Artists in concert at Lake County Fairgrounds
LAKEPORT ? Dove award winners and top selling recording artists, Big Daddy Weave and Aaron Shust, along with Andy Kirk, will be playing a concert on Friday at the Lake County Fairgrounds, 401 Martin St. in Lakeport.
For more information, visit http://hoperestoredtour.com/, www.bigdaddyweave.com/, www.aaronshust.com/, www.andykirk.tv/ or www.oneverse.org/.
Julie Nation promotes seminar and audition
LAKEPORT ? Julie Nation Academy of Santa Rosa is bringing Los Angeles agent Carol Lynn Sher to Lake County to host a seminar and auditions, Saturday at the Soper-Reese Community Theatre in Lakeport.
The seminar will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Sher will give participants information about how they can “land” an agent.
Sher”s seminar will be followed by auditions for students who are prepared with a 30-second TV commercial or monologue audition piece. The auditions take place from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. All audition performers will receive Sher”s personal feedback from Julie Nation staff. Participants are asked to bring a positive attitude, smile and a home snapshot.
As a public educational service for Lake County, Julie Nation Academy is providing two scholarships per school for Sher”s seminar participants and their parent(s). The general public and all interested students are also invited; there is a fee of $35 per seminar participant, $25 for Julie Nation students and graduates and $15 for parents. For more information, please go to www.julienation.com and click on the “Workshops” tab or call 575-8585.
Poetry Out Loud invites school participation
LAKE COUNTY ? For the fourth year, the Lake County Arts Council will participate in Poetry Out Loud, a national recitation contest that is sponsored by the California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.
Students in grades nine through 12 have an opportunity to memorize selected poetry and recite it in a competition that begins in the classroom, moves to the school level, to county-wide competition and to state competition. The state winner proceeds to a national competition in Washington, D.C. with all expenses paid. Scholarship dollars and school awards are made at the state and national levels.
Anyone who wishes to participate in the program should contact Michele Krueger at michelekr@mchsi.com. For more information about Poetry Out Loud, visit www.cac.ca.gov/poetryoutloud/index.php.
Waltz performing Sunday at Unity
LOWER LAKE — Celtic and world music folk singer/songwriter Chris Waltz will perform at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Unity Clear Lake Center in Lower Lake, at 15898 Kugelman St., off Highway 53, in Lower Lake.
Waltz performs a blend of Celtic, contemporary and traditional folk, Spanish-Sephardic flamenco and mid-east Gypsy-style music featuring original and traditional songs sung in Irish/Gaelic, Spanish, Latin, Latino and English using voice, nylon and steel string guitar, flutes and whistles. Waltz also plays cover songs by John Denver.
Waltz said he has had classical voice training at the Pease Conservatory of Music. He has performed at churches, festivals, concert and folk venues all over the country.
In 2006 Waltz debuted at the California”s Celtic Music circuit at the Grass Valley Celtic Music Festival. He was accepted by Riverdance as a lead singer, but last year the show reverted to its original production with no male soloist parts.
Waltz said that he is one of the few male Gaelic singers around.
Waltz was a chorus singer with the Sacramento Opera. He said he has opened for or performed on stage with Dervish, a Celtic group from Ireland, Celtic composer and bouzouki player Roger Landes and singer/songwriter Tish Hinajosa.
Waltz said he was instrumental in forming Triana, a Celtic world music ensemble, which performed a blend of original and traditional folk music. He wrote and arranged most of the music they performed, including many pieces with multi-vocal parts and instrumental accompaniment.
There is a requested $10 donation for Sunday”s concert.For more information about Waltz, visit www.chriswaltz.com. For more information about the performance, call 995-1419.
Laureates invite favorite poems
UKIAH — The Poet Laureate committee of Ukiah invites members of the public to submit their all-time favorite poem.
Fifteen poems will be selected from these entries. If a poem is chosen, the individual who submitted it will be invited to participate in a public reading to be held on Oct. 15.
“Do you have a favorite poem that has touched you or has affected your life deeply, one you would like to share with the community?” Theresa Whitehill, poet laureate of Ukiah, asked. “This is your opportunity to do so. The poem must be by an author other than yourself, your friends or relatives. It should be a poem you have read, perhaps many times, and to which you feel a personal attachment.”
Whitehill added that while there are no length requirements, very short or very long poems are not likely to be selected.
Submission forms can be picked up and dropped off at Ukiah Public Library, 105 N. Main St. in Ukiah; Grace Hudson Museum, 431 S. Main St. in Ukiah; and are also available online at www.coloredhorse.com/poetry. Submissions can be mailed to Ukiah Poet Laureate Committee, P.O. Box 865, Ukiah, CA 95482 or e-mailed to: ukiah.laureate@mcn.org.
Postmark deadline is today.
PBS Web site promotes arts
Staff reports
ARLINGTON, Va. ? The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) has launched PBS Arts, www.pbs.org/arts, a new Web site that offers Americans the opportunity to experience the arts and explore the creative process through special virtual exhibits, videos from PBS national and local programs and interactive features.
The Web site is part of PBS” ongoing commitment to strengthen public engagement in all forms of artistic expression and performance ? in front of the camera and behind the scenes ? and to bring more of the arts into the lives of millions of Americans.
For more information, visit www.pbs.org/arts.
