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Classical Guitar at the Sheldon, Oct 28, 7 pm
The group St. Louis Bella Corda will perform as the main act at The Sheldon Concert Hall on October
28.
St. Louis Bella Corda, under the direction of Kirk Hanser,
is a classical guitar ensemble (an octet and quartet, with members also forming
duos and trios), and they will play in the "Notes from Home" series at the
Sheldon on October 28 at 7 pm.
Bella Corda, which also played on the main stage at the 24th annual Chet Atkins Appreciation Society Festival in Nashville this past summer, is hoping to have its first CD available for sale at the concert; proceeds will go towards scholarships for the week-long guitar Mid-America Guitar Camp held in the summer (MAGC, a favorite with guitar students from across the nation) . Also appearing on the not-for-profit CD will be several international recording stars, including Italian virtuoso Peppino D'Agostino (voted best acoustic guitarist, 2007), Michael Chapdelaine (the only person to win the world's top competitions for both fingerstyle and classical guitar), Roger Hudson of Nashville, and the Hanser-McClellan Guitar Duo.
Perhaps you heard Bella Corda at one of their many area concerts, including previous shows at The Sheldon, Webster University and the Botanical Garden (for Rhapsody in Bloom, sponsored by Classic 99 KFUO). They'll perform at Milliken University in Decatur, IL on October 26th (EDIT: note, this concert in Illinois is confirmed by Manley Mallard of the University to be at 6 pm, not 7 pm or 4 pm as listed on some websites). Don't miss this month's Sheldon Concert in St. Louis on October 28th!
Details: St. Louis Bella Corda at The Sheldon
Concert Hall
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 7:00 PM
An eight-member guitar ensemble comprised of some of St.
Louis’s best young classic and fingerstyle guitarists. All former students of
the Childbloom Guitar Program, these students have gone on to perform as often as several times a month in venues
throughout the Midwest, and as far away as
Nashville and Austin.
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Symphony dining suggestions
I will be going to the symphony in September (Lord of the Rings!) and
would like to have dinner first. I have eaten at the Fox before
performances there. To my knowledge there is nothing comparable at the
symphony.
Do you have any restaurant suggestions for the area?
Thanks. And there are tickets still available.
St. Louis Metro Area Groups are celebrating World Breastfeeding Week!
Saturday, August 9th, 2008 - 3 pm to 6
pm
Jean Baptist Point Du Sable Park; Ed Bales Area
In St. Charles
City; near 370 on North Main St.
(2598 North Main St., St Charles, MO
63301)
Events to
include:
Walk, Pot luck dinner (bring a dish!), fun activities for all ages,
and raffle of donated items from a variety of vendors.
Questions, donations, or to volunteer
contact:
Justine (636) 293-0480, Amy (636) 456-2501, Holly (314)
308-2673
PLUS the following VENDORS will be there:
*Usborne
Books
*Discovery Toys
*Handmade diapers, hairbows, etc.
*Baby quilts
and other items
*sno-cones
Raffle:
The Ultimalte Breastfeeding Book
of Answers
Night Time Parenting Book
The Fussy Baby Book
Cotton Babies
Cloth Diaper
Motherlove Lactation Pack (herbals)
Saving Dinner.com- Diva
Detox
Saving Dinner.com-20 Freezer Recipes
Motherwear $25
GC
Expressiva $30 GC
Cardinal Tickets x2
Missouri Botanical Gardens
x4
Brain,Child Subscription
Silent Auction:
3- BAB cd's
Playtex
Double breast pump
Playtex Double petite breast pump
Bummis Starter box of
diapers
2- Dr Jack Newman DVD's
Chiropractic and More Acupuncture
x2
Chiropractic and More Initial visit x2
Sheri Zambruski Massage 1
hour
Soft Star Shoes
Bebe Au Lait Cover (Hooter Hider)
Sale Table:
St
Charles Cookbooks ($2 each)
Conference Tote bags ($5
each)
Clothes
Free items:
Pamphlets from donors (current and
past)
Music Together CD's
Medela Quick Clean Bags
Medela Clean
Wipes
Hyland Teething Tablets
Bring BlogHer to The Lou!
Hey lady bloggers!
If you're like me and you've heard all the hub bub about BlogHer, but haven't been able to swing the price tag of flying across the country, do your part to vote to bring BlogHer to St. Louis!
(Maybe the P-D will even put a review article in the Tech section, unlike SOME newspapers.)
Guitar Concert, Wednesday July 30, New Haven Missouri, 7:30 pm
There will be a guitar concert this Wednesday in New Haven, Missouri.
When and Where: July 30 in New Haven Missouri, 7:30 pm
The event is sponsored by the Riverfront Cultural Society.
Roger Hudson (composer and guitarist from Nashville), Kirk Hanser and John McClellan of the Hanser-McClellan duo from St. Louis, and 18 of the top youth players in the country will perform.
Tickets are $5 at the box office on the night of the show.
See http://www.riverfrontsociety.com/home.html
Directions from downtown St. Louis according to Yahoo:
- Turn Left to take ramp onto I-44 W - go 38.2 mi
- Take exit #251/WASHINGTON - go 0.2 mi
- Take Right fork onto MO-100 - go 23.0 mi
- Arrive at the center of NEW HAVEN, MO
Chemrat
Guitar from kids to adults
Chemistry for a sustainable world
Meeting about changes to the St. Louis Arch grounds
According to this article I read this morning on ksdk.com (http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=148781&catid=3), one of two public meetings about possible changes to the Arch grounds takes place tonight at the visitors center in Forest Park. Personally, I don't like the idea of messing with the Arch grounds themselves too much. It is a beautiful park! However, I do agree we need a better way to connect it with downtown, and the other bike and walking trails around (I think the Gateway Greenway and Waterway plans cover the trails part), and we need to do SOMETHING with our vacant riverfront. I'm not too keen on adding more museum buildings or food vendors to the grounds, though. I think the majesty of the Arch would be diminished with "clutter" on the grounds themselves. What do the rest of you bloggers think?
sandbagging
As Steve Levy and I wrote, sandbaggers are desperately needed north of the city. Even if you're working now, sandbagging is going on all night long.
The St. Louis Today has an article on the recent breach as well as information in where to go to help.
Blogger Carnival #11
Sorry about the delay, Nobody of Nobody's Puzzles had a combination of RL and technical difficulties so they handed off this post, and the next round of hosting duties, to me.
The May Carnival theme was the Indianapolis 500
Indianapolis native, Kristi, of Adventures in Motherhood
was the first to cross the finish line as she wrote about how she
doesn't enjoy the cheese whiz on a cracker we call pizza, and how she
misses The Race.
(I have to agree with her on the pizza, even though I've been a St.
Louisan my entire life.) Her post is filled with information for
those who are familiar with The Race, and those who aren't.
Nobody else finished. No, I'm not saying Nobody did. Even Nobody forgot to
write a post for the carnival. They do wish to thank Kristi for participating.
That was the 11th Carnival. Which means the June Carnival is #12. To
celebrate a full year of carnivals, Nobody decided to make this what
some term a "Carousel edition." That is, there is no theme. You can
write about anything. The only catch is you need to pick the post you
wish to submit, and follow the instructions below.
The Carnival Rules:
Interested STL Bloggers should write a
new post on the stated theme by the specified deadline. They should
then email the host at the provided email address with the following
information:
1) Name of Blogger
2) Permalink URL of blog post
3) Title of Blog Post
4) URL of Blog
5) Title of Blog
6) Would you be interested in volunteering to be the next host? Yes/No
6a) If Yes – what would your theme be?
The
host will then take all the submissions that meet the simple
requirements of addressing the specified theme, and having been posted
between the announcement and the deadline – and link to them from one
post, with some annotative comments for each. This post shall be posted
at StlBloggers.com, and if the host wishes, at their own blog.
Participants should expect a delay of a few days between the deadline
and this post.
The host will also choose the next host from the volunteers in any fashion they desire.
STLBloggers Blog Carnival #12
Host: Gavroche at TransylvanianDutch
Contact: gavroche at gmail dot com
Deadline: June 30th at midnight. Email should be dated in the month of May
Theme: No theme. Write about anything!
StLBloggers Carnival #10
Nobody came up with the theme for April’s blogger carnival, and thus April’s carnival was hosted by Nobody. And there is something poetic about that, which is a good thing, since April’s theme was National Poetry month. Confused? No? Good.
For April there were six participants:
In The National Poetry Month Poems By: The Baked Blogger, The Baked Blogger posted three poems, and the inspirations for each. There are also several poems from readers in the comment thread.
In her post, Measuring Out My Life in Coffee Spoons CasaChristy told the tale of her most notorious poem -- the story behind its creation and what has happened since. Some will feel the poem should carry a NSFW warning.
SarahLynn shared a Playground Rhyme
LisaS at Clearview had two entries, she wrote about her thoughts on Handprints and in More Found Object Sculpture she introduced a ‘new sort of spamku’.
John at TransylvanianDutch shared some poetry with us every day in April, starting with a baseball poem and ending with The Butterfly
We created a Poetic Goozle (Goozle: a puzzle you may need to use an internet search engine to solve.)
No one volunteered to host for the Month of May (a disturbing tradition) so Nobody will host again.
For May’s theme, we ask you to blog about an Annual May happening. The one that occurs during the weekend preceding the last Monday of the month. The Indianapolis 500. So write something about Indianapolis. Write something about car races in general. Write something about the number 500. Write something about Hoosiers. Or come up with another subject you feel able to connect to the Indianapolis 500.
The Carnival Rules:
Interested STL Bloggers should write a new post on the stated theme by the specified deadline. They should then email the host at the provided email address with the following information:
1) Name of Blogger
2) Permalink URL of blog post
3) Title of Blog Post
4) URL of Blog
5) Title of Blog
6) Would you be interested in volunteering to be the next host? Yes/No
6a) If Yes – what would your theme be?
The host will then take all the submissions that meet the simple requirements of addressing the specified theme, and having been posted between the announcement and the deadline – and link to them from one post, with some annotative comments for each. This post shall be posted at StlBloggers.com, and if the host wishes, at their own blog. Participants should expect a delay of a few days between the deadline and this post.
The host will also choose the next host from the volunteers in any fashion they desire.
STLBloggers Blog Carnival #11
Host: Nobody of Nobody’s Puzzles
Contact: help at goozle dot org
Deadline: May 31st at midnight. Email should be dated in the month of May
Theme: Indianapolis 500
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