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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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Martha Havill is
the featured artist during February at
The Cotton Company.
Originally from Clarksdale,
Miss., Havill now lives in Wake Forest.
She has been painting for 27 years,
using watercolor and oils, and many of
her paintings are in private
collections.
"It is my pleasure to create
original works of art that will be a joy
to
others for many years and it is
important to me to indulge myself in
each
piece of work to invent luminous
painting with light and shadow,” Havill
said of her art.
The Cotton Company is a
restored cotton warehouse in Wake
Forest’s historic downtown, housing a
marketplace for home furnishings,
accessories, fine art, jewelry, women’s
fashions, children’s toys and
collectibles.
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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. More information
will be provided later.
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. |
