Rent Parties
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Baby it’s cold outside
Donovan Charles Rice & Samantha Servais accompanied by Caroline Heading Friday, Dec 12, 7pm @ the Pomerene Center for the Arts Suggested donation $10 Reserve a table | 740.622.0326 or pomerenearts@gmail.com Donovan Charles Rice and Samantha Servais come together to sing a variety of timeless Christmas classics and love songs at the Pomerene Center`s December Rent Party. Pianist Caroline Heading will accompany them on the grand piano. Please join us for this night that harkens back to a glamorous golden past and some of the most beloved music of all time. The ambiance of a grand historic home combined with the classics of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, George Gershwin and the like will…
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PETE SKJOLD & FRIENDS, first time out of the stable
Pete Skjold on bass, Ed Zinkon on guitar and Erinn Simmons on drums Friday, April 4, 7pm @ the Pomerene Center for the Arts Suggested donation $10 Reserve a table | 740.622.0326 or pomerenearts@gmail.com JOIN Pete Skjold, Ed Zinkon and Erinn Simmons April 4, 7-9pm. Music arranged for the indoor acoustic space of the Pomerene Center. Nice mixture of blues, jazz and some rock. Expect amazing. Reserve your table, bring your own beverage and help keep the lights on. WHAT IS A RENT PARTY? At the time of the Great Migration north (1910-1930), blacks emigrating from the south settled the problem of Harlem’s inflated rents by throwing parties. Furniture was moved to the outside walls, musicians…
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Wayfarers Perform New “Old Music” + some of their old favorites
THE WAYFARERS Friday, March. 7, 7pm @ the Pomerene Center for the Arts Suggested donation $10 Reserve a table | 740.622.0326 or pomerenearts@gmail.com We had a request for Irish music for the March Rent Party–obviously made in honor of St Patty’s Day–and thought of THE WAYFARERS. Admittedly we made the mistake of over-emphasizing the effect of Irish Traditional Music on American Mountain Music which like so much of what is truly American is a total mashup, in this case of Anglo – African – German – Scotch-Irish and maybe a little Irish music.  (Read about the Scotch-Irish  here.) Though not Irish, the high energy mountain music as interpreted by the Wayfarer’s will draw a…
