Harris Center for the Arts Program Guide 2023-2024
Long envisioned as a critically important element for Folsom Lake College, the visual and performing arts center was initially conceived as a facility to instruct, develop, and guide talented students to become actors, musicians, dancers, visual artists, and behind-the-curtain technicians. In February, 2011 the Center opened as "Three Stages at Folsom Lake College" and by the end of its second full season it had already attracted over 300,000 patrons to its offerings. The Harris Center for the Arts seeks to enrich the lives of people throughout California’s capital region by providing venues and opportunities to experience artistic work, celebrate cultural traditions and participate in the creative process.
Long envisioned as a critically important element for Folsom Lake College, the visual and performing arts center was initially conceived as a facility to instruct, develop, and guide talented students to become actors, musicians, dancers, visual artists, and behind-the-curtain technicians. In February, 2011 the Center opened as "Three Stages at Folsom Lake College" and by the end of its second full season it had already attracted over 300,000 patrons to its offerings.
The Harris Center for the Arts seeks to enrich the lives of people throughout California’s capital region by providing venues and opportunities to experience artistic work, celebrate cultural traditions and participate in the creative process.
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Keb’ Mo’ with Scott Mulvahill<br />
Thursday, September 14, <strong>2023</strong>; 7:30 pm<br />
BIO With five Grammy Awards, 14 Blues Foundation<br />
Awards, and a groundbreaking career spanning<br />
nearly 50 years under his belt, Keb’ Mo’s got nothing left to<br />
prove. Just don’t tell him that.<br />
“I may be turning 70,” Keb’ reflects, “but I’m still breathing<br />
and I’m still hungry. I’m still out <strong>the</strong>re going <strong>for</strong> it every<br />
single day.”<br />
Keb’ began his remarkable journey at <strong>the</strong> age of 21, when<br />
he landed his first major gig playing with Jefferson Airplane<br />
violinist Papa John Creach. For <strong>the</strong> next 20 years, Keb’<br />
would work primarily behind <strong>the</strong> scenes, establishing<br />
himself as a respected guitarist, songwriter, and arranger<br />
with a unique gift <strong>for</strong> linking <strong>the</strong> past and present in his<br />
evocative playing and singing. Though he recorded a one-off<br />
album in 1980 under his birth name, Kevin Moore, it wasn’t<br />
until 1994 that he would introduce <strong>the</strong> world to Keb’ Mo’<br />
with <strong>the</strong> release of his widely acclaimed self-titled debut.<br />
And two years later, he garnered his first Grammy Award <strong>for</strong><br />
Best Contemporary Blues Album with Just Like You. In <strong>the</strong><br />
decades to come, Keb’ would take home four more Grammy<br />
Awards, top <strong>the</strong> Billboard Blues Chart seven times, and<br />
per<strong>for</strong>m everywhere from Carnegie Hall to The White House.<br />
Bringing it all back home, Keb’ looked to his own story <strong>for</strong><br />
inspiration on his captivating new album, Good To Be. Drawing<br />
on country, folk, blues, and soul, <strong>the</strong> collection transcends<br />
genre and geography, weaving toge<strong>the</strong>r a joyful, heartwarming,<br />
and relentlessly optimistic tapestry that manages to<br />
encompass <strong>the</strong> entirety of this once-in-a-generation artist’s<br />
larger-than-life career.<br />
Scott Mulvahill<br />
Frontman. Singer-songwriter. World-renowned upright bassist.<br />
Multi-instrumentalist. Scott Mulvahill is leaving his unique<br />
mark on <strong>the</strong> intersecting worlds of Americana, bluegrass, folk,<br />
jazz, rock & roll, and roots music. Raised in Houston, Mulvahill<br />
cut his teeth as a member of Ricky Skaggs’ acclaimed band,<br />
Kentucky Thunder, touring internationally <strong>for</strong> five years.<br />
Along <strong>the</strong> way, he also composed music of his own, shining<br />
a light on <strong>the</strong> genre-jumping influences — Paul Simon’s<br />
sophisticated pop, James Taylor’s folk, Jaco Pastorius’<br />
innovative jazz, and more — that would eventually inspire <strong>the</strong><br />
material on his 2018 solo debut, Himalayas.<br />
A true “musician’s musician,” Mulvahill fills his per<strong>for</strong>mances<br />
with complex finger work and innovative progressions.<br />
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