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Clambake Music Festival brings jazz and dance to the community BY BREE LAUGHLIN
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The South Coast Clambake Music Festival has been bringing a variety of jazz music to Oregon’s Bay area for nearly three decades. This year, music festival organizers said the lineup will feature a mixture of tried-andtrue musicians from around the country, as well
as local musicians. “We have several bands that we've brought in from out of the area, and we also have a couple of local bands,” said Rick Biasca, Clambake music festival board treasurer. Biasca said the music at the festival ranges from traditional jazz and crooners to rockabilly and other music genres. One of the best things about this music festival, he said, is that audience members are sure to be up and dancing to the songs.
The South Coast Clambake Music Festival takes place inside three different venues at the Mill Casino from Thursday, March 7 through Sunday, March 10. About a dozen bands will be performing throughout the weekend. Thursday will feature a pre-festival warm up, and on Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bay Area youth bands will perform. “One of the things is we're trying to do is encourage the youth to come in,” Biasca said.
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CCAT adopts policy to allow electric micromobility devices on buses
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The Coos County Area Transportation District recently adopted a policy that will allow electric bicycles and other micromobility devices to be carried on CCAT buses and outlines the rules for safe transport. The new policy supports the state of Oregon’s efforts to encourage healthy movement, reduce emissions that contribute to climate change, reduce vehicle miles traveled and increase access and mobility opportunities. “The District is making a concerted effort to expand micromobility options in Coos County,” said Melissa Metz, General Manager for CCAT. “Micromobility encompasses using electric micromobility devices like e-bikes and e-scooters in conjunction with public transit to bridge distances too close to drive but too far to CCAT continues on page 10
Tickets available for Sawdust’s summer melodrama BY DEAN BRICKEY Correspondent
COQUILLE — Tickets are available for the Sawdust Theatre’s annual summer melodrama, which will debut May 31. Stacey Lynn Bell is directing this year’s “crimedy,” titled “My, What a Circus” or “Keep Your Big Hands Off My Bigfoot,” which combines attempted kidnapping, a real “kidnapping,” loads of laughs and a cameo appearance of The Big Guy himself (and we’re not referring to President Biden)! Bell said theatre-goers are in for a treat while they watch what happens when Darius Dingling, the evil and conniving owner of Dingling Brothers ThreeRing Circus, comes to town on the hunt for a big-footed critter to add to his circus
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attractions. “Rehearsals are going well,” Bell said, noting that the two nine-member casts are working hard to prepare for the summer season. “We’ve got the Sawdust Theatre continues on page 3
Stacey Lynn Bell, director of the summer melodrama at the Sawdust Theatre in Coquille
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