FRIDAY 1/9: ESO LIVE! Season Begins with Loaded Goat
Prepare to be blown away at ESO LIVE’s first show of 2015 with Loaded Goat on Friday, January 9, at ESO Arts Center in Belle Haven.
Loaded Goat, the local band known for its eclectic mix of raw acoustic stomp and groove, has an unusual source for its atypical moniker. “Loaded Goat” is also the name of a 1963 episode of the Andy Griffith Show, when the town of Mayberry feared disaster after the sheriff discovers a farmer’s goat has eaten a whole lot of dynamite.
Loaded Goat Band also promises the unexpected, with an array of songs performed by a blend of mandolin, guitar, stand-up bass, and percussion quartet. Andy Malik, Scott Wade, and Brian Irminger collaborate on a soulful, modern brew of past and present music, along with special guest Ryan Davis on the stand-up bass. [Read more…]
MONDAY 1/19: Annual Community Unity Breakfast and Walk in Remembrance of Martin Luther King
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The 24th Annual Community Unity Breakfast celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday will be held January 19 at 8:30 a.m. in the Northampton High School cafeteria. Tickets are $6 for adults and no charge for students. As always the focus will be on the youth of the community.
The featured speaker for this year’s breakfast is the Honorable Mignon L. Clyburn, who was appointed by President Obama to the Federal Communications Commission including serving as chairman. Commissioner Clyburn is a longtime champion of consumers and a defender of the public interest. She is from South Carolina and has a wealth of experience to share.
The breakfast will be followed by the 25th Annual Unity Walk, which is dedicated to “Walking for Good Health.” Warm clothing and comfortable shoes are strongly advised. Participants will walk to the nearby Courthouse grounds, where the speaker will be Rev. Calvin Washington, Sr., pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Treherneville. Pastor Washington is the 2nd Vice Moderator of the Virginia/Maryland Baptist Association and its Ministries. He is a General Production Manager at Tyson Foods in Treherneville. [Read more…]
SUNDAY 1/4: Hungars Episcopal Church Concert
Violinist Dora Mullins and pianist Stefan Dulcie will be presenting a concert at Hungars Episcopal Church on Sunday, January 4, at 4 p.m. The program will include Honegger’s First Sonata, Poulenc’ Sonata for Violin and Piano, and Brahms’ D Minor Sonata, Op. 108. This concert is offered without charge and will be followed by a reception.
For more information, please call 757-678-7837.
Found Dog in Central Park
DECEMBER 30 UPDATE: The family that found the puppy has bonded with it and, no owner having come forward, has happily adopted it.
A small puppy, possibly Chihuahua-Beagle mix, was found around Central Park on Saturday, December 27. It does not appear to be a stray, but does not have tags or identification. Anyone recognizing this puppy is asked to call 757-331-3135 with any information.
Auditions at the Palace Theatre
FRIDAY 12/19: ‘Weary of War — the Shore in December 1864′
“Weary of War: The Shore in December 1864” is the subject of a free 90-minute seminar 12:30 p.m. Friday, December 19, in the Lecture Hall of the Eastern Shore Community College, 29300 Lankford Hwy., Melfa. Historian Kellee Blake will address declining hopes for Southern victory, the Shore command of bright young colonel Frank J. White (including his handling of the previously enslaved population), the predicament of women, and the costly demand that every adult on the Shore take the dreaded oath. [Read more…]
American Legion Food Drive for Eastern Shore Pantry
American Legion Post 56 in Cheriton has an ongoing Holiday Project to provide canned food to the Eastern Shore Food Pantry. A box is located inside Post 56 near the front door to collect canned goods for our neighbors who need help this year. Not everyone is fortunate enough to have a family who can feed them during this Christmas season. All members and their families are asked to please consider donating canned goods to this project.
Danceable Drama Is Not Your Father’s Christmas Carol
By WAYNE CREED
December 8, 2014
In Cape Charles, Christmas is our best of times, and this season, Arts Enter and the Palace Theatre are excited to bring you their unique interpretation of the Dickens classic, “A Christmas Carol: An Original Danceable Drama.” Rather than just blowing dust off the pages, and trotting old Ebenezer out in a nightgown once again, we wanted to re-examine the story, not just relative to a mosaic of other literary work, but as a play between the elements of speech, music, and dance.
This sounds like a daunting task, but working with the brilliant Amy Watkins makes it so much easier. Her original choreography pushes our dancers’ movement and form in space, shape, time and energy. For Amy, it is the art of movement, using the language of ballet, contemporary dance, jazz, hip hop, folk dance, GaGa, and even pedestrian movement, all fused together in a spiritual, emotional, and even non-literal textual context to create a vivid and intense narrative that invokes dance’s grandest ghosts of the past and present, Martha Graham and Twyla Tharp.
We are also blessed to have a supremely talented costume designer (who can lift a great deal of stress off of the directors), Vera Miller, who uses fabric to create the characters and fill the stage with texture and color. For period pieces, such as “A Christmas Carol,” she is marvelous in her ability to plot color, changing social status or period through the visual design of garments and accessories. This may sound simple, but it requires a unique knowledge of not just fabric and pattern development, but also an in-depth education in the history of textiles and fashion. [Read more…]
