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LAKE AND MENDOCINO COUNTIES, Calif. – The deadline to be considered for performing in the MendoLake MusicFest is this Friday, May 15.
The MendoLake MusicFest has a few more slots available. The festival is a celebration of the local performing artists that contribute to the rich cultural community in Lake & Mendocino counties.
From school music programs to our touring professionals, live music is the glue that holds us together.
MendoLake MusicFest is hosting a free, live-streamed concert, featuring and celebrating local musicians and performers on Sunday, May 24.
Organizers are asking for video submissions of some of your best work – recorded from a previous live performance or something recorded virtually – to share with the community.
The goal is to produce an hour to an hour and a half event, showcasing musicians from all age groups and genres of music.
Please include the following when you email your submission:
– Performer/group/band name;
– Song selection;
– Video of a previously recorded performance or a virtually compiled performance created while maintaining social distancing practices. (Video should be in landscape mode.)
– Name(s) of the performer(s).
– A short biography on your band / what you want the audience to know (about the band or the song).
– Contact information.
Email your submission information toThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
If you or someone you know has a song to sing, share your melody with Mendocino County for this year’s Mendo Musicfest.
If you have any questions or concerns, contact the event organizers atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
The MendoLake MusicFest has a few more slots available. The festival is a celebration of the local performing artists that contribute to the rich cultural community in Lake & Mendocino counties.
From school music programs to our touring professionals, live music is the glue that holds us together.
MendoLake MusicFest is hosting a free, live-streamed concert, featuring and celebrating local musicians and performers on Sunday, May 24.
Organizers are asking for video submissions of some of your best work – recorded from a previous live performance or something recorded virtually – to share with the community.
The goal is to produce an hour to an hour and a half event, showcasing musicians from all age groups and genres of music.
Please include the following when you email your submission:
– Performer/group/band name;
– Song selection;
– Video of a previously recorded performance or a virtually compiled performance created while maintaining social distancing practices. (Video should be in landscape mode.)
– Name(s) of the performer(s).
– A short biography on your band / what you want the audience to know (about the band or the song).
– Contact information.
Email your submission information to
If you or someone you know has a song to sing, share your melody with Mendocino County for this year’s Mendo Musicfest.
If you have any questions or concerns, contact the event organizers at
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Deirdre O’Connor is the director of The Writing Center at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and the following poem is from her new collection from Able Muse Press, “The Cupped Field.”
I’m sticking my neck out here, but I suspect this is the first poem in human history to picture a group of children making a practice visit to a dentist. And such a touching picture it is!
At the Dentist's
“Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it,” reads the needlepoint
above the dentist’s door, beyond which “Little Learners”
are doing time in the chair. One at a time, up and down,
they practice how to be not afraid, to tip their chins,
spit. And then to brush in circles gently
for two minutes. No blood today, no needles, drills,
just a plastic sack of gifts: a magnet of a happy tooth,
a purple toothbrush, paste. In the waiting room,
their winter coats are stacked: smooth, inflatable animals,
an occasional Pittsburgh Steelers in the mix.
The youngest ones need help getting their arms in,
getting zipped, and when they’re all lined up and holding
hands in pairs, they lift their faces as if toward God
to the camera. Having been happily trained for pain,
they flash their unharmed smiles, and in my mind, I exit
with them, all my ex-selves, mittens attached
to their jackets, bright and unbreakable.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. It 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 ©2019 by Deirdre O’Connor, "At the Dentist’s," published under the title “The Yoke,” from The Cupped Field, (Able Muse Press, 2019). Poem reprinted by permission of Deirdre O’Connor and the publisher. Introduction copyright @2020 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.
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