Posted on 28 February 2012.
Rural Hill press release
HUNTERSVILLE – The 19th Annual Rural Hill Scottish Festival and Loch Norman Highland Games is accepting registrations for its individual piping and drumming, pipe band, and highland dance competitions to be held April 21 & 22, 2012. Festivalgoers will be thrilled by the Celtic music and dance performances that highlight the competition weekend. Registration forms and complete event information can be found at www.ruralhillscottishfestivals.net. Read the full story
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Posted on 27 February 2012.
Spirit of Uganda Tuesday at Davidson College.
By BILL KISER
DavidsonNews.net
Performances by a group of Ugandan dancers and the Davidson Community Players, a fundraising breakfast and auction and the next installment of the Cornelius Concert Series highlight this week’s activities across the area. The group Spirit of Uganda — 22 young Ugandan dancers and drummers — will perform Tuesday night at Davidson College’s Duke Family Performance Hall as part of the college’s Smith Artist Series.
The Davidson Community Players continues its run of “Children of a Lesser God” at the Armour Street Theatre, with shows Thursday through Saturday night and a Sunday afternoon matinee. Read the full story
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Posted on 23 February 2012.
"Metamorphoses" is on stage at Davidson College this weekend. Details below. (Bill Giduz/Davidson College)
By BILL KISER
DavidsonNews.net
It’s a weekend for fundraisers around the area communities with a 10K run-walk, a jazz and art festival and a banquet at Davidson College. Also ahead: the Celebrate Smithville festival in Cornelius, “Metamporphoses” and “Children of a Lesser God” on local stages, and Davidson Farmers Market. And there’s plenty of local music on the calendar as well.
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Posted on 20 February 2012.
By BILL KISER
DavidsonNews.net
"Children of a Lesser God" opens this week at Armour Street Theatre.
The home finale for Davidson College’s women’s basketball team, performances of “Metamorphoses” and “Children of a Lesser God,” and a celebration honoring one of the area’s oldest communities highlight the available activities in the area this week. The week also includes a fund-raising Jazz and Art Fest Friday night at Davidson’s Homewood Suites. And on Saturday afternoon, the town of Cornelius will cap its Black History Month activities with an event honoring Smithville, whose roots in the 1880s make it one of the area’s oldest communities. Read the full story
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Posted on 17 February 2012.
Michael Rowland
Popular local organist Michael Rowland will perform on two organs in two parts of Davidson College Presbyterian Church during the next Organ at Davidson concert on Tuesday, Feb. 21.
Mr. Rowland, the church’s associate music director and an artist associate at Davidson College, will begin his recital on the mechanical action Ott organ in DCPC’s Lingle Chapel. Then he and his audience will move down the hall into the church sanctuary, where he’ll finish the program on the Wicks organ. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 February 2012.
By BILL KISER
DavidsonNews.net
The return — albeit a brief one — of the American Civil War, along with Davidson College’s annual Green Ball, a performance of an Oscar Wilde classic and the national TV spotlight shining on the Wildcats’ men’s basketball team, all highlight this weekend’s activities in our area. Read the full story
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