Announcements from Virginia Gause

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If I were Dr. Seuss and wrote children’s books, I would get Carl Vestweber to illustrate them.  So when I heard Carl was having his first solo show “New Stuff by Carl Vestweber” at Manichaus on Friday, July 11, I cancelled all my other social plans to be there.
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Announcements from Virginia Gause

Art Expressions
301 N Main Suite 2 Corner with Cedar St
McAllen, Texas|78501

Calendar of Events
Tuesday Jul 8th           at 8:00 pm
Art Awakenings has the pleasure to present a wonder evenings with our special
Guest & Host Veronica AKA ” Lady Mariposa”
Come and share your poetry with us, in this special night
Free Admission

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Announcements

Wow, what a screen in Archer Park!  Bring your chairs and picnic baskets packed with snacks and beverages.  Wine and beer are allowed, just don’t get rowdy.

Friday is my favorite holiday of the whole year – the 4th of July!  In Edinburg, McAllen, Harlingen, Brownsville, Port Isabel, and Padre Island something [...]

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An announcement from Virginia Gause

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A reminder

A note to writers and those who appreciate the written and spoken word that the Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center Writers Forum  will meet at 7 pm tomorrow night at the center, 225 E. Stenger St., in San Benito. Attendance may be light as it is the travel season, but previous experience says that [...]

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A poem by Thomas Thornburg from Ancient Letters

When Luisa Tetrazzini and Nellie Melba met
There occurred the sort of precious set-to we ought not forget:
Both were booked at Covent Garden for a summer’s season; fame
Had not yet ruined Luisa nor was Nellie yet a Dame;
And neither of them threw things, and neither showed her claws,
Although [...]

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A performance
Here’s a performance of Donnie Hathaway’s “Valdez in the Country” by the Mid-Night Combo at the benefit concert for Dulce Rodriguez last Sunday. Thomas Raines, the keyboard player, is my son. Other players are Noé García, Jorge Mujica on drums, and special guest Ted Lucio, The Dude, on bass.
Enjoy.

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An announcement 
SUMMER SIZZLER 2008
3409 N. Ware Rd. McAllen        ~~~~~~        956-683-STAR 
Singing Stars is pleased to announce our summer music camps!  Each week will have a different theme. Tuition includes all materials. Students must bring a snack & a drink. We hope you can join us for one if not all of this summer’s fun-filled music camps!!!  [...]

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A reminder
It’s been a while since I’ve stopped by, but Gene Novogrodsky has reminded me that there’s good live music to be had Wednesday evenings at Joe’s on the Boulevard. Usually, the music starts up somewhere around nine o’clock and continues until midnight or so. It’s volunteer work and the musicians are doing it for [...]

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An announcement

Benefit concert Sunday, May 25th, 3 pm, UTB/TSC SET-B Lecture Hall
Dulcé N. Rodriguez is a music education major with an emphasis on flute at The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College.
She has been selected as one of only 12 instrumentalists to perform in Pavia, Italy at the 2008 SoundSCAPE Music Festival, [...]

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An advertisement
Roberto J. Cruz will host poetry reading tomorrow night at the Java Café, 204 E. Jackson Street in downtown Harlingen starting at 7:30. Poets and artists of all stripes are invited to read and perform.
The Washtub Band, featuring Robby Cruz, Edgar Clinton, and John Asbury are likely to perform. At last month’s gathering they [...]

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A piano blues by Stan Raines

You call me up at nine
Ask me about a bottle of wine
You’re gonna serve to your guests
But I’m not invited.
So I crashed the party anyway
Then I find I don’t have much to say
‘Bout many things beyond whether
You and me are ever gonna be together.
And you know that I love you.
And [...]

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An advertisement

From Virginia Gause

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A note from Stan
I call your attention to the new page just added for the Writers Forum at the Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center. I’m a member of the group and support it enthusiastically and wholeheartedly. It figured large in my resurrection as a writer. It has figured large in the lives of many writers [...]

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On Feburary 17th, 2008, one of the Valley’s most talented musicians, Andy Chapa, was involved in a car accident resulting in the loss of his left arm.
HE’S ALL RIGHT drive is raising money to help Andy with Prosthesis expense and to obtain a Rick Allen Drum Kit.
We have a full day of Music and Mischief [...]

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A Blues by Stan
Now I ain’t got the money
And the rent is due
And the man at the corner
Says my credit’s got shoes
Now the weathers got colder
And my coat’s mighty thin
I think it’s time to admit
The shape that I’m in
 
I don’t belong here
I see what you’re saying
Must be about time for sailing away
I don’t belong here
The day’s [...]

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The Writers Group, one of the sponsors of the recent Valley International Poetry Festival meets at 7:00 this evening at the Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center, 225 East Stenger Street in San Benito.
The meeting is open to anyone interested in writing. Participants have ten minutes each to read whatever they choose. Some regularly bring guitars and [...]

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An advertisement

From Virginia Gause

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From Virginia Gause

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Trumpeter Jeff Lofton stopped off for an evening of music at Shenanigans in Brownsville Wednesday night and served up another night of coolly impressive jazz. Lofton makes good choices in many dimensions, from the charts he plays to the chops he applies to them. What comes out is very soulful. The crowd was large and [...]

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Austin-based jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton swings hard with the Jeff Lofton Jazz Group in Brownsville on Wednesday, April 16, from 9:00pm – 12:00am, at Shenanigan’s Irish Pub and Grill, located at 2451 Pablo Kisel Blvd. If you missed Lofton’s appearance last month, do yourself a favor this month and hear a great man with a [...]

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Returns tonight at 9:00 p.m.
There was excellent music at Shenanigans tonight (I’m just in from there). Trumpeter Jeff Lofton jammed with Clay Moore on guitar, Dr. Matt Johnson on bass, and Mike Trenfield on drums. Good stuff, too. The Tomas Ramirez joined for the last set and added his lively touch.
Lofton is “old school,” [...]

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Racontourism: Tales Told in Blues, Roots, and Heart Music to Heal the Spirit and Make the Body Dance by Lozelle Jennings
I like this album. It grows on you. What are we to make of the title, an odd, portmanteau word? One guesses we must be in the land of the storyteller, but a storyteller [...]

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