Keep Kids Busy At Music Workshops

Sun., June 21, 1998

By Nina Culver nculver47@gmail.com

The Holy Names Music Center will offer several workshops in the coming months designed to keep budding virtuosos busy during the summer.

“Music Together,” a program for infants through preschoolers and their parents, will begin June 31. The weekly classes of 45 minutes each will feature songs, rhythmic rhymes, movement and instrument play in an informal setting.

Cost is $77.50 and includes a digitally recorded tape of class activities and a songbook. The class is available from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. one day a week, either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.

The month of August will feature an Improvisation/Jazz Workshop for youth ages 12 and up in all instruments and voice. The workshop will begin at 6 p.m. each day Aug. 10-15. The week will end with a recital.

Fee is $67. Participants are required to have at least one year of instruction in their instrument.

Harpist Leslie Stratton Norris will teach a Harp Camp Aug. 17-20. The program is open to youth ages 8-18. Participants are required to have at least one year of instruction in harp.

Cost is $45 for youth ages 8-12 and $90 for youth age 13 and up.

To register or for more information, call the music center at 326-9516.

Ventures in Dance workshop

Ventures in Dance, a dance workshop, begins today at 918 S. Cedar. The workshop will feature music from around the world and no dance experience is necessary. The workshop will be held at 6 p.m. today, June 28, and July 12 and 19. Cost is $10 per session or $30 for all four.

Proceeds will benefit Ventures in Peace, a Spokane-based non-profit organization promoting the well-being of women and children in Nepal.

For more information, call 535-2390.

Kudos

Ryan Keberle of Spokane has been selected as a 1998 Yamaha Young Performing Artist for trombone. The program is designed to provide early career recognition for outstanding young musicians. Keberle, a student at Whitworth College, was one of 10 winners from eight states selected from hundreds of applications.

Colville sculptor Jerry McKellar won Best of Show in the sculpture category at the National Western Art Show in Ellensburg. His bronze, “Woope’s Gift,” depicts the Lakota legend of Woope releasing a giant golden eagle.

McKellar also received an honorary award for traditional sculpture for his bronze “Bow Stringer” at the Phippen Western Art Show in Prescott, Ariz.

A pastel painting by Spokane artist Shari May was selected for the Northwest Pastel Society’s Open Juried International Exhibition at the Everett Center for the Arts. The show runs through July 16.

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