Final-Friday Fun Ride July 30, 6:45
at the Wabash Avenue Parking Garage
A Ride for all - fat bikes, skinny bikes, pros, beginners, trikes - everyone is welcome. No agenda, just fun together.
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THE RAGBIRDS
Live at the Verve:
Thursday, July 29 11pm
$5 cover, 21+ only
Big on rhythm, energy, and global
grooves, The Ragbirds released their third album in 2009 while playing a
couple hundred live shows (including a tour in Japan) and gathering
descriptions along the way that ranged from "world fusion" to
"astounding international eclecticism."
Railroad Earth's Tim Carbone,
who produced The Ragbirds' new Finally Almost Ready describes
multi-instrumentalist/frontwoman
Erin Zindle as "amazing to watch, let alone listen to. She sings,
dances, and plays the violin all at the same time ... it's like she has
two or three brains going." Think gypsy String Cheese with dollops of
Latin, Middle-Eastern and Afro-Celtic sound.
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423 Wabash Avenue
Book signing: Saturday, July 31, 9 AM
Carol Timco Edwards
The Book: Why Jeffrey? Why us? A heartwarming story of the unconditional love
of a severely brain-injured child and the wealth of memories he left those who
were truly blessed to have been part of his life.
also..Poetry at the Grounds
on Thursday, August 19, 7 pm
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The summer program wraps up on Wednesday, August 4 with a special surprise selection!
Choose from two show times: 10 am and 2:30 pm
Admission is free, with snack specials for kids...
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| Max Ehrmann at the Crossroads Sculpture dedication planned for Thursday, August 26, 4:30 pm
7th & Wabash Avenue in downtown Terre Haute.
Art
Spaces, Inc. and the members of the Cultural Trail Coalition are
pleased to announce that Max Ehrmann at the Crossroads, a life-size
bronze sculpture by noted area artist Bill Wolfe will be installed at
the corner of Wabash Avenue and 7th Street, along the Terre Haute Arts
Corridor and Historic National Road US 40, at the Crossroads of America.
Max will be seated, writing, as he often did, gathering his inspiration
from the vibrant life of Terre Haute. Bronze plaques containing lines
from his most famous poem, Desiderata, will be embedded in the sidewalk
near the sculpture and the entire poem will be mounted nearby.
For more information:
Wabash Valley Art Spaces, Inc.
Call: 812-244-4216
Visit: http://www.wabashvalleyartspaces.com |
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Saturday Concert in the Park
(music starts at 8pm)
The Terre Haute Community Band will take a musical flight
into the mysteries of outer space that have intrigued mankind for
centuries. The adventurous and curious
are invited to explore the "Final Frontier" with the band at their concert on
Saturday July 31st at 8:00
p.m. in Fairbanks
Park. All THCB concerts
are free.
John Williams "Fantasy of Flight" offers a medley of movie
themes that most of the audience will find very familiar. "E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial" and "Hedwig's Theme"
from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" represent only two of the many
films scored by this award winning composer.
"Mars, the Bringer of War" is the first of Gustav Holst's seven "Planet" compositions. Holtz seemed to
consider "The Planets" a progression of life. "Mars" perhaps serves as a rocky
and tormenting beginning. In fact, some
have called this movement the most devastating piece of music ever written!
No exploration of the skies would be complete without a look
at the romantic possibilities and no song does that any better than Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust". The "Symphonic Suite from
Star Trek" is the music from the most recent Star Trek movie, covering the
early years of Captain Kirk, Spock, Scotty, etc. Arranger Jay Bocock has masterfully put the best parts of the movie
soundtrack together.
A new acquisition for the band, "To Sail Beyond
the Stars" by Timothy Loest was commissioned by the
Illinois Music Educators Association. Loest is
currently Director of Bands for the Itasca Public Schools in Itasca, Illinois. Another selection on the playlist,
"The Phantom Regiment" written by Leroy Anderson is also the
name of the Rockford Illinois High School Drum & Bugle Corps. Paul Whear is an Indiana musician who received his Masters of Music from Depauw
University and has a number
of compositions and arrangements to his credit including "March Onward" on the
concert program.. "Sabre
Dance" by Katchaturian,
"Festival Prelude" by Arthur Reed and "Spirit of Canaveral" by Floyd Barnard round out the evening's
selections.
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What else do you have planned for First Friday?
Email me - and we'll include it in next week's e-news!
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