CAMILLE GAVIN: Southside serves up musical selection
| Wednesday, Nov 18 2009 05:20 PM
Last Updated Wednesday, Nov 18 2009 05:20 PM
GO & DO
Southside Chicago Seven
When: 4 p.m. Sunday
Where: First Congregational Church, 5 Real Road
Admission: Free
Information: 327-1609
Tehachapi Community Theatre
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday;
Where: BeeKay Theatre, 108 S. Green St.
Admission: $10
Information: 822-4037
Aquarius Art Show
When: Opening reception 5-7 p.m. Friday
Where: Bakersfield Art Association Gallery of Art at East Hills Mall, 3000 Mall View Road
Admission: Free
Information: 872-2806
Mellow music, the kind that was popular in the big band era of the 1930s and '40s, will make up most of the program when the Southside Chicago Seven presents a free concert on Sunday afternoon at the First Congregational Church.
The band has been around for more than 20 years and is made up of a group of versatile local musicians.
Trumpet player Bob Snyder is the director; Randy Fendrick plays the trombone and acts as the band's business manager.
And if memory serves, Ernie Cervantes, who last Saturday was one of six members of the percussion section for the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra's excellent performance of a Berlioz overture, handles the drums.
Southside's appearance is part of the Fred and Beverly Dukes concert series. By the way, I recommend that you arrive early, as most of the concerts in this series have drawn a good-sized crowd. Seats in the church sanctuary as well as the balcony were filled for last month's delightful performance by the Celtic group, Banshee in the Kitchen.
Winning playwrights
Playwrights whose original short plays came out on top in a Tehachapi competition will get to see their works come to life his weekend onstage at the BeeKay Theatre.
Tanis Galik, co-chairman of the event sponsor, the Tehachapi Community Theatre 10-Minute Play Festival, said entries were received from writers in both Kern and Los Angeles counties.
The winners were selected by a panel of that included screenwriters, playwrights, actors and educators.
The winning plays, their authors and directors, include: "When Oprah Says Goodbye" by Dan Berkowitz, directed by Cynthia Hynes; "Eating Existentialism," by Danielle Wolff, Doug Jockinson, director; "Blood from a Stone," by Robert Michael Morris, Michael Gossage, director; "Lost Worlds," by Virginia Mekkelson, Steve Kirby, director; Maizie, Mona and MacGregor Cayle," by Ann L. Gibbs, Cynthia Latham, director; "The Ninth Bell," by Ray Malus, Kenny Chugg, director; "Offender," by Thomas J. Misuraca, Mark Fisher, director; "Goat," by Norm Haughness, Annette Kirby, director.
Each play will be performed three times during the festival.
Art show
Winners of the "Aquarius Art Show" will be announced during a reception on Friday evening at the Bakersfield Art Association's Gallery of Art.
Entries from 23 artists were judged by Deanna Nelson, retired Bakersfield College art instructor.
To be eligible for the exhibit, the artwork had to be created primarily with watercolors or acrylics, said Charlotte White, coordinator.
The exhibit also can be seen during the gallery's regular hours, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday through Jan. 3.
Camille Gavin's "Arts Alive" column appears on Thursday. Write her via e-mail at gavinarts@aol.com
