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Arts & Lifestyle Of Interest ... Popular Blues festival will celebrate 25th anniversary in 2011 The Southeast's longest-running Blues festival will mark it? silver anniversary next year. The Piedmont Blues Preservation Society's (PBPS) announces its annual signature event.The Carolina Blues Festival, hosted by the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society, will be held on Saturday, May 7, 2011 in Downtown Greensboro in the Price Bryan Performance Place at Festival Park What began as a small gath ering of blues lovers in at the old Friends Motor Inn parking lot in 1986 in Greensboro has blossomed into the a popular music festival hosted continu ously for two and a half decades by a committed core group of community volun teers from the Greensboro area. Poleal Some of the biggest names in blues. R&B and blues/rock have performed at the Carolina Blues Festival, including Cyril Neville. Delbert McClinton, Koko Taylor. John Mayall, The Fabulous Thunderbirds. Maria Muldaur, Little Milton and High Point resident and former Muddy Waters guitarist Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin. Festival organizers are currently working on the line-up and logistics for the 25th Anniversary event. Some regional acts have already earned their place at the upcoming festival. Recently, the organizers held their yearly regional Blues Challenge competition. Owen Poteat of North Wilkesboro won first place in the solo/duo competition, which qualifies him to per form at the May Festival. Last month. WSNB. a four piece blues band from Morganton won the PBPS Band Blues Challenge. They too will share the festi val stage. To learn more about the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society, visit www.piedmontblues.org. State's top poet releases book Winston-Salem-based Press 53 has released the Smith Bowers latest book by .North Carolina's Poet Laureate. "Like Shining From Shook Foil: Selected Poems by Cathy Smith Bowers" features selec tions from Smith Bowers' four collections of poetry and 19 previously uncollected poems. The title of the new collection comes from a line in "God's Grandeur," the 1877 sonnet by Gerard Manly Hopkins. Through 30 years of pub lishing poetry. Smith Bowers [nas tappeu into mat energy source, ana likc snimng From Shook Foil" is charged with the grandeur of her abiding images, says Press 53 poetry editor Tom Lombardo. SECCA receives additional financial support for 2012 exhibit The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) has received a grant in the amount of SIO.fKX) from The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation to support the publication accompanying the upcoming 2012 SECCA exhibition "paperless." The New Mexico-based Firestone Graham Foundation is dedicated to fostering awareness and appreciation of contemporary visual art. particularly through the support of catalogues and other publica tions that document exhibitions of work by emerging or under-recognized artists. This award comes on the heels of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Exhibition Award, which recog nized "paperless" with an award of $85.(XX) earlier this year. The exhibition is being curated by SECCA" s Curator of Contemporary Art Steven Matijcio. It posi tions the material of paper as a cultural barometer, reflecting important shifts in social values and behav iors. First Lady attends Broadway hit NEW YORK (APi - The audience at last Thursday's performance of "Fela!" on Broadway got an extra thrill when an unannounced guest arrived ? the first lady. Michelle Obama and six girlfriends stunned the atergoers wnen sne arrived at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on 49th Street to catch the Tony Award-winning musical about Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat artist and Nigerian political activist. "When the audience real ized that she was in the audi ence. they just went nuts," said Stephen Hendel. who co conceived and produced the show. "People started stand i 1 1 Ohama mg up anu appiauuing. saying we love you: ami 'We love you. Michelle!' It took a minute or so to get the audience to settle down." The musical features dancers mingling with the audience and the first lady's group was seated along Row G. where many of the dancers cross over. The Secret Service asked the dancers not to change their performance but to give Obama some extra space. At the end. the first lady's group gave the musi cal a standing ovation and Obama stayed to greet and congratulate each sweaty member of the cast as they passed. WSSl ' PluKo by Garrett (ianns The Burke Singers will be among the performers. WSSU choirs to perform free holiday concert SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Selections from Handel's "Messiah" and traditional songs, such as "Carol of the Bells." will be featured in the Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) annual holiday concert on Sunday, Dec. 5 at 4 p.m. in Kenneth R. Williams Auditorium on the university campus. The concert is open to the public and admission is a donation of canned food. Under the direction of I)r. I)' Walla Simmons Burke D'Walla Simmons Burke, the University Choir. University Women. University Men, Schola Cantorum and Burke Singers will perform a wide variety of music. "The theme of this year's concert is, "Mary Did You Know?" and Jakenya Pearson, soprano, will be the soloist w hen we present that particular song" said Burke. "We also will be performing seasonal classics, including choruses from Haydn's "Creation." along with spirituals. South African folk songs and gospel numbers." The program will feature a performance of "Rockin" Jerusalem" arranged by Burke with Janet C. Campbell, alto, and accompaniment by Myron Brown, piano and Donald Patterson, bass. Featured soloists on other selections will be Rolyndria Anderson, soprano. me//o sopranos Simone Alcorn and Dawn Williams. Daniel Smith, bari tone and Brandon Gaines, tenor Book shines light on little-known black populism movement SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE It is often portrayed that the col lapse of Reconstruction was not the end of African-American political activism in the South during the late 1 4th centu rv - far from it. argues Dr. Omar Ali in his new hook. "In the Lion's Mouth: Black Populism in the New South. 1886-1900." Black populism, an independent political movement of African American farmers, sharecroppers and agrarian workers distinct from the white populist movement of the same period, was the largest black movement in the South until the rise of the modern Civil Rights Movement, says the historian and associate profes Dr. .4 li sor in the UNCG African American Studies Program. "After Reconstruction ended in 1877. African-Americans in the South regrouped." says Ali. "Black populists formed alliances with white populists and challenged the Democratic Patty, a party of wealthy interests and white supremacy. They failed, but man> of their demands would be enacted w ithin a generation by the New Deal - so in some ways they were laying the groundwork for changes that came to pass." Published by University Press of Mississippi. "In the Lion's Mouth" describes how the independent move ment grew yut of established networks of black churches and fraternal organi zations in the region. From 1886 to 19(H). African-Americans established farming cooperatives, raised money for schools, published newspapers, lobbied for legislation, protested the convict lease system and helped to launch the People's Party. "Ali correctly resists the common tendency to either see black populists as an offshoot of the white populist movement, or a failed effort at interra cial organizing." writes Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley in the book's foreword. "Rather, he paints a compelling portrait of an independent movement . Ali flips the script, if you will, and compels us to rethink the entire history of late 19th Century Southern politics." In North Carolina, black and white populists formed an alliance that won control of the state legislature in 1894 and the governor's office in 1896 The bloody Wilmington Riot of 1898 was ;i response by the Democratic Party to Set Book on w ssi Rm inm Charlie Wilson shines on stage a I the Winston-Salem State University's K.K. Williams Auditorium on Nov. 6. A packed-house was on hand for the music legend's concert, part of WSSU's Lyceum Cultural Events series. Wilson dazzled, performing his solo hits as well as songs he made popular as the lead singer of The GAP Hand. Two earn Arts Council honors CHRONIC] I s I \l f REPORT Siobhan Olson and Kelly Maxner have earned two of the Arts Council of Winston Salem and Forsyth County's most presti gious honors. At the Council's recent Annual Meeting. Olson received the Arts Council Award - given to a person who has demonstrated extraordinary commitment to volunteer serv ice and the arts; while Maxner took home the K Philip Hanes Jr Young Leader Award, which is presented to a person 40 or younger who exemplifies qualities such as volunteer dedication and leadership. Olson is an Arts Council board member and a marketing professional. She Co chaired the opening celebration Of the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts. Cheryl Lindsay made the presentation to Olson, citing her remarkable work in co chairing the week-long celebration of the Center's opening and her efforts over the last three years to establish and market the "City of Arts and Innovation" brand. Olson also Sec \wards on \t Party with a Purpose Young professionals to collect toys for kids SI'l CIAl TOTHI CHRONICLE Tw in City Santa will present the eighth annual Miracle on 5th Street on Thursday. Dec 9 at the Millennium Center. 101 West Fifth St.. 7 p.m. until midnight. The annual holiday party is a semi formal event for young professionals (21 and older) lhat also collects toys for the Salvation Army's Annual Toy Drive. Admission is $10. with a new. unwrapped toy ($20 is the suggested purchase price of the toy. annual Miracle on 5th Street on Thursda< i nose who (Jo not hring a toy win nc charged S20 in addition to their ticket price Those proceeds will he used to purchase additional toys. There w ill be complimentary beer. wine, soft drinks, light hors d'ouerves and a cash bar The Rubber Band will provide live music. The tirst Miracle On 5th Street event began in 2003 with about 450 young pro fessionals from Winston-Salem and sur rounding communities attending. In the past four years, the event has attracted a crowd of more than 650 For more information, visit www.twincitysanta.org.
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