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For anyone who had forgotten about the simple pleasures of sitting outside in a camp chair, amid a throng of a thousand of your friends and neighbors, with a cold drink and a picnic dinner, all in front of a stage with a parade of live musicians performing, Saturday’s Spring Fling at the site of the Bar J Chuckwagon was a potent reminder. It was a fundraiser for the Teton Music School, the nonprofit that for a bit over a year has been connecting teachers and pupils in the Center for the Ar...

If you aren’t familiar with the Teton Music School you’ll have a chance to become so on Saturday when it hosts its first fundraising “Spring Fling” at the Bar J Chuckwagon off Highway 390. Proceeds will fill the school’s scholarship coffers. Starting at 2 p.m. and running into the night, the Spring Fling will feature well-known and -loved performers as well some new ones. Family, friends and other fans are welcome to come for a set or two or for the whole day. Kiddies w...

For nigh on 60 years, if you wanted to learn how to paint or draw you could go to the Art Association of Jackson Hole, one of the valley’s oldest nonprofits. Gotta dance? Then your place was at Dancers’ Workshop, just a few years the Art Association’s junior. And those bitten by the theater bug had Off Square Theatre Company, the direct descendant of community performing arts organizations that go back at least 40 years. But if you had a song in your heart or a tap in your toe, w...