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6A | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2018 | SIUSLAW NEWS FloTones to host show highlighting how ‘Music Matters’ The arts really do matter. The Children’s Repertory of Ore- gon Workshops (CROW) has been very successful in convey- ing this message to the Florence community. FloTones producer Lori Janowski takes the spirit of CROW and concentrates on one of the arts for “Music Matters,” which will be presented at the Florence Events Center (FEC) on Saturday, May 26 and Sunday, May 27. Lori and Ken Janowski are both long-time members of the FloTones. As the parents of five former “band kids”, they have seen firsthand how school music involvement has affected their family. One son, an industrial designer, was president and COO of RKS Guitars in California and is cur- rently Director of Operations for a San Francisco guitar company. Another son, an information technologist by day spends his evenings and weekends per- forming with a rockabilly band throughout Southern California, with recent side gigs in Arizona and Las Vegas. A daughter sings with the professional group Bergerette, a women’s trio specializing in Re- naissance French vocal music and she has directed the Port- land-based Flash Choir who have appeared with Pink Martini and The Portland Cello Project among others. Even the son who is a manager with a medical technology com- were in school, parents volun- teered, and most band activities didn’t cost much, if anything. The music programs were well fund- ed, and the students graduated with rewarding musical experi- ences. But now, as Cole Porter ex- plained in one of his classic songs, times have changed. Shoestring budgets are the norm. Teach- ers struggle to make ends meet. Those musical days of yesteryear are gone, galloping off into the sunset. For this reason, the FloTones have put together “Music Matters” to bring musical entertainment to our community and to raise funds to be donated to the Siuslaw Schools music programs. PHOTO BY FIRST LAST/SIUSLAW NEWS The first part of the program The FloTones get ready for “Music Matters”. Members are (front, from left): Lori Janowski, David will include Florence’s popular Mills, Elizabeth Kennedy and Jeanni Sanders; Middle, Ken Janowski, Carol Foster, John Culp, Jan jazz vocal ensemble singing such Kinslow; (back, from left): Rhianna Haines (pianist) and Kate McBroom-Redwine favorites as “Begin the Beguine,” pany is still benefiting from the “losing battle” and joining a trav- travel for bands. long-term effect of how music el company that arranges group Back when the Janowski kids matters since he met his then fu- ture wife in the trombone section of his high school band. 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