Extra! People 7/14/11

Scenic 6 Fiddle show set Aug. 6 at Potlatch

The 18th annual Scenic 6 Fiddle Show will be for Saturday, Aug. 6, at Potlatch High School. The show features regional fiddling and related folk music. The donation requested at the door is $5 for adults. Fiddlers and others wishing to participate can sign up from 5 to 6 p.m.

Potlatch Arts Council produces the show with the support of area sponsors and volunteers.

Each participant in the fiddle show will perform two tunes of their choice. Musicians in past editions of the show have performed on banjos, mandolins, guitars, harmonicas, dobros and accordions. Vocalists have also been welcome.

Potlatch Junior Jammers will open the show. The youth group includes string players under age 18 led by Mabel Vogt of Potlatch, an Idaho and Northwest Regional champion fiddler who has taught fiddle and directed the Jammers for 30 years.

Potlatch Presbyterian Lutheran Community Youth Group will be raising funds for their activities through their food and beverage sales from 5 p.m. through intermission.

“The fiddle show features music that is part of a living folk tradition practiced in this area,” said Vogt. “It’s a unique opportunity to hear an oldtime style of music that isn’t often heard in the commercial media.”

Emcee for the evening will be Anna Vowels, a fiddler who grew up in Potlatch and is now an attorney in Newman Lake.

Camping space for RVs or tents at Scenic 6 Park is available by contacting Potlatch City Hall.

Saxophone ensemble will play at Dahmen

The Quad-City Saxophone Ensemble will perform at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown July 30 at 7:30 p.m. Admission will be $7 at the door, with children under 12 admitted free. The sax ensemble plays music that was the popular music of its time, much from the ‘Heyday of the Sax’ (1910 - 1930).

Classical and light jazz are the main styles. The members’ saxophones include soprano, alto, tenor and baritone and the unusual saxes, soprillo, sopranino, bass, and contrabass.

Red Barn concerts

Red Barn Farms summer concert series will include The Big Newtons with hits from 70s-80s-90s, July 21; The Senders, Rock n Roll from the 50s and 60s, Aug. 4; and Coltrain, Country Hits, Aug. 18. Located a mile north of Colton, the series will have a barbecue and beer garden open at 5 p.m. and music at 6 p.m. Tickets are $5 with children 10 and under admitted free.

ON CAMPUS

IDAHO REPERTORY THEATRE

The 2011 Idaho Repertory Theatre Summer Season is underway with only two performances of Noises Off by Michael Frayn remaining on the schedule. Tonight (Thursday), the performance starts at 7:30 p.m. Sunday’s matinee is at 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, July 21, is opening night for a two week run of Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. Performances are scheduled for Thursday through Saturday, July 21-23, at 7:30 p.m. The Sunday, July 24, matinee is at 2:00 p.m. Then, performances resume on July 27, Wednesday through Saturday July 30 at 7:30 p.m.

Moss Gown by Micki Panttaja opens Wednesday, August 3, and runs through Sunday August 7.

All performances are at the U of I Hartung Theater.

Tickets are available from the University of Idaho ticket office on campus or on-line.

BIRTHS

Cammack son born

Liam Warner was born July 7, 2011, to Heather and Brenton Cammack of Colfax weighing seven pounds, four ounces. Maternal grandparents are Steve and Kari Rimbey of Colfax. Paternal grandparents are Cary and Patti Cammack of Colfax. The baby joins one sister, Avery.

BOOKMARK

Whitman County Library board of trustees will meet Tuesday, July 19, at 4 p.m. in the Colfax Library. These meetings are open to the public.

Families are invited for Pajama Storytime July 20 at 7 p.m. on the main floor of Colfax Library.

Rob Than will perform in the Farmington Community Center July 14, at 3 p.m.