Rigmarole Returns!
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2020 AT 7PM
JOIN US FOR A LEAP YEAR DANCE WITH RIGMAROLE
Plumas Arts is offering an event to bring a smile to your face as you look out your window on these wintry days… Save that the date of February 29 for a very special Leap Year day dance. It will be so great it can only happen every four years! Join your friends and folks at the Quincy Veteran’s Hall on when RIGMAROLE comes back to town with their own unique blend of rock, funk, jazz, and classical fusion to help us shake off those cabin fever blues.
“Rigmarole has been a big hit at several Plumas Arts events over the last couple of year and this return performance has been in response to popular demand,” says Roxanne Valladao Plumas Arts Executive Director. “Many of us know Rigmarole as ‘Tanners Band and we always appreciate a change to bring him home to play for us.’”
Tanner Johns was born and grew up here as an active part of the local music scene with his parents Dave Johns and Shelley Miller. Tanner went off to college to become a music teacher and that is where he met the members of the band as they progressed through the music education and performance department at CSU, Chico. Their friendships were maintained after college and, as they have gravitated closer and closer to Chico, decided to start playing music together again.
The band members are now all music educators in the North State. “It is such a great pleasure of ours to practice and play what we preach to our students,” says Tanner Johns. “Playing music is a totally different outlet than directing and rehearsing with kids.”
Band members are:
Admission to the dance is $20 in advance or at the door. Plumas Arts members can get a pre-sale discount ticket at $15 they purchase by February 28. Tickets go in sale February 1. For more information go to the plumasarts.org website or call 530-283-3402.
Plumas Arts is offering an event to bring a smile to your face as you look out your window on these wintry days… Save that the date of February 29 for a very special Leap Year day dance. It will be so great it can only happen every four years! Join your friends and folks at the Quincy Veteran’s Hall on when RIGMAROLE comes back to town with their own unique blend of rock, funk, jazz, and classical fusion to help us shake off those cabin fever blues.
“Rigmarole has been a big hit at several Plumas Arts events over the last couple of year and this return performance has been in response to popular demand,” says Roxanne Valladao Plumas Arts Executive Director. “Many of us know Rigmarole as ‘Tanners Band and we always appreciate a change to bring him home to play for us.’”
Tanner Johns was born and grew up here as an active part of the local music scene with his parents Dave Johns and Shelley Miller. Tanner went off to college to become a music teacher and that is where he met the members of the band as they progressed through the music education and performance department at CSU, Chico. Their friendships were maintained after college and, as they have gravitated closer and closer to Chico, decided to start playing music together again.
The band members are now all music educators in the North State. “It is such a great pleasure of ours to practice and play what we preach to our students,” says Tanner Johns. “Playing music is a totally different outlet than directing and rehearsing with kids.”
Band members are:
- Bill Hepworth on Electric Guitar and Banjo, teaches guitar privately through the Guitar Center in Chico and is a frequent substitute teacher for the music teachers in the area. Austin King on Drums, teaches band in Gridley to grades 5-12 and will soon be moving to Chico Unified School District.
- Ayako Nakamura playing Trumpet, is an adjunct professor of music at CSU, Chico and teaches trumpet, both for the university and privately and is a member of the North State Symphony. Seth Snyder {on top of the slide} brings high powered Vocals and Auxiliary Percussion. He teaches K-8 music and band in Red Bluff.
- Ryan Heimlich on Electric Bass, teaches band and choir at PV High School in Chico as well as clarinet at CSU, Chico and is a member of the North State Symphony.
- Casson Scowcroft plays Trombone and teaches band at Red Bluff High School.
- And last but most certainly not least is our own home grown Tanner Johns (Tenor Saxophone) teaches band and choir at Bidwell and Marsh Jr. High Schools in Chico.
Admission to the dance is $20 in advance or at the door. Plumas Arts members can get a pre-sale discount ticket at $15 they purchase by February 28. Tickets go in sale February 1. For more information go to the plumasarts.org website or call 530-283-3402.
