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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Dubbed one of the country’s best female saxophonists, Nancy Wright performs at the Soper Reese Theatre on Saturday, Aug. 24, at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $15. Seating is open.
This performance celebrates the introduction of Wright’s latest CD, “Alive & Blue.”
Wright has played her wailin’, soulful blues alongside John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Albert King and Joe Louis Walker.
She has just been nominated for the prestigious Blues Music Award for the third consecutive year. This award is universally recognized as the top accolade afforded blues musicians.
In addition, Wright continues to tour regularly, playing major festivals and clubs with headlining artists and her own band.
She is a popular regular on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, performing with Tommy Castro and the Painkillers.
Playing with Wright is the Rhythm & Roots band led by Jules Leyhe, blues guitar; with Isaac Schwartz, percussion; and Ian McArdle, keyboard.
The Soper Reese Theatre is at 275 S. Main St., Lakeport.
Tickets are available online at www.SoperReeseTheatre.com; or at The Travel Center, 825 S. Main, Lakeport, 707-263-3095, Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information call 707-263-0577.
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- Written by: Elizabeth Larson
This column has often emphasized the importance of poetry that notices what's right under our noses, and this poem by David Mason, the former poet laureate of Colorado, who is currently living in Tasmania, is a good example of what you can see if you stop to look.
Mason's most recent book of poetry is The Sound: New and Selected Poems, from Red Hen Press.
Are We Still Here?
Between the woodpile and the window
a line of small black ants is moving,
some to the north, some to the south.
Their constant industry is admirable,
as are their manners when they pause
in meeting to exchange a touch.
I must have brought their home inside
for fuel, heating my small house.
And if it burned I too would move
along all points of the compass rose,
touching my neighbors on the path.
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 ©2018 by David Mason, “Are We Still Here?” (2018). Poem reprinted by permission of David Mason. 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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- Written by: Ted Kooser
