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Lafayette Community Music Festival – Saturday, May 5 – 6:00pm – Town Hall Theatre. Your chance to hear some of Lafayette’s best musicians all on the same stage.  The event will showcase Drew Harrison (Sun Kings), Dan Durkin (Petty Theft), Kiki Stack, Katy, Dell & John Jordan (Dream Posse), Pat Nevins (Ghosts of Electricity) Gary Peare’s Ukulele Express, and Stevie Coyle (founding member of the Way Backs).  Doors open at 6:00pm and the show gets rolling at 7:00pm.  This event is a fundraiser for Town Hall Theater.  $40 in advance and $45 at the door. Available at www.townhalltheatre.com or call 925-283-1557.

Trust in Education Fundraiser – Friday, May 11 – 6:30pm – Lafayette Veterans Memorial Hall, 3780 Mt. Diablo Blvd. Back by popular demand Comedian Mark Lundholm will again perform for TIE. You want to see this guy! Trust me…  Donation: Adults $60 Students $30. For information call 299-2010, or visit www.trustineducation.org.

Rotary Club of Lafayette presents the annual Concert at the Res – Saturday, May 12 – 11am – 2pm – Lafayette Reservoir. This year the FREE concert will be held at the New Stage that was recently built. Musicians include legendary Bob Athayde conducting the Stanley Symphonic Band, the Stanley Concert Gold Band, the concert Green band all together.   Mo Levich (recent Jefferson Award recipient) leading the Big Band of Rossmoor, Norm Dea and the Acalanes High School Symphonic Band and Brian Pardo leading the Bentley Jazz Ensemble.  A special highlight this year is the invitation to Oakland’s Westlake Middle School, to play with the Stanley Bands. Along with the music, there is food and beverages being offered and sold.  You can pack a picnic and don’t forget your beach chairs and blankets.  The stage is adjacent to a shady picnic area, public restrooms and the children’s playground.  Once you have parked walk East (to your left) towards the reservoir trail.  The Stage is about 150 feet from the parking lot.  A shuttle van will be used to pick up guests in the parking lot and drop them off at the trail entrance.  A golf cart will be available to take those guests that need help up the hill to the new stage.   Raffle tickets will also be available to purchase with great prizes including weekend get-a-ways.

Lafayette Gallery present the Small Group Exhibition “E for Escape” – May 15 – June 2 – Lafayette Gallery, 50 Lafayette Circle.  When artists escape, it’s to their studios to meditate in the creative process. “E for Escape” features the results – a unique collection of wonderful and whimsical works of art by a small group of five artists: painters Jeanette Baird, Susan Erickson, Judy Feins, and JoAnn Lieberman and ceramicist and sculptor David Vanderjagt. To celebrate the exhibition and help you escape, the Gallery is also hosting a free reception, Saturday May 19 from 2 – 4 PM with wine, hors d’oeuvres and live music! So stop by the gallery, and escape into an exotic place: the creations of our local artists!  The Gallery is open Tues – Sat, 11 AM – 5 PM; starting April 15, open Sundays 11AM  – 2PM. For more information call 284-2788 or visit their webiste: www.lafayettegallery.net.

Lafayette Juniors’ 13th Annual Lafayette Kitchen Tour – Saturday, May 19 – 10am – 3pm.  The tour will benefit Shelter, Inc. which provides affordable housing and a range of counseling, education and employment services to low-income families in Contra Costa County.   Tickets are $40 ($30 tax deductible). A boxed lunch is available for an additional $12.  Buy tickets in advance through a Lafayette Junior, in person at Douglah Designs 3586 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Premier Kitchens, 3373 Mt. Diablo Blvd. or www.lafayettejuniors.org.

Town Hall Theatre presents Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, directed by Dennis Markam – May 31-June 23. For more information and to purchase tickets visit their website at www.thtc.org.

Gold Coast Chamber Players concludes the 2012 season with a program of Spanish and Italian music – Sunday, June 3 – 2pm – Community Hall in the Lafayette Library. A reception with complimentary sangria will provide an opportunity to meet the musicians after the performance. The musicians for the concert will be Julie Nishimura, piano; Yuri Liberzon, guitar; Robin Sharp and Julie Kim, violins; Pamela Freund-Striplen, viola and Robert Howard, cello. Tickets are $30 general, $25 senior, $10 student and may be purchased online: www.gcplayers.org or by phone: (925) 284-7404. Limited seating – please reserve early. There will be a reception with complimentary sangria will provide an opportunity to meet the musicians after the performance.

American Cancer Society’s Third  Annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk – Saturday, June 16 – 8am – Heather Farm Park. Making Strides is a noncompetitive walk supporting the American Cancer Society’s unique mission to help people stay well by preventing cancer or detecting it early; help people get well by being there for them during and after a cancer diagnosis; by finding cures through investment in groundbreaking discovery; and by fighting back by rallying lawmakers to pass laws to defeat cancer and by rallying communities worldwide to join the fight. Registration for the 5K noncompetitive walk begins at 8:00 am. The walk begins at 9:00 am at Heather Farm Park.  Donations will be collected at the walk or can be made online by visiting http://makingstrides.acsevents.org/walnutcreek .

Project Second Chance’s 13th Annual Best Martini in the East Bay Contest – Monday, June 18 – 6pm-8pm – Lafayette Park Hotel & Spa. Sample martinis as bartenders from 14 local restaurants compete for the grand prize.  And here’s your chance to judge the People’s Choice Award!  Tickets are $25 at the door, and include two drink tickets, appetizers, and music by Generations in Jazz. All proceeds benefit Project Second Chance, the Contra Costa County Library’s adult literacy program. Call (925) 927-3250 for more information.