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Prescott
Arts Beat:
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So much culture, only two and a half days to enjoy.
As a public service to all you Yavapai
CultureVultures, PAB host Andrew Johnson-Schmit will now join host Mark Reynolds on "The Bridge" radio show at 9:05 am every Friday over the K-JAZZ radio network - giving you the head's up on the weekend while you can still do something about it.
If you'd like an event to be considered for this radio show, send an email to Andrew Johnson-Schmit.
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The Guys
| First Production by The Artists Path
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 It is altogether fitting that the first production this year - one in which The Artists Path is pairing the artistic discipline of live drama with the theme of social conflict - should be a play delving into the heroism, the sacrifice and the loss of the 9/11 First Responders.
The Guys - written by Anne Nelson
Directed by Ernest Giglio
Featuring
Dino Palazzi & Charissa Menefee
After 9/11, Joan (Charissa Menefee) is a writer who bit by bit draws out the thorn of sorrow and bitterness buried in the psyche of a fire captain that seeks her help.
Nick (Dino Palazzi) is a fireman struggling with the daunting prospect of composing eulogies for eight men lost in the collapse of the twin towers.
"Nick and I weren't supposed to meet. You couldn't create another sequence for his life that leads to me. Or for my life that leads to him. After September 11th, all over the city, people jumped tracks." Joan
September 11 & 12, 7 PM FREE
Davis Learning Center on the Embry-Riddle Campus
Each Performance Followed by a Talk Back
with Actors and Director
Art Auction (5:30 PM) & Donations
Will Help Cover Production Costs
Free tickets available at
- Friends' Desk of Prescott Valley Public Library
Review of original NYC Production by Elyse Sommer
Anne Nelson's The Guys was written in just nine days. While born out of a horrendous event, it did not follow a
fledgling play's usual torturous path. It opened at Tribeca's off-off-Broadway's The Flea, almost immediately. What's
more, it had a pair of high profile actors, Sigourney Weaver and Bill Murray, playing its two characters -- Joan, a
writer/editor and Nick, a fireman struggling with the daunting prospect of composing eulogies for eight of the men lost
in the flames of the twin tower collapse.
Ms. Nelson's straight-from-the-gut, beautifully written two-hander attracted Weaver and Murray to the project. Their
names and the play's timeliness were the magnet for people to come. Those who came were sufficiently moved by the
words and the performances to fill the house.
Tune in Sunday at noon on the K-JAZZ Radio network to hear Artistic Director Gail Mangham talk about "The Guys" or, if you just can't wait, listen online or download it here. |
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Please note: The Cheap Date Alert is lit for all you broke, tight, stretched thin, rent fearing folk. Here's your chance to impress, enthuse and possibly win back the affections of your significant other. (A Public Service of PAB)
I have personally weaseled four free tickets, yes, two pair of freebies to
The Folk Sessions Seventh Anniversary Show on Saturday, September 11th in the gorgeous summer atmosphere ofHighland Center for Natural History pavilion. And you could win a pair with just one email!
This wonderful night of song includes performances by:
- Three-Legged Dog - a trio of Phoenix-based multi-instrumentalists who have fun playing a variety of old-time, early country, bluegrass, gospel and blues - Americana, or roots music - on guitar, banjo, mandolin, Dobro, bass, cello, accordion and fiddle.
- Dave Baumann and Barbara Heber, from the "Close to Home" String Band
- Prescott's Dennis Garvey
- Soul Creek (featuring Tom Agostino)
- Folk Sessions Poet Laureate Layne Longfellow among others.
Just be the 10th person to email to this email address and yer going to the show, baby!
Congratulations to
Milissa McCoy
winner of our free tickets
to see the
Prescott Jazz Summit
Gala Concert!
"Thanks again for the tickets.
I loved the lead trumpets, they were amazing.
My husband and I really enjoyed it."
-- Milissa
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| Next Week
on Prescott Arts Beat
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Darcy Falk tells us all about THAT OTHER blue grass festival: Pickin' in the Pines Bluegrass and Acoustic Music Festival happening Sept 17 - 19th, less than 10 minutes from downtown Flagstaff in the cool pines of Coconino County.
(photo by Missing Frame Photography)
In celebration of all things pickin' and grinning and camping and a contra dancin', PAB is proud to give away a pair of all-weekend passes to the festival. How can you get your hands on these ridonculous freebies? Check out next week's PAB newsletter, when you see the email link for the free ticket giveaway, click on it, and if you're the 10th emailer, YER GOIN' TO THE SHOW, BABY! Can't make it to Flagstaff that weekend? No problem, there's a sweeeeet day of music on the grassy shores of Prescott's Watson Lake on Sunday, Sept 19th at our good friend Ines Vitols' Music for Wonder Concert, benefitting the arts curriculum of Mountain Oak School. Its the third year for this great, family-friendly hometown music festival. Bring a picnic, laze around with the kids, listen to some fabulous music and maybe even get up and show 'em how to shake 'em down to the good time tunes of: - Those genius' of bar rock: The Cheektones
- The legendary blues band: SHRI
- One outstanding Dine flute player: Michael Goodluck
- Even Caucasians can dance to: Dylan Ludwig and the Barrio Ramblers
- plus a three hour, count 'em three hour, dance this mess around jam by the mighty, mighty Major Lingo
Either way, its going to be a great weekend and you'll hear about it all the Sunday before, that's Sunday,
Sept 12th at noon on the K-JAZZ Radio network! |
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