Feb. 13, 2012
- A theater company in Dayton, Ohio, is premiering a show based on the life of Kentucky's Rosemary Clooney, reports the Dayton Daily News. Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical, which opens Feb. 21 in Dayton, is written by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman. Friedman said watching movies featuring Clooney, Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby and others, " is probably why I got into musical theater."
- The American Spiritual Ensemble is taking "its soul-stirring choral arrangements" to Bob Jones University, reports the Greenville News. The ensemble is led by University of Kentucky professor Everett McCorvey. "Spirituals grew from pain and sorrow, from the most difficult time of enslaved Africans in this country,” McCorvey said to the Greeneville News. "But the music was not about anger or vengeance. The music was about love, forgiveness and hope. The music helped people to look forward to a better time in their existence."
- The Ralph Stanley Museum and Traditional Mountain Music Center in Abingdon, Va., is celebrating Ralph Stanley's 85th birthday on Saturday, reports Tricities.com. The birthday party benefits the Stanley museum, which opened in 2004 as a major venue along The Crooked Road, a tourism initiative to connect Stanley's museum to the Blue Ridge Music Center near Galax, Va., just off the Blue Ridge Parkway.
- The University Press of Kentucky is offering a free book in Februrary: The Godfather of Tabloid: Generoso Pope Jr. and the National Enquirer, by Jack Vitek. Available until March 1 or supplies run out, request a copy online.
