inBlippi: The Wonderful WorldTour!So, come on! Dance, sing, and learn with Blippi and special guest Meekah as they discover what makes different cities unique and special. Will there be monster trucks, excavators, and garbage trucks galore? You bet! So get ready to shake those wiggles out and OJ Twist your way through this brand-new musical party!

A Thanksgiving Comedy Show
2023-11-25 19:00 | Lounge at the End of the Universe, 2417 Bank Drive, Boise, ID, 83705
A Thanksgiving Comedy Show
Jen Adams, Neighbor
Event Details
Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Lounge at the End of the Universe, 2417 Bank Dr, Boise, ID, 83705
Doors open at 6 pm! Show starts at 7 pm. Tickets are $15 online and $20 at the door. Entry for 21+ with valid ID only. Nov 25th!
Join us for a side-splitting Thanksgiving Comedy Show on November 25th! This one-of-a-kind live experience will transport you into a world of laughter and nostalgia as our talented improv performers recreate hilarious family stories and spin entirely new tales that will leave you in stitches. Prepare to laugh until you cry, as our comedians weave their comedic magic with on-the-spot wit and creativity.
Please note that due to the nature of some of our material, this show is strictly for individuals aged 21 and up. Our performers fearlessly tackle all subjects, ensuring a comedy experience that is both thought-provoking and uproarious. So gather your friends and join us for an unforgettable night of humor, camaraderie, and belly-aching laughs at our Thanksgiving Comedy Show. Don’t miss this chance to kick off the holiday season with uproarious joy!

Joy to the Word! A Sacred Christmas Celebration
2023-11-25 19:00 | Morrison Center, 2201 West Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, Idaho, 83725
Celebrate Christmas with Grammy Nominated violinist Jenny Oaks Baker & her accomplished children, musical group Family Four, as they present an inspiring Christ-centered Christmas show of sacred, exhilarating, and beloved Christmas Carols featuring Irish Soprano Alex Sharpe, formerly of Celtic Woman. With music by Emmy Award-winning Composer Kurt Bestor, narration by New York Times Best-selling Author Jason F. Wright, dancing by Elevé Dance Studios and Killarney Irish Dance, and with the Cantus Youth Choirs and Singers from the Treasure Valley joining Jenny and Family Four, this show promises to usher in an uplifting and celebratory spirit to your Christmas Season! Tour Sponsored by Black Desert Resort.

Dirt Honey
2023-11-28 19:30 | Knitting Factory, 416 S 9th St, Boise, Idaho, 83702
DIRTY HONEY: CAN’T FIND THE BRAKES TOUR
KNITTING FACTORY – BOISE
416 S. 9TH ST. – BOISE, ID 83702
TUE
NOVEMBER 28
7:30 PM
(DOORS: 6:30 PM)
ALL AGES

Dance Allegro Academy - The Nutcracker
2023-11-29 - 2023-12-17 | Nampa Civic Center, 311 3rd Street South, Nampa, Idaho, 83651
14th annual Allegro Winter Spectacular/ Nutcracker

Hadestown
2023-11-29 00:00 - 2023-12-03 00:00 | Morrison Center, 2201 West Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, Idaho, 83725
Run Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes, including a 15 minute intermission
Welcome to HADESTOWN, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony® Awards, this acclaimed new musical by celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and innovative director Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) is a love story for today… and always. Intertwining two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — HADESTOWN is a haunting and hopeful theatrical experience that grabs you and doesn’t let go.

Casey Donahew
2023-11-29 20:00 | Knitting Factory, 416 S 9th St, Boise, Idaho, 83702
If you build it, they will come. This might be the mantra of one of the greatest baseball movies of all time, ‘”Field Of Dreams,” but it’s also a pretty accurate description of the career of Texas music sensation Casey Donahew.
The Burleson native, (with the help of his wife Melinda,) has painstakingly carved out an impressive niche for himself on the country music scene over the past decade, attracting a solid base of loyal fans who flock to his legendary live shows. Building his career from the ground up one show at a time, he’s managed to perform on countless stages night after night in front of thousands, topped the Texas music charts several times, released four albums independently to critical acclaim, and forged a path all his own through the music scene without the aid or muscle of a major record label or power-suit management company. And the release of his latest CD, “Double Wide Dream,” may just push him to heights he never could have imagined when he first plugged in on stage at the Thirsty Armadillo bar back in Fort Worth’s Stockyards in the Fall of 2002, and began constructing his own field of musical dreams.
Though he seems like a born natural when it comes to performing, Casey actually fell into music gradually. He grew up on a farm the first few years of his life and quickly grew to love riding and team roping, a sport he still enjoys today. His grandfather, who loved to play and sing, gave Casey his first guitar growing up, but it wasn’t until college at Texas A&M that he first began to teach himself to play and really focused on writing songs. A big fan of 80’s and 90’s country, Casey had always admired the storytelling in the songs of that period, and when a wild-eyed Oklahoma boy named Garth Brooks began swinging from the rafters and employing all sorts of crazy, rock show antics during his concerts, Casey was immediately hooked.
“I’ve just always liked the country songs from the 80’s,” says Casey. “It seems like a time when there was a lot of great songwriting going on, and I just enjoy people who can tell a story with a song. And I’ve always been a big Garth Brooks fan, since the beginning. First there was George Strait, and then here came this guy from Oklahoma, Garth Brooks. And you’d see George standing there playing guitar, but then Garth comes along running all over the stage, playing guitar and singing all these songs that he wrote. And the thing I was always most enamored with about Garth was that he wrote most of those songs. He was just one of those guys who did it all. And he started in Stillwater, not too far from the Red Dirt scene. You could really take a lot of Garth Brooks songs and put ‘em on a record of mine, and I think it would fit right in.”

Mammoth WVH, Nita Strauss
2023-11-30 19:30 | Knitting Factory, 416 S 9th St, Boise, Idaho, 83702
MAMMOTH WVH, NITA STRAUSS
KNITTING FACTORY – BOISE
416 S. 9TH ST. – BOISE, ID 83702
THU
NOVEMBER 30
7:30 PM
(DOORS: 6:30 PM)
ALL AGES

Vintage Market Days presents "A Merry Little Christmas"
2023-12-01 - 2023-12-02 | Ford Idaho Center
Vintage Market Days presents
“A Merry Little Christmas”
December 1-2, 2023
Ford Sports Center

Boise Christmas Show
2023-12-01 - 2023-12-03 | Expo Idaho, 5610 North Glenwood Stree, Garden City, Idaho, 83714
Thousands of Unique Gifts,
Over 225 Vendors,
Visit with Santa & Mrs. Claus!
Hours: Fri. & Sat. 11am-7pm, Sun. 11am-4pm
Admission: Adults $5, Seniors(62+) $4,
Children 12 & under FREE

Elijah Rock - White Christmas
2023-12-01 19:00 - 21:30 | The Riverside Hotel, 2900 W Chinden Blvd, Garden City, ID, 83714
Elijah Rock – White Christmas
Friday, December 1, 2023
7:00 PM 9:30 PM
The Riverside Hotel
2900 W Chinden Blvd Boise United States (map)
Elijah Rock is a remarkable American artist known for his exceptional talents as a singer, actor, tap dancer, and recording artist. He has long made his mission clear of keeping the proud traditions and legacies of The Great American Songbook not just alive…but vibrant. The Legendary Tony Bennett recently exalted Rock by saying, “Keep on singing and keep this beautiful music alive!” Drawing inspiration from the world of jazz and classical, he showcases his exceptional vocal artistry and pays homage to the classic era of music. Building on the success of his earlier albums, Gershwin for My Soul and Matters of The Heart, Rock, a superior singer with a deep baritone voice, recently released his new four-song EP Swoon. Rock’s profound musicality and passion continue to captivate listeners and breathe new life into the cherished melodies of The Great American Songbook.
Join us for a 30-Minute TALK BACK DISCUSSION after the show! Elijah is a Current Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute at UCSF, San Francisco. Elijah will discuss his Fellowship and the amazing work he is doing.

Hip Holiday Craft Market
2023-12-02 09:00 - 16:00 | Flying M Coffee, 1314 2nd Street South, Nampa, ID, 83651, United States
Save the date for everyone’s favorite holiday market: Hip Holiday will be Satuday, Dec. 2nd at the Garage! Join our Facebook event here, and go to flyingmcoffee.com/craftmarkets to learn more.

Boise Holiday Parade
2023-12-02 10:00 | ID
The parade is almost here!
The parade will be here before we know it! Register today to participate, sponsor, or donate before time runs out!

Eguberriko Azoka – Basque Christmas Market
2023-12-03 11:00 - 16:00 | The Basque Block, 611 Grove Street, Boise, ID, 83702, United States
Please join us on the Basque Block on Sunday, December 3 from 11am to 4pm for our annual Eguberriko Azoka, or Basque Christmas Market. There will be food and drink, vendors from near and far, and activities for the kids.

Gentri Christmas
2023-12-05 19:00 | Morrison Center, 2201 West Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, Idaho, 83725
Kick off the Christmas season with GENTRI: The Gentlemen Trio on December 5, 2023, with their spectacular holiday show, CHRISTMAS. With a wholly re-imagined show for 2023, The Gents are sure to help you get into the Christmas spirit with epic orchestrations, lush harmonies, and moving storytelling – including some new treats and your favorite renditions of the most beloved and timeless Christmas songs of all time.
