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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Local entertainer Andre Williams will perform with his talented Andre Williams Trio at Silk's in Clearlake on Thursday, March 3.
The performance will start at 5:30 p.m. and continue to as late as 8:30 p.m. at Williams' Silk's Bar & Grill.
Williams will put his incredible voice to work on old favorites.
Silk's Bar & Grill is located at 14825 Lakeshore Drive, Clearlake.
Call 707-995-7455 to reserve a table, as seating is limited.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Students at several local schools were recently entertained by the local music group The Dora Street Brass Quintet.
Performing for students in kindergarten through high school in both Lake and Mendocino counties, the DSBQ offers a fun, musical and educational performance that has kids and adults alike clapping their hands and tapping their toes.
“One of the things that we strive for while playing for young people is to bring not only entertaining music that they can relate to but to also teach them musical concepts in a way that they can understand,” said horn player Darrin Michaels. “Using music and comedy as well as our musical talent and knowledge to educate and entertain is a passion of ours.”
The quintet members all got their start playing while in school and with many budget cuts happening in school districts they want to get the word out to students that opportunities for music exist in the community.
Members Jay Johnson and Darrin Michaels have started The Opus Music School with this in mind to offer group music lessons for students of all ages.
The feedback from the students and teachers at the schools was tremendously positive.
“One sixth grade teacher appreciated your demonstration that sum of the parts was not equal to the whole. He said that hearing each of the instruments separately didn’t sound like much, but when they played together it was amazingly impressive.”
“A first grade teacher reported that her class spent a significant amount of time after your program in discussion regarding the mind-movies that the music evoked and how the music made them feel.”
“Thank you for taking such care to address your young audiences so effectively! I am confident that the experience raised their horizons beyond our own understanding!”
“Thank you so much for that fun concert yesterday! It was the talk of the school all day, teachers and children alike.”
“You've sparked an interest in brass instruments.”
“Thank you for making personal connections with the students by individually introducing your instruments to them and immediately featuring a kid-friendly selection for that horn!”
The Dora Street Brass Quintet is comprised of Al White and Jay Johnson on trumpet, Darrin Michaels on horn, Larry Price on trombone and Dale Spencer on tuba.
The group was established many years ago but the current members have been together since 2005 and have performed concerts throughout Northern California including the Deep Valley Chamber Music Series and a very moving concert with the Mendocino College Band, playing a tribute to Native American culture with the song “Shadowcatcher.”
The DSBQ has released several CDs.
For more information about the quintet or to schedule them for a performance please call Larry Price at 707-462-1155 or Darrin Michaels at the Opus Music School, 707-463-1614.
Connie Wanek is one of my favorite poets. She lives in Duluth and has a keen eye for what goes on around her. Here’s a locked and loaded scene from rural America.
Mysterious Neighbors
Country people rise early
as their distant lights testify.
They don’t hold water in common. Each house
has a personal source, like a bank account,
a stone vault. Some share eggs,
some share expertise,
and some won’t even wave.
A walk for the mail elevates the heart rate.
Last November I saw a woman down the road
walk out to her mailbox dressed in blaze orange
cap to boot, a cautious soul.
Bullets can’t read her No Trespassing sign.
Strange to think they’re in the air
like lead bees with a fatal sting.
Our neighbor across the road sits in his kitchen
with his rifle handy and the window open.
You never know when. Once
he shot a trophy with his barrel resting on the sill.
He’s in his seventies, born here, joined the Navy,
came back. Hard work never hurt a man
until suddenly he was another broken tool.
His silhouette against the dawn
droops as though drought-stricken, each step
deliberate, down the driveway to his black mailbox,
prying it open. Checking a trap.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2010 by Connie Wanek whose most recent book of poetry is On Speaking Terms, Copper Canyon Press, 2010. Reprinted from New Ohio Review, No. 7, Spring 2010, by permission of Connie Wanek and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2009 by The Poetry Foundation.
The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
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