MCLI Commercial Music Residency Grant Artist: 
The Formalist Quartet Classical String Quartet from Los Angeles
Center for the Performing Arts Room CPA-115
Free Admission
3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct, 17: Presentation on the music industry/how to make a career as a musician/music business topics.
4:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17: How to record strings, miking techniques, best practices, stories from the recording studio.
For additional information about the MCLI Commercial Music Residency Grant, visit the website: www.paradisevalley.edu/music/mcli-commercial-music-residency-grant.
International Film Festival at PVCC: “Valentin” (Argentina)
Center for the Performing Arts
6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.17
Free Admission
Valentin is an eight year-old boy who lives with his grandmother in Buenos Aires in the late 1960s and dreams of being a NASA astronaut. He soon discovers that his family has problems that only he thinks he can solve. Specifically, he dreams of being reunited with his mother, who is separated from Valentin’s abusive father and has abandoned her son. Valentin’s disinterested father uses him to attract new girlfriends like the beautiful Leticia, whom Valentin himself befriends.
MCLI Commercial Music Residency Grant Artist:
Johnny Society (Rock Band from New York)
Center for the Performing Arts Room CPA-115
4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19
Open rehearsal/Q&A with the band on the music industry. For additional information about the MCLI Commercial Music Residency Grant, visit the website: www.paradisevalley.edu/music/mcli-commercial-music-residency-grant.
PVCC Battle of the Bands – Round 1 Auditions
Noon, Saturday, Oct. 20
Free Admission
Ten local high school and college bands will perform 15-minute sets with guest judges Johnny Society. For additional information about the PVCC Battle of the Bands, visit the website: www.paradisevalley.edu/music/battle-bands.
Johnny Society Concert
With special PVCC music faculty guests
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20
Free Admission
Kenny Siegal (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards) began Johnny Society in 1995. With drummer Brian Geltner and bassist Gwen Snyder he forms the core of the band, which over the years has been augmented by numerous revolving guests. Free Society’s stellar participants include adjunct band members keyboardist Ed Pastorini (101 Crustacean, Elysian Fields, Joan as Policewoman) and trombonist Sam Kulik (Skeletons, Nervous Cabaret), and studio contributors singer Langhorne Slim, legendary keyboardist Garth Hudson (The Band), and others. www.johnnysociety.com.
