The stellar lineup includes Grammy-winning Fantastic Negrito, Moon Hooch, Steve Poltz, Funk You, Telmary & HabanaSana. With continuous music on four stages, late-night headphone house, yoga, workshops, and the Healing Oasis, the festival promises a diverse sonic journey and a celebration of the desert’s raw beauty. Camp under the stars or choose from various local lodging options.
Based on the 1960 novella by Elizabeth Spencer, the show is set in the 1950s in Florence, Italy. Margaret Johnson, a wealthy Southern woman, and her daughter Clara, who is developmentally disabled. When Clara falls in love with a young Italian man, Margaret is forced to reconsider not only Clara's future, but her own deep-seated hopes and regrets as well.
Faith Prince has been dazzling Broadway audiences since winning the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance as “Ms. Adelaide” in Guys and Dolls. As one of Broadway’s best loved leading ladies, Faith most recently starred on Broadway in Disaster! The musical for which she received rave reviews.
Civic Center Park Amphitheater will be filled with music and fun from 7 – 8:30 p.m. every Thursday night in May, as Palm Desert’s free Concerts in the Park series returns for five weeks of unforgettable entertainment sure to please all ages and tastes.
Sunnylands free Films in the Gardens program returns in May with a selection of films featuring unique and imaginative set designs.
The Rock Yard outdoor concert stage is an amphitheater-style area featuring two side-by-side stages holding audiences of passionate music fans. The Rock Yard runs from Spring to Fall and is always live, always free, and always outdoors. New beer and drink specials (often themed to the bands performing on stage) are offered weekly.
New wave icons the Psychedelic Furs built a career on mysterious pop songs guided by the world-weary and unmistakable vocals of Richard Butler plus an always-evolving sound that started off as stark post-punk then took detours into synth pop, dance rock, and mainstream alternative.
Don Felder spent nearly three decades as a member of the legendary Eagles, and now the guitar virtuoso is bringing his considerable talents and impressive song catalog to Fantasy Springs Resort Casino’s Special Events Center
Experience a fabulous show featuring popular desert singer, Earl Mitchell, and his Broadway Veteran daughter, Emily Lindbeck.
Glenn has been seen at the CV Rep in Ballroom, Chess, "Glenn Rosenblum is the Musical Man" and his Broadway Showstopper series with Teri Ralston, Ilene Graff Jackie Joseph, Alix Korey, Joshua Finkel and Karen Morrow. The Broadway Showstopper series was originally created for the large virtual audience during the pandemic in CV Rep’s successful Theatre Thursday Series.
"Be it music made with lightning fast fingers on a fiddle, or a honeyed voice of dulcet notes both powerful or peaceful, it is a pleasure to watch this man at work." (Broadway World).
We peek in on the life-defining moments of Randall Scott – a Vietnam veteran who with his young, pregnant wife Rose settled into the quiet farming suburb of Southlake, Texas in the early 1970’s. Told through scenes that alternate between the early 70’s and 2022, it’s a story of love, regret, change and redemption. And there’s a ghost.
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