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SUMMARY:Pleasure of Pastel Painting with Betsy Midthun
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Pleasure of Pastel Painting with Betsy Midthun at the Winona Arts Center on Saturday April 27\, 10am to 3pm. Betsy has a double major in Art Education and Art History and was recently chosen for a one-woman show of her work at the LaCrosse Pump House! She has a passion for painting and drawing and has attended many pastel conferences and workshops. \nParticipants in this class will learn all about pastels and the different techniques used in painting with pastels. You will take home 3 different small paintings that you have painted! \nBeginner to Adult painters are welcome – no experience needed. All supplies are furnished. \nCost is $40 for members and $45 for non-members. \nThis class is limited to 10 participants so early registration is highly recommended! \nInterested individuals can register for the class by contacting Jen at jsbenson50@gmail.com. Registration fee\, including a current email address\, can be mailed to Winona Arts Center at 228 E 5th St\, Winona\, MN 55987. \nTo ensure classes are affordable to all\, scholarships are available.  Please contact Jen Benson at jsbenson50@gmail.com for more information.
URL:https://winonaarts.org/event/pleasure-of-pastel-painting-with-betsy-midthun/
LOCATION:Winona Arts Center\, 228 East 5th Street\, Winona\, MN\, 55987\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Swamp Poppas
DESCRIPTION:Coffeehouse & gallery open at 6:00pm\nTicket are $20 advance/ $25 door and available through Eventbrite until April 27 at 3pm or at Music Mart ( Formerly Hardts Music) until April 26 at 4pm.\n\nWine\, Beer and Cajun treats will be available for your enjoyment at this event. Let the good times roll!\nThe Swamp Poppas play Swamp Pop music. \nIt all started in the 1950’s in Southwest Louisiana. Young folks grew up hearing and playing traditional Cajun and Zydeco\nmusic in their families and local venues. Starting with that base\, they added the sounds they were hearing on the radio\nand jukeboxes in the region to those traditional sources and Swamp Pop was born. \nMany early Swamp Pop hits were ballads\, featuring highly emotional lyrics\, tripleting piano\, prominent bass lines\, large\nhorn sections and a strong rhythm and blues backbeat. Examples of these are Cookie and the Cupcakes song “Mathilda”\,\nDale and Graces’s “I’m Leaving It All Up to You”\, Rod Bernard’s “This Should Go on Forever”\, and Phil Phillip’s “Sea of\nLove” (later covered by Robert Plant of Led Zepplin fame). \nThere were also rockers\, such as Frankie Ford’s “Sea Cruise”\, Bobby Charles’ “See You Later Alligator” and Randy and the\nRocket’s “Let’s Do the Cajun Twist”. And a swamp popper might even bring in a Cajun accordion for a solo on Johnnie\nAllan’s cover of a Chuck Berry song\, “The Promised Land”. \nThe new genre absorbed other regional styles such Tex Mex\, Tejano\, and Norteno from East Texas. Freddy Fender had a\nSwamp Pop hit with “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights”. Los Lobos has covered the Swamp Pop hit “I Got Loaded”\,\noriginally by Lil’ Bob and the Lollipops. \nA lot of influences came from nearby New Orleans. The city is known for its classic R & B and early Rock’n’roll along with\nSecond Line marching bands and Dixieland. The Soul Queen of New Orleans\, Irma Thomas\, had Swamp Pop hits with\n“It’s Raining” and “Time Is on My Side”. \nSwamp Pop music has evolved over the years. New styles appear and hit the airwaves. Then Swamp Pop absorbs them\ninto the catalog. Country and Western star\, Johnny Horton has a hit with “North to Alaska”\, Johnnie Allan answers with\n“South to Louisiana. An old hillbilly song\, “The Prisoner’s Song” from the 1920’s was turned into a hit by Warren Storm in\n1958. Psychedelic music becomes popular and John Fred and the Playboy Band have a hit with “Judy in Disguise (with\nGlasses)”. Mix Swamp Pop and Hip Hop and you get Cypress City’s “Cajun Rap Song” and “Hot Boudin”. \nKarl Smelker\, the founder of the Swamp Poppas\, shared a Louisiana music show on the local community radio station\,\nKFAI. While the show mainly featured Cajun and Zydeco\, Karl started playing Swamp Pop records he had picked up on his\ntravels south. He found several of the other DJs on the station also were Swamp Pop fans. They got together and would\ndo an annual 4-to-5-hour radio show called the Swamp Pop Extravaganza. As the annual show grew in popularity Karl\nalso found a bunch of musicians from Twin Cities bands who also loved Swamp Pop. While they loved the music\, they\nfelt there might not be a large audience for a Louisiana music sub-genre here in the Frozen North. \nEventually they threw caution to the wind held a benefit for the Second Harvest food shelf. In 2007 the first Swamp Pop\nExtravaganza Show raised a bunch of cash and food for Second Harvest. It also gathered musicians from several bands;\nthe Rockin’ Pinecones\, the Swamp Sextet and Jumbo Ya Ya to form a core band. The band played Swamp Pop tunes and\nprovided backing for several guest artists like Becky Thompson\, Tom Lieberman\, Lucinda Plaisance\, Jon Rodine\, and Bill\nBatson. \nThe Swamp Pop Extravaganzas continued raising money and food for Second Harvest over the years. Covid put the full\nextravaganza on hiatus. But the core musicians found an audience in Minnesota and have been playing Swamp Pop ever\nsince as the Swamp Poppas.
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LOCATION:Winona Arts Center\, 228 East 5th Street\, Winona\, MN\, 55987\, United States
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