The First Street Community Center’s Uptown Theatre is proud to host award-winning singer/songwriters Chad Elliott & Claudia Nygaard performing as part of the LilFest 2016 Spring Music Series in Mount Vernon, Iowa. This performance will take place April 2nd from 8pm – 10pm.
A California native living in Nashville, Tennessee, Claudia Nygaard is the owner of a gorgeous, powerful voice and performs with a sweet mixture of engaging candidness and unparalleled musicianship.
Claudia has performed at over 150 fairs and festivals in 47 states and across Europe, and was chosen one of the Emerging Artists at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in New York.
Chad Elliott, of Coon Rapids, Iowa, joins Claudia in a new pairing. He has recently recorded “Wreck and Ruin” in Nashville with platinum record producer Ken Coomer, and drummer of Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, and Steve Earle’s band.
His Americana song-style and extraordinary voice puts him on the road for 200 performances a year; often with greats like Odetta, Tom Paxton, Loudon Wainwright III, R.L. Burnside, Greg Brown, Bo Ramsey.
BOTH PERFORMERS are back in Mount Vernon by popular demand after previous performances here. Their virtuosity, talent and stage presence will take your breath away, and then their song ideas, humility and personality will bring you back to your senses. It doesn’t get much better than this.
The LilFest Series at Uptown Theatre in the First Street Community Center. This series brings world quality performances to an intimate concert setting. Claudia and Chad follow in the footsteps of performers like James Lee Stanley, Nathan Bell, Barefoot Wonder, Guy Mendilow, and Radoslav Lorković.
The LilFest 2016 Spring Music Series artists include: The Sweet Potatoes, Eric Taylor and Phil Heywood.
Suggested contribution is $15.00. Subscription Sponsorships for the series $80 each ensures center-front section seating if received by April 1.
The First Street Community Center’s Uptown Theatre will have some good old Classic Country Music played live by Johnny K and the Playboys with their Ray Price Tribute Show.
The performance is March 26th (tonight) from 7pm – 9pm.
Admission is only $5.
You are welcome to bring your own pop, wine, or beer, but you must drink it in a $5 theater cup which are available for sale at the concert.
The Mount Vernon Area Arts Council presents ‘Music on Saturday’s’ at the First Street Community Center in Mount Vernon, Iowa. Performances are FREE and open to the public. We will start on Saturday, February 6th. Performances will be from 11 – 1 pm.
The musicians will be performing live music in the hallway area(s) to entertain you while you browse.
Bring your friends and family and stop over. Escape the cold February weather and enjoy some wonderful music!
Live at the First Street Community Center in the Uptown Theatre, LilFest presents:
Radoslav Lorkovic & T. Bruce Bowers –Americana Folk Power Duo
Monday, December 14, 2015 at 8pm. (Doors open at 7:45 pm)
Suggested Contribution is only $15!
This event is BYOB with purchase of an Uptown Theatre Cup, or bring an Uptown Theatre cup you already own (with the lid please).
“Music with a fiery kind of cool! Obsession and passion are concepts that Radoslav Lorković fully understands. But in his case, they’re often tangled up in a single instrument: the piano.” – Michael Granberry, Dallas Morning News
An Iowa City native, Radoslav Lorkovic’s keyboard talent has taken him to dizzy-ing heights. His latest musical adventure is a duo with the like-Rad-ically talented T. Bruce Bowers, a multi-fiddlist from Northern Minnesota. This is a reprise of the 2014 Winterthur (tour).
At this concert you can expect an exciting night of music featuring many styles and genres: blues, country, New Orleans, R & B, rock, and more!
Drawing from a multitude of influences ranging from elegant classical and jazz styles to the rawest, most basic blues, country and soul, Radoslav Lorković has taken on an unusually broad musical spectrum and refined it into his distinctive piano style.
His tenure on the R&B and folk circuits has culminated in five critically acclaimed solo recordings and numerous appearances on the recordings of and performances with artists including Odetta, Shawn Colvin, Jimmy LaFave, Ribbon of Highway Woody Guthrie Tribute, Greg Brown,Richard Shindell, Ellis Paul, Ronny Cox, Dave Moore, Andy White, and Bo Ramsey. His thirty-year touring career has led him from the taverns of the upper Mississippi River to the castles of Italy, The Canary Islands, The Yup’ik villages of Alaska, The Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall.
Born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1958, Lorković’s initial exposure to music can be attributed to two grandmothers. Antonija, his maternal Grandmother, sang to him Croatian, Slovenian and Czech. Classical music played in the home constantly due to the influence of his paternal grandmother Melita Lorković, an internationally renowned classical pianist.
Radoslav moved to the Iowa at age six. Lorković began touring at age 20 with Bo Ramsey and the Sliders. Lorković entered the band having mastered the styles of boogie-woogie greats such as Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Freddie Slack etc.. Ramsey’s influence drove Lorković deeper to the core of the blues. The music of Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters and Little Walter shifted Lorković’s focus. Lorković and Ramsey joined forces with Greg Brown adding musical authenticity to his deep Iowa Roots.
T Bruce Bowers was born in San Antonio, Texas, and has been playing professionally since 1968. Bowers has written over 20 film and television scores. Five of his scores have won awards, including “Beneath the North Atlantic,” which was nominated for an Emmy.
Bruce has performed with musicians of many different styles, including Taj Mahal, Queen Ida, the Dixie Dregs, Ed Bruce, Prudence Johnson, and Pat Donahue. Bruce is a founding member of the Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua Blue Canvas Orchestra. He was bandleader from 1988 to 1994, and has been active in the creation of the style and quality of the Blue Canvas Orchestra since the beginning.
