Locals Take to the Stage this Friday

SEELEY LAKE - Alpine Artisans, Inc. (AAI) presents their first Alpine Review: Art Auction and Community Talent Show May 6 at the Seeley Lake Community Hall. Attendees can enjoy local entertainment ranging from original to traditional musical selections to cowboy poetry while supporting AAI’s youth art grants and scholarships. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Harpist Janet Whitesell and guitarist Kal Kovatch will perform solo pieces for the first time at a public performance in Seeley Lake.

Whitesell started playing the harp at the age of 10. She attended music school at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She will play “Improvisation on a Familiar Melody” and looks forward to performing more in the future.

Several local musicians have joined their voices and instruments. Some have been heard before at various venues including guitarists and vocalists Mark Williams and Trace Stone and Rachel and Pete Feigley.

Others are newer to the Seeley Lake stage. Cheryl Lewis and Shauna Anders will play “Adagio and Giga,” a two-movement piece by Italian composer Archangelo Corelli. Lewis will play the saxophone with Anders accompanying on piano.

While Ken Barber has participated as a soloist in the Seeley-Swan Mountain Bells Music Galore, this is the first time he will take the stage with Ruth Anderson. They will play “Big Yellow Taxi” on guitar.

Terryl Bartlett, Chris Flinders and Patty Dillree have known each other since the late 1980s from playing softball to singing in church. They added Seeley-Swan High School (SSHS) junior and self-taught musician Abram Pocha to the ensemble. Together they will bring a new harmony that has not been heard before.

Pocha will also be singing and playing guitar to an original composition entitled “Love is Enough.”

Ovando musicians and siblings Zia Kloetzel and Adin Kloetzel will play solo pieces on guitar and keyboard. They will also combine their instruments in a sibling duet playing the song “Helpless.”

Local SSHS students will share musical selections that they performed at District Music Festival in Missoula. Cera Strumpfer and Lana Higgins will sing “Amazing Grace” as a duet. Chloe Robbins will sing a solo entitled “This Little Rose.”

Representing the Swan Valley will be eighth-grader Jayla Kauffman singing “Castle on a Cloud.” Kauffman loves to sing and play her trombone. She attended the Flathead Valley Music Camp with an AAI youth grant.

Mixed in with the musical entertainment will be cowboy poet Steve Fraker and local humorist Anne Beach.

Fraker is the head teamster at The Resort at Paws Up and uses his cowboy poetry to entertain guests after dinner. He will share the first poem he ever wrote entitled “Cowboy Time.”

“I like it because all walks of life can relate to it,” said Fraker.

Tickets are available for $10 at the door. Those under 18 are free.

 

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