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Bavarian Barbarian
Brewery releases "Bombers"
Penn College Gallery
to exhibit works in clay
Smash Music Center to
open with services & sounds
Uptown Music
Collective Introduces iOn Program
Fleeger & The Stranger
Recording New Project
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bavarian barbarian releases "bombers" |
The Bavarian Barbarian Brewing Company is excited to announce the
introduction of 22-ounce “bomber” bottles just in time for the 4th
of July celebration weekend. Cases of 12 “bombers” will be available
for sale at the Bavarian Barbarian’s brewery at 429 West Third Street
beginning on July 2. Single bottles are already available for purchase
at the Wegmans Market Cafe in Williamsport.
After several weeks of feverishly working to
get labels, bottles and a bottling machine, the Barbarian will be
filling 22-ounce bombers of Hammerin’ Ale, Headbangerz Brown Ale and
Weldspatter India Pale Ale. No longer restrained to the taps of local
bars and restaurants, The People’s Beer will soon be free to travel
with beer drinkers to their homes, backyards, picnics and anywhere
else that good beer can be appreciated.
As the summer wears on, more beers will become
available in the 22 -ounce bottles including the popular Steel Drivin’
Stout. More venues will also be added as bottle production expands to
include local beer distributors throughout Lycoming County.
For more information on Bavarian Barbarian Brewing
Company, please visit their website at
www.bavarianbarbarian.com or call 570-322-5050. |
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smash music center to open with services &
sounds |
Smash Music Center, a new music store at 152 West Fourth Street in
downtown Williamsport, will be opening on Wednesday, July 1st. A grand
opening will begin on Thursday, July 2nd, with live music by Hayley,
Doc Mach & the Field Surgeons, and "Singer at Large" Johnny J. Blair.
Music will begin at 6:30pm.
Buying and selling music instruments will be Smash
Music's
most visible point of trade. However, according to a Smash spokesman,
the place will be a networking center for is for musicians from all
genres. He said, "We will sell local musicians CD's, instruments, and
promote and create music with producers, managers, and song writers.
We want artists to benefit from the connections made at the Smash
Music Center."
Smash Music Center is a non-profit public benefit
corporation. Their goal is to "harness local talent not just for
performances, but to run a real record company. Smash is combining
social activism with business, and making it work. One of our goals is
to produce positive messages, counterpoint to the negative, degrading
images that permeate so much of the music people heard today.
"The appeal of the music, the chance to perform, or to
be part of the excitement, make an irresistible combination. Through a
process of application and review, programs are selected based on
specific criteria for members of our community. We supply our
musicians with the instruments and tools needed to accomplish each
individual's specific musical goals."
There are plans to spread the concept of Smash Music
Center to other communities. For more information go to
www.smashmusic.org or e-mail
talent@smashmusic.org. |
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penn college gallery to exhibit works in clay |
The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of Pennsylvania
College of Technology’s Madigan Library, will host “Arrested Motion,”
an exhibit by clay artists Cheryl Tall and Ceil Sturdevant, July
9-Aug. 19.
Life and motion are captured in the artists’ figurative
images. After meeting in 1992, Tall and Sturdevant discovered a shared
affinity for creating large figures in clay that expressed both a
spiritual and a narrative aspect. Each begins a sculpture with an
idea, but lets the clay dictate the exact expression of that idea. The
concept and the clay go through many changes until the final moment
when the idea is realized by the heat of the kiln.
Tall earned a bachelor’s degree in fine art at University of
Central Florida and a Master
of Fine Arts at University of Miami. She has taught at colleges and
gives national workshops. Her studio is in Leucadia, Calif., where she
creates her large-scale sculpture and paintings and teaches art
classes.
Tall’s primary medium is clay, coil built into large,
figurative sculptures and wall pieces. Her work focuses on the
relationships between people and their environment, especially their
homes or workplaces. Her subject matter often includes architectural
and figurative elements.
Her work has been published in seven books and many
magazines. She has won numerous awards, is in museum collections and
shows her work internationally.
Sturdevant is a figurative sculptor who has exhibited
her work throughout the eastern United States and internationally. She
has a studio in Pittsburgh and has taught ceramic art since 1981 at
The Ellis School. Sturdevant’s ceramic sculptures have been featured
in several magazines and published in two books.
“Through figurative imagery, my work explores the
relationships among people,” Sturdevant says. “It is a conversation,
fueled by friendships and travels – a visual diary narrated with an
evolving personal vocabulary of images.”
Sturdevant earned a bachelor’s degree in art education
and elementary education from Westminster College and a master’s
degree in art education from the University of Pittsburgh. She
completed graduate study in visual arts in Cortona, Italy, through the
University of Georgia.
An opening reception for the exhibit will take place in
the gallery from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 9. The artists will
offer a gallery talk at 5:30 p.m.
Summer hours at the gallery – in effect through July 31
– are Tuesday to Friday 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday 1-4
p.m. Regular hours, which resume Aug. 1, are Saturday and Sunday, 1 to
4 p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday, 2 to 8 p.m.; and Wednesday and Friday,
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. All exhibits are free and open to the public. Visit
the artists’ Web sites at
www.cheryltall.com and
www.ceilclay.com.
For more about the exhibit and The Gallery at Penn
College, visit
www.pct.edu/gallery, e-mail
gallery@pct.edu or call 570-320-2445. For general information
about the college, visit
www.pct.edu, e-mail
admissions@pct.edu or call toll-free 800-367-9222. |
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uptown music introduces iOn program |
The Uptown Music Collective is pleased to announce its newest
program, iOn Uptown. This student driven free program will result in a
bi-weekly internet video show which will air on the Collective’s
YouTube channel as well as the Collective’s website and MySpace page.
Participants will be trained in state-of-the-art video technology,
such as the use of high definition cameras, chroma key, and
professional grade editing software.
The iOn Uptown show itself will be set up much like a
music news program, with the main focus being on the Uptown Music
Collective as well as local music happenings. Each episode will
feature student hosts delivering the latest Collective news,
interviewing students, teachers, and other people of interest as well
as introducing music clips that feature students, local musicians, and
music related events in the area.
It has long been the policy of the Uptown Music
Collective that a “higher musical education” must include a thorough
understanding of music technology, music business, promotion and
marketing, right alongside instrumental proficiency, musical literacy
and the development of the creative process. The iOn Uptown program
nicely fits alongside pre-existing Collective programs such as the
Audio Video Recording Arts and Music Tech programs, and will help
further expose other Collective programs such as the Performance
Program and Site: B.
The iOn Uptown program is seeking 25 participants to
fill positions in the areas of film crew, editing crew, lighting and
green screen, creative development, on-air personalities and
production and direction. Participants in this cutting edge program
should expect to commit 8 to 10 hours per month, on average to this
program. Enrollment is free and is open to the public. Anyone
interested in participating should contact the Uptown Music Collective
at 570-329-0888 or by email,
jared@uptownmusic.org. |
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fleeger & the stranger recording new project |
Acoustic rock & roll trio Ron
Fleeger & The Stranger are gearing
up for their first commercial release. Described by one critic as "The
power of The Clash filtered through grunge
of the 90s, but with an eye on the millennium," Fleeger and his band
have been visible on the PA live
music circuit since October 2007. According to a band spokesman,
"The songs are based on a broad range of life experiences that will
resonate with many people. The record started out as a budget EP but
soon evolved into a much larger project." The band is currently
working in Mind's Eye Studio (Williamsport) with Scott Francis on
mixing and mastering.
For the recording, Fleeger & The Stranger enlisted the
help of Williamsport based musicians Lena Yeagle on vocals and violin,
Alex Callenberger on backing vocals (both of the trance-improv pop
group Black Marble), and "Singer at large" Johnny J. Blair on
keyboards.
Fleeger & the Stranger is made up of guitarist, lead
singer and songwriter Ron Fleeger, drummer/backing vocalist Keith C.
Kavanaugh, and bassist/backing vocalist Ian Fink. Individually, the
band members have been in the Pennsylvania music scene for more than
twelve years, with their collective membership culled from bands such
as John Oliver and The Distinguished, The Tell Tale Signs, Ralston,
Ralston, Entity, and The Bad Light Project--with loops contributed by
famed producer Bill Laswell. The latter two projects were fronted by
Fleeger, with production support from Bret Alexander (The Badlees) and
Johnny J. Blair.
Ron Fleeger & The Stranger will be releasing their EP
in late summer 2009. For more information go to
www.rftsband.com. |
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