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Thursday, September 21,2006
Chambers, David release new albums
By Chens F. Hodges
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Two award winning singers
are coming to Cliarlotte Fri
day to celebrate the rdease of
new albums.
Gordon Chambers, a Gram-
my-winning songwriter, has
released his first album,
“Introducing...Gordon Cham
bers.” He’s penned some of
the most popular adult R&B
songs for artists like Carl
Tliomas and Anita Baker.
When it was time to put his
voice on disc, Chamber said‘T
felt like there was not enough
grown folks making music.”
Chambers’ albmn features
12 songs, including a few he’s
written for others, like “I
Apologize” and “My Valen
tine.”
“This is needed right now
because we’re in a time of
cookie cutter music,” he said
Performing with Chambers
is Grammy nominee Anthony
David. After the independent
success of his debut disc,
“Three Chords and The
Ttuth,” David is back with
“The Bed Clay Chronicles,”
which hits stores on Sept. 26.
With the new albmn, David
said the biggest change is
Old school rap veterans turn back the
that it isn’t all-acoustic likp
the first. “This is closer to who
I am and what I’m into,” he
said.
David has been herald by
the Atlanta Journal-Constitu
tion as the best act to come
out of Atlanta since Usher.
The Savannah, Ga., native
moved to Atlanta to jump-
start his career and became
fiiends with India.Arie. The
two met shortly after David
arrived and they were fiiends
for three years before he even
knew she could sing. Their
fiiendship tximed into a
musical partnership and he
wrote the single “Part of My
Life” for Arie’s Grammy-nom-
inated “Acoustic Soul” album.
Thou^ David’s albmn is
different, it hasn’t changed
his direction musically
What: Anthony David and Gordon
Chambers
Where: Tempo, 4809 Wilkinson
Blvd.
When: Friday. Doors open at 9
p.m. Admission starts at $10. After
party lollows with a meet and greet.
Info: info@thesoulmovement.com
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for us. There is a big enough
audience we could stiU touch.
But they don’t want to put us
on the radio unless it’s an old
school show”
Whodini was one of the first
rap acts to put on a live show
with dancers and many of
their songs have been sam
pled by contemporary rap
pers.
Hutchins said that he does
n’t knock what today’s artists
are doing, saying “they have
to live in the world fliey creat
ed just like we had to live in
the world we created.”
Want to go?
What: The Blast From The Past
concert
When: Saturday from 2 p.m. to 8
p.m.
Where: Verizon Wireless
Amphitheater
Cost: $10-$63
What: Rakim and DJ Kid Capri
When: September 29 from 9 p.m.
until
Where: Amos’ SouthEnd, 1423 S.
Tryon St.
Advance tickets are on sale at
amossoulhend.com,
charlottevibe.com ch- Baseline Cutz
Barbershop, (70) 567-9919. Tickets
are $25 in advance, $30 at the door.
Photography exhibit focuses on New Orleans
By Sandy Seawright
THE CHARLOTTE POST
'■ Emotional Rescue; Three
From New Orleans”
Hodges Taylor Gallery
401 North Tryon St.
This photography exhibit
put together by Hodges Taylor
photography department
manager Carolyn DeMerritt
is full of respect.
Carl Beregman, who had
lived in North Carolina, said
in his artist’s statement:
“For me, this element of
mystery often presaits itself
in New Orleans, a dty with a
facade you can never quite
unravel.”
Tb add to the visual mystery
of this dty Bergman uses a
“Diana” plastic camera that
was a premium giveaway
many years ago. This camera
is simple in design yet brings
some objects into clear focus
while the background is dif
fused. Bergman’s camera cre
ates very haimting, reverant
images that caxise the viewer
to ask qu^tions.
For example, Bergman pho
tographed street debris fol
lowing Katrina and his black-
and-white photograph of a lit
tle girl’s shoe covered in beads
in a floral pattern makes us
wonder about the safety of the
child and the vulnerability we
all have to nature.
David HaUiday says of his
work here, “Every dty has its
own ‘face” and so do it’s peo
ple.”
His black-and-white por
traits all photographed since
Hurricane Katrina hit the
Gult region on August 29 are
a mix of long standing resi
dents as well as newcomers to
the dty who have come to
help rebuild the dty
Halliday says his portraits
ask the question who are the
people of New Orleans now?’
All of his subjects have great
character. “Crusty” is a
mechanic who came fi’om
Massadiu^tts to help. And
“Zuber” is an antiques dealer
who was bom in Algeria who
sports a tassel on his turban.
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samples most hip-hop records
rely on,
“We are inspired by a lot of
older music because back
then they wasn’t typecast in
as many boxes,” said Tbe,
“That inspires us to try and
follow in their footsteps.”
Mojoe’s debut disc is in
stores now
OCTOBER 19-22
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COCA-COLA “TEACHER” OE THE MONTH
“Fionne Stout”
Eighth Grade Math Teacher,,
Bishop Spaugh Community Academy
“1 believe that children will rise to the level
that we expect of them if we believe and have
high expectations of them. Ai teachers,
if we show we love them, they can do
just about anything. ”
- Fionne Stout
Five years ago, no one could have told our “Teacher
of the Month” Fionne Austin Stout, that she would end
up being a teacher. After two years of working as an engi
neer in corporate America, she could not see how what she
was doing was making a difference. That bothered her. Her fiancee’ finally said, “you
love kids, you like helping people, you’d make an excellent teacher.” With little coax
ing, she put her feelers and applications out, and Charlotte Mecklenburg School said,
we need you. Stout joined the staff at Spaugh Middle School 3 years ago and hasn’t
looked back. Admired by her peers and loved by her students, Stout is finally mak
ing a difference in the lives of children.
A native of Atlanta, Stout is the fourth child and only daughter bom to Annie
Pearl and Joe Louis Austin Sr. Even today, Stout feels her big brothers could have
done a better job of spoiling her. Stout attended Fulton County public schools, earned
her computer engineering degree in ’97 from Georgia Tech, her BS in math in ’98
from Spelman College, and her masters in electrical engineering from NC A&T State
University in 2001.
For dedication in her chosen fields of study. Stout has been recognized with many
awards in math and engineering. However, she’s particularly fond of her Dual Degree
in Engineering award, and proud to have received a fellowship in engineering to
attend NC A& T.
In her spare time Stout enjoys movies, dancing, reading, roller skating, and is big
on arts and crafts. She particularly likes making jewelry and fountains.
A newlywed of only two months, Fionne is happily married to Joe Stout, and says
“I think I just like having Joes in my life.”
Best Wishes “Fionne” from
Coca Cola Bottling Company Consolidated of Charlotte
Coca Co (a TReaC
)
Debra Luster is the third
photographer from New
Orleans. Her work is not
about Katrina but prople of
crisis. In three Louisiana pris
ons, she has taken over
25,000 photographs. AU of the
prisoners receive the portraits
she makes of them and 15
wallet- size proofs.
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