Coffeehouse Concert 
Finnders & Youngberg
Date: Friday, January 20
Time: 7:30 PM (doors open at 7:00 PM)
Venue: Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
Admission: $12 Adults; $8 Seniors and Youth Under 15  

Finnders & Youngberg could be called a bluegrass band, which they are. However, the band's focus on original material, incorporation of the pedal steel guitar, and the entire quintets adventurous approach to all types of Americana music make this band truly an exciting development in acoustic roots music. They’re playing original music, and dress it up just as the song seems to dictate. This leaves them free to explore their collective love for Old-Time, Honky-Tonk, Folk and Blues sounds as well as bluegrass, all the while producing music that has not been previously made.

Coffee Provided by: Vic's Again Espresso, 801 Main St, Louisville, CO

Check out the beautiful poster art.

Coffeehouse Concert 
Moors and McCumber

Minnesotan James Moors and local favorite Kort McCumber met at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in 2005. Sitting around a campfire swapping songs, each heard something in the other that just fit. They have been performing and writing together ever since. Minnesotan James Moors and local favorite Kort McCumber met at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in 2005. Sitting around a campfire swapping songs, each heard something in the other that just fit. They have been performing and writing together ever since. James brings vocals and acoustic guitar to this Americana duo while Kort adds vocals, acoustic guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, banjo, harmonica, upright bass, cello, piano, dobro, and anything else he’s bought since this press release was written. 

Coffeehouse Chamber Series
Colorado Wind Ensemble
with Visual Art by Rebecca Tolle
Date: Sunday, December 11
Time: 3:00 PM (doors open at 2:30 PM) 
Venue: Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
Admission: $10 adult, $8 Senior and Student, $5 Youth

Kids Series
Dino Day!
Date: December 3
Time: 10:00 AM
Venue: Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
Admission: $5

Coffeehouse Concert
Lisa Bell
Date: October 7
Time: 7:30 PM (doors open at 7:00 PM)
Venue: Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
Admission: $12 Adults; $8 Seniors and Youth Under 15

Enthusiastic audiences have enjoyed Lisa Bell’s performances for years, and those who have been behind her since the early part of the 2000s have witnessed her growth from being primarily a jazz standards performer to an emerging indie singer/songwriter with deep jazz, roots rock and blues influences and a deep interest in the healing benefits of music. Her new CD, Dancing on the Moon, was produced using A424 “RA Music” tuning rather than the standard A440 frequency, which is believed to bring healing benefits to the brain and body. She will be joined by Bob Story (guitar) and Chris Malley (bass).

Check out the beautiful event poster.

Stories on Stage
Date: September 30
Time: 7:30  PM
Venue: Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
FREE

Please join the Louisville Cultural Council for "Stories on Stage" in their reading of The Worst Hard Time, in association with the Louisville Public Library's "On the Same Page" program. Randy Moore, professional actor with Stories on Stage, will read a 45-minute excerpt from this true story followed by a public discussion.

Summer Concerts in the Park
Date: Thursdays, June 23, June 30, July 21 & July 28
Time: 7:00 - 8:30  PM
Venue: Louisville Community Park, 951 Bella Vista drive
FREE

June 23 - Laughing Hands is back and ready to amaze and amuse with their unique blend of mostly instrumental original and traditional music from around the world…and beyond! Featuring the Mullins brothers-Steve and Brian- on mandolins and more, with Mike Fitzmaurice, Brian’s fellow Colcannon band mate on bass, Ed Contreras on drums and percussion, and Ed Rudman on guitar.

June 30 - Halden Wofford and the Hi-Beams’ classic style of honky tonk has a language and culture all to itself, but only takes one quick lesson to learn how to love for a lifetime. The twang of the steel guitar, snap of the snare drum, thump of the stand-up bass and rippin’ electric guitar solos mix with Wofford’s distinctive vocals to create a sound that is familiar yet purely original. Ringing out all along the Front Range of Colorado and beyond, Wofford’s wavering tenor conjures up images of Hank Williams Sr., Buddy Holly and Bob Wills.

July 21 - Finnders and Youngberg could be called a bluegrass band, which they are. However, the band’s focus on original material, incorporation of the pedal steel guitar, and the entire quintet’s adventurous approach to all types of Americana music make this band truly an exciting development in acoustic roots music.  They’re playing original music, and dress it up just as the song seems to dictate.  This leaves them free to explore their collective love for Old-Time, Honky-Tonk, Folk and Blues sounds as well as bluegrass, all the while producing music that has not been previously made.

July 28 - She Groovez is Jackie, Evelyn, Chrystal, Audree, Pam, Sherri and Eef- seven soul sisters playing R&B tunes, mixed in with some Motown, blues and funk. Every time She Groovez plays a party is guaranteed!! The band has a huge following that's growing fast. “When She Groovez comes on stage, they electrify the atmosphere with sounds of Motown rhythm and blues music and their fans can’t resist the urge to gyrate wildly to their rhythms.”  Mel Fenson, Colorado Magazine Online. (Postponed from July 14).

Vendors:
	The Huckleberry (grilled food and pies)
	Glacier Ice Cream (Ice Cream and gelato)

Coffeehouse Chamber Series
The Music of Astor Piazzolla
Date: Friday, April 15
Time: 7:30 PM, doors open at 7:00 PM
Venue: Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Avenue
Cost: $10 adults; $8 seniors over 65, & $5 youth under 15

Coffeehouse Concert
The Winstons and Sally Van Meter
Date: Friday, January 14
Time: 7:30 PM, doors open at 7:00 PM
Venue: Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Avenue
Cost: $12 Adults, $8 Seniors/Students

This will be one of just of few opportunities to see Boulder-based folk-pop duo Andy & Cheryl Winston this year. The Winstons are known for their tight harmonies, exquisite song arrangements, and hilarious husband-wife stage banter. For this show, they welcome very special guest, Grammy-winner Sally Van Meter on resophonic slide guitar and vocals. In trio formation, the group will perform Winston originals and tasty covers featuring stunning three-part harmonies and some fine picking, to boot.

Vic's Coffee, 801 Main Street, will serve delicious brewed coffee for this event.

LCC thanks talented artist Slim Subtle for doing the beautiful poster art for this event.

Coffeehouse Concert
Nancy Thorwardson and Gadzukes!
Date: Friday, December 10
Time: 7:30 PM, doors open at 7:00 PM
Venue: Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Avenue
Cost: $12 Adults, $8 Seniors/Students

Gadzukes! Nancy Thorwardson and Patrick Cullie are two ukulele geeks from Lyons, Colorado. Nancy, a noted songwriter and performer, plays resophonic uke and sings like nobody's business. Patrick plays lead baritone and concert ukes and guitar, and doesn't sing like anybody's business. Bret Billings plays steel guitar and harmonica, and Dave Ball rounds out the sound on upright bass. Lively and fun, their repertoire includes original compositions, swing standards, hapa haole tunes from Hawaii, and some surprises along the way.

Gadzukes! first CD, has gotten rave reviews! Dan Willging, in Dirty Linen Magazine, calls the recording a "wonderfully sunny assortment."

Vic's Coffee, 801 Main Street, will serve delicious brewed coffee for this event.

Young Artists Exhibit
Opening Reception: Friday, November 19, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Afternoons: November 20 & 21, 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Afternoons: November 27 & 28, 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Parade of Lights: Friday, December 3, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Afternoons: December 4 & 5, 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Venue: Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Avenue
Cost: Free

LCC and the Louisville Art Association (LAA) are pleased to announce our annual art exhibit featuring gifted young artists from Louisville Schools. Please join us for refreshments during the opening reception Friday November 19, featuring local musicians. View over 175 pieces of student artwork selected by Louisville art teachers. Artwork is available for viewing over several weekends in November and December.

LCC and LAA thank talented sculptor Dawn Record for doing the beautiful poster art for this event. Artwork featured (horse) by Jacqueline Kolandar from Louisville Elementary from the 2009 Young Artists Exhibit.

Vote for the Art in the Park People's Choice Award
Voting closes October 31

When Community Park (955 Bella Vista Drive) was in its planning stages, the City Council envisioned a sculpture garden and an area was set aside for that purpose. Three years ago, City Council asked LCC to organize it and put up enough money to fund a loan program for two years. With a lot of assistance from Suzanne Janssen, who started a similar program in Northglenn, the LCC fashioned a similar program.

A formal Call for Entry was put out into the community through the Call For Entry Organization and 12 pieces were submitted. A committee comprised of LCC and Louisville Art Association members reviewed the entries and selected the four pieces that met the criteria for public art and would be the best candidates for permanent installation in the park. Each artist will receive a $500 honorarium.

You can now vote online for your favorite scupture. Voting closes October 31, 2010. The winner will receive a cash prize of $500. The Cultural Council will then try to fundraise the money to purchase the people's choice.

The four sculptures are as follows:

• "Comforter" by Karen Crain, Littleton, CO - Quiet and reflective piece of a mother and child.
• "Nature Signs" by Catherine Forster, Crystal Lake, IL - An ethereal sculpture that questions the distinctions between the natural and mediated world.
• "The Climb" by Maureen Hearty, Denver CO - Brings the balance of organic structures and architectural forms together.
• "Clorese Bronze I" by Sherrill Stone, Carbondale, CO - A big silly, playful and voluptuous fish! is our winner. Look for an event in the spring to help raise the money to purchase Clorese. 

Coffeehouse Concert
Sandra Wong
Date: Friday, October 22
Time: 7:30 PM, doors open at 7:00 PM
Venue: Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Avenue
Cost: $12 Adults, $8 Seniors/Students

Sandra will be joined by Grant Gordy and Greg Garrison!

Classically trained violinist turned fiddler, Sandra Wong, will bring an eclectic mix of fiddle tunes from around the world including North America, Scandinavia, Europe and Ireland. Sandra's passion began with Irish, Old-time and Bluegrass jams and festivals, and has grew into her current livelihood of teaching, performing, recording and collaborating with other musicians from a diverse range of world music genres. In 1999, she was introduced to (and fell in love with!) a wonderful Swedish folk instrument, the nyckelharpa (a 16 stringed, keyed bowed instrument). It has become an integral part of her work and musical expression.

Download the beautiful poster art, by board member Andy Langford, for this event.

Vic's Coffee, 801 Main Street, will serve delicious brewed coffee for this event.

Children's Concert:
Jeff Kagan and Paige Doughty
Date: Saturday, October 2
Time: 10:30 AM, doors open at 10:15 AM
Venue: Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Avenue
Cost: $3 children/adults/seniors

Boulder Naturalists/Children's Musicians Jeff Kagan and Paige Doughty head east for their first ever appearance in Louisville. Join them for an hour of live nature music for kids (ages 3-8), educational skits/stories, audience participation, quick costume changes and unexpected surprises. Their music explores the realm of ecological cycles, life in the alpine ecosystem, pollination, bear and mountain lion safety, symbiosis, water purification, water and electricity conservation, alternative transportation and so much more. Now if this sounds a little lofty for the kiddie set, then think again. Each song is instructive, but never preachy. And the messages are delivered in a playful manner with memorable musical hooks designed to captivate children and adults alike.

Download the beautiful poster art by Gary Guerriero for this event.

Coffeehouse Concert:
The Denver Jazz Club Youth All-Stars
Youth Fundraising Event!
Date: May 14, 2010
Time: 7:30 PM, Doors Open at 7:00 PM
Venue: The Louisville Arts Center, 801 Grant Avenue
Cost: $5 Adults/Seniors/Students

The Denver Jazz Club Youth All-Stars are proud to announce that they will represent the state of Colorado as the only youth band invited to perform at the 2010 Sacramento Jazz Jubilee - the world's biggest jazz festival!! The Denver Jazz Club is the main sponsor of this traditional jazz youth all-star band, which was created by recently retired public school music educator, Dr. Ed Cannava. Ed was the 22 year Director of Arapahoe High School's three time Downbeat award winning Dry Creek Dixie Dawgs.

Please come out and support these talented young men and women from our community and help them with their travel costs to Sacramento.

LCC thanks Vic's Coffee, 801 Main Street, for providing delicious brewed coffee for this event.

LCC thanks board member Andy Langford for designing the beautiful poster art for this event.

Silent Film Night:
Four Funny ShortsDate: Saturday May 15, 2010
Time: 7:30 PM, Doors Open at 7:00 PM
Venue: The Louisville Arts Center, 801 Grant Avenue
Cost: $5 Adults/Seniors/Students

• The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914) - Starring Charlie Chaplin as a portrait painter, he courts Madeleine but loses her to a wealthy client. The despairing artist draws the girl's portrait on the barroom floor and gets tossed out. Years later he sees her, her husband and their horde of children. Unrecognized by her, Charlie shakes off his troubles and walks off into the future.
• The Blacksmith (1922) - Starring Buster Keaton, Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.
• The Grocery Clerk (1919) - Starring Larry Semon, Big Ben has the largest store in the town of New Ralgia. His chief clerk is in love with the post mistress. The three of them get involved in a series of mishaps with their customers and with the town ladies' man, whose advances conceal a more sinister purpose.
• Limousine Love (1928) - Starring Charley Chase, Viola overturns her car in a water-filled ditch. Although unhurt, her clothes are drenched. She finds an abandoned touring car on the country road, jumps in the back seat, pulls down the shades, undresses, and hangs her clothes outside the window on a makeshift clothesline to dry.

LCC thanks Jeremy Carlson, Carlson Design, for designing the beautiful poster art for this event. 

Coffehouse Concert
The Cantrells
Date: Friday, April 9
Time: 7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Venue: The Louisville Arts Center, 801 Grant Avenue
Cost: $12.00/adults  $8/seniors and youth under 15

National Public Radio favorite The Cantrells bring their their "hot picking and smooth harmonizing" to Louisville. Al & Emily Cantrell put a pop spin on acoustic folk and bluegrass, with detours into Celtic, western swing and Americana. Chosen by Robert Redford to appear playing fiddle tunes in his hit movie A River Runs Through It, The Cantrells cast a magical spell with Emily's soaring vocals and Al's spirited fiddling and dazzling mandolin.

LCC Thanks Vic's Coffee, 801 Main Street, for providing delicious brewed coffee for this event. LCC also thanks J2C Products for serving O'Casey's Sweet Irish Scones.

Download the beautiful poster art for this event.

Young Writer's Festival
Date: Sunday, April 11
Time: 1:00 - 3:15 PM
Venue: Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce Street
Cost: FREE

In celebration of National Library Week, local 3rd-8th graders may participate in The Young Writer’s Festival, a celebration of the art of writing. Experienced, dynamic teachers will offer courses in poetry, creative writing, literary techniques, and empowerment through journal writing. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Register at the Children’s Services desk or call 303-335-4821. The Festival runs on Sunday, April 11. In case of severe weather, the Festival will be moved to Sunday, April 18.

Tracks to choose from:

1:00 to 2:00 PM
Writing as a path to power (girls only), Terry LeRose
Writing with style, Laura Cecil and Tom LeCarner

2:15 to 3:15 PM
Poetry Pizzazz, Jane Evans
Creative Writing, Contests and Publishing, Lisa Kihn

Refreshments and Sharing of student work after 3:15 PM.

The Louisville Library and Louisville Cultural Council wish to thank State Farm Agent Wendy Fickbohm for generously sponsoring the event and providing refreshments.

LCC thanks David Wyner for creating the beautiful poster art for this event.

Mari Sue & Cari
Music with Kids
Date: Saturday, April 3
Time: 10:30 - 11:15 AM
Venue: The Louisville Arts Center, 801 Grant Avenue
Cost: $3 per person

Be ready to clap, howl, buzz, and sing with Mary Sue & Cari as these two creative singer-songwriters captivate kids and parents alike with their fun, interactive, original music. From sailing the seven seas to dancing like hippos, these talented songwriters will share whimsical puppets, magical harmonies and spontaneity with the audience.

LCC thanks Jeremy Carlson, of Carlson Design, for doing the beautiful poster art for this event. LCC also thanks Gary Guerriero and DesignTek for providing beautiful poster art for the event (303.356.2555).

Coffeehouse Concert: Scott Martin Trio
Date: Friday, November 13
Time: 7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Venue: The Louisville Arts Center, 801 Grant Avenue
Cost: $12.00 adults/$8 seniors/youth under 15

Advance reservations with the Louisville Recreation Center recommended: 303.666.7400.

Scott Martin has performed professionally in a wide variety of musical styles and roles. As a studio musician in New York City with Carly Simon, He sang background vocals and played synthesizers on the hit, Coming Around Again, which was also the theme song to the movie Heartburn, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. He worked with Mariah Carey on her first recording session and her first album, as well as with singers Philip Bailey of Earth Wind and Fire and Robert Lamm of Chicago.

He has worked as a jazz pianist in Washington D.C., Boston, Paris, and the Caribbean. In Colorado, he has been the house pianist at Denver's El Chapultepec, Mel's Bar and Grill, and the Stanley Hotel, performed at Jazz Aspen and played with local artists ranging from Hazel Miller to the Hot Tomatoes Swing Orchestra to the salsa band Conjunto Colores.

Scott will be joined by other local vocal and instrumental jazz talent to round out the trio!

LCC thanks board member Andy Langford for providing beautiful poster art for the event. LCC also thanks Vic's Coffee, 801 Main Street, for providing delicious coffee for this event. 

Book Signing Event:
"Smaldone: The Untold Story of an American Crime Family"
Date: Thursday, October 22
Time: 7:00 PM
Venue: Louisville Public Library, 950 Spruce Street
Cost: Free

Participatory Dance: Ballroom and Swing with Carl and Suzanne
Date: Saturday, October 3
Time: 7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Venue: Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Avenue
Cost: $8.00/person, $15/couple

Learn how to Ballroom and Swing dance with Carl and Suzanne, owners of Casablanca Dance Studio. We will start with a dance lesson, then you will be ready to swing! Suzanne and Carl have taught social dance in the Denver Metro area for the past 26 years. Both started as instructors for the Fred Astaire Dance Studio and have continued their dance education from many accomplished instructors, learning different styles and techniques in the Ballroom, Swing, Latin, and Country dances. Bring your dancing shoes, singles encouraged! Refreshments will be provided by the Huckleberry Restaurant and King Soopers.

LCC thanks board member Maryan Jaross for providing beautiful poster art for the event. 

Children's Concert: 
Merry-Andrew Afoot Storytelling-Theatre
 "Johnny Appleseed's Day Off"
Date: Saturday, October 3rd
Time: 10:30 am - 11:15 am (Door opens at 10:00 am)
Venue: Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Avenue
Cost: Admission $3 per person

Ah, Johnny Appleseed! That pot wearing, apple planting, flute tooting hero of the Earth! But suppose for one day Johnny Appleseed rested his weary muscles. What would he do? Well, maybe... PLAY!!! Come and see this playful show about exploring imagination. And remember, you can learn anything from a tree.

Merry-Andrew Afoot is Leroy Leonard, a one-man theatrical hoot, playing all the parts in this 30 minute play complete with sets, props and costumes. Since 1987 Leroy has shared his talents with children in schools, libraries and festivals. Awarded CoVisions Grant from the Colorado Council for the Arts and voted runner up for Best Children’s Entertainment by Colorado Parent Magazine.

LCC thanks Jeremy Carlson, of Carlson Design, for doing the beautiful poster art for this event.

Coffeehouse Concert: Mary Flower
Date: Friday, September 25
Time: 7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Venue: The Louisville Arts Center, 801 Grant Avenue
Cost: $12.00 adults/$8 seniors/youth under 15

Working in both the intricately syncopated Piedmont fingerpicking style and her own deeply bluesy lap-slide guitar, Mary Flower has earned rave reviews from critics and audiences alike for her springwater-clear vocals and mastery of multiple guitar styles as well as her own compositions. Mary draws on traditional, contemporary and original material to create something new: a sound uniquely her own that remains true to the timeless power of the blues.

A recent transplant to the Northwest, Mary cut her teeth on the Colorado music scene where she played with the likes of Katy Moffatt, Pat Donohue, the Mother Folkers and more.

Mary's CD Bywater Dance, recorded pre-Katrina in New Orleans for Yellow Dog Records, has garnered widespread acclaim. An award-winning player with seven solo cds and 5 instructional DVDs to her credit, Flower is a unique talent that we are honored to have in Louisville.

LCC thanks board member Andy Langford for providing beautiful poster art for the event.

Coffeehouse Concert
Choosing June
Friday, May 8, 2009
7:30 PM (doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$12.00 adults/$8.00 Seniors & Youth under 15

Choosing June is a female duo consisting of singer/ songwriters Joan Huntsberry and Julia Knearl. Their unique original material includes folk, upbeat pop, ballads and quirky humor with amazing vocals and intricate harmonies. They will be playing material from their new CD "Long Road" and might bring along a few special guests.

LCC thanks Vic's Coffee, 801 Main Street, for providing delicious coffee for this event. LCC also thanks board member Andy Langford for creating the beautiful poster art for this event.

Louisville Arts Center Dream: Reception
Sunday, May 3, 2009
6:00 PM
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
FREE

For over ten years arts organizations in Boulder County have seen the need for an arts center in East County that provides venues for Boulder County performing and visual artists in ways that compliment the Boulder Dairy Center for the Arts. The biggest theatre at the Dairy seats a maximum of 250, and there is not much available to county artists at a reasonable rate between that and the close to 2,000 seat Macky Auditorium at CU.

Since the early 2000's groups have explored siting such an arts center in Louisville, in a way that would increase people traffic (and customers) to the City. That exploration has continued with the Louisville Cultural Council (LCC) since 2006.

Recently the Senior Design Class of the Architecture School at CU/Boulder, under the direction of Marcel De Lange, has taken on a project of providing a series of possible designs for such an art center that would fit into the Louisville Urban Renewal area between downtown Louisville and Route 42. That class has been divided into seven design teams. Those teams will present their designs to an adjudication team at the Louisville Arts Center at 801 Grant Street at 2:00 PM on Sunday afternoon May 3rd, 2009.

After their presentations (at about 6:00 PM) the Arts Center will be opened to the general public of Boulder County, and the students will give short presentations to them. People will be able to view drawings and models of the concept designs, and vote for each on a scale of 1 to 5 (with 5 being "best"). Based on that vote the LCC will give cash awards to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd placing designs.

Admission is free and there will be a reception with food and drink.

The LCC thanks board member Maryan Jaross for creating the beatiful poster art for this event.

Young Writer's Festival
Saturday, April 18, 2009
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Louisville Public Library
951 Spruce Street
FREE

This popular event is a collaboration between LCC and the Louisville Public Library and is for young writers and illustrators, aged 9-13. Preregistration is required due to the limited class size. Please visit or call the Youth Services desk at the Library at 303.335.4821 to register.

Students may pick one class from each time slot:

1:00 - 2:00 PM

• Tina Dozauer-Ray, Writing Song Lyrics - Get great ideas about form, rhyme scheme, and fitting words to music. Write an entire song in an hour as a group.
• Donna M. Jackson, Write with your Feet, And More Ways to Tell Powerful True Stories - Learn secrets of the pros. Make facts come alive and create compelling and memorable true stories.

2:15 - 3:15 PM

• Nancy Dutton, Writing Haikus Can Be Fun - Local author reads her "Book of Animal Poetry". Learn to write Haikus about your favorite pet or person.
• Sharon Nehls, ACROSTIC Poetry - Create poems that prompt readers to view ordinary experiences through fresh eyes.

Refreshments and sharing of student works after 3:15 PM.

LCC thanks Wendy Fickbohm of State Farm Insurance for her generous sponsorship of this event in its entirety. The LCC also thanks Gary Guerriero and Design Tek (303.356.2555) for providing beautiful poster art for this series.

Poetry Event:
Youth Poet-A-Thon
Saturday, April 11, 2009
6:00 PM (doors open at 5:30 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$2.00

LCC and the Louisville Youth Advisory Board (YAB) will jointly present an evening of poetry readings. Original works will be read by the authors from elementary, middle, and high schools as well as poems written and read by adults and senior citizens. Refreshments will be served. YAB will produce a "chapbook" of all the poems read, and this book will be on sale. 

All proceeds of this event will benefit children in foster care through Boulder County Housing and Human Services through the YAB's Backpack Project. Children who have been removed from their homes due to unsafe circumstances often times must leave quickly with only the clothes on their back. The Backpack Project will provide them with items such as books, pajama's, personal care items, journals, toys and small stuffed animals.  How can you help? Come to the Poet-a-thon, purchase a Chapbook of the poems performed, donate new items for the Backpack Project or do all three! Donation boxes will be located at the Louisville Library and Recreation Center through Sunday, April 19th and at the Louisville Center for the Arts the evening of the Poet-a-thon.

 

 

Silent Film Night
Four Funny Films
Friday, April 3, 2009
7:00 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$5.00 Adults/Seniors/Students

It's our Spring silent movie night where we laugh and giggle and stomp our feet to short comedy films! Louisville gem, Rodney Sauer of the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra will provide live piano accompaniment to the films:

• Putting Pants on Philip, Starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, 1927. Ollie is embarrassed by his kilt-wearing Scottish nephew, and tries to dress him like an American. 
• The Scarecrow, starring Buster Keaton, 1920. Farmhands Keaton and "Big Joe" Roberts share a cottage full of mechanical devices for making life easy, and they also share a love for the farmer's daughter. But when Luke the Dog snacks on a meringue pie, it starts a rabid dog scare that puts the farm in an uproar. 
• Movie Night, starring Charley Chase, 1929. A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies, but the evening is hampered by an attempt to pass the wife's brother off as a child, a crowded theater, and the daughter's apparently contagious case of the hiccups. 
• There It Is, starring Charley Bowers, 1928. When a mysterious figure causes a series of disruptions at the Frisbie Home in New York, word goes out to Scotland Yard (in this film, that's a fenced yard in Scotland) that the Fuzz-Faced Phantom is at work. A truly surreal comedy by a master of bizarre effects and stop-motion animation. 

LCC thanks Vic's Coffee, 801 Main Street, for providing delicious coffee for this event. LCC thanks Gary Guerriero and DesignTek (303.356.2555) for providing beautiful poster art for this series.

 

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Participatory Dance:
Jitterbug & Rumba
Saturday, April 4, 2009
7:30 PM (doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$15.00 Couples/$8 Singles (encouraged)

Put a Swing in your Dance Step this Spring as you get ready for all those weddings! Get your dancing shoes and come over to the Louisville Arts Center where Louisville's Casablanca Dance Studio owners, Suzanne & Carl Gerleit will be teaching the Jitterbug and the Rumba. We usually start off fast and then learn the slower dance halfway through the evening.

• Jitterbug is a dance style popularized in the 1930's by jazz great Cab Calloway. He thought dancers looked like hyperactive bugs on the dance floor as they adjusted to the ebb and flow of music.
• Rumba originated in Cuba as a combination of musical traditions of the Spanish and Africans. It is the slowest of the five competition Latin and American dances.

Refreshments provided by The Huckleberry Restaurant and King Soopers.

LCC thanks board member Maryan Jaross for doing the beautiful poster art for this event.

 

 

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 Coffeehouse Concert
Jayme Stone Quartet
Friday, March 20, 2009
7:30 PM (doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$12.00 adults/$8.00 Seniors & Youth under 15

The Jayme Stone Quartet has the uncanny ability to play a twelve-part composition in eleven, a dirge for Ray Charles, and a medley of Appalachian fiddle tunes all in the same set. They hop scotch from bluegrass hoedowns to jazz festivals leaving small musical twisters in their wake. When people ask what kind of music they play, bassist Mark Diamond replies, "Well, what kind of music do you like?" Or as Stone puts it, "Blending genres is like trying to braid water: you quickly find out it's all one thing anyway." The quartet is rounded out with musically-telepathic fiddler Adam Galblum and gravity-defying guitarist Grant Gordy, and occasional special guests Kevin Turcotte on trumpet, and Matt Flinner on mandolin.

LCC thanks Vic's Coffee, 801 Main Street, for providing delicious coffee for this event. LCC also thanks board member Andy Langford for creating the beautiful poster art for this event.

 

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Coffeehouse Concert:
Singer-Songwriters
Scott Von & Reed Foehl
Friday, February 13, 2009
7:30 - 10:00 PM (doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$12.00 adults/$8.00 seniors, children under 15

Scott Von writes music at the crossroads where Roots Music meets American Folk. Stomping boots and stirring grooves from the Roots tradition, stripped down songs from the Folk tradition, and a stage show that inspires. Scott entered the Americana/Roots scene in early 2006, and since then his travels have taken him from festival stages, to intimate house concerts, college campuses, theatres and clubs. Scott’s songwriting awards and accomplishments include: Winner of the Swallow Hill Music Festival, Top 20 at the Lyons Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, being chosen to compose an original song for an Olympic Torch ceremony, and placement on a 2007 Sundance Film Festival sampler. Von sums it up this way: “To slowly fill up a suitcase of songs over a lifetime of travel, music and good people – that to me is a noble pursuit.”

Reed Foehl first jumped onto the music industry radar as the lead singer of the Boulder, CO based jam band Acoustic Junction. After 5 albums that sold a combined 100,000 copies, in 2001 Acoustic Junction parted ways and Foehl launched into a full time solo career. His solo CD’s include “Spark” released through his own NFR label (2004) and “Stoned Beautiful” on Red Parlor (2007). Along the way, Foehl has caught the attention of motion picture/television music supervisors and his original songs have been featured in a number of productions including the feature film “Just Friends” (New Line Cinema) and on television, on “The Biggest Loser”, “Dawson’s Creek”, “Gossip Girls”, “Party of Five” and “Laguna Beach.” The Boston Globe reported “He sings like he feels every note…Each song tells a story, all which he relates astonishingly well.

LCC thanks Vic's Coffee, 801 Main Street, for providing delicious coffee for this event. LCC thanks Gary Guerriero and DesignTek (303.356.2555) for providing beautiful poster art for this series.

 

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Participatory Dance:
Learn the Night Club Two-Step
and the Cha-Cha
Saturday, February 7, 2009
7:30 - 10:00 PM (doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$8.00 per person/$15.00 per couple

Get ready for Valentine's Day by learning the Night Club Two-Step and Cha-Cha. Refreshments served, bring your dancing shoes. Lessons are provided by Carl and Suzanne Gerleit of the Casablanca Dance Studio.

LCC thanks board member Maryan Jaross for providing the beautiful poster poster art for the event. LCC also thanks the Huckleberry Restaurant for providing cookies for this event.

 

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Puppets & Things on Strings
Starring Mark Hellerstein
Saturday, February 7, 2009
10:30 - 11:15 AM
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$3.00 per person

Pre-schoolers love Little Willy Worm, the Bookworm, as he narrates "Jack and the Beanstalk" with help of a full-stage marionette puppet production. Kids love to participate and they'll also meet Pansy, a lovable baby chimpanzee and see a drawing that comes to life right before their eyes. Mark Hellerstein, an Award Winning Ventriloquist, has been performing for over 40 years. His love of kids is clear as he combines audience participation, melodrama, comedy, surprise and variety into his fast-paced programs.

LCC thanks Jeremy Carlson, with Carlson Designs, for designing the beautiful poster art  for the event.

 

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Evening of Jewish Song and Jazz
with Faye Nepon and Bob Schlesinger
Friday, January 16, 2009
7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$12.00 adults/$6 seniors/youth under 15

Faye Nepon is an amazing vocalist whose extensive repertoire spans not only the breadth of American Jazz and musical theater, but also works in Italian and Yiddish. Faye has performed across the United States and Europe and taught for many years in Italy for the Amici della Musica of Florence (where she still teaches Master Classes), and at the Bernstein School of Musical Theater of Bologna. She currently teaches at the Rocky Mountain Center for the Musical Arts in Lafayette.

Bob Schlesinger is a pianist and composer whose work covers diverse styles that include jazz, blues, R&B and classical. In his dozen years with singer Hazel Miller he played Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater, opened for James Brown and Earth, Wind and Fire, performed at the Telluride Blues Festival, Winter Park Jazz Festival, Jazz Aspen, and with the Longmont Symphony Orchestra.  Several of his compositions received national radio airplay and won national songwriting awards.

LCC thanks Vic's Coffee, 801 Main Street, for providing their wonderful brewed coffee for this event. LCC also thanks board member Andy Langford for doing the beautiful poster art for this event.

 

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Coffeehouse Concert
The Olde Town Swing Band
Friday, December 12, 2008
7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$12.00 adults/$6 seniors/youth under 15

The Olde Town Swing Band features Rob Dando, Kit Simon and Drew Horton. Whether it's a hot jazzy number or a smooth dreamy ballad, Kit's prowess and sensibility on the vintage archtop guitar is just the ticket. A fine vocalist, his lead and harmony vocals add a smooth touch to the band's sound. Kit makes his home right here in Old Town Louisville.  Another long time Old Town Louisville resident who now lives in Westcliff, mandolin virtuoso Drew Horton was the 2001 Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival National Mandolin Champion. He'll have plenty of  hot licks to warm up a cold winter's eve! Last, but not least, Rob Dando holds down the low end and sets the groove on stand-up bass.

LAA thanks Vic's Coffee, 801 Main Street, for providing their wonderful brewed coffee for this event. LCC also thanks board member Andy Langford for doing the beautiful poster art for this event.

 

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2008 Young Artists Exhibit
Opening Reception: Friday, November 21, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Afternoons: November 29 & 30, 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Parade of Lights: Friday, December 5, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Afternoons: December 6 & 7, 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
FREE

LCC and the Louisville Art Association (LAA) are pleased to announce our annual art exhibit featuring gifted young artists from Louisville Schools. Please join us for refreshments during the opening reception Friday November 16, featuring 2 quartets and a small choir from Monarch High School. View over 175 pieces of student artwork selected by Louisville art teachers. Artwork is available for viewing over several weekends in November and December.

LCC thanks Gary Guerriero and DesignTek for providing beautiful poster art for this series (303.356.2555)

 

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Mari Sue & Cari
Music with Kids
Saturday, December 6, 2008
10:30 - 11:15 AM
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$3.00 per person

Get ready to clap, giggle, and sing with Mary Sue & Cari as these two singer-songwriters captivate kids and parents alike with their whimsical puppets, magical harmonies and spontaneity with the audience. From popping bugs out of their ears to "spinning" webs with Miss Spider, these talented songwriters will share their interactive, original music. Please join us for a fun, creative show.

LCC thanks Jeremy Carlson with Carlson Design for designing the beautiful poster art for the event.

 

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Participatory Dance
Salsa and Latin with Carl and Suzanne
Saturday, November 15, 2008
7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$8.00/person, $15/couple

Learn how to Salsa L.A. Style with Carl and Suzanne, owners of Casablanca Dance Studio. We will start with a dance lesson, then you will be ready to Rumba! Suzanne and Carl have taught social dance in the Denver Metro area for the past 26 years. Both started as instructors for the Fred Astaire Dance Studio and have continued their dance education from many accomplished instructors, learning different styles and techniques in the Ballroom, Swing, Latin, and Country dances. Bring your dancing shoes, singles encouraged!

LCC thanks the Huckleberry Restaurant for serving delicious free cookies. LCC also thanks Double D's Sourdough Pizza for serving samples of their "Gourmet . . . on the Double" pizza during the intermission.

 

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Silent Movie Night
Rodney Sauer & the Mont Alto Orchestra
Friday, November 14, 2008
7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:30 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$7.00 adults/$5 seniors and students

LCC is pleased to present one of our twice-yearly silent movie events - popular with ages 4 to 84! These special evenings feature Louisville's own, Rodney Sauer, who provides live piano accompaniment to the movie selections. The Fall event is particularly unique, in that Rodney is joined by the entire Mont Alto Orchestra - a five to seven piece chamber ensemble that recreates the small local orchestras that were popular in America from 1890 through 1930.

Our Movie Selections:

Doubling for Romeo, starring Will Rogers, 1921. This is a very rare film, starring Will Rogers as a cowboy who goes to Hollywood to learn how to "make love like Douglas Fairbanks" to please his girlfriend, but he gets a position doing stunt doubling. Returning to his home, he has a long dream after reading Romeo and Juliet, which parodies the play. Running time one hour.

An Easterner Westerner, starring Harold Lloyd, 1920. A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her. Running time twenty minutes.

LCC thanks Caffe Sanora for serving their premium Arabica coffee, with more antioxidants than most green teas! LCC thanks Double D's Sourdough Pizza for serving samples of their "Gourmet...On the Double" pizza during intermission. LCC also thanks Jeremy Carlson, with Carlson Design for designing the beautiful poster art for the event.

 

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Paint Louisville Contest
Empire Restaurant & Lounge Reception
Friday, November 7, 2008
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Empire Restaurant and Lounge
816 Main Street
Cash Bar

We are pleased to announce that the Empire Restaurant & Lounge will showcase 22 paintings that were recently submitted to the LCC-sponsored "Paint Louisville Contest." See this extraordinary collection of paintings, including the winning painting by Connie McGinley. People's choice winner Jane Whittlesey will also showcase her "I (Heart) Louisville" paintings. If you don't make it to the reception, the collection will be at the Empire Restaurant & Lounge through November. Whittlesey's work will be at the restaurant through December.

LCC thanks the Empire Restaurant and Lounge for its generous support of the arts. LCC also thanks Jane Whittlesey for designing the beautiful poster for this event.

 

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Coffeehouse Concert
The Cantrells
Friday, October 24, 2008
7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$12.00 adults/$6 seniors/youth under 15

National Public Radio favorite The Cantrells bring their their "hot picking and smooth harmonizing" to Louisville. Al & Emily Cantrell put a pop spin on acoustic folk and bluegrass, with detours into Celtic, western swing and Americana. Chosen by Robert Redford to appear playing fiddle tunes in his hit movie A River Runs Through It, The Cantrells cast a magical spell with Emily's soaring vocals and Al's spirited fiddling and dazzling mandolin.

LCC thanks Caffe Sanora for serving their premium Arabica coffee, with more antioxidants than most green teas! LCC also thanks Double D's Sourdough Pizza for serving samples of their "Gourmet . . . on the Double" pizza during the intermission.

 

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Music With Madelyn and Ernie
Saturday, October 11, 2008
10:30 - 11:15 AM (Doors open at 10:00 AM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$3 per person

Join the antics of Music With Madelyn and Ernie as they return to the Louisville Center for the Arts with their high-energy, interactive concert.  They will sing many of your old favorites, and some new songs that are guaranteed to stimulate your children’s active imaginations and bodies!  Puppets, shakers, and more – they don’t just bring us “live music”…. they bring us “alive music”!

LCC thanks Gary Guerriero and DesignTek for providing beautiful poster art for this series. (303.356.2555)

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Participatory Dancing:
Swing & Ballroom
Saturday, October 11, 2008
7:30 - 10:00 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$8 per person; $15 per couple

Lessons and dance with Casablanca Dance Studios! Swing Dancing and Ballroom are probably the most useful kinds of dancing to know for all those social occasions like weddings and holiday parties or your living room. Swing originated in the Harlem Speakeasies and we'll go on to teach the Foxtrot (named for the vaudevillian Harry Fox) and the Waltz. Lessons for one style then dancing for an hour followed by the lesson for the second style then dancing will keep you on your toes! Refreshments will be provided.

 

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Coffeehouse Concert
John William Davis
Friday, September 12, 2008
7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$12.00 adults/$6 seniors/youth under 15

John (William) Davis, thanks to well-placed bribes, extortion schemes, and shameless begging is a 2005 South Florida Folk Festival New Folk winner, a 2004 Kerrville New Folk winner, and winner of the 2002 Swallow Hill Songwriting Competition. He was also a finalist for the Wildflower Songwriting Competition in 2003, but generally stunk more than the bribes could offset that particular outing. His debut album, Dreams of the Lost Tribe, received much critical acclaim. It was one of only nine albums to earn a perfect '10' from Folkwax reviewers. One cut, 'Okefenokee', was runner-up for 'Best Roots Song of 2004' at the Just Plain Folks music awards ceremony in LA in October. Davis has been chosen as a judge for the 2005 Kerrville New Folk competition.

LAA thanks Caffe Sanora for serving their premium Arabica coffee, with more antioxidants than most green teas!

 

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Arts Reception
Honor Award-Winners Who Painted the Louisville Center for the Arts
Saturday, September 13, 2008
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
FREE

The Louisville Cultural Council and the Louisville Art Association are pleased to announce our collaboration on the selection of the piece of visual art that best represents our beloved and historic Louisville Center for the Arts. Please join us at a reception to honor the winner, honorable mentions, and to select a "people's choice" award.

LCC thanks Double D's Sourdough Pizza for serving complimentary gourmet pizza for this event.

 

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Summer Concert Series
June 12, 19, and 26, 2008
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Louisville Community Park
955 Bella Vista Drive
FREE

Mark Diamond, Tony Black and Jennifer Lane: Funk & Soul, & New Orleans Gumbo
June 12

Mark Diamond's hard-grooving acoustic bass sound was birthed in the New York area, where he learned to play many musical styles. Grammy award winner Tim O'Brien, Tim and Mollie O'Brien, Sally Taylor, (daughter of James and Carly), James Van Buren with Richie Cole, Keith Oxman, Mary Flower, and Mary Ann Moore.

Tony Black is a jazz drummer based in Denver where he performs regularly with his quartet, as well as fellow Denver musicians Freddie Rodriguez and Artie Moore. He has performed with many of the major figures in the music world and is regarded by his peers as a "musician's musician," constantly honing the traditions of the masters while creating his own approach.

With appearances in DownBeat Magazine, Blues Review, Living Blues Magazine, The FemaleMusician and Candence, among other acclaim, Jennifer Lane is the real deal. A true musician, with heavy piano playin' chops, and a voice that is very versatile and flexible, all of which compliments her intuitive writing, arranging and production abilities. She's on the brink of bringing her music to the national ear. Smart and sassy, sweet and soulful, this is no cookie cutter, manufactured, girl singer clone.

LCC thanks Casey Industrial of Broomfield for sponsoring the sound for this event. “To finish with success, start with Casey."

Todd Adelman and The Love Handles
June 19

Nederland-based singer-songwriter Todd Adelman brings his new band the “Love Handles” to Louisville for a night of unforgettable music. Marquee Magazine writes of his latest release "Todd Adelman’s  “Henry’s Diner“ is, simply put, brilliant. The Nederland, Colo.-based songwriter conjures up moments of Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons and seems to be the twin brother of the Portland-based band Richmond Fontaine with this release. Henry’s Diner is a collection of melancholy, semi-twangy story-telling that not only embraces but actually defines roots folk Americana in all of its glorious simplicity and simultaneous lyrical complexity. Adelman has hit the nail on the head here.”

Backed by the “Love Handles”, Todd performs  “from the gut” roots country/Americana music. With Bret Billings on steel guitar and dobro, Greg Schochet on telecaster and mandolin, Paul Smiddy on drums and Ray Smith on bass, the band lives somewhere between The Flying Burrito Brothers and Neil Young’s Stray Gators. 

Sugar Daddy
June 26

Sugar Daddy plays "World Class Rock" from the 60s to the present, with a particular emphasis on vocals with three part harmonies. The band consists of John Redfern on guitar, Jim Pollicita on bass, Merrie Perry on keyboard and vocals, Sam Barnhill on guitars and vocals, and Mike Padula on drums and vocals. Selections range from soft acoustic rock to Southern rock to heavy classic rock. These local favorites have a strong sense of community and we are pleased to welcome them back to close out the concert series.

LCC thanks Gary Guerriero and DesignTek for providing beautiful poster art for this series. (303.356.2555)

LCC thanks Double D's Sourdough Pizza and The Huckleberry for serving pizza and desserts. LCC also thanks Caffe Sanora for serving their premium Arabica coffee - with more antioxidants than most green teas.

 

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Children's Event
Puppet Theater
Saturday, June 7, 2008
10:30 - 11:15 AM
(Door opens at 10:00 AM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$3 per person

"Puppet Variations" is a lighthearted piece of theater that the whole family can enjoy. This variety show's appeal arises from the living puppets and mask characters brought to life by puppeteer Bob Aiken. Come see Bruiser the Ragdog and Shem & Sham come to life!

Bob Aiken's Cloud of Dust Theater and his cast of custom designed puppets and characters have been delighting audiences of all ages since 1971.

LCC thanks Wendy Fickbohm with State Farm Insurance (303.665.2206) for her generous sponsorship of this event and her support of youth and the arts in our community.

LCC thanks Gary Guerriero and DesignTek for providing fabulous poster art for the event (303.356.2555).

 

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Silent Movie Night
Friday, May 16, 2008
7:30 PM
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
Cost: $5 adults, $3 seniors/youth under 15

This magical evening will showcase Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, and other legendary comedians of the silent movie era with live musical accompaniment. Louisville resident Rodney Sauer of the nationally renowned Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra will perform live accompaniment on the piano. Adults and children alike will enjoy these four hilarious shorts:

• The Playhouse - A special effects tour de force in which Buster Keaton plays all of the roles in a vaudeville house. Later he runs into trouble when he falls in love with one of a pair of twins, but can't tell them apart.
• That's My Wife - Laurel has to pose as Hardy's wife to fool a rich relation.
• Bad Boy - Charley Chase has to decide whether to be a tough construction worker to please his dad or an artistic dancer to please his mother.
• It's a Gift - Snub Pollard is an inventor of many amazing things, including a magnetic car!

LCC thanks Jeremy Carlson, Carlson Design, for designing the beautiful poster art for this event.

LCC thanks realtor Stan Lanzano, Jr. of RE/MAX of Boulder (303.441.5617), for partial sponsorship of this event.

 

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Coffeehouse Concert
Southern Exposure
Friday, April 18, 2008
7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$5.00 seniors/youth under 15
$10.00 all others; cash or check at the door

With one hand in contemporary bluegrass and the other reeling out some traditional tunes, Southern Exposure can both draw on the past and bring you to the present with a wide array of music put into the bluegrass idiom. Add a little western swing and Cajun music and sprinkle in a good dose of comedy on stage and you will see why they have cut a trail to concert halls and festivals all over the Rocky Mt. Region.

They have appeared with many of their own favorite artists in concert including The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Emmylou Harris, The Charlie Daniels Band, Nanci Griffith, Alabama, and cowboy poet Baxter Black. Southern Exposure is: Hereford Percy-Banjo, Jerry Mills-Mandolin, Jerry Magnetti-Guitar, Gordon Burt-fiddle, and Ryland Percy-Bass. You won't want to miss this one!!

Caffe Sanora will generously provide complimentary coffee for this event - premium Arabica coffee, with more antioxidants than most green teas!

LCC thanks Yazmin Coveney with Zupa Design for providing the poster art for this event.

LCC thanks the Marketplace Bakery, 820 Main Street, for providing delicious cookies for this event.

 

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Young Writer's Festival
Saturday, April 19, 2008
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Louisville Public Library
951 Spruce Street
FREE

This popular event is for young writers and illustrators, aged 9-13. Preregistration is required due to the limited class size. Please visit or call the Youth Services desk at the Library at 303.335.4821 to register.

Students may pick one of the following classes from each time slot:

1:00 - 2:00 PM
Marj Hahne - Poetry
David Sullivan - Cartooning on the Web

2:00 - 3:00 PM
Tracy Stegall - Prose, Creative Writing Ideas
Lisa Kihn - Science Fiction: A Bridge Between Science and Art

Refreshments and sharing of student works at 3:00 PM.

LCC thanks Wendy Fickbohm with State Farm Insurance (303.665.2206) for her generous sponsorship of this event and her support of youth and the arts in our community.

The LCC thanks Gary Guerriero and DesignTek for providing the fabulous poster art for the event (303.356.2555).

 

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Louisville Poetry Slam
Saturday, April 12, 2008
7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:30 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$2.00

The Louisville Youth Advisory Board (YAB) and the Louisville Cultural Council (LCC) are cosponsoring a Poetry Slam for middle school students (6th, 7th, and 8th grades) who study in Louisville. That includes students at Louisville Middle School, Monarch Middle School, St. Louis Catholic School, home-schooled students, and Louisville residents studying at other schools such as Peak-to-Peak Academy, etc.

Adult guest poets to follow student participants including Julie Ascarrunz and poets from the Huckleberry Poet Group!

The YAB is a city-appointed board that is proud to serve as a link between the City Council and the youth of Louisville to identify issues pertaining to youth, communicate the concerns of youth, and suggest possible City Council action to be taken. Please come and support the hardworking members of YAB and other student participants at this wonderful event!

 

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Coffeehouse Concert
The Crabshack House Band and
Peace & Love & Jigs & Reels
Friday, March 14, 2008
7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$5.00 seniors/youth under 15; $10.00 all others; cash or check at the door

A St. Paddy's day celebration not to be missed!

The Crabshack House Band plays a wide variety of acoustic and vocal music with the diverse combination of guitar, accordion, mandolin, octave mandolin, violin, bass and percussion. With seven members, their repertoire spans traditional Celtic tunes, modern acoustic "Americana" songs, folk dances of old Europe, and arrangements of classics from the Baroque era.

Peace & Love & Jigs & Reels features Irish flute, guitar, bodhran and world percussion. The trio presents traditional and original Celtic jigs and reels in unique, tight arrangements, as well as ethereal ballads and slow airs. With a surprising touch of the exotic, the addition of African and Persian percussion instruments brings both fire and humor into their Celtic beat.

This will be a "musicians in the round" presentation with both bands onstage together, taking turns with their tunes and then mixing and matching and joining together for what we call a "Classic-Celtic-Cana" experience! See the beautiful poster art for this event.

Caffe Sanora will generously provide complimentary coffee for this event - premium Arabica coffee, with more antioxidants than most green teas!

 

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Dancing in the Streets:
Salsa and Swing
Saturday, March 15, 2008
7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$8.00/person; $15/couple

Did you know that both Salsa and Swing originated in the streets? Salsa in the streets of Argentina (we’re learning L.A. style) and Swing from the Harlem speakeasies.

Come dance with us – lessons then dancing! Lessons for one style then dancing for an hour followed by the lesson for the second style then dancing.

"On with the dance, let joy be unconfined' is my motto, whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfine." - -Mark Twain

 

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Astronomy Night
View the Total Eclipse of the Moon!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Louisville Community Park
FREE

On February 20th, the Earth's shadow will totally engulf the Moon from 8 PM to 8:52 PM MST. The Moon will appear quite reddish as its surface will be dimly lit only by a thin ring of light passing through the outer portion of the Earth's atmosphere. Circumstances for the eclipse will be ideal if the sky is clear. The Moon will be high up in the sky and the entire eclipse will be visible from start to finish. The eclipse begins when the pale outer fringe of the Earth's shadow touches the Moon's edge at 6:05 PM. The shading will be subtle and won't be very noticeable until the Moon reaches the Earth's inner shadow at 6:43 PM. From about 7:30 to 8 PM is perhaps when the lunar eclipse will be the most impressive. The curved dark edge of Earth's shadow will be seen creeping minute by minute across the lunar landscape. After totality ends at 8:52 PM, events unwind in reverse order; the Moon's edge reappears in sunlight and gradually returns to full at 10:45 PM.

Join a team from the Longmont Astronomical Society in viewing the lunar eclipse from 7 to 9 PM at Community Park, 955 Bella Vista Drive in Louisville or at the Sandstone Ranch, 2525 E Highway 119 in Longmont. Telescopes will be available for viewing the eclipse as well as the planet Saturn, the Orion nebula, and other objects as well. The Longmont Astronomical Society is a group of 75 amateur astronomers from Longmont, Louisville, Boulder, and other cities along the Front Range. The group provides volunteers and equipment for about a dozen school star parties in the region each year. They also support events at the Sommers-Bausch Observatory, the Fiske Planetarium, the Little Thompson Observatory, US Forest service star parties, and for the Longs Peak Boy Scout Council astronomy programs.

Visit the NASA Eclipse Home Page for more information on the February 20 eclipse.

LCC thanks Gary Guerriero and DesignTek for providing poster art for this event (303.356.2555). Louisville also thanks Vic's Coffee (801 Main Street) for providing coffee and the Huckleberry Restaurant (700 Main Street) for providing hot chocolate for the event.

Note: This event will be canceled in the event of overcast weather. If you can't see the moon, we will not be setting up telescopes for the evening.

 

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Coffeehouse Concert
Perpetual Motion
Friday, February 8, 2008
7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$5.00 seniors/youth under 15; $8.00 all others; cash or check at the door

Violinist Josie Quick and guitarist Tom Carleno formed the group Perpetual Motion in 1989. Perpetual Motion's energy is what drives this dynamic group. Their eclectic jazz sound is a style of their own creation. Always on the move, Perpetual Motion fluidly cycles from the blues through jazz to latin, world music and more. Their adept arrangements, great original pieces, and energetic stage presence are perfect for any event. You just have to hear it!

"While this act is primarily a jazz based band, they are not beyond applying their considerable skills to rock, blues, or anything else that strikes their fancy. This is jazz for those of us who aren't jazz snobs." --- RockonColorado.com.

Caffe Sanora will generously provide complimentary coffee for this event - premium Arabica coffee, with more antioxidants than most green teas!

 

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Children's Concert
Mr. Shine
Saturday, February 2, 2008
10:30 - 11:15 AM (Doors open at 10:00 AM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
FREE

The Feelin' Great in 2008 Jumpin' and Jammin' Musical Show.

Jump and jam along with lots of Mr. Shine original songs and some traditional favorites with a Mr. Shine twist too! Loads of excitement and interaction with non-stop musical fun and surprises! Dance with T-Rex, jump with the 5 Little Monkeys, swim with JJ the Shark and rock and roll with Roary the Lion in this action-packed show! Lots of music, movement, puppets and some magic, too!!!

 

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Tango and Waltz for Lovers
Saturday, February 2, 2008
7:30 -10:00 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$8 per person, $15 per couple

Join Carl and Suzanne of Cassablanca Dance Studio for this special lessons and dancing night.

Tango is a musical genre and its associated dance forms that originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay and spread to the rest of the world soon after that. This class will focus on the American tango which is easier to learn.

The waltz first became fashionable in Vienna around the 1780s, spreading to many other countries in the years to follow. The waltz, and especially its closed position, became the example for the creation of many other ballroom dances. Subsequently, new types of waltz have developed, including many folk and several ballroom dances. The English waltz will be taught in this class.

So put on your dancing shoes and learn these romantic dances in time for Valentine's Day.

 

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Student Showcase: Local Musicians
Saturday, December 29
7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00 PM)
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
$5

 

Treat yourself to a concert by two extraordinarily talented local muscial artists who grew up in our community. Years from now, you'll reminisce about how you got to see these talented artists in a little red brick schoolhouse in Louisville with a few dozen other people. Relax, sit back and let these fine musicians entertain you. Coffee and cookies provided.

Andrea Roberts discovered her love for music during high school after being introduced to the styles of blues, boogie-woogie, and eventually jazz. She is currently pursuing a degree in Jazz Studies with an emphasis on piano performance at the University of Washington in Seattle. She studies with pianist Marc Seales and has played in jazz combos under the direction of bassists Phil Sparks and Joe Santiago. As part of the Rubber Band, she played several times at Redfish in Boulder and at the Walnut Room in Denver. Andrea also played keyboards for a student production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and continues to become more involved in musical theater. Raised in Boulder, Andrea is happy to be home for the holidays and excited to share her talents as both a pianist and a vocalist.

Savanna Wright, a sophomore at Shining Mountain Waldorf School, has been playing the guitar and writing songs since she was eleven. She studies guitar with Andy Schiller and has taken voice lessons with various local musicians. Savanna performed the lead role in The Hot Mikado last spring at school where she is a member of both the acapella and choir groups. She has performed on the Pearl Street Mall, at weddings, and at the Folsom Cafe. She excelled last summer at American Idol Camp where she studied with nationally known instructors. Most recently, she sang the National Anthem at the National Western Stock Show Arena for Lucha Libre in Denver. As a member of the Barbizon/Apollo team, she is currently preparing for an international convention in Los Angeles, at which she will compete with approximately 2000 contestants showcasing her original music to over 400 talent scouts. 

 

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Coffeehouse Concert
Craig Corona
Singer/Songwriter
Friday, December 14
7:30 PM
Louisville Arts Center
801 Grant Avenue
$5

Craig Corona's early influences were in the direction of folk, bluegrass and country music as he watched live performances at his parent's small country bar. As a teenager, it was when Tom Russell and Andrew Hardin convinced him to get up and play a few tunes with them - that the bug bit hard.

Craig's first CD, Sawmill Town, features all original music with smooth vocals and harmonies that are reminiscent of James Taylor and Cat Stevens. He performs in the area as a singer/songwriter and also performs covers from the 60's, 70's and 80's in the country, rock and bluegrass genres. Craig also owns a recording studio and is an excellent sound engineer - if you've attended any other Louisville Coffeehouse Concerts - you'll recognize him as our very own.

 

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2007 Young Artists Exhibit
Opening reception: Friday November 16, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Show hours: Saturdays and Sundays 1:00 to 4:00 PM
The Louisville Arts Center,
801 Grant Avenue
Cost: Free!

• November 17, 18 and 24, 25
• December 2, 3 and 8, 9
• Friday December 7, 6:00 to 9:00 PM, during the Parade of Lights

Please join us for refreshments during the opening reception Friday November 16. View over 175 pieces of student artwork selected by Louisville art teachers. Live music will be provided by Monarch High School musicians. Additionally, artwork is available for viewing over several weekends in November and December.

 

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Children's Concert
The Jammy Man Band
Saturday, December 1
10:30 - 11:15 AM (doors open at 10:00 AM)
Free!
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Avenue

 

The Jammy Man Band a highly regarded accoustic duo that specializes in music for children, will offer rousing entertainment for children and families. The performance will include lots of fun sing-alongs and other participatory activities, while introducing children to a variety of instruments and musical styles.

" Lyrics and music to the events of everyday living with children ... rich dialogues between the guitar, dobro and the harmonica ... songs with a variety of interesting rhythms and vocal treatments." - Elisa Cohen, North Denver Tribune