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Barnes County Historical Society - Lecture Series Season 14 Schdule Released

Lecture Series Season 14 Schedule (PDF format)

Lisbon Civic & Commerce & Ransom County Fair Board are excited to be hosting a Dueling Piano's Event at the Ransom County Expo on Friday, February 10th!

Social Hour with Appetizers - 6:30

The show begins at 7:30

Tickets - $20 each.

Tickets may be bought prior to the show at these Lisbon Businesses:  Lisbon Oil, Gordy's Grill & Fill, Gas Plus, Lisbon Civic & Commerce office.

This is an adult show - 21 years and older please

Download PDF brochure for this event.

VCACA Presents: BOTTOM LINE DUO

Husband and wife duo of double bass and cello

Traci and Spencer Hoveskeland: Classics and Pops - an 18 year marriage - a touch of humor - are blended together for an evening of good music, humor and fun!  The only bass and cello duo show in the world.

The 2nd concert of the2011-2012 concert season presented by the Valley City Area Concert Association takes place on Monday, January 23, at Valley City State University's Vangsted Auditorium starting at 7:30PM, and features the Bottom Line Duo - husband and wife Spencer and Traci Hoveskeland - playing a concert of classics and pops on their double bass and cello, blended together with a large portion of humor and fun.

Billed as "social chamber music" or "21st Century Parlor Music" the Bottom Line Duo, one of three internationally touring bass and cello duos in history, has been thrilling audiences with their fast fingers, wit and bows.  With humor bordering on outright comedy, they deliver a program with roots in chamber music and an amazing repertoire of modern and popular sounds.

A 300 year old Italian string bass, a 140 year old French cello, a Norwegian-American man and a Welsh-Belgian American woman....Add 18 years of marriage and you get a program of tremendous virtuosity, intimacy, entertainment, fun and laughter.

Bottom Line Duo has produced six CDs, a full symphony show, several appearances on NPR and performances at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall.

Besides the classical pieces, their program will include Blue Moon, Crazy Train, A Hard Day’s Night, Autumn Leaves and My Little Suede Shoes.

Admission is by season membership only. Adult $35, Family $65, Student $15.

For ticket information contact Diana Skroch 701-845-1848 or 845-7273.

The Barnes County Historical Society Lecture Series Season 14 presents: Professor Anthony Dutton (VCSU) "Tell Me What You Eat and I'll Tell You Who You Are."  7:00PM Thursday, January 19, 2012 at the Barnes County Historical Society Museum.

We are what we eat in more ways than the aphorism usually implies.  Foodways are a key component of identity and the food traditions that live on in the United States are diverse but increasingly interconnected.  As a result the multicultural nature of U.S. society is evident in the pantries of households and restaurants from small town main street to major metropolitan centers.  What today is "ethnic" food may well become mainstream, in the same way that hotdogs and pizza made the transition.  American palates have grown more cosmopolitan as the population grows more diverse, but Americans have also moved to conserve traditional foodways, both regional and ethnic.  In choosing what to eat we make powerful statements about who we are.

Anthony Dutton is an Instructor in the Social Science department at Valley City State University.  His interests in international cuisine stem from a semester abroad in Mexico and more recent travels to Mongolia and China.  He has eaten grasshoppers and corn fungus in Mexico, duck tongues and thousand-year eggs in China, and more peculiar dairy products than he cares to remember in Mongolia, but he has never tried lutefisk.

The public is cordially invited to attend

All Lectures are at the Barnes County Historical Society Museum and held in conjunction with Valley City State University. They are free and open to the public.

For more information contact Wes Anderson at 701-845-0966

Barnes County Historical Society
315 Central Ave N
Valley City, ND 58072

The monthly Valley City Bluegrass Jam session will be held on Saturday, January 14 from 1:00 - 5:00 pm at the Barnes County Museum, 315 Central Ave N, Valley City, ND.  The jam is acoustic only, featuring traditional bluegrass instruments and is free and open to the public.  Sponsors are the Barnes County Museum and the Bluegrass Association of North Dakota.  Questions may be referred to John Andrus at 701-762-4891.

Also note: The B.A.N.D. board of directors will meet on Saturday Jan 14 at 11:00 am at the Broken Spoke Restaurant in Valley City. All B.A.N.D members are welcome to attend board meetings.