The Performing Arts Committee of the Community Church of the Verdes has announced the schedule of concerts and lectures for the upcoming 2025 season.

The concert series opens with Spinphony Friday, Jan. 10.  This female electric quartet is breaking down barriers between classical, rock and pop music, mixing and mashing catchy melodies into their own unique arrangements.

Two additional concerts scheduled for the season include Americana, Friday, Feb. 7 and TOBY, a Toby Keith tribute Friday, March 7.

All concerts start at 7 p.m. Single concerts are $40; the concert series is $100.

Tickets may be purchased for single concerts or the series of three concerts, anytime during church office hours, Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; or at the table in the Rio Verde Post Office, from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday the week of each concert.

Lectures

The free lecture series opens Monday, Jan. 13 with Kenn Kington, who is probably best known as a comedian. He has had six comedy specials, appeared on Comedy Central, Netflix and is currently one of the most played comics on XM Radio. He has a new Dry Bar Comedy special and an award-winning comedy special currently on Amazon Prime. His appearance on Focus on the Family was awarded Best Show of 2020.  His most recent book is “Every Day is a Bonus.”

Monday, Jan. 27, Gen. David Fridovich is the speaker. From 1974 to 2011, Fridovich was on a journey of self-discovery as he pursued what became a fulfilling career as a professional soldier. The conversation we’ll have is his sharing of discoveries, in search of an answer, along his chosen path that spanned over 37 years.

Additional lectures for the season include Monday, Feb. 3, Sarah Kearney who leads Blue Zones Project in Scottsdale; Monday, Feb. 17, is David Danford, director of business and industry at Hillsdale College; and Monday, March 10, with Pat Miles. After losing her husband to cancer, Miles found healing by writing about grief, loss, and planning her own mortality.

The lectures take place at 4 p.m. All events are at the Community Church of the Verdes.