Registration Open for Swim Lessons at Palouse Pool

Registration is now open for swim lessons at the Palouse Pool, Palouse, Wash. Cost is $25 for participants residing within city limits, and $35 for all others.

Session 1 is M-Th, July 2-12 (July 4th lesson on July 6th)
Session 2 is M-Th, July 23-Aug 2
Session 3, if enough interest, is M-Th, Aug 6-16

Sign up today! Call 878-1811

Wanigan -- Bluegrass Band at Dahmen Barn June 9, 2012

  “Bluegrass etc.,” by the band Wanigan scheduled for June 9, 2012 at the Dahmen Barn

Wanigan is one of the most popular bluegrass groups in the Valley and is welcomed back to a multitude of venues. These six guys from the Lewis Clark Valley have a great time playing their brand of music.

Playing together for 5 years, they like to describe their sound as "bluegrass, etc." due to other influences including old-time fiddle and traditional American string music, bluegrass, country and gospel.

Wanigan pleases audiences with close harmonies and fun instrumentals. In addition to traditional songs, Wanigan performs many original songs with themes tied to local history and geography. 

The concert will be at Artisans at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown, on Saturday, June 9, 2012, at 7:30 pm.  Admission is $10 at the door.

Artisans at the Dahmen Barn is a non-profit creativity center in the big white barn surrounded by the famous iron wheel fence just off highway 195.  The facility is fully ADA accessible and has no daily admission fee.  Hours are Thursday through Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm.  Information:  www.artisanbarn.org or 509-229-3414.

WMA Entertainer of the Year Juni Fisher June 2, 2012 at Uniontown, Wash.

On Saturday, June 2, 2012, 7:30 p.m., multi-award winning singer-songwriter Juni Fisher is scheduled to perform at Artisans at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown. Audiences who enjoy storytelling through song, humor and even a bit of history, fans of the Western landscape and lifestyle, and folk music fans enjoy Juni’s concerts. Admission is $12 at the door.

Juni Fisher’s name is synonymous with the kind of song writing that, according to one promoter, “Plumbs the depth of your soul…” She is the first woman winner of Western Musician Association Entertainer of the Year.

 

Juni’s music awards are top notch:

• 2005 Academy of Western Female Vocalist of the Year
• 2005 WMA* Crescendo Award (*Western Music Association)
• 2006 WMA Female Performer of the Year
• 2007 WMA Song of the Year
• 2008 WMA of the Year
• 2008 National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Wrangler Award (Outstanding Album)
• 2009 WMA Female Performer of the Year
• 2009 WMA Album of the Year
• 2011 WMA Female Performer of the Year
• 2011 WMA Song of the Year
• 2011 WMA Entertainer of the Year

Born in the San Joaquin Valley of California, Fisher grew up in a farming family, but between school and countless singing performances with her two sisters, Juni found a way to have horses, and 4-H and FFA honors followed her throughout her school years.

 

While studying Equine Science at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, she rode young horses for her customers, and became known as a good horse show “catch rider“.  She rode her way through college, with top honors at Intercollegiate and Quarter Horse shows. Meanwhile, she was earning horse show entry money singing big band standards in a dance orchestra.

In her early adult years she apprenticed with a cowhorse trainer, and trained cowhorses from snaffle bitters to bridle horses, winning her first Snaffle Bit Futurity (IARCHA) in 1981, her first Bridle Horse Championship in 1983 (the Monterey Classic) while working on a cow calf operation, and running a roping arena.

Her bridle horses did day work on the ranch and competed weekends. If there was a campfire gathering with music, Juni was there with her guitar, singing the songs of the west she’d learned from her father.

In 1984, she moved to Santa Ynez, CA, to train cutting horses, taking her blossoming song writing skills with her.  A local band was quick to ask her to play rhythm guitar and sing leads and backups, and soon she was working L.A. area clubs with a country dance band, which was playing western and cowboy music.

Juni’s ability to ride at speed across the hills found her working as a foxhunting professional, and she accepted a one year position with a hunt club in Tennessee.

Point to point racing, steeplechasing, and horse trials took the place of cowhorses, while she honed her songwriting skills among Nashville’s finest.  Her first Western release, “Tumbleweed Letters” (1999) reached Monterey Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival director Gary Brown in late 2003. He shared Juni’s music with other promoters and soon Juni would shift to music full time as her profession. Fisher now performs at major festivals, and concert venues of all sizes across the US.

Artisans at the Dahmen Barn is a non-profit creativity center in the big white barn behind the famous iron wheel fence just off highway 195 in Uniontown.  The three storey facility is fully ADA compliant and there is no daily admission fee.  It is open Thursday through Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm.  Information:  www.artisanbarn.org or 509-229-3414.

Registration Due May 28, 2012 for Portrait Drawing With Dana Aldis and Trois Crayons

Award winning artist, Dana Aldis is scheduled to teach Portrait Drawing with Trois (three) Crayons at the Dahmen Barn. Registrations must be received by May 28, 2012, either by using the online process at the top of the calendar page at www.artisanbarn.org or calling 509-229-3414.


"Trois Crayons” is a drawing technique using White, Red and Black Chalks on a toned paper, usually grey. It is a classical style of drawing practiced by Rubens, Watteau and Corregio to name a few.

Artist Dana Aldis is teaching this class to students age 16 and above on Saturday, June 2 from 10 am to 4 pm at Artisans at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown. The cost is $83 with students bringing their own materials which are shown on the calendar listing at www.artisanbarn.org.

Students will develop their drawing skills with this classical technique, using contemporary materials - Prismacolor Color pencils and Canson Mi-Teintes Paper.

Students will focus on structure, proportions and anatomical details of the head; develop their drawings to create accurate, beautiful portrait renderings. Students will also explore composition through quick, thumbnail sketches and warm up gesture drawings from the model, before moving on to more finished work. Clothing and Drapery Elements will also be addressed, as well as toning the paper.

When Dana was nine years old, her uncle started her on her artistic journey. He gave her a box of Grumbacher Pastels and showed her how to blend and render an apple. Later on she continued her art education with a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington DC, followed by an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. She studied drawing, painting and sculpture, along with some printmaking and book arts. Her parents encouraged her studies, often enrolling her in art classes in the countries they were stationed in during their time with the State Department.

In 2002, Dana began teaching drawing and painting at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. During the next ten years she taught students of all ages. She found teaching art made her a better artist, allowing her to express her ideas with better clarity.

Drawing is the foundation of her art, and she also enjoys working in a variety of art media – watercolor, egg tempera, charcoal, graphite, oils and acrylics. In 2008 she started painting pet portraits.

Dana and her husband moved to Moscow, Idaho the summer of 2011. Soon after, Dana won first place in the Palouse Plein Air Contest, hosted by the City of Moscow Third Street Gallery. Her painting, Palouse Impression, is now part of the City Art Collection.

Dana’s artwork has been exhibited and sold nationwide. She currently teaches drawing and painting privately or in group classes.

You can view her portraits on her blog.

Artisans at the Dahmen Barn is a non-profit creativity center in Uniontown in the big white barn behind the famous iron wheel fence. The facility is fully ADA compliant and is open Thursday through Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm with no daily admission fee. Information: www.artisanbarn.org or 509-229-3414.

Dance Music and Free Dance Lessons, May 26, 2012

At Artisans at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown, beginning Saturday, May 26, 2012, and continuing through August 25, on the fourth Saturday of each month, free dance lessons will precede the Hog Heaven Big Band playing tunes from the Great American Song Book.

Dance lessons will be held from 6:30 to 7:15 on the second floor – just drop in. 

The Hog Heaven Big Band will begin playing at 7:30 pm.  The cost to listen or dance to their music is $8 for a couple, $5 for a single. Children under 12 admitted free.

The Hog Heaven Big Band is 17 members strong and includes female vocals.  The group has been playing regularly at the Dahmen Barn for the past 6 years.

Artisans at the Dahmen Barn is a non-profit creativity center in the big white barn behind the famous iron wheel fence in Uniontown just off highway 195.  The building is fully ADA compliant and has no daily admission fee.  Information:  www.artisanbarn.org or 509-229-3414.

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Bodie Dominguez Benefit Concert at Artisans at the Dahmen Barn, May 19, 2012

Bodie Dominguez scheduled to play a benefit concert for the Dahmen Barn May 19

On Saturday, May 19 at 7:30 pm, musician and good Friend of the Barn, Bodie Dominguez is scheduled to play a benefit concert at Artisans at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown.  The cost is $8 at the door.  What began in 2004 as an experiment turning a dilapidated diary barn in Uniontown into an artisan center has exceeded expectations.  After two years of development followed by successful operation since 2006, Artisans at the Dahmen Barn is bursting at the seams and needs help to grow the facility and programs.  The non-profit organization started a membership program fall of 2011, and friend Bodie offered to put on this concert with all proceeds going to the Barn.  We appreciate Bodie’s support.

Bodie’s music is diverse, raised in Mexico until the age of 12 he performs Latin classics. His early influences were classic country and rock and roll. He has performed in clubs and honky tonks for nearly forty years with a group and as a single doing dance music and classic country. In the last 15 years Bodie has been involved with cowboy music and poetry as well. Bodie has performed in just about every club and honky tonk bar within a 200 mile radius of the Lewiston, Clarkston area at one time or another.

Bodie started playing with bands in 1972. He has then branched out into song writing, promoting, radio DJ, but his best interest is live performances in radio, cowboy gatherings, clubs, weddings, and private parties. Bodie’s music appeal is multi dimensional he fits in well in just about any audience, whether it’s a dance club, cowboy gathering, coffee house, cowboy church, or back yard BBQ. His bookings are sought out for just about any and every occasion.  Please visit www.myspace.com/bodiedominguez for his tour schedule.

Artisans at the Dahmen Barn is in the big white barn behind the famous iron wheel fence just off highway 195.  The facility is fully ADA compliant and has no daily admission fee.  Information:  www.artisanbarn.org or 509-229-3414.

Croskrey Trio Performin May 12, 2012 at Dahmen Barn, Uniontown, Wash.

Croskrey Trio to perform for all ages

At Artisans at the Dahmen Barn on Saturday, May 12 at 7:30 pm, The Croskrey Trio, from Spokane, is made up of a father and his two daughters. They will play and sing Swing, Bluegrass and Old Standards from the 20s to the 40s. All ages are invited to come to dance or listen. The cost at the door is $7 per person or $20 for a family.

Greg was part of the original “The Croskreys” family vocal group and a member of the Doug Scott Cabaret Band. After 30 years of working in the high tech industry, Greg returns to the entertainment field with his two daughters, Cady and Mikaella. Greg and his daughters now enjoy performing in the Northwest at various venues. Cady plays guitar, bass and vocal. Mikaella plays fiddle, mandolin and vocal. Greg plays bass, ragtime banjo, and vocal.  The Croskreys have performed at The Rockin’ B Ranch, Spokane events of Pigout in the Park and First Night (New Years’ Eve), and 60+ private engagements in the past year.

Artisans at the Dahmen Barn is a non-profit creativity center in Uniontown on highway 195 in the big white barn behind the famous iron wheel fence.  The facility is open Thursday through Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm.  It is fully ADA compliant and has no daily admission fee.  Information:  www.artisanbarn.org or 509-229-3414.

Blue Lake Review, May 2012

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