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September 2 at 7:56am · Comment ·
    The Allegany Arts Council

    The Allegany Arts Council Tonight and Tomorrow night only! Free show....get there early to get some great seats! Bring some chairs or a blanket and have a great time.

    Front and Centre Productions Presents SHOUT | The Allegany Arts Council | www.AlleganyArtsCouncil.or
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    September 2 at 6:55am · Comment ·
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      • Karen Slemmer It was a great show....I recommend it! Tomorrow is the last show; go see it, you'll be glad you did!
        September 2 at 9:38pm ·
      • Kimberli Rowley Thanks, Karen - that means a lot coming from you! ;)
        September 5 at 8:35am ·
    The Allegany Arts Council

    The Allegany Arts Council The Allegany Arts Council and the Cumberland Department of Parks and Recreation are pleased to present the 2010 Sunday in the Park concert series. Presented as part of “Summer in the City” in conjunction with Friday After Five in Downtown Cumberland and Saturdays Live at Canal Place, the Sunday in the Park concert seri...es offers a wonderful opportunity to enjoy some of the many talented local musicians in our community.

    All Sunday in the Park performances are scheduled for 7:30-9PM on Sunday evenings at the Constitution Park Amphitheatre in South Cumberland. Best of all, the entire series is FREE and open to everyone--thanks to the generosity of our sponsors First Peoples Community Federal Credit Union and Papa John's Pizza! Feel free to bring an old blanket or a lawn chair and make yourself comfortable on the grassy hill in front of the band shell. Sunday in the Park concerts are a great way to unwind and relax at the end of the weekend, and the perfect time to spend a warm summer evening under the stars with family and friends. Here's the schedule of performances (subject to the weather and any last minute changes) for the 2010 season:

    May 30 - Potomac Concert Band (Patriotic Tunes & Familiar Standards)

    June 6 - Erik & Dhru (Acoustic folk, blues & contemporary music)
    June 13 - The NightOwls (Acoustic favorites)
    June 20 - 33 and 1/3 - Special Father’s Day concert! (Classic Rock)
    June 27 - Cosmic Debris (Good Ol' Rock Music)

    July 4 - Potomac Concert Band (Patriotic Tunes & Familiar Standards)
    July 11 - Black Diamond (Four-piece Bluegrass & Gospel)
    July 18 - Cumberland Jazz Society (Big Band Jazz)
    July 25 - El Art - Art Spataro (Elvis Impersonator)

    August 1 - Simon Sez (The Area’s Premier 80’s Band)
    August 8 - Stack O' Two (Traditional to modern Blues)
    August 15 - Shakedown Street (Grateful Dead cover band)
    August 22 - Shanty Irish (Irish Music)
    August 29 - Irv Ullery Country Gospel Band (Country & Gospel favorites)

    September 5 - Potomac Concert Band (Broadway Tunes & Familiar Standards)

    For more information about the 2010 Sunday in the Park concert series, please email arts@allconet.org, or call the Allegany Arts Council at 301-777-ARTS (2787).

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    Potomac Concert Band (Broadway Tunes & Familiar Standards)
    Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 7:30pm
    Constitution Park Amphitheatre
    August 29 at 10:35am · Comment ·
      The Allegany Arts Council

      The Allegany Arts Council The Downtown Frostburg Arts & Entertainment District will host its first Arts Walk of the 2010 season on Saturday, April 24 from 5-8PM...and you're invited!

      The Arts Walks are self-guided walking tours that feature opening receptions and exhibitions at downtown art galleries, museum displays, literary and dance performa...nces, live music and theatre, shopping at a variety of retail destinations, and dining at some of the area's finest restaurants. The evening also includes "hands-on" children's activities on board the Allegany Arts Council's Arts Bus. While some of the evening performances may require the purchase of tickets, most activities are free, and many participating venues offer discounts to Arts Walk participants. It's really a great opportunity for family and friends to come out together to support the arts in Allegany County, and to enjoy a beautiful fall evening in historic Downtown Frostburg.

      Brochures for the Frostburg Arts Walk will be available a couple weeks prior to the event. For more information, or to receive an Arts Walk brochure by mail (when available), please email Emily Thomas or call 301-777-ARTS (2787).

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      Frostburg Arts Walk
      Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 5:00pm
      The Downtown Frostburg Arts & Entertainment District
      August 29 at 9:52am · Comment · · RSVP to this event
        The Allegany Arts Council

        The Allegany Arts Council ‎09/04/2010
        Corner House, a musical duo hailing from Columbia, South Carolina, will perform at Mountain City Traditional Arts (MCTA) on Saturday, September 4 at 7:30PM. Afternoon workshops for fiddle and guitar are also being offered at 3PM.

        For 20 years, fiddler and vocalist Andi Hearn and guitarist Davey Mathias have be...en playing music together, and for more than 10 of those years, their focus has been on performing and teaching Irish Traditional Music. Joining them for the MCTA performance is Frostburg resident and former Corner House band member, Jeff Thomas, on concertina.

        Corner House formed in 2003 and has since performed around the southeast and beyond. Their hearty performances blend traditional jigs, reels, marches and more with ballads and songs from Ireland and a variety of other folk traditions.

        Suggested donations for the concert are $5 for adults and $3 for children and students. Workshops are $25; advanced registration is requested.

        Dedicated to the education, sales, documentation and perpetuation of traditional art in the Appalachian region, Mountain City Traditional Arts is a partnership of Folklore & Folklife Programming at Frostburg State University, the Allegany Arts Council and FrostburgFirst: A Main Street Community. For more information about the show or the venue, or to register for the workshops, contact 301-687-8040, email mountaincitytradarts@gmail.com, or search for Mountain City Traditional Arts on Facebook.

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        Corner House (a musical duo hailing from Columbia, South Carolina)
        Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 7:30pm
        Mountain City Traditional Arts
        August 29 at 9:10am · Comment ·
          The Allegany Arts Council

          The Allegany Arts Council Front & Centre Stage Productions will present “SHOUT: The Mod Musical” next week at the Canal Place Festival grounds. “Last year we had such a great time performing ‘Hair’,” said a F&C spokesperson. “We are eagerly anticipating this year’s show! It’s the perfect way to end our summer season.” The performance is free to... the public and residents are invited to bring blankets and chairs and enjoy a night of classic 1960s rock ‘n roll under the stars.

          SHOUT flips through the years like a musical magazine and takes audiences back to the music, the fashion and the freedom of the 60's! From cover-to-cover the musical travels in time from 1960 to 1970 chronicling the lives of five groovy gals as they come of age during those liberating days that made the world swing! Just as Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Cilla Black, and Lulu were independent women with major careers, English and American women were redefining themselves in the face of changing attitudes about gender. SHOUT! reflects that change through the unforgettable music of the time.

          This smashing revue is a non-stop journey through the infectious and soulful pop anthems and ballads that made the decade an unforgettable period in history. SHOUT features five local performers singing such chart-topping hits as "To Sir With Love," "Downtown," "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," "Son of A Preacher Man," and "Goldfinger."

          With a shimmy and shake, the songs are tied together by hilarious sound bites from the period - from 60's advertisements for anything and everything - to lonely hearts letters answered by an advice columnist who thinks every problem can be solved with a "fetching new hair style and a new shade of lipstick."

          The show features five accomplished women from the local stage: Sophie Davis, Shelby Herbert, Heather McConnell, Angela Merrithew, and Kimberli Rowley. Each girl represents a “color” of the mod rainbow.

          Sophie Davis will play the quirky and naïve “Red Girl.” She previously appeared with Front & Centre in Hair, Grease, and the radio drama Frankenstein. Other local appearances include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and The Wizard of Oz.

          Shelby Herbert stars as “Blue Girl,” the sophisticated blue-blooded fashion model of the group. Previous local appearances include Dark of the Moon and The Vagina Monolgues at Frostburg State University and, most recently, Hairspray at the Cumberland Theatre.

          Heather McConnell will appear as “Green Girl,” the show’s zany good-time girl who’s a little rough around the edges. She has recently returned to the local stage and was last seen this past spring playing “Mrs. Potts” in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at Potomac State College.

          Playing the wise and soulful “Orange Girl” will be Angela Merrithew, whose last appearance with Front & Centre was in A Christmas Pudding this past December. She as also appeared in F&C’s productions of Hair and Women on Fire. Other local credits include It’s Rodgers! It’s Hart! and A Modsummer Night’s Dream at the New Embassy Theatre.

          Rounding out the cast is Kimberli Rowley as the uninhibited, All-American “Yellow Girl.” She has performed in many local venues in various shows including F&C’s Hair and Grease. Other local appearances include Cats and Chicago with Potomac State College and Cabaret and Blithe Spirit at the New Embassy Theatre.

          The show is under the musical direction of Amy Riffle-Kouyeas with choreography by William Price. Riffle-Kouyeas is a co-founder and instructor at the Tri-State Community School for the Arts. Price is a dance instructor and choreographer for Steppin’ Out School of Dance.

          SHOUT: The Mod Musical will be performed at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, September 2 and Friday, September 3 at the Crescent Lawn Amphitheatre on the Canal Place Festival Grounds.

          The show is performed in cooperation with Music Theatre International and is being partially funded by the Canal Place Preservation and Development Authority and the Allegany Arts Council, with grant funds from the Maryland Heritage Area Authority. The show contains some mature content. Parental discretion is encouraged.

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          Front and Centre Productions Presents SHOUT
          Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 8:00pm
          Crescent Lawn Amphitheatre, Canal Place Festival Grounds
          August 29 at 9:08am · Comment ·
            The Allegany Arts Council

            The Allegany Arts Council Julia Lorraine Butterfly Hill, an environmentalist, poet, writer, educator, speaker and founder of the organization Circle of Life, will speak at Frostburg State University on September 14 at 7PM in Pealer Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center. The talk will be in the form of a conversation and will be followed by... questions from the audience. A book signing will precede the talk.

            Hill earned international fame as an environmental activist by protecting an old-growth forest in Northern California from clear-cutting by a logging company. To prevent the logging, she lived in one of the trees, a 1,000-year-old redwood that was named Luna, for 738 days until an agreement was reached with the Pacific Lumber Company. Hill speaks regularly on university campuses, has addressed the United Nations and lobbied Congress, and continues to stand on the front lines of environmental and social justice issues all over the world.

            Hill is the author of the national best-seller, The Legacy of Luna, and the co-author of One Makes the Difference, both published by Harper Collins.

            Hill was the subject of the 2000 documentary Butterfly and is featured in another documentary, Tree-Sit: The Art of Resistance, both chronicling her time in the redwood tree.

            Hill is the youngest person ever elected to the Ecology Hall of Fame and was named by John F. Kennedy Jr. in George magazine as one of the 20 most influential women in politics. She lives in Oakland, Calif.

            Hill’s appearance is sponsored by the Office of the President, Student Educational Services and the Learning Green Living Green Committee. The talk is free and open to the public.

            For more information on the event, contact Ann Townsell at 301-687-3171 or atownsell@frostburg.edu. For information on the Engage Network, co-founded by Hill, visit www.engagenet.org.

            FSU is committed to making all of its programs, services and activities accessible to persons with disabilities. To request accommodations through the ADA Compliance Office, call 301-687-4102 or use a Voice Relay Operator at 1-800-735-2258.

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            Julia Lorraine Butterfly Hill
            Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 7:00pm
            Pealer Recital Hall, Frostburg State University
            August 29 at 9:05am · Comment · · RSVP to this event
              The Allegany Arts Council

              The Allegany Arts Council wants to know if you stopped in the Saville Gallery to check out the silent auction going on? Original artwork, gift certificates to local businesses, jewelry, bottles of wine, and more to bid on.

              August 29 at 9:03am · Comment ·
              The Allegany Arts Council

              The Allegany Arts Council August 29 - Irv Ullery Country Gospel Band (Country & Gospel favorites)

              Sunday in the Park Concert Series | The Allegany Arts Council | www.AlleganyArtsCouncil.org | The Al
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              August 23 at 8:42am · Comment ·
                The Allegany Arts Council

                The Allegany Arts Council Due to unforseen circumstances the performances of "Oprah Made Me Do It", the final entry in the Series of One Act plays by Front & Centre Stage, have been cancelled. This means that there will be no performances on either August 20th or August 27th at the Arts Council Community Room during Fridays after Five.

                August 18 at 9:38am · Comment ·
                  The Allegany Arts Council

                  The Allegany Arts Council The Downtown Cumberland Arts & Entertainment District will host its next Arts Walk on Saturday, September 11 from 5-8PM...and you're invited!

                  The Arts Walks are self-guided walking tours that feature opening receptions and exhibitions at downtown art galleries, museum displays, literary and dance performances, live musi...c and theatre, shopping at a variety of retail destinations, and dining at some of the area's finest restaurants. The evening also includes special programming at Canal Place, including "hands-on" children's activities on board the Allegany Arts Council's Arts Bus. While some of the evening performances may require the purchase of tickets, most activities are free, and many participating venues offer discounts to Arts Walk participants. It's really a great opportunity for family and friends to come out together to support the arts in Allegany County, and to enjoy a beautiful fall evening in historic Downtown Cumberland.

                  Brochures for the Cumberland Arts Walk will be available a couple weeks prior to the event. For more information, or to receive an Arts Walk brochure by mail (when available), please email Emily Thomas or call 301-777-ARTS (2787).

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                  Cumberland Arts Walk
                  Tomorrow at 5:00pm
                  The Downtown Cumberland Arts & Entertainment District
                  August 15 at 12:35pm · Comment · · RSVP to this event