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Light Up a Life
Siuslaw High School Band and Choir Concert
P eace Health Peace Harbor Hospice will hold
U nder the musical direction of Chris Rowbotham, the
their annual Light Up a Life Ceremony on Sat-
urday, December 9th at 2:00 p.m.
Th e event will include an opening prayer,
introduction of the Peace Harbor Hospice team,
a ceremonial reading of the names of those who
have passed and music performed by Strings of
Compassion.
Th e ceremony will conclude with the lighting
of the holiday tree and the menorah.
Th ere is no cost to attend and refreshments
will be served aft er the ceremony.
Family and friends are invited to share in re-
membrance and compassion for those who have
passed. Stars can be purchased in memory of a
loved one and will be hung on either the holiday
tree or placed on the Menorah table.
Light Up a Life is the only fundraiser held by
PeaceHealth Peace Harbor Hospice. To learn
more about Light Up a Life and Peace Harbor
Hospice, contact Kathy Murphy at 541-997-
3418.
Siuslaw High School Jazz and Symphonic Bands will
present their annual holiday card to the Florence com-
munity.
On Monday, December 11th at 7:00 p.m. the Siuslaw
High concert and chamber choirs will join the high
school band for a holiday presentation. Th e public is
invited to this free concert.
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T ickets will go on sale for Florence Food Share’s 7th annu-
BALLET - THE NUTCRACKER
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W hether it’s a long standing holiday
tradition for your family or your fi rst
Nutcracker, Eugene Ballet’s “Nutcrack-
er” will be dancing across the Florence
Events Center stage Tuesday, Decem-
ber 19, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.
Th ere’s a joyful magic at every
performance as hundreds of aspiring
young dancers join the Company on
stage, while the Sugar Plum Fairy
transports all to the Snow Kingdom
and the Land of the Sweets.
You’ll cheer and boo at the battle
with the not-so-scary Mouse King and
his Pirate Henchmice, as Clara and
Th e Nutcracker win the day.
Celebrate your holiday season with a
marvelous journey to Eugene Ballet’s
Th e Nutcracker.
al Crab Crack fundraiser aft er December 1st.
Happening at the Florence Events Center on Saturday,
February 3rd from 4 to 7pm, enjoy Oregon Coast crab
along with pasta, coleslaw, garlic bread, sodas, coff ee and
dessert by BJ’s.
A no-host bar will be available. Th ere will also be a silent
auction held during the event that will include a beautiful
selection of items.
Ticket price is $40 per person. Advance purchase is
required. Only 400 tickets will be sold and the deadline to
purchase is January 25th.
All proceeds will benefi t the hunger relief eff orts of Flor-
ence Food Share (www.fl orencefoodshare.org), an emer-
gency and supplemental food pantry serving individuals
and households in West Lane County.
For more information, to arrange group seating or to
purchase tickets contact Norma Barton, at 541-997-9110 or
nbarton@fl orencefoodshare.org.
Tickets also are available (aft er December 1st) Monday to
Friday, 10am to 1pm at Florence Food Share, 2190 Spruce
St., 541-997-9110.
Call or stop by the FEC box offi ce for holiday ballet tickets
or jump on-line at www.eventcenter.org.
OREGON
BRASS
SOCIETY
BALLET FANTASTIQUE
AN AMERICAN CHRISTMAS CAROL
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T he Oregon Brass Society returns to
the Florence Events Center. Come en-
joy an evening of seasonal brass music
on Monday, December 18 at 7 pm.
All are welcome to attend. A small
donation at the door is suggested.
Come enjoy the warm sounds
that only a brass band can bring to
Christmas. Th e Oregon Brass Society
is under the direction of Dr. Chris
Chapman, director of bands at Ore-
gon State University, and is Oregon's
only British-style Brass band.
Th e group’s traditional instrumen-
tation diff ers from U.S. brass groups,
and produces a distinctively dark
English sound. Since their founding
in 2003, the all-volunteer group has
performed throughout the western
Oregon.
Th e ensemble has performed in
recent collaborations with Th e Cana-
dian Brass as part of the Oregon Bach
Festival and is a regular performer at
the Washburne Park Summer Concert
series.
Come experience some olde tyme
heavy metal to start out the week
before Christmas.
B allet Fantastique’s sparkling holi-
day tradition, “An American Christ-
mas Carol,” returns to the Florence
Events Center for the fi rst time
since 2014.
Donna and Hannah Bontrager
have re-imagined Charles Dickens’
beloved story in iconic post-WWII
America with their original cho-
reography set to original arrange-
ments of holiday standards by
Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and
Nat King Cole.
Actor Adam Goldthwaite joins the
company as “Smokey Joe” Marley.
Ballet Fantastique’s fl agship Amer-
ican Christmas Carol is for the
young and young at heart, and it
promises to charm even the stoniest
of humbug hearts,. “If you imagine
what a ballet-Broadway version of
a Christmas Carol is, that’s sort of
how I would describe this project,”
says Ballet Fantastique Co-Chore-
ographer-Producer Hannah Bon-
trager.
“We look at how to best tell the
story and make it fun for modern
audiences. We immerse ourselves in
the aesthetic and music of the era,
we choose songs that tell the story—
even tweaking lyrics if needed. We
also re-imagine the perspective from
which we tell the story.”
In this case, Ballet Fantastique’s
unique new narrative perspective is a
40’s Brooklyn gangster, “Smokey Joe”
Marley, a period-inspired re-imagin-
ing of the character of Jacob Marley
(Scrooge’s long-dead slimy business
partner) in Dickens’s original. Th e
Bontragers and their creative team
(including Ballet Fantastique staff
Librettist/Historian Genevieve Speer)
birthed Joe out of the 1939 Cab
Calloway song “Th e Ghost of Smokey
Joe.”
“Th is gravelly song about a really
bad guy became our inspiration for
a comedic character that drives the
drama. And artistically, Smokey Joe’s
voice also lends our ballet a bit of grit
and humor.” Guest actor-singer Adam
Goldthwaite plays Smokey Joe.
Th e score for An American Christ-
mas Carol is 17 iconic standards
songs that explore two related mu-
sical traditions—big band jazz and
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the popular tunes of Tin Pan Alley,”
says Donna.
Donna and Ballet Fantastique’s cre-
ative team worked to include the Ella
Fitzgerald classic “Undecided” for the
scene when fi ancee Marilyn breaks off
her engagement with the ever-greed-
ier young Ebenezer. Traditionals in-
cluding “Winter Wonderland,” “Baby
It’s Cold Outside,” “Let it Snow,” and
“I’ll Be Home For Christmas” also set
the stage for the ballet’s choreography.
“An American Christmas Carol”
takes the stage on December 9th at
7:00 p.m. at the Florence Events Cen-
ter. Tickets are now available from the
box offi ce or on-line.
Additional performances will be
held in Bandon and Eugene. More
information on Ballet Fantastique can
be found on their website at www.
balletfantastique.org.
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