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Thursday, September 25, 2008
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AREA SHORTS Legacy Five to perform concert
BAXTER - Legacy Five will perform a gospel concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Heritage Assembly of God Church, 13242 Berrywood Drive, in Baxter.
Tickets are $14 in advance and $17 at the door. Tickets are for sale at the Dispatch, Bethany Book Store in Baxter, KTIG in Pequot Lakes, Good Bookstore in Little Falls and at www.brainerd.com/riveroflife.
The Ruckers to perform in Nisswa
NISSWA - Sparky and Rhonda Rucker will perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3 at the Nisswa Community Center as part of the Grassroots Concerts schedule.
Admission is $15 for adults and $10 for ages 11 and younger.
The Ruckers' concert is a humor-filled journey through 400 years of African-American cultural and folk history, encompassing old-time blues, Appalachian music, slave songs, Civil War music, spirituals, work songs, ballads, Civil Rights music and Sparky's original compositions.
The Ruckers' recording of traditional Appalachian music, "The Mountains Above and the Valleys Below," was released last year.
For more information, visit www.grassrootsconcerts.org or call 829-4092.
Ann Reed to perform Grassroots Concert
NISSWA - Minnesota singer-songwriter Ann Reed, touring in support of her "Songs for Minnesota" album, has been added to the fall Grassroots Concerts schedule. She'll perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 11 at the Nisswa Community Center.
Admission is $20 for adults and $15 for ages 11 and younger.
Look for song samples from Ann's latest CD, "Songs for Minnesota" next week on brainerddispatch.com.
HSO to present 'Dark and Stormy Concert'
The Heartland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Joseph Schlefke, will perform "A Dark and Stormy Concert" at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 11 at Tornstrom Auditorium, Washington Educational Services Building, and 2 p.m. Oct. 12 at Martin Auditorium, Little Falls High School.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $15 for adult pairs, $20 for families and $7 for seniors (60 and older) and students. Children 5 and younger are admitted free. Tickets are on sale at the Dispatch and Bridge of Harmony in Brainerd and Bookin' It and the Great River Arts Center in Little Falls.
The selections will include the macabre "March to the Scaffold," which details a dream in which a criminal is beheaded to the delight of the onlookers. A stormy Mozart piano concerto will be performed by guest artist Jill Dawe. The concert will conclude with a Strauss polka filled with thunder and lightning.
For more information, visit www.heartlandsymphony.org or call (800) 826-1997.
LACA announces 2008-09 schedule
The 2008-09 Lakes Area Concert Association schedule will include five shows. All shows start at 7:30 p.m. at Tornstrom Auditorium, Washington Educational Services Building, in Brainerd.
The schedule is:
¥ New York Theatre Ballet, Oct. 16.
¥ Trumpet Invasion (piano and trumpet duo), Nov. 29.
¥ New Century Saxophone Quartet, March 10.
¥ Opus Two (piano and violin duo), March 20.
¥ Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, April 21.
Season tickets are $32 for adults, $10 for students and $80 for families. Contributing memberships are $175 (patron, includes four adult tickets), $250 (sponsor, includes six adult tickets) and $350 (benefactor, includes eight adult tickets).
For more information, call Betty Alderman at 829-3379 or 963-2654 or Curt Nielsen at 829-4901.
THEATER
'Geritol Frolics' slated in October
"Geritol Frolics," the annual 55-and-older variety show, will be staged at 7 p.m. Oct. 16, 18 and 25 and 2:30 p.m. Oct. 17, 19, 23, 24 and 26 at the Franklin Arts Center Theatre, 1001 Kingwood St., Brainerd.
Tickets for reserved seating are $10 for regular and $12 for premium seats. They are available at the Franklin Arts Center box office from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays. Call 825-4993 to reserve tickets.
Call 825-3777 for more information.
Lamberson to teach class on Arthur Miller
CROSBY - Central Lakes College Theatre director Dennis Lamberson will teach about playwright Arthur Miller and students will attend a Guthrie Theater matinee of "A View from the Bridge" in an upcoming Unlimited Learning class. The class will be at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Hallett Community Center in Crosby and a bus trip to see the play at the Guthrie in Minneapolis will begin at 9 a.m. Oct. 29 at the Hallett Community Center.
Cost is $55 for Unlimited Learning members and $65 for non-members. Call (218) 534-4946 for information and reservations. Checks written to Unlimited Learning should be sent to Joanna Pierce at 26045 Eagle Drive, Aitkin, MN, 56431, by Oct. 14.
Theater-goers should bring a lunch to eat on the bus; beverages will be provided.
BOOKS
Volume 17 of 'Talking Stick' released
PARK RAPIDS - Volume 17 of "The Talking Stick," a publication of prose and poetry by the Jackpine Writers' Bloc, features work by five Brainerd lakes area writers.
They are Joan Wiesner, Brainerd; Charmaine Pappas Donovan, Brainerd; Doris Stengel, Brainerd; Candace Simar, Pequot Lakes; and Maryjude Hoeffel, Swanville.
Books are for sale at www.jackpinewriters.com and Bookin' It in Little Falls.
Benedict author publishes first novel
BENEDICT - "The Flowers of Autumn," the debut novel by Stephen Pitzen of Benedict, has been published. It is available at Book World in Baxter, Rainy Days Books in Nisswa and Books & More in Pequot Lakes, and can be ordered by e-mailing mjsjpitz@paulbunyan.net.
In "The Flowers of Autumn," an adult with a developmental disability and a child live in a small northern Minnesota town in the 1960s. The volume also contains three short stories.
Pitzen has been a social worker for Cass County Health and Human Services for 20 years. He is a graduate of Walker-Hackensack High School, served in the U.S. Navy from 1971-75 and graduated from Bemidji State University in 1980.
ART
Sulek-Malinowska's artwork featured
LITTLE FALLS - Artwork by Joanna Sulek-Malinowska of Warsaw, Poland, will be on display at 6:15 p.m. Thursday at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 208 W. Broadway, in Little Falls.
Genealogist Danuta Jampolska, foreign exchange coordinator for the Ochota Center in Warsaw, will also be featured.
Sulek-Malinowska is the first artist chosen by the Polish American Cultural Institute of Minnesota for its Polish Artist Exchange Program.
ART/MUSIC
Ripple River open house slated Oct. 4
AITKIN - The annual open house at the Ripple River Gallery south of Aitkin will begin at 10 a.m. Oct. 4. The event will feature art, apple cider and snacks, a raku pottery firing, Celtic music and storytelling, artist interaction and a program by the Wild and Free Wildlife Rehabilitation Program of Garrison.
Admission is free; donations to the wildlife program are welcome.
At 10 a.m., potter Jim Loso, St. Joseph, will begin the raku firing under a canopy of maples. This is the sixth year that Loso and the gallery have provided small bisque-fired pots for participants to glaze.
Musician Paul Imholte and storyteller JoAnne Lower will perform from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Imholte brings a number instruments to every performance as he blends bluegrass with Celtic music.
Batik artist Diane Rutherford, Grand Rapids, and wood artist, Bob Carls, will be featured at a reception from 2-4 p.m.
For more information, call (218) 678-2575 or e-mail ripriv@mlecmn.net.
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