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Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival
2013 Lineup and Schedule Released
by The Seldovia Arts Council
The Seldovia Arts Council presents the 2013 Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival list of performers and schedule. The annual event will take place in Seldovia, June 20-23. The festival includes a ferry jam, open mic, workshops, a song circle, gospel jam, and 14 performing acts.
This year’s headliners are Broadway performing artist, Theresa Thomason, and Alaskan band, Super Saturated Sugar Strings. Others included in the festival lineup are Si Kahn & Suzanne Little, John Cook, Alex Mabey and many more outstanding performers from around Alaska.
The festival starts off with a “Ferry Jam” on Thursday, June 20th. Performers and festival attendees can travel on the Seldovia Bay Ferry’s Kachemak Voyager from the Homer Spit to Seldovia, while enjoying a live musical jam session. Ferry departs from Homer at 11:00 a.m.
A no-host dinner will take place for performers and visitors at 5:00 p.m. at the Linwood Bar and Grill. An Open Mic starts at 7:30 p.m. and is sure to include many surprising performances by local Seldovians, plus visitors to the community. After the open mic, local band Billygoat will play live back down at the Linwood Bar.
On Friday, there will be a Musicians United to Save Bristol Bay workshop at 1:00 p.m. at Susan B. English School. It will focus on music and social action to make the world a better place, and to inspire others – led by Si Kahn and Suzanne Little. At 2:00 p.m., there will be a videoconference workshop at the Seldovia Public Continue Reading
Seldovia Public Library’s Search Catalog Goes Online
by Tracie Merrill
Wow folks – this is big! Tired of having to ask one of our librarians if we have a particular book or movie in our collection? Want to know before you walk into the library? Well, now you can – anytime and anywhere. You can now search our catalog from any computer – that’s right. You can now search our collection online on any of the computers inside the library or from your own home computer.
The Seldovia Public Library Board is so excited to now offer this service to library patrons. Just go to our library website and click the link labeled “Seldovia Public Library search” on the left-hand side. The link is just below “SEARCH THE LIBRARY’S CATALOG ONLINE.” We hope all of you enjoy this new service and the convenience it provides. Try it out!
Thoughts To Ponder… Choices
Author unknown
How can you not choose happiness? What a beautiful world we enjoy here in Seldovia! photo by Jenny Chissus
John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, ‘If I were any better, I would be twins!’
He was a natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, ‘I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time How do you do it?’ Continue Reading
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