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LAKEPORT, Calif. – It's almost time again for the Big Valley Hall's annual early Halloween party.
On Saturday, Oct. 19, the Big Valley Hall-oween Bash will be rattling the Big Valley Hall at 1510 Big Valley Road, at the border of Finley and Lakeport.
West Coast Blues and Classic R&B will fill the hall from 7 to 10 p.m. with Miz Dee and The Blues Defenders.
Miz Dee's powerful voice has transported her to stages in Asia and Europe, where she resided for several years.
Closer to her Bay Area home, Miz Dee has performed at blues and jazz festivals in Monterey, San Francisco and Portland.
Miz Dee also headlined the 2016 Valley Fire Tribute Concert at Ely Stage Stop backed by the Blues Defenders and Mighty Mike Schermer, with Dave Broida sitting in.
The Blues Defenders of Sonoma County will bring Donny Mederos on bass, Matt Silva on guitar, Bruce Gordon on keyboards (of Tri Tip Trio and Zydeco Flames) and Nick Otis on drums (son of Johnny Otis).
For many years this tight working band has backed blues masters at the Twin Oaks Pro Jam, including some who have played Lake County fire benefits such as Chris Cain, Mighty Mike Schermer, Daniel Castro, Johnny Rawls, Craig Caffall, Lloyd Meadows and Terrie Odabi, as well as Miz Dee.
Proceeds will support renovations for the Big Valley Hall, home of seven Fire Benefits for Lake County from 2017 to 2018.
Don't be afraid to dig out your Halloween costume and dancing shoes now, in case you'd like to win the costume or dance contests. And stash your extra loot for the raffle, homemade sweets, wine, beer, soft drinks and sparkling water.
Be prepared to pay $10 cash to the guardians of the door for this adult dance party.
American Plumbing and Brad White Blues Productions of Kelseyville, Iris Angeleri of Pivniska Real Estate Group in Kelseyville, Blue Wing Saloon in Upper Lake and Donna's Upscale Resale in Lakeport graciously agreed to sponsor this fundraiser.
For more information, call 707-367-8014 or see the Facebook page for The Big Valley Hall.
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Wallace Stevens, the great modernist poet, wrote about setting a jar down in a wild place, and how by doing so he organized that space around the jar.
Here's Marilyn Dorf, a Nebraska poet, using a single goose to organize an entire landscape.
When the Red Goose Wakes
The sky a pure river of dawn
and the red goose wakes, the
breeze weaving, interweaving
leaves newly turned.
In the valley a song,
with no one to sing it,
some voice of the past
or the future. The red goose
sets her wings and answering
some promise she's made
to the WILD, enters that river
of sky, neck stretched
toward heaven, maybe beyond,
tail nothing but a carnelian
nubbin fading to sunglow.
And you, stunned to a silence
the size of the world.
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 ©2012 by Marilyn Dorf, "When the Red Goose Wakes," from Platte Valley Review, (Vol. 33, no. 1, 2012). Poem reprinted by permission of Marilyn Dorf and the publisher. Introduction copyright @2019 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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