Community Calendar

We are honored to announce Voices of the Valley, a one-night-only benefit concert supporting three cornerstone arts organizations that enrich the cultural life of our region!
The evening will feature an exceptional lineup of artists, including:
✨ P!NK, the evening’s host, with an exclusive intimate acoustic performance
✨ Sky Lakota-Lynch, Broadway star of The Outsiders
✨ Emma Pittman, Broadway star of The Outsiders
✨ Willow Sage Hart
✨ Student performers from Arts Outreach’s Summer Theater program
We look forward to gathering our community for this extraordinary evening in support of the arts!
𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠:
Arts Outreach provides arts education and creative access for students throughout the Santa Ynez Valley.
Solvang Theaterfest sustains a historic open-air theater and presents professional and community performances that bring audiences together.
Elverhøj Museum of History and Art preserves the region’s rich cultural and artistic heritage through exhibitions and educational programs.

Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps are on quite a roll.

Her persuasive pipes slathered in honey and soaked in Texas-bred sass, keyboardist Teresa James and her band, the Rhythm Tramps, have long reigned as one of Los Angeles’ leading contemporary blues outfits, even though their uncommonly imaginative repertoire, much of it supplied by Terry Wilson, James’ husband, producer, and bassist, is by no means strictly limited to the 12-bar form. Their 2019 CD Here in Babylon was nominated for a Grammy in the Contemporary Blues Album category.

Rose-Colored Glasses, the band’s new release on Blue Heart Records, continues that proud tradition. It’s their 12th album and once again showcases Teresa’s enticing way with a lyric and Terry’s prolific songwriting talent, poured over grooves that’ll grab listeners and refuse to let go until the very last notes have rung. A coterie of Texas guitar greats guest on the set, including Anson Funderburgh, Lee Roy Parnell, Johnny Lee Schell, Snuffy Walden, and Dean Parks. “This new album is kind of veering a little bit more into soul,” says Teresa. “But to me, blues is more of a state of mind. It’s where you’re coming from. It’s the attitude and the heart that you bring to it.”

Soon to have a full dozen albums under their collective belt spanning 23 exciting years, Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps remain a staple of the Los Angeles-area blues scene in addition to an international touring artist, with a sound all their own. Moving easily from Texas-style grease and blues into Memphis soul or New Orleans-flavored grooves and all points in between with fun and abandonment, as one critic said, “there are no clichés in this band.”