Published March 19, 2010, 12:01 AM EST
by JON FERGUSON, Staff Writer
CONCERT REVIEWPat Monahan, lead singer for the rock band Train, unleashed an unstoppable combination of talent and charisma Thursday on the stage of American Music Theatre.From the moment the impossibly thin Monahan, dressed in black and with a mop of tousled black hair, strolled onto the stage, the...
New exhibit at Keystone features local artists, poets in collaboration
Published March 18, 2010, 5:46 PM EST
by Kathleen Daminger, Staff Writer
The word "preservation" is tossed about quite a bit in Lancaster County. After all, there's much to keep safe here: our farmland, our rich history, our natural areas, our way of life.This weekend, that word and its various interpretations will be expounded upon artistically during &quo...
American QuilterÂ’s Society to hold show at Convention Center; new exhibit opens at Quilt and Textile Museum
Published March 18, 2010, 5:41 PM EST
by Jane Holahan, Staff Writer
About 400 quilts, quilt merchandise and more than 15,000 quilt lovers will be arriving in Lancaster Wednesday through next Saturday for the American Quilter's Society Quilt Show & Contest, which may be the biggest quilt show Lancaster has ever seen.It's so big, the show has to be held in...
Published March 18, 2010, 5:36 PM EST
by Laura Knowles, Correspondent
Once the location of Latta Presbyterian Church in the gently rolling countryside near Christiana, the Freedom Chapel Dinner Theatre has been reborn. Quite literally.With the Easter season and springtime just a week away, the theme of rebirth could hardly be more appropriate. That was the inspiration...
Published March 18, 2010, 5:30 PM EST
by JANE HOLAHAN, Staff Writer
Sometimes, language is a barrier.QuestFest, an international festival that's held in Washington, D.C. every two years, uses other forms of communication to speak to the world, including movement, dance and digital media.On Saturday, a group that recently performed at the festival will be coming ...
Published March 18, 2010, 5:28 PM EST
by JON FERGUSON, Staff Writer
Everything changed for George Thorogood in 1964.That's the year the Philadelphia Phillies, up 6 and a half games with a dozen to play, coughed up the National League pennant by losing 10 in a row.Thorogood, who rooted for the Phillies while growing up in Delaware, turned his back on Philade...
Duo returns to Bube's to film DVD
Published March 18, 2010, 5:26 PM EST
by JON FERGUSON, Staff Writer
The Gypsy Nomads, a difficult-to-classify musical duo from New York, first played at Bube's Brewery in Mount Joy last year.The musicians, who sing in both French and English and whose style includes elements of cabaret, Celtic, vaudeville, medieval-flavored folk and punk, were immediately taken ...
Published March 18, 2010, 5:23 PM EST
by JANE HOLAHAN, Staff Writer
"What is this need to have everyone looking at you? It's a weird thing. Why do people perform? Why do they have that need for mass approval? It's a particular sickness. Where did that come from?"Susie Mosher has been asking those questions for a long time.Some clues to the answers ...
Country star to perform at American Music Theatre
Published March 18, 2010, 5:21 PM EST
by JANE HOLAHAN, Staff Writer
As far as Randy Travis is concerned, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Lefty Frizzell and Hank Williams Sr., "define what country music is and how it should sound."Travis, who's coming to the American Music Theatre Thursday, would never include himself in that lineup.He may have charted mor...
2 events planned to raise funds for earthquake victims
Published March 18, 2010, 5:17 PM EST
by KATHLEEN DAMINGER, Staff Writer
Rebecca Achenbach remembers seeing CNN footage of Haitian children amid the rubble left by the devastating earthquake that hit the country in January.They were singing."I remember the commentators saying that there was such joy in the midst of all this trouble," she says.When she turned of...
