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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Arts Council is presenting the nineteenth edition of the Winter Music Fest on Saturday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m., and on Sunday, Feb. 27, at 2 p.m.
The WMF is a fundraiser for the Lake County Arts Council.
Tickets for this program are now available at the Main Street Gallery, 325 N. Main St., Lakeport, at the Soper-Reese Theatre box office at 275 S. Main St., Catfish Books in Lakeport, Lower Lake Coffee and online from www.soperreesetheatre.com.
The reserved seats are available only from the Soper-Reese Theatre’s box office, 707-263-0577, or from the Web site.
This year’s festival will showcase Lake County musicians, some of whom have been on this stage before, and some remarkable new talents as well.
For the last few years, the artists that applied for the show included dancers, jugglers, poets, actors and yo-yo masters, so the Arts Council decided to put on a show modeled on vaudeville.
This year, the talent that presented itself was exclusively musical. While the music is of varied styles, the vaudeville format has been dropped for this show. It will be in a concert format, and we will be lead through it by that splendid MC, Bert Hutt.
The Soper-Reese Community Theatre is an ideal venue for this kind of presentation. Every one of its comfortable seats has an unobstructed view of the stage and the sound system fills the auditorium.
Between the excellent acoustics of the hall and the professional mixing, no music is lost anywhere in the theater. While this year’s Music Fest has no rock-n-roll or country bands, the Soper-Reese can make even such intense music as that a pleasurable experience.
The only large musical groups that will be performing at this year’s Winter Music Fest will be the Mendo Lake Singers and Sax-O-Rama, very experienced entertainers in this area, and never hard to listen to.
That could be said for all the acts in this year’s entertainment. Melodious, intelligent, experienced, interesting, moving … these musicians are all that, but never hard to listen to.
Not every Music Fest can claim that, by any means, but this year one thing we can count on is that every member of the audience will leave feeling energized and positive.
For more information, contact the Lake County Arts Council by phone at 707-263-6658, or on the Web site at www.lakecountyartscouncil.com, or contact the Soper-Reese Community Theatre, 707-263-0577.
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Entries are now being accepted for regional winners in the 19th annual National Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets age 50 and older.
The deadline is June 30.
Winning poems of state senior poets laureate will be named in July, following which they advance to final rounds of competition from which the winner of the 2011 National Senior Poet Laureate (500) and runner up ($100) awards will be announced Sept. 1.
The 2010 California Senior Poet Laureate Award was won by Ray Malus of Woodland Hills whose poem “Feast” competed for the national title.
Winner of the 2010 National Senior Laureate Award was Regina Murray Brault of Burlington, Vt.
The 2010 winners can be seen in Golden Words Anthology, along with details about the 2011 Senior Poets Laureate Competition at the sponsor’s Web site, www.amykitchenerfdn.org .
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Former Lake County Poet Laureate Mary McMillan, with the support of the Lake County Arts Council, has again been awarded a grant to fund her work as leader of the Writers Circle, a free public writing workshop held at the Main Street Gallery in Lakeport at 6:30 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month.
The grant supporting the Writers Circle comes from Poets and Writers Inc., through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.
Many emerging writers, as well as more seasoned authors, depend on the Writers Circle to help them build their skills and connect with other writers.
Some people come only a few times, and others show up every month.
Many participants have been sharing parts of books and other long works they've been writing; others share short stories, memoirs, essays or poems.
The writers are between 16 and 80 years old, and come from all over the county.
Visit McMillan's Web site at www.marytmcmillan.com/ .
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Local entertainer Andre Williams will perform with his talented Andre Williams Trio at Silk's in Clearlake on Thursday, Feb. 3.
The performance will start at 5:30 p.m. and continue to as late as 8:30 p.m. at Williams' Silk's Bar & Grill.
Williams will put his incredible voice to work on old favorites.
Silk's Bar & Grill is located at 14825 Lakeshore Drive, Clearlake.
Call 707-995-7455 to reserve a table, as seating is limited.