tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-125048622011-12-14T22:07:11.786-05:00Peter Hummers of the <a href="http://www.obsentinel.com">Outer Banks Sentinel</a> covers entertainment events on, and about, the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Some reviews originally appeared in the pages of the Sentinel.Peter H.noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1142674745562389432006-03-18T04:37:00.000-05:002006-03-18T04:39:05.563-05:00

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The parking lot at the First Flight High School filled right up for Saturday's Outer Banks Forum performance of the African American Dance Ensemble. Inside, a lively audience of all ages settled in to the sounds of African percussion and chants from the public address system.The African American Dance Ensemble began with Chuck Davis of Raleigh, whose path from Raleigh's all-black Ligon High

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1137526358824315172006-01-17T14:26:00.000-05:002006-01-18T05:25:42.820-05:00

The Snake Oil Medicine Show is no more. The western North Carolina ensemble, which contracted to appear at the Outer Banks Forum for the Lively Arts, then went into a nova state and flew apart.However, founder George Pond and fellow Snake-Oilers, brother Andy Pond and drummer Billy Seawell, reunited with a survivor of the late Acoustic Syndicate and revived their band, the Cygnus X-1 Blackhole

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1132076869615863442005-11-15T12:44:00.000-05:002005-11-15T12:52:30.723-05:00

As the waxing gibbous moon illuminated the First Flight High School, the auditorium filled with patrons ready to hear Christopher Kypros play the piano at the Outer Banks Forum For the Lively Arts.Kypros, from Norfolk, is a Julliard graduate who has played with several string quartets and symphonies, including the Virginia Symphony (which will visit the Forum in March). He has performed at the

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1129061790473125952005-10-11T16:13:00.000-04:002005-10-11T16:40:11.183-04:00

The second day of the Carolista Music Festival proceeded under gray skies around the great lawn on Roanoke Island Festival Park.The Carolista Music Festival, founded in 2003 by Outer Banks Hotline, is a community celebration that promotes a safe and compassionate community through music, art, dance, film, and cultural awareness.Arts and craft booths and more were set up and snacks available from

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1127830991400762152005-09-27T10:20:00.000-04:002005-09-27T10:28:49.516-04:00

Dennis Reaser is the Assistant Principal of the First Flight High School in Kill Devil Hills, N.C. He has been in education since the sixties, and besides being a music teacher, he is a composer, arranger and a fine musician.His compact disc Now I'm Sixty Four showcases his piano playing, covering a range of composers from Duke Ellington to Dennis Reaser, and including such as Ned Washington,

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1126342993553648492005-09-10T05:01:00.000-04:002005-09-10T08:50:53.893-04:00

The latest compact disc from the Ocracoke-based acoustic duo Coyote opens with the feel of a French -- or Belgian -- coffeehouse. A bow is bounced a few times on a violin, joined by a quiet bass and a few chords on an accordian in the moderato "Maestro." In a cafe on Picasso Street/Drinking memories warm and sweet/I spend an afternoon with MaestroGuitarist Lou Castro backs up mandolinist Marcy

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1125446782435077212005-08-30T20:04:00.000-04:002005-08-30T20:46:48.346-04:00

Mojo Collins brought his vision of folk and Piedmont blues, not to mention a bit of psychedelic rock, to the front porch of Corolla's Whalehead Club Thursday.It was another lovely evening on the great lawn in front of the club. The sun was slightly lower in the sky than last Thursday at the same time; the breeze was a little cooler.On the front porch, by a banner reading "Sponsored by Corolla

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1124843808248829722005-08-23T20:31:00.000-04:002005-08-24T18:38:40.026-04:00

The acoustic musical duo from Ocracoke known as Coyote performed a set on the porch of the Whalehead Club Thursday evening.The lowering sun hung above puffy clouds over the Currituck Sound on which some kayakers glided as crickets chirped. Its rays spread a pinkish glow on the pale yellow club building as the oblique shadows turned blue.The stately building sat atop a green field where people

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1124031436461172302005-08-14T10:54:00.000-04:002005-08-14T12:10:49.353-04:00

Red Pearl Productions presents Rock 'n' Roll Relief 2005 featuring national recording artists Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, also the Smithereens and Red Metric, Saturday, August 13, 2005.Walking over the bridge to Roanoke Island Festival Park on the Manteo waterfront, I heard a few bluesy guitar riffs coming from the direction of the amphitheater, then a chorus of the Beatles' song "Magical

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1116421787011432502005-05-18T09:07:00.000-04:002005-08-06T04:10:59.136-04:00

Only a small step van was backed up to the First Flight High School stage door Saturday evening -- on enterlng the auditorium one could see why. On the vast stage was a small oasis of musical instruments, including the Outer Banks Forum's prized Yamaha grand piano. A small set of drums, an acoustic bass lying on its side and one tenor sax on a stand stood with two microphones, a music stand and a

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1114705832624200432005-04-27T12:27:00.000-04:002005-08-16T12:50:22.890-04:00

Originally from the west (west of Moscow) in Obninsk, Russia, the band Bering Strait came to the Outer Banks Forum most recently from their current base in Nashville.With the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a "60 Minutes" story, a Grammy nomination for their instrumental "Bearing Straight," and a television theme song ("I Could Use a Hero" from Animal Planet's Animal Cops) on their resume, they

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1114707731894118672005-03-09T12:59:00.000-05:002005-04-28T13:02:11.896-04:00

The huge tour bus backed up to the stage entrance at the First Flight High School on a cloudy Saturday evening was a good sign.Inside, out of the drizzling rain, the Outer Banks Forum stage was set for the Nova Scotian fiddler Natalie MacMaster and her band. Her bus had disgorged a veritable music store, including guitars, banjos, basses, drums, keyboards, PA systems and monitors.Such exotica as

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1114707521916987762005-02-16T12:57:00.000-05:002005-04-28T13:03:07.500-04:00

The Outer Banks Forum for the Lively Arts presented "Pardon My Southern Accent: An Evening with Jim Wann and Friends" at the First Flight High School Saturday evening.Those expecting a low-key evening of Southern reminiscences "including music and the spoken word," as the press releases had it, were treated to a full-blown revue.Wann's "friends" numbered seven in a rollicking

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1114705625576670992004-11-16T12:25:00.000-05:002005-04-28T12:27:05.576-04:00

When Spanish native Julia Lopez arrived in the United States in the 'eighties, she brought with her what she knew and what she loved - flamenco!And she brought it to Kill Devil Hills Saturday night.The arriving audience seemed more at home on their second outing to the Outer Banks Forum for the Lively Arts' new venue at the First Flight High School.Flamenco guitar music played on the public

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1114705215034400342004-10-19T12:18:00.000-04:002005-04-28T12:24:50.563-04:00

From the scenic vistas of the new First Flight High School parking lot to the uptown swank of the gigantic auditorium they came, to hear flautist Jim Walker and his band Free Flight.The first concert of the 2004-2005 Outer Banks Forum for the Lively Arts series was prefaced by Ray Charles' final CD playing on the PA system, while early arrivals ogled the unfamiliar venue.Audience members shared

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1123161608027689302004-06-08T09:19:00.000-04:002005-08-04T09:45:46.043-04:00

The stage at the Kitty Hawk Elementary School was set modestly for its final presentation of the Outer Banks Forum for the Lively Arts--for this, its twenty-first season, and ever after.Next season, the new high school in Kill Devil Hills is slated to host the Forum shows in a real auditorium--not that the presentations in the Forum's original venue have lacked anything.Forum President William

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1123161539478313922004-05-18T09:18:00.000-04:002005-08-04T09:44:42.680-04:00

Emile Pandolfi mounted a stage elegantly set with a black-curtained backdrop, a grand piano and a few floral arrangements at the Kitty Hawk Elementary School Saturday.Wearing a dark tuxedo with a black tee-shirt and a red kerchief in his pocket, he commenced the penultimate concert of the Outer Banks Forum for the Lively Arts 2003-2004 season--the last season to be held at the school in Kitty

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1123161483069174322004-04-20T09:17:00.000-04:002005-08-04T09:43:37.990-04:00

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted ... -Homer, The OdysseyIn 2000 the Coen Brothers took this epic tale and recast it as the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" a typically quirky project that drew a line from 800 B.C. to

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1123161399531193212004-02-24T09:15:00.000-05:002005-08-04T09:42:40.630-04:00

The romantic pairings of sand and sea, night and day, and flora and fauna were joined by Suzanne Ishee and Gary Lindemann at the Outer Banks Forum for the Lively Arts Saturday.The latter pair, with accompanist Mitch Samu, performing as Broadway Center Stage, brought Love Stories, their depiction of classic Broadway lovers, to the stage at the Kitty Hawk Elementary School.From the moment Samu

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1123161332723050772003-12-09T09:14:00.000-05:002006-02-02T14:03:28.863-05:00

In front of a stage whereon stood a baby grand piano, drum set and electric six-string bass was a pair of pretty poinsettias in front of a monitor. Over the stage a parachute was draped like a cross between the bow of a ship and a giant orchid, a red light pointing up into its dome.Thus the Kitty Hawk Elementary School awaited the advent of flautist Jim Walker and his group Free Flight.A meager

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1123161228489446452003-10-21T09:13:00.000-04:002005-08-04T09:39:25.010-04:00

At the back of the stage was a trellised front porch, under which might be kept gardening implements-or a surfboard, a sunfish-or all of the above. There might be a case of Pepsi-Cola, or even Jack Daniels under there. It's too hard to tell from outside what-all is under a porch.As the audience in the Kitty Hawk Elementary School studied the guitars, drums and other instruments set on the porch,

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1123161161038655362003-04-30T09:11:00.000-04:002005-08-04T09:39:06.106-04:00

The Outer Banks Forum for the Lively Arts was visited Sunday afternoon by the tropical hurricane from Cuba known as Habana Sax.The Caribbean musicians tore ... it ... up!They mounted the stage in the dark. Drummer Francois Zayas could be heard riffing very lightly on his snare drum and some small percussion instruments, which were joined presently by a soft flute. A soprano sax added to the

Peter H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12504862.post-1123161073159879732003-04-09T09:09:00.000-04:002005-08-04T09:38:41.833-04:00

A recent trend in the presentation of early music has been to mix a few period instruments with electronic ones, mainly synthesizers, that will approximate the authentic sounds of the early instruments.This does produce some beautiful music, and if a baroque-period listener were unearthed, revived and exposed to it, he would probably not be too put off. (That's not to mention the thousand other

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