STAGE
CENTER
MARCH 2018
FLORENCE 2018 HOME & GARDEN SHOW
A Breath of Spring and Fresh Ideas
T hirty-eight vendors will pack the Florence Events Center this weekend
off ering new ideas, products and services during the 2018 Florence Home &
Garden Show on March 2, 3 & 4.
“We’re packed inside. Every bit of space inside the facility is taken up
with new vendors and returning favorites,” according to show director, Jon
Th ompson.
Show hours are from 2 to 6 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday
and 11 to 3 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $2 for adults and $1 for children
12 and under. Half price coupons are available at Bi-Mart, while they last.
Admission is free between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Saturday.
Th ompson said there is always a mix of popular returning vendors along
with new ones. Th is year’s complete vendor line-up includes:
Automatic Heat Service & Installation
Beach House Gift s
Berkshire Hathaway Home Services
Better Build Barns
C James Nursery
Cedar Works Spas
Celia’s Gourmet Foods
Central Lincoln PUD
Coast Pavement Maintenance
Cutco Cutlery
DS Johnson Enterprises
Word of Mouth Home Décor
Eco Best Gutter Shutter NW
Gray Day Home Heat
Kimo’s Dips
Home & Garden continued on page 3
Orchestra at the Ocean
Adam Flatt conducts
Newport Symphony
S eacoast Entertainment Association will be
presenting the Newport Symphony Orchestra
at the Florence Events Center. Friday, March 23,
2018 at 7:30 pm with a pre-concert talk at 7:00
pm in the theater as part of its ongoing Coastal
Concert Series.
Th e Symphony proudly bills itself as the “Or-
chestra at the Ocean”, being the only year round
professional symphony orchestra on the Oregon
Coast.
Th e evening will be led by Adam Flatt, NSO’s
music director since 2007. Adam fi rst led the
NSO as a guest in 1998, and aft er a subsequent
appearance in 2006 was invited to assume the
leadership of the Orchestra aft er a search pro-
cess that involved over 150 candidates.
Adam enjoys a very busy career that refl ects
his versatility and demand. In addition to his
familiar presence in the Newport community,
Adam devotes time to Tuscaloosa, Alabama
where he has been Music Director of the Tusca-
loosa Symphony since 2011, and his base in
Denver where he holds the same position with
the Colorado Ballet and the Rocky Mountain
West’s premier community orchestra, the Den-
ver Philharmonic.
As time allows, Adam is also a guest conductor
for orchestras across the United States. Adam
brings not only musicianship but a tireless artis-
tic advocacy everywhere he works.
As part of the evening, Adam will introduce
an exciting emerging artist, the clarinetist Narek
Arutyunian to the Florence stage, showcasing
Hyden’s Symphony No. 26 “Lamentatione,” Wag-
ner’s “Good Friday Spell” from Parsifal, Mo-
zart’s Clarinet Concerto K.622 and Franz Liszt’s
Symphonic Poem No. 3 Les Preludes.
Th e Newport Symphony Orchestra, which
began in 1988, is nationally recognized for high
caliber musicianship, and enhancing the quality
of life in Oregon’s coastal communities with in-
spiring performances and engaging educational
activities.
Tickets are on sale now at the FEC Box Offi ce
or the Seacoast Entertainment Website www.
seacoastea.org at $32 for adults or just $10 for
students under 18.
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