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The seventh annual DuBois Jazz
Festival will be back in its old
stomping grounds with a cast of
favorites on Saturday, March 18.
Vocalist Lois DeLoatch
and the Ed Paolantonio Quintet with Ed
Paolantonio on the piano, John Brown on
bass, Thomas Taylor on drums, Ira
Wiggins on saxophone and Jim Ketch on
trumpet will provide the entertainment.
Dinner begins at 7 p.m.
with music and dancing to follow. Drew
Bridges will again conduct the cakewalk
with cakes baked by Mayor Vivian Jones
and Jonnie Anderson as the prizes.
Students who excelled in the afternoon
workshops led by the musicians will
again perform in the first piece after
intermission.
The jazz festival is a
cooperative event between the center and
the Wake Forest Cultural Arts
Association, and the proceeds from the
evening are split between the two.
The $25 tickets are
available at the Wake Forest Chamber of
Commerce.
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One of Wake Forest’s more
enjoyable events, Six Sundays in Spring,
will kick off Sunday, April 23, at 5
p.m. on the lawn at the Wake Forest
College Birthplace on North Main Street
and continue through May 28. Once again
everyone is invited to bring a blanket
or lawn chairs, a picnic, Frisbees and
balloons to enjoy the music and meet
friends.
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The sixth annual Wake
Forest HerbFest is planned for the
weekend of April 21-23 in the gazebo
parking lot and is sponsored by The
Cotton Company and the Downtown
Revitalization Corporation.
Herb lovers and gardeners
will be able to choose from more than
10,000 herbs and 5,000 perennial plants.
This year the founders,
Bob and Elizabeth Johnson, will honor
the memory of their son, Graham, by
donating a portion of the proceeds to
the Graham Johnson Memorial Scholarship
Fund at Franklin Academy. Many of
Graham’s classmates at the school will
help with the duck walk and other
aspects of the three-day show.
Local vendors and those
from around the South will sell garden
art in clay, metal and mixed media as
well as herbal-based products: soaps,
lotions and herb-based foods. Joe Dumas
from Alabama will sell his original art.
The show will be open
Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information, you can go to
http://www.thecottoncompany.net.
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Meet in the Street, Wake
Forest’s outdoor crafts festival, is
planned for Saturday, May 6, along two
blocks of White Street.
The Friends of Wake Forest
Public Library’s annual used book sale
will be held that same day in the former
Winn-Dixie in Wake Forest Plaza, with
the proviso the location may change if
the owner finds another grocery store to
lease the property by then. Eugene Adams
is the chairman of the event, and
collection boxes will be placed around
town in mid-March. |
