– The Sun Valley Center for the Arts has received a grant from the Donald W. and Gretchen K. Fraser Fund in the Idaho Community Foundation to support a public concert and school residency program with David Wax Museum.
The awards for David Wax Museum keep rolling in: the belle of the Boston Music Awards this December, their newest album “Knock Knock Get Up” was named as one of 2012’s Best Albums and they also won Song of the Year; in 2010 were named the Americana Artist of the Year. David Wax Museum combines Latin rhythms, call-and-response hollering and donkey jawbone rattling to create a unique blend of traditional Mexican folk and American folk and roots-rock music. The group will perform in Sun Valley on February 8 as part of The Center’s multidisciplinary project Crossing Cultures: Ethnicity in Contemporary America, which explores our increasingly multiracial and multiethnic society through visual arts exhibitions, classes, lectures and performances. The band is being played heavily on Adult Alternative stations for their most current single, “Harder Before It Gets Easier.”
In addition, David Wax Museum will perform in 4 local schools, fulfilling The Center’s mission to provide free arts programs in our community. The Center works with teachers and schools to enhance arts education through musical residencies and in-school arts programs provided to schools for free by Center arts outreach educator, Danica Robrahn.
David Wax Museum’s appearance is a part of the Center’s winter performing arts series and has also received financial support from the Paul G. Allen Foundation, WESTAF (the Western States Arts Federation), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the concert is being sponsored by KSKI, 103.7.
Tickets are available online now at www.sunvalleycenter.org.
