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Events for September 10, 2010

"Carolina Chocolate Drops"

at Narrows Center for the Arts on Friday, 09/10/2010 – 8:00 PM

 

The Chocolate Drops started playing around, rolling out the tunes wherever anyone would listen. From town squares to farmer’s markets, they perfected their playing and began to win an avid following of foot-tapping, sing-along, audiences.

In 2006, they picked up a spot at the locally-based Shakori Hills Festival where they lit such a fire on the dance tent floor that Tim and Denise Duffy of the Music Maker Relief Foundation came over to see what was going on. Rhiannon remembers being skeptical when this local Hillsborough, N.C., guy with a goofy smile and a roster of old blues musicians offered to take them on and promote their music. The band was still figuring out who they were and Duffy was offering to house them with people like Algie Mae Hinton, musicians who were not pretenders to a tradition, but the real thing. The band moved up through the festival circuit, from the Mt. Airy Fiddler’s Convention to MerleFest. They shared the stage with their new fan, Taj Mahal, and traveled to Europe.

In 2007 they appeared in Denzel Washington’s film, The Great Debators and joined Garrison Keiler on Prairie Home Companion. In 2008, they received an invitation to play on the Grand Ole Opry. “The Drops were the first black string band to play the Opry,” Duffy notes. “The Opry has a huge black following but you don’t see that on stage.” Opry host, Marty Stewart, pronounced the performance a healing moment for the Opry. Rolling Stone Magazine described the Carolina Chocolate Drops’ style as “dirt-floor-dance electricity”. If you ask the band, that is what matters most. Yes, banjos and black string musicians first got here on slave ships, but now this is everyone’s music. It’s OK to mix it up and go where the spirit moves.

$20 inadvance; $23 day of show

 

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"Aladdin Jr." & "Fame The Musical"

at Margaret L. Jackson Arts Center at BCC on from 09/10/2010 to 09/11/2010

Youth Musical Theater Corporation is putting on both productions. Both will take place on Friday, Sept. 10, at 6 and 8 p.m. and then on Saturday, Sept. 11, at 1, 3, 6 and 8 p.m. 

For tickets or more information contact our box office at 508-674-9703 or log onto www.ymtc.org.

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"Painting NOW"

at Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery on Every day but Sunday from 09/09/2010 to 10/21/2010

Artists include: Catherine Carter, Candice Smith Cory, Sam Duket, Cristi Rinklin, Blake Shirley and Laurel Sparks.

Admission is free and open to the public.

For more information call 508-678-2811 ext. 2631.

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"Nice Rendition"

at Narrows Center for the Arts on Every Wednesday through Saturday from 09/08/2010 to 10/24/2010

Sixty artists have visually interpreted the lyrics of seventy three Cheryl Wheeler songs for the book Nice Rendition: Cheryl Wheeler's Lyrics in Calligraphy. Cheryl's striking lyrics come to life through the pens of these talented artists, whose work will astound you not only in their breadth of imagery but also in their depth of intensity. Selected original artwork from the book is presented by publishers Carole Marsh and Aimee Michaels and will be on display in the Narrows Café Gallery. Books are available for purchase at the Narrows.

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Lafayette Durfee House Tours

at Lafayette Durfee House on Every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday from 08/25/2010 to 12/18/2010 – 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

This is the home of Col. Joseph Durfee who led the Fall River militia during the War for Independance and was frequently visited by the Marquis de Lafayette during this period.  Displays include clothing, furniture, weaponry, medical and surgical instruments and more.

www.lafayettedurfeehouse.org

lafayettedurfee@yahoo.com

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"We, You, Us and I"

at Narrows Center for the Arts on Every Wednesday through Saturday from 08/20/2010 to 10/17/2010

David Braun
Tom Shields
Daniel Stupar
Steve Whittlesey

Four artisans present their views of the sometimes fragile, always changing relationships between people, people and their shelters, people and the environment. The materials for this work include detritus, salvage wood and metal, found objects, old timbers from shipwrecks and fallen barns and houses, junk, flotsam and jetsam.

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Live Bands

Every Friday from 07/16/2010 to 12/17/2010 – 10:00 PM

St. James Irish Pub

91 Purchase St., Fall River

508-672-6951

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