Concert

The Winchester community is continuing to show its support for the family of Mykal Barnes, a local teenager who passed away last week after injuries sustained in a car accident. Although Blackfish Golf and Hunt Club owners Angela and Tom Rice were not acquainted with the Barnes family, they were more than willing to donate the use of their facility for a special concert to benefit the Mykal Barnes Memorial Fund Sept. 12. “I think this is really a memorial for him, not just a benefit,” Angela Rice said.

“How Can I Keep From Singing?” is the title of the concert Danville’s Summer Singers, now in its 26th year, will present at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The concert will be at The Presbyterian Church of Danville. The concert will feature several traditional and familiar American tunes, such as the title Shaker song, as well as “Down in the River to Pray,” which was featured in the film “O Brother, Where Art Thou.” Other music includes Ralph Vaughan Williams jubilant “O Clap Your Hands,” a moving setting of “David’s Lamentation” by young American composer Joshua Shank, and two popular songs from earlier decades, Irving Berlin’s “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” and Gene Krupa’s “Sing, Sing, Sing,” featuring Richard Wolfe on drums.

MOUNT STERLING —  Who says tax season has to be stressful? This year, thanks to the Montgomery County Council for the Arts, you can relieve the tension that April often brings with an in-home concert by Dr. Roosevelt Escalante and the Morehead State University jazz department. The event, “A Vocal Jazz Salon,” begins at 7 p.m. Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F.C. Bryan in Mount Sterling. Advance tickets are $20, and are available at the Gateway Regional Arts Center and Ruth Hunt Candy.

Mary Anne Crane Blackburn thought that maybe 20 people would attend her program to use music to help those who were grieving the loss of a loved one. She was pleased, she said this week, that more than 50 people came. The Winchester Community Memorial service was held Tuesday evening at Central Baptist Church. Blackburn, a local Christian singer/songwriter, performed her music in between seven short messages by Pastor Ray Coates, a former chaplain for Hospice of the Bluegrass.

As an accomplished teacher and musician, Dr. Everett McCorvey believes he has a responsibility to his community. The arts can’t survive, McCorvey said, if local artists don’t do their best to become community leaders. “We can’t stay in our theaters. We have to take art wherever we can. ... That’s something I try to do here in Lexington, is stay involved in things related to the civic conversation, so when big decisions have to be made about the course of our cities, the arts are included in the course of that discussion, not just an afterthought,” McCorvey said.

Anthony Evans will be in concert at Central Baptist Church on the corner of Lexington Avenue and Maple Street on Sunday at 6 p.m.

Clark County musical duo Centerline, composed of David Hunt and Jeff Walson, will release their debut recording at a concert at the Leeds Center for the Arts on Saturday, Feb. 2. Centerline will donate proceeds from CD sales to the Clark Community Services Call for Help capital campaign, and concert ticket sales will benefit Leeds. Walson and Hunt grew up together in Winchester and regularly played country and southern rock music together in area establishments, at parties, fairs and community events.

The Advocate Brass Band concert set for Sunday during this weekend’s Constitution Square Arts Fest will be dedicated to Mary Schurz, late publisher of The Advocate-Messenger. Lydia DiMartino-Ellis, conductor of the band, said the ensemble wanted to dedicate the concert to Schurz because, without her, the band wouldn’t exist. “She is the person who started this whole band ... when there was a political rally at Constitution Square. She and George Foreman really wanted to make it like an old-fashioned political rally with a band and all the trimmings, so they put together this little band,” DiMartino-Ellis explained.

The Danville Children's Choir will present a short concert at 7 p.m. today at the Community Arts Center. The concert is free but concert-goers may purchase raffle tickets ($20) for the choir's fundraiser to offset costs for their trip to the World Choir Games in July. The Children's Choir is one of only two choirs from Kentucky that will be participating in this prestigious event ,which will showcase hundreds of choirs from around the world.  At the conclusion of the concert today, there will be the official raffle drawing for the grand prize of $1,000.  The choir also will travel to Kings Island later in April, where it will perform as well.  The DCC formed in January 2010, has grown to nearly 50 members, and already has presented numerous concerts in Danville, including one last summer as part of the Great American Brass Band Festival.

George Rogers Clark Orchestra members Chris Griffith and Blake Combs, both seniors, played in the Kentucky Music Educator’s All-State Commonwealth Orchestra during its performance Feb. 12 at the Kentucky Center in Louisville. The orchestra, conducted by Richard Clark from the Butler Symphony Orchestra, played selections from various composers, including a special medley of songs from West Side Story. This was the fourth appearance in the all-state orchestra for Griffith.

For the second year in a row, the Dean Osborne Band will kick off the annual Rock Fence Park concert series on Saturday, April 27. This year's series has six dates, with five between April 27 and June 22 and a final grand finale Oct. 5 with The Twiggenburys. “We are very excited to have the Dean Osborne Band leading off this season on April 27,” organizer Teg Evans said. “Since the Crowe Fest has been gone, a lot of folks are missing the wonderful Bluegrass music that Dean and J.D. brought to this area, so hopefully this helps.” Other series headliners include Symphony 68 with a Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison tribute show May 11; The Mercy Men on May 25; The Biscuit Brothers on June 8; and symphony 68 with a Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute show June 22. All concerts start at 6 p.m. “Last year, we had more than 1,000 attend the four events we presented, and more than half came to hear Mercy Men and Dean Osborne,” Evans said.

LEXINGTON - The Lexington Philharmonic will hold four Peanut Butter and Jelly concerts in Lexington and Danville April 27. PB&J concerts invite families with children to participate in an instrument petting zoo, musical activities, and enjoy peanut butter and jelly sandwiches while a woodwind quintet performs during a reading of Kathleen Krull's book, “M is for Music.” The Lexington concerts will be at 10 and 11 a.m. at the Child Development Center...

Before Lanny Smith became known as “Earthman,” he lived in Nashville writing country songs, which was something he grew tired of doing. It was in 1992, when Smith showed the world that he was focused on using music as a tool to educate and inspire people to help create a sustainable planet that he received his first $15,000 grant from AT&T for his efforts and became known as “Earthman.” “Music moves the hearts and the minds of people,”...

Correction Calvary Chapel Church will host its third Friday singing at 7 p.m. on Feb. 15. Groups performing at the fundraiser at 12 Sycamore St. include Brother Scott, Sister Myrtle and The Bowmans. The pastor is Donald Fountain. For more information, call (859) 420-3276. As stated in Saturday's edition of the paper, the concert will not be held outdoors. It will be held indoors at Calvary Chapel Church.

Meetings   Casey County Board of Education - 7 p.m. Monday. Agenda includes a construction update.   Garrard County Fiscal Court - 6:30 p.m. Monday. Agenda includes second reading on the Roy Walker Davis special taxing district.   Concert and chili supper    Crab Orchard Christian Church will host the Daughters of the King in the annual Valentines' Day event starting at 5 p.m. Sunday. The concert will feature a mix of traditional, country and Christian music.  Following the concert, the women's group will host a chili supper.

Country music stars are nothing new at the Daniel Boone Pioneer Festival's Sunday night concert at Lykins Park. Well known entertainers like Sugarland and Keith Urban have performed in the past, and this year's headliner, Hunter Hayes, currently has a Top 10 single. “We've been very lucky to hit them on the way up,” festival organizer Kitty Strode said. But the concert has humbler roots. The first year, Boots Randolph performed from the back of a flatbed truck before the stage was built at Lykins Park.

The Fourth of July Celebration scheduled for Lykins Park Tuesday has been canceled because of the extremely dry weather, according to a statement released Thursday afternoon by the committee that plans the event. All of the events at the celebration - the fireworks, concert and military event  - will be rescheduled, according to the Fourth of July Committee statement.

Ronn Crowder along with the Rawhide Band capped off a great Spring Concert Series on a perfect evening Saturday at Rock Fence Park. The Free Concert Series resumes in Wilmore On The Green beginning July 7 with the Reel World String Band: American roots music.