University of North Dakota professor Virgil Benoit secured an Arts Legacy grant from the NWMAC to sponsor a French Canadian band and dance group from Winnipeg to perform at a French Canadian Metis Music and Dance Festival (AFRAN). That event is annual and is held the fourth weekend in August.
The group performed musical numbers and vocals that are traditional and contemporary among musicians of French Canada and their audiences in both Canada and the United States. Their performances were introduced with background pertinent to the group’s style, its musical instruments, and the place the songs and music hold in the Canadian, French-Canadian and Metis communities where the group plays and draws its inspiration.
Benoit discusses the history of the French in the northern United Sates and why history is relevant today.”
New artist, Tony Passasante and outstate contributor, Ricky Stage, along with news of Utepils Brewing!
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1. Pick Up the Pieces – Doug Millaway
2. Rock Me Baby – Steven J Schmidt
3. Singing in the Silence – Colleen Dillon
4. Sven Ivan O’Myron Wisnewski – Dale Menten & Ron Dick
5. A Light Shining for Me – Rickey Stage
6. Someone Else’s – Lisa Dixon
7. Heavy Heart – Kari Arnett
8. I Shall Be Released – Tony Passanante
9. One Fast Move (Or I’m Gone) – Captain Gravitone & the String Theory Orchestra
10. Staring at the Door – Bob Muscovitz
11. Up in Smoke – Bones of Griff
12. Butterscotch House – Pill Hill
ND Museum of Art Deputy Director Matt Wallace
• Thursday, March 9th through Saturday, March 11th – The 5-time Tony award winning musical “Hairspray” will be on stage at the Empire Arts Center in Grand Forks. Performances by the Empire Theater Company are 7:30 each evening.
• Saturday, March 25th – Comedian Bobby Bones and his “Funny Alone” act will be on stage at the Empire Arts Center in downtown Grand Forks….with special guest Walker Hayes. Curtain time is 7:00 pm.
NWMAC Executive Director Mara Hanel discusses the upcoming NWMAC Spring Art Exhibit in Halstad, MN, deadlines for nominating artists to receive art awards and cash and Arts Advocacy Day at the state legislature in St. Paul.
