Music

Alex Tran stands during his solo on alto saxophone as the West Ranch High School Lab Jazz Band performs "Povo" during the Super Jazz at the Ranch event held at West Ranch High School on Saturday, 052023. Dan Watson/The Signal

Super Jazz at the Ranch returns May 18 

News release  Super Jazz at the Ranch, a daylong jazz festival hosted by West Ranch High School, is happening Saturday, May 18. Music will fill the air as performers from

Members of the Santa Clarita Youth Orchestra's Novae Sinfonia at Carnegie Hall. Courtesy of Madeline Gaines.

SCV youth perform at Carnegie Hall 

Some singers go to Hollywood, while an ensemble from the Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra recently went to New York to perform at Carnegie Hall.  The set list included “Abacus,”

Velma Kelly (Cora Howard) leads a group of accused “murderesses” in “Chicago, Teen Edition,” playing May 2, 3 and 4 at West Ranch Auditorium. (From left, Rowan D’Angelo, Haileigh Frame, Howard, Brooke Benesh and Maddie Mendez.) Courtesy photo.

West Ranch Theatre presents ‘Chicago’

News release  In the Roaring ’20s in the big city, if there’s enough “razzle dazzle,” you just might get away with murder. That’s the premise of the hit musical “Chicago,”

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Blues Traveler to perform at PAC on May 9

News release  The Grammy-award winning rock ‘n’ roll group Blues Traveler will take the stage of the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 9.   More than

Santa Clarita Concerts in the Park. Courtesy photo.

City announces Concerts in the Park lineup

News release  The city of Santa Clarita’s Concerts in the Park series makes return this summer for friends, families and neighbors to gather under the evening sky and enjoy free,

Santa Clarita Sister Cities held a “Superheroes Unite Zumbathon” on Saturday morning at the Centre to raise money for their “Dollars for Desks” campaign meant to provide desks to students from Sariaya, Philippines, the local chapter’s sister city. 041324 Katherine Quezada/The Signal

Community heroes sweat it out for a cause  

Dozens of people made their way to the Centre on Saturday morning to participate in a three-and-a-half-hour-long “Superheroes Unite Zumbathon” fundraiser held by the Sister Cities organization to support the

Samba dancers wore cultural costumes with large colorful feathers and rhinestones to show the city of Santa Clarita Celebrate series attendees a glimpse of Brazilian culture on Friday evening at the Canyon Country Community Center. 041224 Katherine Quezada/The Signal

Celebrate series: Brazil cultural extravaganza  

Despite the cold overcast weather on Friday, numerous people made their way to the Canyon Country Community Center for the first 2024 city of Santa Clarita “Celebrate” series installment: Brazil.  

Allan Robert Petker leads The Santa Clarita Master Choral and orchestra as they perform Te Deum by Anton Bruckner during the 200 Years Bruckner Birthday Brilliance celebration at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons in Valencia on Saturday, 031624. Dan Watson/The Signal

Photos: Celebrating musical brilliance

The Santa Clarita Master Chorale, led by Artistic Director Allan Robert Petker, performed its classical concert “Bruckner Birthday Brilliance” at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center earlier this month. The