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Maggie & the Katz headline student art benefi t
A day of music,
celebration
By KATHERINE LACAZE
For Cannon Beach Gazette
Going fi ve-years strong,
the annual Tillamook Head
Gathering continues pro-
moting a mission of fi nan-
cially supporting the arts at
Seaside High School while
offering a festive, family
friendly night fi lled with live
entertainment, a silent auc-
tion and appetizing food.
The headliner at this
year’s fundraiser, scheduled
for 6:30 p.m. Jan. 19 at the
Seaside Civic and Conven-
tion Center, is Maggie and
the Katz. High school stu-
dents will play music as
guests are arriving, and then
locally acclaimed musician
Maggie Kitson and her band
will take the stage at 7.
“They’ve been playing
together a long time and
it shows — they’re really
tight,” said Mark Mizell, a
former Seaside High School
teacher and founder of the
gathering.
Throughout the evening,
guests can place silent auc-
tion bids for items donated by
local artists and businesses, or
receive a mini-swing dance
lesson from Seaside High
School teacher Vinh Pham.
Additionally, The Stand will
serve light fare.
Picasa/Seaside Signal
Popular North Coast band Maggie and the Katz is headlining the fi fth annual Tillamook Head
Gathering, to start at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center.
Funds from the event go to support the arts at Seaside High School.
Funding the arts
Proceeds raised at the
annual event help cover
the cost for various arts-re-
lated workshops, fi eld trips,
activities, and other tangi-
ble items. Last years, some
funds were used to help
offset the cost for approx-
imately 15 students to
go to the National Cow-
boy Poetry Gathering in
Elko, Nevada, and attend
a private session with
award-winning
cowboy
poet Paul Zarzyski.
“It was a wonderful
experience,” said Mizell,
who has taken several
groups of students to the
festival over the years. “We
created some lifetime mem-
ories on that trip,”
Funds also were used
to bring the Dave Ben-
nett Quartet, a nation-
ally acclaimed band from
Detroit, to play at a high
school assembly, and for
professional singer-song-
writers to lead workshops.
This year, some Tilla-
mook Head Gathering funds
are designated to purchase
acoustic guitars, as per the
request of choir teacher
Kimber Parker, who is
instructing an acoustic gui-
tar class and wants students
to be able to participate even
without owning personal
instruments. Funds also will
help cover costs for teacher
Susan Baertlein to take stu-
dents to the Oregon Shake-
speare Festival in Ashland to
attend workshops and plays.
“It’s wonderful Seaside
High School is creating
funding for the arts rather
than eliminating them as so
many schools are doing,”
said Kitson, whose daughter
Bridget graduated from Sea-
side. “We are honored to be
asked to be a part of it.”
About the performers
Kitson herself was the
daughter of avid performing
artists and she grew up in
the theater. She was named
after Maggie the Cat, from
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” by
Tennessee Williams, whose
brother was her godfather.
“That
connection
prompted me to act in most
of (Williams’) plays and
procure the performing
‘bug,’” she said.
In 1979, she segued into
music, seeing it as a tena-
ble way to make a living.
Through the years, how-
ever, music has become “the
essence” of her life, and she
doesn’t consider performing
a routine job she’s obligated
to do.
“It’s my vocation, my
heart and soul,” she said.
She sings and plays light
percussion with Maggie and
the Katz, whose core mem-
bers include Richard Thom-
asian — a virtuoso guitar
player and vocalist — and
Dave Quinton — “a great
steady bass player who keeps
us in line and has a velvety
voice,” Kitson described.
For large venues, the group
sometimes adds a nine-piece
horn section, and other musi-
cians occasionally sit in for
select performances.
Kitson, Thomasian and
Quinton’s music covers a
broad range of genres, but
they tend toward blues,
soul, R&B and “anything
New Orleans,” Kitson said.
They emphasize three-part
vocal harmonies, as Kitson
loves “the fullness of sound,
vibration and soul they
deliver.” The group typi-
cally plays small venues,
involving the audience and
creating a temporal yet poi-
gnant connection with them.
“For me, that connection
and shared emotion is what
it’s all about,” Kitson said.
Mizell also grew up
with the arts in his life. His
mother, who sang in the
Roseburg Concert Cho-
rale for about 50 years, fre-
quently took the family to
concerts and other produc-
tions at Umpqua Commu-
nity College and elsewhere
in the area.
“At the time, I kind of
thought that was par for the
course, that’s just what peo-
ple did,” Mizell said. “As I
got older, I realized it really
provided some rich experi-
ences for our family.”
With the Tillamook Head
Gathering, the goal is rais-
ing funds to give Seaside
students a similar expo-
sure to the arts, which are
important for numerous rea-
sons, Mizell said, adding,
“Being able to watch quality
performers, it makes your
world bigger and makes life
more joyful.”
Tickets for the gather-
ing cost $10 in advance and
$15 at the door. They can be
purchased at Seaside Cof-
fee House, Beach Books,
Seaside High School, and
the Cannon Beach Book
Company.
Student spearheads ‘bottle tagging’ campaign
Cannon Beach Gazette
City of Seaside/Seaside Signal
Peyton Sims leads an eff ort to “tag bottles” to fi ght underage
drinking in Seaside and Gearhart.
In cooperation with the
Seaside Police Department,
Peyton Sims, a sophomore
at Seaside High School, will
be placing up to 1,000 “bot-
tle tags” on alcoholic bever-
ages for sale at participating
businesses throughout Sea-
side and Gearhart over the
next two weeks.
The bright green bot-
tle tags are used to remind
adults not to purchase alco-
hol for minors and inform
them that furnishing alco-
hol to minors is illegal and
has a fi ne of $500 for fi rst
offense. Purchasing alcohol
for minors also contributes
to unhealthy and destruc-
tive behavior in the youth
community.
Seaside Police Chief
Dave Ham was approached
by Sims recently to partner
on the bottle tagging event
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