Upcoming Events

Santa Claus is Coming To Town!

It's Santa Season for the Bramble and The Rose. Santa Claus and his helper Clair Anna Rose can be spotted around town spreading holiday cheer. Come bring the kids down for these fun events at the Orpheum Theater! Click on the links below to see the Facebook event pages!

December 3 at 9AM

Breakfast With Santa at the Orpheum Theater

"Enjoy a warm breakfast with Santa!! Also planned - decorating cookies, pictures with Santa, sing alongs to Christmas carols and holiday crafts. A FREE showing of A Charlie Brown Christmas and Frosty the Snowman follows at 10am. Breakfast with Santa takes place Dec 3 and 17, and is limited to the FIRST 50 people. $10 a person."

Saturday, December 10 at 10AM

The PolarExpress-Holiday Movies at the Orpheum Theater

"Join us for the third of four, FREE, holiday movies at The Orpheum Theater. Doors open at 10am for The Polar Express... and did we mention that it's free for everyone!? There will be holiday themed crafts, candy canes, and SANTA! Get your pictures taken with Santa, sing Christmas songs with him, and most importantly let him know what's on your Christmas list! The movie will begin around 11am and there will be hot cocoa and holiday goodies for sale! There will be a suprise after the movie, and you WON'T WANT TO MISS IT!! Celebrate the holidays with us in Arizona's Winter Wonderland right here in Downtown Flagstaff!"

Saturday, December 17 at 9AM

Breakfast with Santa at The Orpheum Theater

Sit down with Santa in a winter wonderland, enjoy a warm breakfast, and decorate Christmas cookies! You will get the chance to have your pictures taken with Santa, sing along to Christmas songs by the fire, make holiday crafts, and maybe even listen to him read a Christmas story!!
Breakfast is limited to the FIRST 50 people and is $10 a person.

Free Holiday Movie: Elf  Join us for our last, FREE, holiday movie at The Orpheum Theater. Doors open at 10am for Elf... and did we mention that it's free for everyone!? There will be holiday themed crafts, candy canes, and SANTA! Get your pictures taken with Santa, sing Christmas songs with him, and most importantly let him know what's on your Christmas list! The movie will begin around 11am and there will be hot cocoa and holiday goodies for sale! Celebrate the holidays with us in Arizona's Winter Wonderland right here in Downtown Flagstaff!

Saturday, December 17, 1PM-4PM 

Snowflake Festival at The Flagstaff Visitor's Center

Come downtown for a fun family-friendly event! Start your day at the Orpheum Theater, where the Downtown Business Alliance will have a free showing of Elf. Then make your way to the Visitor Center in the Historic Train Station from 1-4pm, where children can get photos with Santa (free on your own device, $1 for a polaroid) from 2-4pm. There will be crafts and games, including ornament and luminaria decorating, and a performance by the NAU carolers from 1-2 p.m. We also have a donation bin for new, unwrapped toys to donate to Toys for Tots! 

Photo By John Grahame

Saturday, January 14, 2017 6PM-8PM

10X10 Art Exhibition Opening Reception at the Coconino Center for the Arts

The Bramble and The Rose will be performing during the opening reception of the 10X10 show, a fundraising event for the Flagstaff Arts Council.  "This year’s exhibition will feature a number of well-known artists as well as a variety of up-and-comers. Participating artists include Shonto Begay, Brian Bradley, Emma Gardener, Brian David Griffith, Michael Hagelberg, Tina Mion, Deb Strong Napple, Joni Pevarnik, Sei Saito, Jacques Cazaubon Seronde, Shawn Skabelund, Ellen Tibbits, and Baje Whitethorne Sr. among many others."

About The Bramble and The Rose

Clair Anna Rose and Tony Norris first met when Clair was a wee tadpole of a girl attending Sechrist Elementary in Flagstaff, Arizona.  Tony was performing a program of songs and scary stories in the assembly room, and Clair was lucky enough to be in the front row. It's a memory that has stayed with her all these year... Tony's telling of the tale La Llorona.

Just as Tony was getting to the end... and the scariest part of the story, he turned and locked eyes with Clair, and took on the character of La Llorona  walking towards her with wide, crazed eyes and outstretched hands, cocked his head to the side and said, "Hijo?"

About a decade later, Clair Anna Rose and Tony Norris began playing music together, performing at The Flagstaff Folk Festival, The Wine Loft, Heritage Square, The Coconino County Fair, and other venues in the Flagstaff area.

Playing on their beloved guitars, The Bramble and The Rose play an array of folk, bluegrass, americana, and whatever else strikes their fancy! Both are writers and composers of song, and they enjoy singing old time songs, as well as the Rolling Stones.

The duo regularly performs for the The Peaks Senior Living Community, and often performs at Full Circle Thrift, an organization that gives generously to different non-profits in the Flagstaff community, providing support for the Arts! Clair and Tony recorded their first album inside the thrift 
store during an afternoon session.

Tony Norris is an Arizona original—charming audiences of all ages with stories and songs from Appalachia to the Southwest. He farmed with horses, made whiskey, dug graves, worked as a horseshoer and sang at weddings, funerals and hog butcherings. His face is familiar hosting local video productions and Emceeing festivals and events. Tony was honored as the winner of the 2010 Viola Award for Music.  www.tonynorris.com

Clair Anna Rose has always loved to sing loudly, but it wasn't until 2006 when she first began performing before a live audience. A singer/songwriter, Clair has recorded five albums, and written over 100 songs, most of which haven't been tossed into "dud" pile, and remain in her regular repertoire.

When she isn't crooning along to the strumming of her guitar, she can be heard plunking her way through piano arrangements in the garage, writing, training in Shaolin Kung Fu, teaching yoga, taking pictures using 100-year-old rescued film cameras, gluing stuff to stuff (see her art blog Muse Miniatures), belly dancing, figure skating, sewing, or hanging with Perry Paddleton, the terrier that came to stay. She's not afraid of hobbies, that's for sure.