Concerts and speaker on tap for January at the Wachholz
Kevin Fedarkon will share highlights of his 750-mile, 100-day trek through the entire length of the Grand Canyon Jan. 29 at the Wachholz College Center. (Courtesy image)
The Wachholz College Center lineup for the new year features jazz, country and acoustic concerts along with a Changemaker Series Speaker.
On Jan. 18, Glacier Symphony presents a Symphony Jazz Night featuring singers Halie Loren and Steven Santoro:
“Echoing Norah Jones's soulful style, this dramatic musical experience fuses smooth melodies and captivating rhythms, blending popular and reimagined classics from the Great American Songbook arranged for jazz trio and orchestra.”
The concert starts at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $74 for adults and $25 for students, which includes service fees. Children 17 and under are free.
Thirteen tickets are left to see multi-platinum MCA Nashville recording artist Josh Turner’s This Country Music Thing Tour Jan. 23.
Timeless hits such as "Long Black Train,” “Why Don’t We Just Dance,” “Your Man,” helped lead the country music star to surpass 5.8 billion global streams and 6.5 million album sales, according to www.joshturner.com. The album “Long Black Train” celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2023 and was certified Platinum by the RIAA.
Turner has been nominated for three GMA Dove Awards and won his first GMA Dove Award in 2021 for “I Saw The Light” featuring Sonya Isaacs, off his “I Serve a Savior album.” He’s has been nominated for two Grammy Awards, five CMA Awards, two ACM Awards, one CMT Award, seven ACA Awards and has received six Inspirational Country Music Awards.
The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Ticket prices start at $56.45, which includes service fees.
On Jan. 29, join Changemaker Series Speaker and adventure writer Kevin Fedarko on an epic quest as he shares about traversing the entire length of the Grand Canyon, going beyond “rim to rim” and reaching “end to end.”
Fedarko will go in-depth about the treacherous 750-mile hike noting that “more people have walked on the surface of the moon than have completed this treacherous journey.” Accompanying him on the more than 100-day hike was photographer and filmmaker Pete McBride, who mainly traversed the canyon along the goat trail, through slot canyons, blinding sun and snow.
“Part ‘sufferfest,’ part glorious trek, their expedition sheds light on the health and future of this national treasure and invites us to contemplate the value of wild spaces,” according to changemakerspeakerseries.com. The experience is captured in his latest book, “A Walk in the Park.”
With 20 years writing about adventure, conservation, exploration and the Grand Canyon, his work has appeared in publications such as “National Geographic,” the “New York Times,” and “Esquire.” A trio of his stories from the Himalayas, the Horn of Africa, and the Colorado River are anthologized in “The Best American Travel Writing.” Fedarko also penned the book, “The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History through the Heart of the Grand Canyon,” earning him the National Outdoor Book Award and the Reading the West Award. He was a finalist for a PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Award and the Banff Mountain Book Award, and became a New York Times bestseller, according to the Changemaker Speaker Series.
Ticket prices range from $19.80 to $25.30, which includes service fees. Tickets are free for students in all grade levels.
Closing out the month is Nashville-based multi-platinum songwriter and producer Mat Kearney's Acoustic Trio Tour.
Kearney returns to the stage with “January Flower,” an album written between an isolated retreat in Joshua Tree and his home studio, showing him in his rawest form, distilling the songwriting process and rediscovering the joy of making music, according to a press release. Over his career, Kearney has released five studio LPs, performed on the
Kearney, a Multi-Platinum songwriter and producer, has performed live on “Today Show,” “Ellen,” “The Tonight Show," Letterman and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 31.
Ticket prices range from $42.90 to $57.20 and a limited number of tickets are left. VIP ticket packages are also available and include early entry, a mini acoustic performance, question and answer session, group photo and an exclusive signed screen-printed poster.
The Wachholz College Center is located on the Flathead Community College campus in Kalispell. All tickets may be purchased online at wccmt.org, at the box office or by calling 756-1400.