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Jazz with Marie Claire
Melodius Tonk Jazz Quartet, featuring vocals by local favorite soloist Marie Claire Figadere, will be performing at El Bar Co on Friday, May 1, 8:30 p.m. This group has a great jazz repertoire that includes funk, R&B, blues, manouche oldies, and much more.
Naked Stage
The Naked Stage minimalist readers’ theater presents “Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean” by Ed Graczyk on Friday, April 24, Saturday, April 25 and Sunday, April 26. All performances start at 4 p.m.
Directed by Jim Lloyd, the play is centered on a James Dean fan club that meets at a Texas five-and-dime store. The local star-studded cast includes Jim Ryan, Caroline McCormack, Damyn Young, Amy Friend, Lila Wells, Patricia Guy, Florette Schnelle and Sharon Lowry.
Naked Stage productions take place at Rio Bravo 10, Ajijic. The bar opens at 3 p.m. and the box office at 3:15 p.m.
Hard Travelin’
Don’t forget that New York performer Randy Noojin portrays singer, songwriter and activist Woody Guthrie in “Hard Travelin’ with Woody” at Club Exotica on Saturday, April 18, 7 p.m.
Noojin comes to lakeside just off a 40-city tour of a show featuring legendary Woody Guthrie songs such as “This Train is Bound for Glory,” “This Land is Your Land” and many others.
Tickets priced at 200 pesos per person are on sale at Yoly’s Unisex Salon, Plaza Bugambilias, and Diane Pearl Colecciones, Colon 1 at Calle Ocampo.
Sunday Movie
Showcasing the power of education as a tool to help abused girls escape their dangerous lives around the world, “Girl Rising” is the seventh film in this year’s Sunday Afternoon at the Movies series, sponsored by the Lake Chapala Chapter of Democrats Abroad Mexico.
ASA
Ajijic legacy artist Jesus Victoriano Lopez Vega will be the featured speaker at the Monday, April 6 meeting of the Ajijic Society of the Arts (ASA). During the meeting, which begins at 10 a.m. at La Bodega, Lopez Vega will share with the group his lifetime in art.
Book Launch
Naked Stage
