The First Street Community Center in Mount Vernon, Iowa is excited to be hosting a variety of talented performers this Saturday, December 19th, from 4pm- 7pm.
Come on over and join in the celebration of the season and enjoy the various performances. The organizer of the event describes it on their Facebook page as:
This is the first Mount Vernon Family Holiday Showcase. The purpose of this event is to give the children of Mount Vernon/Lisbon area to get together and perform for each other and their families anything they want related to the holiday season. Kids can show art, share poems, dance, play music, etc.
You name it… This to share and enjoy the holiday season together as a community showcasing the talents and expressions of our children.
Looking forward to sharing expressions/performances about Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, Winter Solstice, and even Festivus!!!
More information can be found at the event’s Facebook page.
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.
After the devastating loss of their child, a young couple struggle to pick up the pieces of their past, present and future. Family secrets, worm holes and lies are only a few of the things standing in their way.
Is it really possible to replace a part of your soul?
Mature audience only, show is rated R for language and adult subject matter.
The Show dates/Times are December 11 at 8pm and December 12th at 1pm and 8pm.
Mount Vernon’s First Street Community Center Offers Free Holiday Fun
2015’s Magical Night will be on Thursday, December 3, 2015 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm
The holidays are quickly approaching, and the First Street Community Center with the Old School Shops in Mount Vernon are already decking the halls for the city’s Hometown Holiday Celebration, “25 Years of Magic.” Magical Night, the centerpiece of the event, takes place from 5:00 to 8:00 pm on Thursday, December 3.
Magical Night festivities will begin at the First Street Community Center with Santa’s arrival on the Mount Vernon Fire Department’s pumper truck. At 5:00 pm Santa will “flip the switch” to light the historic building.
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the First Street Communty Center, owned by Rick and Trude Elliott of Mount Vernon. The building was originally the town’s high school, then its middle school. Now it is home to more than ten local businesses and the First Street Community Center amenities which include a gymnasium, theater and meeting spaces, are available for the public to rent.
Schedule of Activities at the First Street Community Center:
5:00 to 8:00 pm:
Cookie decorating, sponsored by Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation (library, second floor)
5:00 to 8:00 pm:
Magical Night Arts Fest, presented by Mount Vernon Community Schools (gymnasium, first floor)
5:00 to 8:00 pm:
Holiday tattoos (second floor)
6:30, 7:00 and 7:30 pm: The Nutcracker ballet, three performances by Dance Arts Iowa students (theater, first floor)
Young Ballerinas excited about their performance in Nutcracker -Magical Night – 2012
Ballerinas in the Living Window Magical Night – 2012
For more information:
Contact Trude Elliott about Magical Night activites at the First Street Community Center via phone at: (319) 558-9202 or email at: [email protected]
Did you know this? Magical Night activities will take place throughout uptown Mount Vernon.
Go to www.VisitMVL.com for a complete list of events.
