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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Join in on the piano fun at Lakeport’s Soper Reese Theatre on Saturday, March 23, at 7 p.m. and enjoy a hella great concert featuring top soulful piano masters who will cover everything from boogie woogie to blues, swing, and New Orleans soul.
Featured pianists are Lady Bianca, Wendy DeWitt, Sue Palmer and Paul Kemp.
Tickets are $25, 20 and $15. All seats reserved. The show is a concert format; the dance floor will not be open. Reserve your seat now for a stomping good time.
Tickets are available at www.soperreesetheatre.com; or at The Travel Center, 1265 S. Main St., Lakeport, Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; or at the theatre Box Office up to two hours before show time.
Artists will be at four pianos across the stage, trading off leading each other, with a rhythm section provided by the legendary drummer Kirk Harwood (Norton Buffalo, Roy Rogers). The show brings together a stage full of award winning artists who know how to touch your heart and stir your soul.
A noted songwriter and world class performer, Lady Bianca has toured with Sly and Family Stone, Frank Zappa and Van Morrison, including an appearance at Royal Albert Hall in London. She recorded with Taj Mahal, Van Morrison and Merle Haggard, and is in The Blues Hall of Fame.
Wendy DeWitt played with Hank Ballard and Otis Rush, and performs at concerts throughout the U.S. and Europe. For 15 years she produced The Queens of Boogie Woogie show, and is now producing the Seventh Annual San Francisco International Boogie Woogie Festival. Wendy is recently back from the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, and Mustique Blues Festival.
Known for her beehive-wearing stint with blues diva Candye Kane in the '90's, Sue Palmer has performed with Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton, Kim Wilson, Hadda Brooks and Sonny Leyland. San Diego's Queen of Boogie Woogie has been honored with a win from the International Blues Challenge for Best Self Produced CD and Best Blues Album, San Diego Music Hall of Fame, and the "Jim Croce Award for Excellence and Dedication to Music”.
Paul Kemp’s performance background includes Broadway musicals, churches, theaters, night clubs, symphony orchestras, and street corners. With musical partner, Machiko Shimada, Paul performs Supper Jazz every Sunday evening at the Blue Wing Saloon in Upper Lake where he is Music Director. The duo produces a monthly radio show, Live from the Blue Wing, in its fifth year, with a roster of world-class guest artists.
Featured pianists are Lady Bianca, Wendy DeWitt, Sue Palmer and Paul Kemp.
Tickets are $25, 20 and $15. All seats reserved. The show is a concert format; the dance floor will not be open. Reserve your seat now for a stomping good time.
Tickets are available at www.soperreesetheatre.com; or at The Travel Center, 1265 S. Main St., Lakeport, Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; or at the theatre Box Office up to two hours before show time.
Artists will be at four pianos across the stage, trading off leading each other, with a rhythm section provided by the legendary drummer Kirk Harwood (Norton Buffalo, Roy Rogers). The show brings together a stage full of award winning artists who know how to touch your heart and stir your soul.
A noted songwriter and world class performer, Lady Bianca has toured with Sly and Family Stone, Frank Zappa and Van Morrison, including an appearance at Royal Albert Hall in London. She recorded with Taj Mahal, Van Morrison and Merle Haggard, and is in The Blues Hall of Fame.
Wendy DeWitt played with Hank Ballard and Otis Rush, and performs at concerts throughout the U.S. and Europe. For 15 years she produced The Queens of Boogie Woogie show, and is now producing the Seventh Annual San Francisco International Boogie Woogie Festival. Wendy is recently back from the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, and Mustique Blues Festival.
Known for her beehive-wearing stint with blues diva Candye Kane in the '90's, Sue Palmer has performed with Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton, Kim Wilson, Hadda Brooks and Sonny Leyland. San Diego's Queen of Boogie Woogie has been honored with a win from the International Blues Challenge for Best Self Produced CD and Best Blues Album, San Diego Music Hall of Fame, and the "Jim Croce Award for Excellence and Dedication to Music”.
Paul Kemp’s performance background includes Broadway musicals, churches, theaters, night clubs, symphony orchestras, and street corners. With musical partner, Machiko Shimada, Paul performs Supper Jazz every Sunday evening at the Blue Wing Saloon in Upper Lake where he is Music Director. The duo produces a monthly radio show, Live from the Blue Wing, in its fifth year, with a roster of world-class guest artists.
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KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – The award-winning Southern gospel group “Southern Raised” is making a return visit to Kelseyville, where it will perform a free concert for the community this week.
The group will perform in the Kelseyville Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall, 5340 Third St.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with the concert beginning at 7 p.m.
Admission is free, with a love offering to be taken.
Southern Raised is a family band from Branson, Missouri. It includes three sisters and a brother – Lindsay, Sarah, Emily and Matt Reith.
The band won the 2018 Diamond Award for best bluegrass gospel group of the year.
Learn more about them at their Web site, http://southernraisedbluegrass.com/.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Clear Lake High School will present the musical “Beauty and the Beast” from Friday, March 22, through Sunday, March 24.
The show will take place at the MAC theater at the high school, 350 Lange St.
Show times are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Tickets cost $15 for reserve seating, $10 for general admission and $5 for students.
Presale tickets are available in the Clear Lake High School office.
For more information call 707-262-3010.
The show will take place at the MAC theater at the high school, 350 Lange St.
Show times are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Tickets cost $15 for reserve seating, $10 for general admission and $5 for students.
Presale tickets are available in the Clear Lake High School office.
For more information call 707-262-3010.
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Pauletta Hansel lives in Cincinnati, and today's poem is from her book “Palindrome,” from Dos Madres Press in Loveland, Ohio.
It's a collection of poems about her mother's dementia, and although there have been many individual poems about that subject, by many poets, I know of no other book by just one poet that so completely and artfully sums up the emotions associated with that painful deterioration.
The View from There
Where in the world
does my mother go, eyes
shut so tight her lower lashes
curl in toward a view
that's hers alone?
Yesterday she told
me—after the rains, the winds
came, and this morning
that's what they do.
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 ©2017 by Pauletta Hansel, "The View from There," from Palindrome, (Dos Madres Press, 2017). Poem reprinted by permission of Pauletta Hansel 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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- Written by: Ted Kooser