Chelsea House hosts Arwen Mountain bluegrass for Thanksgiving
Arwen Mountain String Band performs Friday and Saturday evenings November 25 and 26 at 8 and 10 p.m. at the Chelsea House Folklore Center West Brattleboro. Admission two fifty. Band features Seth Lichtenstein Richard Davis Steve Green Pip Bannister and Norman Rogers. Opening act Chris Cleman joins from Richmond New Hampshire. Reservations 257 1482. Sunday contra dances 8 p.m. with caller Jeremy Coleman admission two fifty. NPR Folk Festival USA coverage Sunday November 27 3 p.m. WVPR Windsor 89.5 FM. Lessons offered at the center.
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Brattleboro
Arwen Mountain String Band
Chelsea House Folklore Center
Rt. 9
Sunset Lake Road
West Brattleboro
Seth Lichtenstein
Richard Davis
Steve Green
Pip Bannister
Norman Rogers
Arwen Mountain
Chelsea House Records
Chris Cleman
Richmond
N.H
Sundance
Jacob
Cleman
Chelsea House
Jeremy Coleman
Marlboro
Roy Bookbinder
Margaret MacArthur
Priscilla Herdman
Mick Moloney
Eugene O’donnel
National Public Radio
Vermont Public Radio
WVPR
Windsor
Public Radio
Bennington faculty win ASCAP awards
Bennington College music faculty members Henry Brant Louis Calabro and Vivian Fine received 1977 ASCAP Awards from an independent panel recognizing their productivity prizes honors commissions performances and leadership in music. President Joseph Murphy praised the division as a major accomplishment.
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Bennington College
American Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Henry Brant
Louis Calabro
Vivian Fine
Frank Battisti
New England Conservatory of Music
Richard Dufallo
Juilliard School
Milton Katims
School of Music
University of Houston
Ursula Oppens
Speculum Musicae
Joseph Murphy
Holiday Happening Opens Christmas Season at Empire State Plaza
Albany announces the Holiday Happening a three day event December 9 10 and 11 with over 150 craft booths under one roof at the Empire State Plaza north south concourse featuring outdoor parade fireworks a state tree lighting by the governor and Santa Claus. Indoor crafts include Paul Ashley Puppets Pink Panther Show and a wide variety of handmade items from dough mobiles to paintings and sculptures.
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Albany
N.Y
Price Chopper
New York State Office of General Services
New York State
Santa Claus
Paul Ashley
Empire State Plaza
Mom
Dayton CB Crime Busters initiative boosts downtown watch
In Dayton Ohio Police officer Ed Vecchio launches Central Business CB Crime Busters. Over 150 midtown merchants and 40 channel base stations monitor Channel 38 to alert authorities and neighbors to crimes. Vecchio touts hundreds of eyes downtown and says the plan deters crooks. The story also covers CB radio industry tensions, tariff battles, and a University of Denver CB subculture study.
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Dayton
Ohio
Ed Vecchio
Central Business
London
Vecchio
Dayton Association
Harry Imboden
University of Denver
Min
Chamber of Commerce
Tolkien Hobbit TV Special on NBC Sets November Air Date
NBC plans animated adaptation of J R R Tolkien s Hobbit to air November 27 from 8 to 9 30 p m Eastern time featuring Orson Bean as Bilbo Baggins John Huston as Gandalf Hans Conreid Thorin Oakenshield Otto Preminger as the Elven king Cyril Ritchard as Elrond and Brother Theodore as Gollum The program traces Bilbo s journey with dwarves to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and the treasure guarded by Smaug The piece notes strong voice work and the production s faithfulness to Tolkien s drawings plus a Doonesbury segment and NBC s strong ratings for the week ending November 20
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NBC
J.R.R. Tolkien
Baggins
Orson Bean
Mirkwood
Otto Preminger
Cyril Ritchard
Elrond
Brother Theodore
Gollum
King’s Treasure
Middle Earth
Garry Trudeau
Doonesbury
Zonker
Joanie
Mike
B.D
Boopsie
Walden
Barbara Harris
Jack Gilford
Maine man fights for fame of composer Robert Browne Hall
Richmond Maine resident Thomas C Bardwell spends 27 years researching Robert Browne Hall a Maine native rarely honored while John Philip Sousa gets ubiquitous recognition Bardwell proposes naming a stretch of Maine turnpike after Hall or at least an outdoor monument Bardwell aims to raise awareness of Hall whose music he regards as superior to Sousa’s and notes Hall spent most of his life in Maine despite limited exposure outside the state
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Richmond, Maine
UPI
John Phillip Sousa
Thomas C. Bardwell
Bardwell
Vineyard Haven
Mass
Sousa
Robert Browne Hall
Maine
America
England
Australia
Richmond
American Legion
R.B. Hall
Hall
Bowdoinham
Philadelphia
New York National Guard
Albany
Kenneth R. Curtis
James B. Longley
Rock-hunting holidays offered at Alva hotel in Scotland
Margaret Houghton runs autumn rock-hunting packages at her Alva hotel offering bed breakfast and an evening meal for about 60 dollars weekly. Guests hike inland and along beaches and may leave with amethysts garnets or smoky quartz while receiving instruction on cutting and polishing stones.
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Alva, Scotland
UPI
Margaret Houghton
Alva
Scotland
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