ArtBits always features a calendar of the goings on of Franklin County artists. Check out these events around Franklin County. Each issue includes the entire text of our weekly newspaper column. STUFF YOU SHOULDN'T MISS
Stop in for the AAC CoffeeHouses at 7 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month. These gatherings bring new opportunities, gossip, "show-and-tell" and workshops. We come together on the second Wednesday for a booked musical performance and an art exhibit at Simple Pleasures in St Albans. On the fourth Wednesday come to the Kept Writer in St Albans for acoustic Open Mike Night featuring music, readings, and more from the best new artists in Vermont.
PAGEANT WITH A MILK MOUSTACHE
All contestants are college bound seniors from Enosburg, Richford, and St Albans this year. The overall winner receives a $500 scholarship; the first runner up receives $300 and second runner up, $200. The first , second, and third place winners in creative and performing arts and in speech also receive $150, $75, and $50 scholarships each.
"On May 30, we will do the rest of the judging," Ms. Gates said. "In the morning, each contestant will have a one-on-one interview with each judge so when the pageant starts May 30, two of the categories are already scholastic achievement and the personal interview
"They are all working very hard on their youth fitness dance which is over five minutes long this year to let the judges get more time with the girls."
The talent show includes singers, dancers, flute, clarinet, tap, line, and modern
The Pageant begins tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Opera House at Enosburg Falls. Tickets for the performance and speech show tonight are available at the door.
"We're not going to have enough seats for next week," Ms. Gates said. Advance sale tickets for the May 30 Pageant night will be on sale at the Opera House from 6-8 p.m. on May 28 and May 29 only.
MOOO-VING INTO JUNE
The Dairy Festival celebrates Milk ... is White Gold with a weekend packed with family events. There is new four wheeler pull and the Dairy Scholarship Pageant, pedal pulls, agricultural displays, a dairy baking contest, a fabulous midway, a parade, and the "finest horse pull in the East" will pack The Burg. The High School Sports Association has taken over the bathtub races and the Emergency Squad runs the cow plop.
All the music will be on the bandstand this year.
The 21st annual Colgate Country Showdown will anchor the entertainment on Saturday by putting the teeth back into country music. The winner of this first step in the nation's largest country music talent search goes on to the State Finals. The strong 2002 competition lineup includes Penny Bohannon of Alburg, Bonnie Drake of South Burlington, Amy Greenia of Enosburg, Skeeter Lee of Windsor, Samantha Madison and Wild Card of the New Hampshire Lakes Region, Renegade of St Albans, and Shayna Sherwood of Enosburg. Borderline is the host band.
The Colgate Country Showdown is sponsored and operated by Jane Silk and WLFE-102.3 FM. Over 400 radio stations stage the local competitions for the nation's largest country talent search.
Dairy Festival family entertainment also features the EFHS Jazz Band, the famed Fernald Lumber Yankee Hitch Show, a large parade, the Marching Band competition, country music with Showdown host band Borderline, rock and roll music with local legends Silverback, hypnotist Ron Cote, and the fireworks.
The Festival "allows us to work to gather as a club it allows us to meet the needs of many people within this area and within the state of Vermont. We are a service organization and all of the money we raise goes to serve people," said Mr. May of the activity that help the Lions continue community service activities such as international eye and hearing care, plus the free osteoporosis screening at the Festival. This event is their primary fund raiser
NEW VOLUNTEERS
"We aren't requiring anyone to make a committee commitment," said OHEF director Jon Scott.
Next week, we will meet new members Andrew and Sally Bobkowicz, Deb Moskevitz, Tonya Pearson, and Lewis Rose. These and other volunteers will take on projects and specific tasks at the Opera House.
"We have reorganized and revisited the mandates of our committees because we are now up and running as opposed to fund raising for the restoration," Mr. Scott said. There is now a finance committee, plus long range planning, programs, publicity/marketing (which I will provide on an interim basis), and volunteer/staffing.
The Finance Committee prepares and proposes the annual budget, completes tax returns, and plans the necessary fund raising for all events and for the other committees. The Long Range Planning Committee determines further rehabilitation/improvement of the physical plant of the Opera House and establishes a time-line for those projects. This committee will also create a vision plan with the Friends' mission and to orient future development towards the Opera House goal. The Publicity/Marketing Committee designs and delivers a publicity campaign to bring audiences in to the Opera House Series and sponsored events.
The Program Committee searches out, creates, designs, and produces events by indigenous performers and artists with particular emphasis on the youth
The Opera House needs volunteers right now to handle membership campaigns and to make the house ready for events. Call 802-933-6171 or click here for more info.
STUFF YOU SHOULDN'T MISS
MONTGOMERY--The Red Barn studio in Montgomery opens for the season May 25-27
with new works by Montgomery and Boston watercolor artist Michael Domina.
CALL FOR ARTISTS
If you are a Franklin County artist working in any two- or three-dimensional media and want to exhibit your work, All Arts Council for info about our exhibits.
CLICK HERE: ART SITES OF THE WEEK
On Monday, Eyestorm.com was declared insolvent. Eyestorm is an online art gallery that offers exclusive artwork to all purchasers and collectors. Unlike other online buyers, art lovers proved reluctant to buy pieces without in-person viewing or experience. Eyestorm's web site is still accepting orders although they will not debit credit cards or ship the works until the company's future is settled. Creditors will meet tomorrow.
SELLING IT, part II--8084 is a local band with an international audience
and a good marketing program that includes their web site. The band now has
"rough studio outakes" of Allright and The Last Great
Train online at 8084
New Sounds
The files stream in Real Audio format. Bringing
fans to the site with free samples helps 8084 sell CDs and promote their concerts
and tours.
The free Real Audio plug-in, can be downloaded
at Real
Audio
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