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Dalton State
College will offer evenings of music, theater, and literature
during the three Fine Arts and Lecture Series events planned for
this fall, beginning in September.
Events scheduled include an outdoor concert featuring the jazz
band “Grogus” on September 24, a traveling theater production of
“The Magic Lantern Show” on October 20, and a lecture by author
Pamela Duncan on November 11.
All events will take place at 7:30 p.m. and are free and open to
the public.
“We expect that these musical and dramatic acts and our fall
lecture will appeal to varied audiences this fall,” says Jane
Taylor, Director of Public Relations for Dalton State.
“We’re especially excited about opening this season with a
concert by Grogus because this will, weather permitting, be our
first outdoor concert at the College since the bell tower and
quadrangle were completed last year.”
If the weather cooperates, Taylor says, concert goers can sit in
chairs on lawn of the quadrangle facing the stage below the bell
tower to hear Latin jazz, Salsa, and African-Caribbean jazz
performed by a popular Athens, Georgia, based band. Some
attendees may prefer to bring picnic blankets and sit upon the
lawn, she adds, noting that if it rains the concert will be held
in Goodroe Auditorium of Memorial Hall.
The other two events will take place in Goodroe Auditorium. The
Magic Lantern Show uses antique equipment, content, music, and
the dramatic style of the 1890s to recreate Victorian
magic-lantern shows. Each show combines popular Victorian
stories, songs, and animated comedy, all illustrated with
magic-lantern slides that change on the screen about every 30
seconds.
Pamela Duncan is the author of “Moon Women,” “Plant Life,” and
“The Big Beautiful.” She is a native of North Carolina who
teaches creative writing at Western Carolina University. Her
first novel, “Moon Women,” was a Southeastern Booksellers
Association award finalist, and her second novel, “Plant Life,”
won the 2003 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction.
Although no reservations are required for these events, seating
is limited, so those interested in attending are encouraged to
arrive early. For more information, please call 272-4469.
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