Spring Green, Wisconsin
Thursday, July 13, 2023 | Vol. 4, No. 12 FREE, Single-Copy
Inside this edition
Editor’s Column: My experience with Wegovy
HUGE Community Calendar
WIS 133 detour announced in Lone Rock
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Spring Green General Store again presents ChamberFest, a celebration of American classical music beloved “American” String Quartet, this hour-long concert will trace the evolution of the string quartet sound in the American musical tradition. Along with the Dvořák, For You and Me will feature a variety of string quartets by American composers, including Wynton Marsalis, Philip Glass, and Caroline Shaw.
Zou Zou Robidoux, ChamberFest Artistic Director The Spring Green General Store is proud to present ChamberFest, a classical chamber music festival in the heart of the River Valley community. For its second season, ChamberFest will celebrate the Americana and creative history of the Spring Green General Store with For You and Me: An Exploration of the American String Quartet. This hour-long chamber music concert will be preceded by a Children’s Concert featuring Llama Glamarama, a vibrant rhyming story about celebrating our differences. ChamberFest will take place on August 5th at the Spring Green General Store (137 S Albany St.). •
Saturday, August 5th at 11 AM: Llama Glamarama in Concert. Join Jennifer Vosters (APT, Forward Theater) for a reading of Simon James Green's Llama Glamarama with a live string trio score featuring works by Scott Joplin, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
All ChamberFest events are free with a $10-$20 suggested donation.
Photo by Nath Dresser A view from the 2022 ChamberFest held last year at the Spring Green General Store. and more! This fun and inclusive concert will invite music lovers of all ages to learn more about the instruments, ask questions about the music, and enjoy the art of storytelling with a live soundtrack.
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Saturday, August 5th at 12 PM: For You and Me: A Celebration of the American String Quartet. Beginning and ending with excerpts from Antonín Dvořák's
Did you really think we'd let July go by without publishing the ever-elusively hard to take fireworks pictures? The Valley saw fireworks in both Lone Rock, at left, for Lone Rock's Fourth of July Celebration and in Arena, at right at the Yolanda Peterson and Mary Jones Memorial Arena Centennial Celebration in early July. Photo by Taylor Scott, Managing Editor
Photo by Karen Scott
You can make a tax-deductible donation to ChamberFest through their fiscal receiver, Create Wisconsin, at www. mightycause.com/story/Chamberfest. Cash and check donations will be accepted at all concerts. Additional details can be found at www. springgreengeneralstore.com/chamberfest/. ChamberFest is supported in part by grants from River Valley ARTS and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin.