ARTEFFECTS
Local Feature: Episode 624
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Behind the scenes with Executive Director Beth Macmillan celebrating of Reno's Artown
Find out the plans and some of the highlights for the 2021 Artown festival Beth Macmillan and Oliver X.
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ARTEFFECTS
Local Feature: Episode 624
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Find out the plans and some of the highlights for the 2021 Artown festival Beth Macmillan and Oliver X.
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This year, our town is proud to welcome to our stages.
Many of those artists who you just saw performing in that video.
Joining me now is art town marketing director, Oliver X, to talk about some of the performances art town is bringing back this year.
- Beth in 2021, our town is proud to be presenting some of the most homegrown artists in art town's history on one single stage our main stage here at Rancho San Rafael, regional park.
And many of those artists were featured in heartbeat to heartbeat, eye to eye.
- [Beth] Yeah.
Can you tell us who those were?
- [Oliver] Yeah.
Eric Anderson, Kyle Ray, the members of the sex tones, Grace Hayes, Tim Snyder especially Khalila Smith Cage, July 10th over at the Elm EST.
- We are so proud that we really are showcasing our local artists this year, because with COVID and everything we've been through I think it's really important to really put a spotlight on everyone that is so unique to our community.
Can you tell us about some of the other performances we have maybe some that are headliners.
- [Oliver] Yes.
AJ Croce, the son of Jim Croce, the great seventies artists.
He's playing the great hits of his father, and that's called AJ Croce Croce plays Croce and that's July 8th.
- Wonderful.
- Yeah.
Then we're going to be featuring Kronos quartet.
One of the great orchestral ensembles in all the world, that's July 15th.
And then one of our favorites, Keb' Mo', the Delta blues five time Grammy winner.
He's going to be playing July 22nd.
And then we want to have the incredible Shelea.
One of the proteges of Quincy Jones and David Foster.
So July 29th, we're really looking forward to that.
- [Beth] There are how many events in total Oliver?
- [Oliver] We'll have over 300 events in and around Reno, and it's going to be amazing.
- [Beth] And everybody wants to get out the summer, so let's celebrate the arts in July.
- [Oliver] And this year our town 2021, the theme is everybody art town.
- [Beth] We're actually using art town as a verb.
We're saying, come art town with us.
- [Oliver] It's going to be a great footprint here with our main stage in the beautiful surroundings of the park.
It's going to be awesome, I can't wait.
- So much to look forward to for the month of July.
For more information about upcoming art town events visit arttown.org, and that wraps it up for this edition of artifacts.
For more arts and culture, and to watch past episodes visit PBS reno.org/artifacts, until next week, I'm Beth McMillan.
Thanks for watching.
- [Narrator] Funding for artifacts is made possible by, Sandy Raffealli, the June S. Wisham Estate, Carol Franc Buck, Merrill and Lebo Newman, Heidemarie Rochlin, Meg and Dillard Myers, the annual contributions of PBS Reno members, And by... ♪ Up-beat music
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