Dream Spirit Baroque Band performs tonight at ArtBar

Staff Reports

The Dream Spirit Baroque Band plays 7-9 p.m. tonight in the ArtBar in the Copeland Cultural Arts Center, 1572 Highway 395, Minden. Tickets are $10 and are available at the arts center, at cvartscouncil.com or (775) 781-0150.

Dream Spirit Baroque Band performs classical, baroque, Celtic, Renaissance, pop songs, ethnic and folk chamber music. The Lake Tahoe musicians are Jack Shipley on hammer dulcimer and recorder, Jon Smart on guitar, Suzanne Stone on cello and Diana Woodbury on violin.

Shipley taught Celtic music at Lake Tahoe Community College and creates musical arrangements for the Dream Spirit Baroque Band.

Smart plays classical to folk styles and creates the guitar arrangements for the band. He teaches guitar at Lake Tahoe Community College and the Tahoe Conservatory of Music.

Stone is a founding member of Sierra Strings of Tahoe, performing at Tahoe for 20 years.

Woodbury started violin at age eight, but put it aside to pursue a dancing career. Influenced by Stone, she picked up the violin again to play with Sierra Strings of Tahoe.

"I have always dreamed of having a group of my own to play world music," Woodbury said. "Dream Spirit Baroque Band is my dream come true."

Dream Spirit Baroque Band has performed for 10 years at community events, public concerts and private celebrations, and at Valhalla Grand Hall at Lake Tahoe.

Dream Spirit's latest CD, "Swallowtail Butterfly: Folk Chamber Music," recorded and produced by John Shipley of Carson City, is available at www.cdbaby.com