Concerts

Back in Ketchum for a fourth season, International Guitar Night is celebrating its 20th anniversary and has become the toughest ticket to get on The Center’s performing arts season. Each year, founder Brian Gore invites four of the world’s best guitarists to tour together for two months in Europe and two ...

Back in Ketchum for a fourth season, International Guitar Night is celebrating its 20th anniversary and has become the toughest ticket to get on The Center’s performing arts season. Each year, founder Brian Gore invites four of the world’s best guitarists to tour together for two months in Europe and two ...

Catch ukulele virtuoso, songwriter and rising star, Taimane, in a small, intimate venue before bigger stages beckon. Born and raised in Hawaii of hapa Samoan descent, Taimane is renowned for both her pyrotechnics on the ukulele and her prowess in using music and movement to paint vibrant images that elicit de...

What better way to spend a holiday than with Storm Large? Storm will love you, leave you, delight you and abuse you with wicked charm and stunning vocals that will have you begging for more. “Holiday Ordeal” is a night of music, gags, gifts and songs ranging from “Hallelujah,” to “Sock it to Me, San...

Che Apalache is a four-man string band based in Buenos Aires with members from Argentina, Mexico, and the United States. They call their musical style Latingrass, a mix of South American music and Bluegrass, and their repertoire ranges from vivid Latin rhythms to a cappella mountain gospel songs sung in four-...

Special "Life is Beautiful Keb' Mo' Meet & Greet Experience" is available for ticket purchasers for $89 + $5.34 in fees. Price does NOT include a ticket to the show, so purchaser MUST buy a ticket separately from this package. The upgrade includes a pre-show meet & greet with photo op with Keb' M...

The one and only Dr. Professor Kubínek is a comic genius, virtuoso vaudevillian, and all-around charmer who gives audiences an utterly joyous experience they'll remember for a lifetime. His internationally acclaimed solo performances play to packed theaters, opera houses and international festivals of theatr...

Jackson Browne has written and performed some of the most literate and moving songs in popular music and has defined a genre of songwriting charged with honesty, emotion and personal politics. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2007. His debut a...

Tearing at the Seams, the vivacious and inventive record from Denver’s Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, is grounded in old-school r&b and rock and roll, but these songs are far too urgent for the retro or revivalist tag. There are familiar elements of soul and garage rock, but also jazz and fo...

Two amazing musicians and their bands—one stage, one night. Ziggy Marley is an eight-time Grammy winner, Emmy winner, authors, philanthropist and is not only a reggae icon in his own right, but is part of reggae royalty, son of Bob and Rita Marley and is the bandleader of his own Melody Makers. Michael F...

Both Grammy-nominated artists, pianist Alfredo Rodríguez and percussionist Pedrito Martinez are best known for their individual work, but began working together on Alfredo’s 2012 album Invasion Parade. Since that initial recording session, these Cuban jazz musicians have occasionally performed together as ...

Back for an unprecedented third year, it’s the return of International Guitar Night! This season the lineup includes Italy’s Luca Stricagnoli (who was here with IGN’s first visit), whose showmanship and arrangements of heavy-metal songs has made him a huge fan favorite. Luca will be the guest host and w...

Celebrating 10 years and over 30 million Spotify plays in 2018, The Sweet Remains is an unusual band on today’s music scene, headed by 3 gifted singer-songwriters, each contributing to the writing and 3-part harmonies that define the band’s sound. Rich Price, Greg Naughton and Brian Chartrand met for a ch...

Bon Débarras unites the worlds of music, dance and poetry through a collaboration between Montreal artists Dominic Desrochers, Jean-François Dumas and Marie-Pierre Lecault. The group brings together a fusion of Quebecois folk music, traditional step-dancing and global influences for a show that is full of f...

LED combines contemporary dance, original music, and film into breathtaking cinematic experiences. Founded in 2015, LED is a project-based arts nonprofit based in Boise, Idaho. LED's innovative and accessible artistic experiences are created by the artistic trio of choreographer Lauren Edson, musician An...

Michael and Tanya Trotter took distinctly different paths to becoming The War and Treaty. After winning a talent show when she was 13, Tanya knew singing would be her life. Michael started writing later, when he was serving in the US Army stationed in one of Saddam Hussein’s partially destroyed palaces. The...

Rhythm Future Quartet has a straightforward agenda: to keep the spirit of Gypsy jazz alive and expanding in today’s musical universe. The virtuosic foursome, named for a Django Reinhardt tune, offers up a newly minted sound, influenced by the classic Hot Club of France, yet is wholly contemporary. Led by vi...

Storm Large: musician, actor, playwright, author, awesome. Storm Large has sung in a remarkable variety of settings and with a wide variety of people, including k.d. lang, singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright, funk legend George Clinton, and the BBC Symphony and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestras. A frequent guest ...

Storm Large: musician, actor, playwright, author, awesome. Storm Large has sung in a remarkable variety of settings and with a wide variety of people, including k.d. lang, singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright, funk legend George Clinton, and the BBC Symphony and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestras.  A frequent ...

Closing out the summer concert series is Baldygrass One-Night Music Fest featuring The Infamous Stringdusters, Kuinka and AHI. This lineup combines bluegrass, Americana and an up-and-coming indie-soul artist to create a musical night that can’t be missed. The Infamous Stringdusters are a leading light in...

Big Head Todd and the Monsters with very special guest Shovels & Rope will rock River Run Lodge in Ketchum. Formed in Colorado in the late 80s, Big Head Todd has toured internationally and their album “Sister Sweetly” went platinum and had three singles that made the charts including “Bittersweet”...

The first concert in the series features St. Paul & the Broken Bones with special guest North Mississippi Allstars. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, and led by vocalist Paul Janeway, St. Paul & the Broken Bones is an eight-piece soul-based rock band. Frequently compared to Otis Redding and backed by an i...

Taking America by storm, the 2014 Irish Music Association “Best New Band” Socks in the Frying Pan has had several very successful tours around the U.S. where they performed at all the major Irish festivals including Milwaukee; Dublin, Ohio; and Kansas City. These County Clare natives have captiv...

International Guitar Night is North America’s premier touring guitar festival and returns after a sold-out concert in Sun Valley in 2017. For the 2018 North American tour, Gypsy Jazz legend Lulo Reinhardt (Germany) returns as guest host, along with young Canadian sensation Calum Graham; classical innovator ...

International Guitar Night is North America’s premier touring guitar festival and returns after a sold-out concert in Sun Valley in 2017. For the 2018 North American tour, Gypsy Jazz legend Lulo Reinhardt (Germany) returns as guest host, along with young Canadian sensation Calum Graham; classical innovator ...

Tyler Ramsey is a multi-instrumentalist equally at home playing guitar, piano, keyboards, bass, and percussion, but he is best known as a talented fingerstyle guitarist and singer songwriter. Early on Tyler studied country blues guitarists like Mance Lipscomb and Mississippi John Hurt, and American fingerstyl...

Mark O'Connor is a renowned and revered bluegrass, jazz and country violinist and fiddler, composer and music educator. Backed by his Grammy Award-winning O’Connor Band, Mark O'Connor puts on an engaging, dynamic show showcasing compelling arrangements, virtuosic solos, and tight vocal harmonies. The O'Conn...

Las Migas is unique among Spanish music groups, a fascinating blend of Flamenco and Mediterranean styles that combines classic and contemporary rhythms. The four women of Las Migas come from four different cities that span not only geography but also the cultural diversity of Spain: Barcelona, Sevilla, Córdo...

Now in their 21st year, Pink Martini and bandleader Thomas Lauderdale are Portland, Oregon’s “musical ambassadors to the world,” performing a multilingual repertoire on concert stages from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl to Royal Albert Hall, and with more than 50 symphony orchestras throughout Euro...

Ben Schneider conjured Lord Huron from the depths of Lake Huron during a trip to his family home in northern Michigan in 2010. Ancient memories, smoke over the moon and nights full of perilous laughter all bolstered the brew from which Lord Huron emerged. Ben brought Lord Huron back with him to Los Angeles, w...

In 2005, rooted in community and 
tradition, a group of students learning 
Son Jarocho music became known 
as "Los Cafeteros," named after the Eastside Cafe community center in East Los Angeles that they helped found. They soon changed their name to Las Cafeteras to honor the feminine spirit of the grou...

International Guitar Night (IGN) is North America’s premier mobile guitar festival. Since its beginning, IGN has brought together the world’s foremost acoustic guitarist composers to perform their latest original compositions and exchange musical ideas in a public concert setting. This year, occasional IG...

Brett Dennen is a nationally known, celebrated singer songwriter who has released 6 albums. He’s played at Austin City Limits, Newport Folk and Telluride Bluegrass Festivals and appeared on Jimmy Kimmel, David Letterman and Conan O’Brien. His songs are carefully crafted, beautiful and often have a wry sen...

Nashville-based Korby Lenker is a singer, songwriter, author, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist who grew up in Twin Falls as the son of a mortician.Korby has performed internationally and has shared the stage with such legends as Willie Nelson and Ray Lamontagne, as well as Nickel Creek, Tristan Prettyman, ...

Sharron Matthews is an award-winning cabaret performer. Her performance of “Full Dark” was named by broadwayworld.com as Best Cabaret Performance of 2015 and she’s won “Best of the Fest” at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  Her performances include storytelling and mash-up pop songs – think Shirley...

Founded by 4 students at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in 2004, the members of Lake Street Dive have evolved, moved to Brooklyn and now tour nationally and internationally in support of their 4 studio albums and wildly popular YouTube videos. With trumpet, guitar, upright bass, drums and a k...

A 13-time Grammy winner and Billboard Century Award recipient, Emmylou Harris’ contribution as a singer and songwriter spans 40 years. She has recorded more than 25 albums and has lent her talents to countless fellow artists’ recordings. In recognition of her remarkable career, Harris was inducted into th...

Mavis Staples is living, breathing history. She is an alchemist of American music, having continuously crossed genre lines like no musician since Ray Charles. Weaving herself into the very fabric of gospel, soul, folk, pop, R&B, blues, rock, and hip hop over the last 60 years, this iconic singer has seen ...

Born in Ethiopia and raised in Brooklyn, Meklit has called San Francisco home since graduating from Yale in 2002. Her music is an intoxicating blend of jazz, American folk and singer-songwriter traditions and Ethiopia’s unique melodies and rhythms.  “Soulful, tremulous and strangely cinematic, [Meklit] ...

PostSecret: The Show is a visual, auditory and emotional journey through the beauty and complication of our deepest fears, ambitions and confessions. Three actors guide the audience through a narrative with the bravery of RENT and the surprising honesty of The Vagina Monologues. PostSecret: The Show is a brea...

The “charismatic indie-soul diva” (Time Out New York) Martha Redbone is an Independent Music Award-winning musician of Cherokee, Choctaw, Shawnee and African-American descent. Redbone explores traditional and modern variations of folk, roots, blues, tribal and soul that feature her magnificent voice. P...

One of The Center’s most requested repeat performances! Dala returns to the valley with their inspired songwriting, gorgeous harmonies and engaging and charming performing. You’ll fall hard for this Toronto-based duo who count The Beatles, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan as their key treasured influences. Wha...

Black Violin blends classical, hip-hop, rock, R&B, and bluegrass music. Named one of the hottest bands at SXSW in 2013, Black Violin was invited to perform at Bonnaroo and returned to SXSW to standing room only crowds. Black Violin’s residency is supported by Gayle Marie and, in part, with funds prov...

Blues, alt-country, slide guitar, three-part harmonies – and named by Rolling Stone as one of the “20 Best Things We Saw at Americana Music Fest 2014” – all wrapped up in a group of Canadians from Manitoba. Hot off a win for Roots and Traditional Album of the Year at the 2015 JUNO awards, Winnipeg’s...

The Concert Series concludes on August 16 with experimental folk and art rock band Wilco. With lead singer Jeff Tweedy at the helm, Wilco draws influence from alternative country, The Beatles, Beach Boys harmonies, classic pop and more. Known for their adventurous spirit and ever-changing sound, they’ve wo...

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue come to the valley on August 3 with their hard-edged funk that employs hip-hop beats, rock dynamics and improvisation in a jazz tradition. New Orleans native Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews leads this band, which has toured in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, J...

This Australian roots and jam band sells out concerts around the world and has released several chart-topping albums in Australia and appeared on Conan. Their most recent release, Flesh & Blood (2014), was recognized with “Best Blues and Roots Album” at the 2014 ARIA (Australian Record Industry Associ...

TorQ Percussion Quartet was formed by four Canadian percussionists looking to add new vitality to percussion repertoire and performance. Renowned for their engaging performances and repertoire, TorQ is also committed to commissioning new works for percussion quartet from both established and up-and- coming co...

You may know the name, you likely know the voice, but you have not seen a show like the troubadour-style solo performance by Scottish-born, Australian-raised, California-dwelling, Men at Work frontman, Colin Hay. He’ll bring a guitar and his distinctive voice to Sun Valley and will intersperse his classic a...

Brian Sanders’ JUNK is known for their ingenious use of found objects and clever inventions that bridge the gap between dance and physical theater. Sanders’ choreography blends traditional dance theater with an inventiveness and physicality that gives reason for critics to hail JUNK as “Philly’s most ...

A free public performance of Rockin’ Dance, an exploration of the impact of rock & roll on dance through ballet, tap, jazz, modern and hip hop. From January 26 through February 6, Footlight dancers will be performing Rockin’ Dance in all Blaine County schools as Footlight’s annual free outreach serv...

Bill Payne co-founded, with Lowell George, the band Little Feat. He is considered by many other piano rock musicians, including Elton John, to be one of the finest American piano rock and blues music artists. In addition to his trademark barrelhouse blues piano, he is noted for his work on other keyboard inst...

SOLD OUT! Guy Davis is a musician, composer, actor, director, and writer, but most importantly, Guy Davis is a bluesman.  The blues permeates every corner of Davis' creativity. Throughout his career, he has dedicated himself to reviving the traditions of acoustic blues and bringing them to as many ears as...

Since the group's inception in late 2007, the Portland Cello Project (or, PCP, as their fans affectionately call them), has wowed audiences all over the country with extravagant performances, everywhere from Prairie Home Companion, to that punk rock club in the part of town your grandma warns you not to go to...

The Head and The Heart is an indie folk-rock band from Seattle. They came together in 2009 through a series of open mic nights at the Conor Byrne pub in Old Ballard. They scored two a #1 single with their song “Lost in My Mind” and they’ve opened for Vampire Weekend, The Decemberists and more, and are o...

As a child spinning his parents' 45s in their Stockton, California home, this deeply committed artist has been obsessed with the glory days of Memphis' Sun Studio and the visionary artists who got their starts there—including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis—all of...

Named one of the "100 Greatest Living Songwriters" by Paste Magazine, Josh Ritter is certainly that. Sold out tours, amazing reviews, stellar albums and multiple radio hits have become the standard for this immensely talented artist and captivating performer. Ritter’s last album, The Beast In Its Tracks,...

This summer, Michael Franti & Spearhead will launch the first-ever music & yoga tour, "Soulshine," that will bridge daytime and nighttime experiences including music, yoga, sustainable lifestyle and DJs, guaranteeing a full-blown dance party! The day begins at 11am with a yoga workshop and live acoust...

In his young career, ukulele wizard Jake Shimabukuro has already redefined a heretofore under-the-radar instrument, been declared a musical “hero” by Rolling Stone, won accolades from the disparate likes of Eddie Vedder, Perez Hilton and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, wowed audiences on TV (Jimmy Kimmel, Conan), earne...

Regretfully, the Dala concert was cancelled. However, Dala is thrilled to announce that Amanda and her husband are expecting their first child. Looks like Amanda and Sheila will have a lot more to sing about in the future. Thanks for your continued support! Juno nominees and winners of the 2010 Canadian Fo...

One of Quebec’s finest traditional AND progressive folk groups, Le Vent du Nord goes from foot stomping dance tunes featuring fiddles, hurdy-gurdy, guitar, bouzouki, accordion and more, to haunting a cappella melodies without skipping a beat. Since its inception in 2002, Le Vent du Nord has enjoyed meteoric...

SOLD OUT! Winner of nine Blues Music Awards — including five for Best Piano Player of the Year, Marcia Ball raises the roofs and tears down walls with her emotional brand of New Orleans boogie, roadhouse blues and heartfelt ballads. This will be an intimate ‘cabaret’ style evening. A limited number o...

Featuring six virtuoso guitarists from four countries (Japan, Canada, Belgium, and US), California Guitar Trio (CGT) and Montreal Guitar Trio (MG3) fuse over 40 years of combined performing experience into one unique six-by-6-string ‘phenomensemble’. In a pleasantly surprising way, CGT’s steel string...

Born in Ghana to a family of singers and songwriters, Okaidja and his group, Shókoto perform traditional Ghanaian songs and dances fused with music of the West and the African diaspora. The performance is an energetic, family-friendly mixture of traditional and contemporary African and world music that is su...

Clint Black is country music singer-songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and occasional actor. Signed to RCA Records in 1989, Black made his debut with his Killin' Time album, which produced four straight number one singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. In addition...

Sun Valley Center for the Arts regrets that due to hazardous air quality caused by the Beaver Creek Fire, the concert tonight with Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band has been canceled.  We believe that this is the best decision to be made for our patrons, our artists, our staff, and our community.  This de...

As Brandi Carlile fans well know, her concerts are near legendary in their perfect communion between performer and audience. Whether she is rocking out with her full band or standing quietly at the edge of the stage singing a cappela, Carlile brings a riveting intensity to her shows. Known for her clear and p...