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SIUSLAW NEWS | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2020 | 7A Warm up with Winter Music Festival this weekend P lan now to warm up your win- ter with some hot bluegrass, heartwarming new and traditional folk, and foot-stompin’ Americana. Nine high-caliber groups will heat up the Florence Events Center on Jan. 24, 25, and 26, 2020, during the 18th annual Florence Winter Music Festival. Each day features exhibits and demonstrations by re- gional artisans, jam sessions, food, and drink. A complete festival overview, with artist profiles and ticket prices, is available at Winter- MusicFestival.org. Sea Lion Caves is this year’s Presenting Sponsor. The 2020 festival headliner is Livingston Taylor, who deftly blends a range of musical genres — folk, pop, gospel, jazz — fusing it with upbeat storytelling and hit songs he’s written for his brother James. New this year will be workshops by select musicians on songwriting, guitar skills and jamming. There will be separate admission for non-concertgoers. Free, dedicated, on-site jamming space is available beginning at noon on Friday and 1 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. “We’re expecting big things for MARCH from page 1A To begin the march, short speeches were given by a number of speakers, starting with Nora Kent, a leader of this year’s festival as we have continued to improve on the quality of our line- up,” said Kirk Mlinek of the Friends of the Florence Events Center, producers of the event. “We have a Grammy winner, IBMA winner, Portland’s performer-songwriter of the year, and a headliner some call James Taylor’s more talented brother.” The weekend starts on Bluegrass Friday with Canadian mandolin master John Reischman and the Jaybirds at 7 p.m. and Kathy Kallick Band at 8:30 p.m. Kallick, a Gram- my and IBMA award winner, was described as “jaw-dropping awe- some” by the Delaware Valley Blue- grass Festival. Friday’s shows are sponsored by The Old Town Inn in Florence. Saturday is Americana Day, be- ginning with the Pete Wernick Jam Method workshop at 9 a.m. led by Annie Savage of The Greg Blake Band. Jim Hurst’s guitar workshop begins at 10:30 a.m. Saturday afternoon’s perfor- mances start with the soulful pas- FOR and instructor at Lane Community College. Kent, an outspoken advocate for social justice issues, focused on topics related to women and children, encouraging +DVLWEHHQ\HDUVRUPRUHVLQFH\RXU WDQNZDVSXPSHG"7KHQLW¶VWLPH &DOOXVWRWRGD\WRVFKHGXOHDQDSSRLQWPHQW &KHFN6DWXUGD\¶VSDSHUIRUDFRXSRQJRRGRQ\RXUQH[WVHUYLFH /RZHVW3ULFHV*XDUDQWHHG²:HZLOOPDWFKDQ\FRPSHWLWRUVSULFH sion of blues and rock melded with the honesty of folk as presented by Mr & Mrs Something at 1 p.m., the deft finger work and smooth vocals of Nashville’s sought-after guitarist Jim Hurst at 2:15, and the multi- award-winning country/folk/blue- grass music of the Greg Blake Band at 3:45. Saturday afternoon’s shows are sponsored by The Waterfront Depot restaurant in Florence. Saturday evening’s session starts at 7 p.m. with Circus No. 9, a hot band that represents everything that’s good about the new genera- tion of acoustic music, blurring the lines between bluegrass, jazz, and rock. Headliner Livingston Taylor takes the stage at 8:30. Saturday night’s shows are sponsored by The River House Inn in Florence. Circus No. 9 will also perform a free community concert at Ore- gon Pacific Bank, 1355 Highway marchers about the import- ant nature of the work being done by FOR and other so- cial advocacy groups. There are currently FOR teams working on direct action and informational strategies regarding the environment, education, healthcare and human rights. In an email to Siuslaw News, Kent said, “We are proud of the FOR turnout for fourth annual Women’s March. Apparently, Eugene had an informal gathering of about 60 marchers com- pared to our 100-plus wom- en and supportive men. Our inspirational speakers fired us up to march with high spirits to brave the wet coastal weather. Over 50 folks stayed after the March, 101, on Friday, Jan. 24, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday fea- tures True North Duo’s songwriting workshop at 10:30 a.m. At 1 p.m. the wildly creative Tyler Stenson, twice-named Portland’s perform- er-songwriter of the year, brings his “elegant folk” music, as heard on SiriusXM’s Coffee House Ra- dio, to the stage. At 2:30 p.m., fes- tival favorite True North’s Kristen Grainger and Dan Wetzel, per- forming as a duo, deliver their trademark powerhouse of intelli- gent, memorable songs and lush instrumentals and vocals, to wrap up the weekend. In harmony with the music is the free Florence Regional Arts Alliance Winter Arts Festival. The group has assembled renowned local and regional artists and craftspeople to fill more than 20 booths with two- and three-di- mensional art in a wide variety of media, personal care items, edibles and adult potables. In addition to selling their works, select artists crowding into the Method- ist Church fellowship hall for lunch and information from our FOR teams, and other community orga- nizations. Our League of Women’s Voters representa- tive, Shirley Nelson, shared women’s suffrage history with the marchers.” Florence City Councilor Ron Preisler was the only council member to speak at the Women Rising event. His thoughts on the impor- tance of the gathering spoke to his concern for the future and the important role that women should have in de- termining that future. “Any optimism we are currently feeling, in my opinion, is that if we can get the women out to vote in full We’ve got you Shorewood Senior Living Is about comfort, independence, laughter, good food, health and friendship. COVERED Serving Florence since 1990 business • homeowners • auto • life • health • medicare plans A SK US ABOUT M ULTIPLE P OLICY D ISCOUNTS ! 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The events center’s doors open one hour before show time, and theater doors 30 minutes later. The festival is produced by the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Friends of the FEC. force, if we can get men who are allies of women out to vote as well, if we can get all generations eligible to vote to register and be willing to show up and exercise their hard-won rights to vote, then there is great hope that we can turn the tide and re- sume our evolution as an in- clusive, just and egalitarian society,” Preisler said. Preisler has supported the Women’s March in Florence since it began four years ago. “Women’s rights are an exceptionally important issue for me; I have a wife and two mature daughter who are strong and smart- er than most. The fight against inequality is not just a women’s issue; it denies the right of equality for all of us,” Preisler said. “The recent upsurge by women in politics is a good example of the work they have done to achieve a greater voice. Women are good commu- nicators, they have excellent listening skills, know how to multi-task, how to prob- lem-solve, and are not afraid to work to get their goals ac- complished.” Preisler spoke of the dif- ferences in the way men and women work, and specifi- cally the more collaborative manner in which women approach solving issues. “We have had — and con- WINTER Come in for a tour and lunch so we can put your name on our “Wai ng List”. Apartments up to 950 sq. . with 2 bedrooms/2 bathrooms and full kitchen. As small as 400 sq. . with a private bath and kitchene e. 7 diff erent fl oor plans to choose from. 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It is time to try an approach that gives women the voice they deserve.” Sally Wantz, a leading member of FOR who is pre- paring to run for Florence City Council in the 2020 election, also spoke to the gathered marchers. “I got involved in the in- augural Women’s March four years ago and was im- pressed by the outpouring of support from our com- munity,” Wantz said. “When asked if I would speak this year, I jumped at the op- portunity to share my belief that it’s time for women to ‘rise up’ and get involved in whatever community en- deavor will fill their souls. It took 72 years of contin- ued commitment to pass the 19th amendment, and we need to keep marching so every human being is not taken for granted.” A fourth speaker was a new addition to the Flor- ence community, the Rev. Karin Basinger of the Meth- odist Church. “There was a mood in the air of celebration of the tre- mendous gains that women have made since the suffrag- ettes won women’s voting rights 100 years ago, after an arduous struggle that lasted for many decades,” Basinger said afterwards. “The wom- en present at the Women Rising March, as well as the large number of men there as allies and support for them, rejoiced that after that long struggle, women were granted equality with men 100 years ago as having the rights to full citizenship by winning access to the voting booth.” During the discussions, she talked about being an environmentalist and has jumped into many of the issues surrounding the cli- mate change debate with fervor. Like other attendees, she also expressed opinions about the current state of politics in the U.S. “We are under no illu- sions that the recent politi- cal climate that has not been female-friendly — and in fact, has proven female-hos- tile — is going away any- time soon,” Basinger said. “Even if we gain ground in the 2020 election, there has been a backlash, an under- belly of misogyny and sex- ism that has surfaced and revealed its ugly face.”
