Travel back through time with Broadway Sacramento's Rain, a Beatles tribute show that began as an offshoot of the Broadway production of Beatlemania. Rain ran on Broadway for 300 shows and 8 preview performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City and has also been a hugely successful national tour for years. Together longer than the Beatles, Rain has mastered every song, gesture and nuance of the legendary foursome, delivering a totally live, note-for-note performance. This multi-media show begins by taking us away to a time when four young men stepped on stage at the Ed Sullivan show and changed music as we knew it. Rain chronicles the journey America took with the Beatles,

As promised, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker magazine, connected a pre-1500s New-World dance form to Bob Dylan – and a whole lot more. Ross certainly has the credentials to discuss classical music. He started listening to classical music as a child and started his music collection at age 10, buying his first classical LP: Anton Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony. He has been the classical music critic for The New Yorker since 1996. His first book, “The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century,” was a national bestseller and The New York Times chose it as one of the 10 best books of 2007. Ross did not discover pop music until he was 20. Still, he has become quite versed in pop

They can work it out. In what has become a grim sign of the times in public schools state-wide, Rocklin High School’s VAPA (Visual and Performing Arts) program is currently feeling the pinch of California’s lingering budget crisis, which has seen several “non-essential” (to use a vulgar term) educational programs fall onto the chopping block. As such, the 2010-2011 Rocklin High student musical, an annual tradition since the school’s opening, finds itself in serious jeopardy due to lack of funding. When I find myself, in times of trouble….turn to the Beatles. In what was ultimately more of a rock show than a theatrical revue, a spirited group of current and former Rocklin High students

A family atmosphere pervaded Raley Field Friday night as neo-soul artists Vaughn Anthony, India Arie and John Legend performed to a crowd of thousands. The diverse audience of fans who attended the show varied in age; much of the audience was made up of young and old couples and families. Around 7 p.m. Anthony, Legend's younger brother, opened the show with a 20-minute set. As people were still finding their seats, he brought a self-proclaimed "old-school R&B" sound to the Sacramento audience, but he essentially sounded like a poppier version of his older brother. Arie took the stage for the next hour, dressed in a wig, colorful scarves and bright makeup. She started off with a prayer so