Common Ground At Panida Theatre
A world champion dance ensemble is scheduled to make a stop in Sandpoint Friday. Common Ground will dance the night away starting at 8 at the Panida Theatre in a visit sponsored by the Pend Oreille Arts Council.
The ensemble integrates tap dance, clogging and Irish step dancing into its performances. The dancers will perform to songs with titles like “The Mummer’s Dance,” “Cotton Eye Joe,” “Whirling in the Kitchen,” “Doom Doom Bop” and “Mixing Gravel.”
Performers include Paul Cusick, the 1998 World Irish Dance Champion, and Kristy Puffer, a member of the American Clogging Hall of Fame who has won 185 first-place and grand-championship titles.
Tickets are $14 for adults and $8 for students, available in advance at Eve’s Leaves and the Lyman Gallery in Sandpoint, or by calling the Panida at (208) 263-9191.
Children’s Chorus at The Met
The Spokane Area Children’s Chorus is prepared to bring down the house during an international “Northern Lights” concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at The Met.
The Ensemble, Senior and Intermediate choirs of the Children’s Chorus will be joined on stage by Fiddlers International of Creston, British Columbia.
Fiddlers International is composed of youth ages 4-18, all accomplished classical violinists. They are known for their performances of international folk music and have released a recording called “The Bear’s Paw,” a collection of dance music from around the world.
The singers and nine fiddlers will perform music from FrenchCanadian, Newfoundland, Algonquin, Navajo and Ecuadorian cultures. Selections will include “Song for Canada” by Paul Halley, “We Rise Again” by Leon Dubinsky and Canadian folk songs such as “A Great Big Sea” and “I’ll Give My Love an Apple.”
Tickets for the concert are $5, available through all G&B Select-A-Seat locations or by calling 325-SEAT.
Concert at EWU
The Eastern Washington Baroque and Chamber orchestras will perform with the EWU Chamber Choir tonight at 7:30 in Showalter Auditorium on the Cheney campus.
The guest soloist will be David Dutton, former principal oboe with the St. Louis Symphony and Spokane Symphony, and current co-director of Allegro, Baroque and Beyond.
The program will open with Mendelssohn’s Symphonie No. 9 for string orchestra and Hummel’s “Introduction, Theme and Variations.”
Mendelssohn’s “Hebrides Overture,” Handel’s “Awake the Trumpet’s Lofty Sound” and two choruses from J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor will conclude the evening.
Admission is free, though donations will be accepted.