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Live Music – Lucie Thorne and The Yearlings – LilFest Fall Music Series

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Lucie Thorne and The Yearlings

AWARD-WINNING AUSTRALIAN SINGER/SONGWRITERS Lucie Thorne & The Yearlings PERFORMING at LILFEST FALL SERIES IN MOUNT VERNON, IOWA on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 at 7:30 PM

WORLD ALT-COUNTRY MUSIC OPENS THE 2016-7 LILFEST CONCERT SERIES IN MOUNT VERNON. Lucie Thorne,  lauded for writing “some of the most simple and beautiful songs you will hear” (-The Age),  has earned her place as one of Australia’s most striking contemporary songsmiths. With eleven releases to her name – including her latest LP Everything Sings Tonight – and a prodigious touring schedule, Lucie continues to carve out an extraordinary creative career. After being awarded Best Roots Album of 2009 by the Sydney Morning Herald; and having a song selected for inclusion on a Universal Records international compilation alongside Leonard Cohen and Radiohead, her album LOVE OVER GOLD, with Pieta Brown, brought more world attention to the Iowa music community.

A lot can happen in twelve years. Some relationships grow weary and worn, but for the Adelaide, Australia duo The Yearlings (Robyn Chalklen and Chris Parkinson), passing time has only distilled their unique brand of Australian alt. country, steeped in Americana traditions.  After spending the past four years sharing their brooding ballads, rolling roots and haunting harmonies with local and international audiences, The Yearlings have returned to the US with their fifth studio album, ALL THE WANDERING, a ten-song collection which showcases their quiet evolution.  Dark and sparse, yet full to the brim with imagery and atmosphere, the CD was recorded to 2-inch tape on a vintage Studer 24-track tape machine; its soul every bit as old as the machinery on which it was captured. Evocative stories of country, travel, love and longing are cradled by the subtle, yet substantial grooves of bassist Harry Brus (Renee Geyer, Jimmy Barnes) and drummer BJ Barker (Kasey Chambers). There is more diesel in the tank, but The Yearlings’ trademark fragility and spaciousness remains, masterfully captured by iconic Mick Wordley.

The LilFest Series at Uptown Theatre in the First Street Community Center brings worldwide quality performances to an intimate concert setting.  These artists follow in the footsteps of performers like Nathan Bell, Chad Elliott, Phil Heywood, Radoslav Lorković, Guy Mendilow, Claudia Nygaard, James Lee Stanley, Eric Taylor, & The Sweet Potatoes.  Deeply rooted songs and stories of passion and power for our modern lives.

WHY:            Lucie Thorne – “exquisitely impressionistic… poetry in motion” –Rolling Stone

“There is a quiet, contemplative beauty to Thorne’s music. Strong, precise visual images… her rich but never overworked lyrics crackle with poetic intensity. With simplicity and clarity Thorne’s music and words cut through [and] she hits that sweet spot” – Courier Mail

The Yearlings – “One of the best roots rock records I’ve heard from Australia, or anywhere, this year.” –Noel Mengel, Courier Mail

“Brooding, country folk. Chalklen’s voice can haunt you for days.”- The Sydney Morning Herald

“The Yearlings express the lyrical truth of storylines about real life that poetically tug at the heartstrings.”

                        – Jimmy Little

WHERE:      LilFest Series at the Uptown Theatre in the First Street Community Center

221 First Street NE, Mt. Vernon, IA, 52314. Parking on street and in adjoining lot.

WHEN:         SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 at 7:30 PM  BYOB with purchase of Uptown Theatre Sippy Cup

HOW MUCH:         Suggested contribution for the Opening Concert $20.00.  Subscription Sponsorships for the series, @ $100 each ensure center front section seating if received by September 10.

TICKET/SPONSORSHIP QUESTIONS:  Nancy Emrich Freeman, 847-256-0000

For further information, additional high-res photographs, interview arrangements: http://luciethorne.com & http://www.theyearlings.net or mail to: [email protected]

★Nancy Emrich Freeman★

Board member and President, Friends of the Webster Institute, Adler Planetarium
https://www.facebook.com/webster.Institute/
Conference Co-Director, Folk Alliance Region Midwest (FARM)
October 27 – 30, 2016 Iowa City, IA  www.FARMfolk.org
www.LilFest.com  https://www.facebook.com/SchmaltzMusic/
847-256-0000

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First Friday Art Reception and Exhibit for Russ Charboneau

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Photo by Russ Charboneau

Please join East End Art for our August First Friday featuring local photographer, Russ Charboneau.

Friday, August, 5th from 5:30-7:30pm in the air conditioned Library of the First Street Community Center.

Light refreshments served during this casual and free event. Come meet Russ and see his creative eye portrayed in his photography.

Russ describes his process and the pieces for the exhibit below:

I started shooting digital about 10 years ago mainly photographing birds. I use mostly Nikon equipment including a high resolution camera I’ve been using for a couple of months.

I switched over to photographing buildings, barns, tractors, etc. with the advent of HDR imaging & photo manipulation software. These techniques gave the photos the look I wanted.

The 11 photos for this show were all shot in eastern Iowa…  I’ve found these to be wonderful subjects in early or late sunlight.

I also try to photograph these before some of these buildings are demolished or have simply fallen down. For example, the Winter Window house has been demolished since I shot the photo. Every year more of the old buildings are going away, so I try to photograph as many of these as I can.

3 of the photos are of Cornell College buildings which are a great resource for my photography. I’ve also included a locomotive and a steam engine both from Iowa’s past. There’s a shot of the Scottish Temple in Cedar Rapids and 1 of the Sutliff bridge reconstruction.

– Russ Charboneau

East End Art Logo 600wEast End Art Gallery hosts a featured gallery artist and a reception every first Friday of each month in the First Street Community Center’s Library meeting space.

The artist will be available to visit with.  The exhibit will stay up for the rest of the month, until the next reception.

We invite the public to join us, no reservation, or fees and dress casual… just come!

We hope you can join us for this special event!

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Shakespeare Comedy – Twelfth Night, or What You Will – MVLCT

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Twins separated at sea! Cross-dressing! Servants and fools in charge! No one knows how to stage an Upstairs, Downstairs kind of dramedy like William Shakespeare.

– MVLCT Facebook event page

 The First Street Community Center’s Uptown Theatre is pleased to announce performance dates for The Mount Vernon-Lisbon Community Theatre’s production of William Shakespeare’s comedy “Twelfth Night, or What You Will”.

The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola loses contact with her twin brother, Sebastian, whom she believes to be drowned.

Disguising herself as a young man and is called ‘Cesario’, as such she enters the service of Duke Orsino. Duke Orsino then uses ‘Cesario’ as an intermediary to profess his passionate love before Olivia.

Olivia, however, falls in love with ‘Cesario’, as she does not realize the Duke’s messenger is a woman in disguise. In the meantime, Viola has fallen in love with the Duke Orsino.

Meanwhile, Sebastian, who also survived the shipwreck, arrives on the scene, to add confusion and a bit of mayhem that must be seen and enjoyed in person.

A cast and crew of dedicated artists and actors from throughout the cultural corridor will perform at the Uptown Theatre on July 21-23 at 7:30 PM and on July 24 at 2 PM.

Mt. Vernon-Lisbon Community Theatre’s summer production of Twelfth Night will be the first of Shakespeare’s plays staged by the local group. (Julius Caesar was produced by Open Arenas Theatre in Mt. Vernon in 2012.)

Tickets are $12 and may be reserved by calling 319-535-2030.

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First Friday Art Reception and Exhibit for John Paul Schafer

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Please join East End Art for our First Friday Art Reception for John Paul Schafer, Friday, July 1st from 5:30 – 7:30pm.

Light refreshments and wine will be served in the Library (adjacent to the gallery) in the First Street Community Center.

Come meet John, see his exhibit for this casual and free event. All are welcome!

John describes his artistic journey below:

“I grew up knowing I would one day become a professional artist, and in 1990, my choice was clear. After a stint in college, I made a deep commitment to myself that I would forge a free and creative life. A life in which I would seek my own knowledge and grow and master my domain, one conscious experience at a time. Artfully by choice, with conviction and truth.

It’s been more than 25 years now, and through it all, I’ve made art of all shapes and sizes. I’ve been a commercial screenprinter and a sign maker as well as commercial art director, a graphic designer and an illustrator. But from prints to public art, I’ve always been a painter first. A soulful creator. A thinker and a doer. A philosopher who paints.

Today, I make art full time. I make bold, dynamic and seemingly animated paintings that combine my wide array of experiences, attributes and skillsets into one singular expression of line, shape, form and color. I work in the abstract, breaking up space, creating visual rhythm, velocity and movement. I also work in representational narratives like portraits and still life. And over the years I’ve co-mingled the two, and I’ve succeeded in creating my own brand of hybrid images, which I collectively call “Anamorphic Pop!”.”

-John Paul Schafer

East End Art Logo 600wEast End Art Gallery hosts a featured gallery artist and a reception every first Friday of each month in the First Street Community Center’s Library meeting space.

The artist will be available to visit with.  The exhibit will stay up for the rest of the month, until the next reception.

We invite the public to join us, no reservation, or fees and dress casual… just come!

We hope you can join us for this special event!

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