The Hanford Fox Theatre

the evening with diana krall concert.    she so great, love her voice and stage personality.  she did a song from antonio carlos jobin and perked it up nicely. we own quite a bit of her music,  but,  we were sold front row seats for 98.00 with no view except under the piano, her legs, and a huge speaker not more than 6 feet from my face.  that was really disappointing, and the attitude of the 2 men standing outside the concert doors (who had on name tags)  made us feel like we were not good enough fans of ms. krall, in that we should just appriciate the fact that we were there at all.  the person that saved our evening( we drove for an hour to get there ), was the wonderful  woman( blonde?) working in the ticket booth,  she had a,  what can i do for you to fix this situation attiude.  she promptly gave us new seats in a great area right away so we just missed one song. i dont know who she is but if she were my employee i would make sure not to lose her to another place. its people like her that can make or break  what is surpose to be a special evening.  thank you who ever you are!

In my opinion, the theater is one of the more beautiful buildings in Hanford & I've had the honor of seeing a show (does anyone remember kathy griffin came to hanford?!).  Every now and again, Hanford will pull some names like kathy griffin or george lopez (tix still on sale) as comedic acts and several musical acts.  What i think is really cool is they still play silent movies - complete with an ORGAN.  I dont know if you know, but that's pretty special.  I was able to hear the beauty of an organ in SF, when i was in their Castro theater.  Definitely awesome.  Seeing a silent movie here is definitely on my bucket list!  in the winter time, they'll show a family movie with free admission - just bring a few cans for their food drive.  

With its location, it's definitely worth an outing if you plan right ;)  Also, how romantic is it, really?  I have a friend whose husband proposed to here at Civic Park across the street - he had the marquee spell out his proposal.  for our engagement pics, my honey and i decided to do the same - have our names on the marquee.  AWESOME.  I'm still on the high of seeing our names on the marquee!  excuse me as i take THAT off my bucket list, hehe.  It was really easy too.  i called ahead & was told i'll get a call back with a quote (if that day was available) - i heard back a short few hours later. i assume the quote has to do with factors like the day, the time of day, and for long.  she was able to get our names up there around 2pm (and i only asked her to put it up by 3 :)).  Our pics weren't taken til around 7:30 honestly, but i just wanted to see our names up, so i couldnt have been more happier that the nice box office lady hooked me up with an extra hour! Oh, and i know you're dying to know how much we paid - $150.  totally reasonable for a piece of local radness in our engagement pics!

Until this year I'd never been to this theatre except once in high school to listen to a political speech, despite having grown up in the neighboring town of Lemoore.  My boyfriend's friend invited us to watch the Avett Brothers and what a time it was!  I was surprised by what a nice theatre Hanford Fox is.  I loved the old-time feel and the sound quality was great.  The staff were very nice and you can order beer and wine (relatively cheap too) upstairs and drink on the top floor or on the balcony  facing the scenic old courthouse and bastille.  Hopefully more great acts will come through because I would love to keep coming to this theatre.