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Show SPRING VILLE HERALD Thursday, October 20, 2005 Debra Fotheringham to play at the Read Leaf Bookshop iVrV J". ' V- Li : ' : I Shaylee Rose Christensen and Shyanne Shalon Christensen, twin daughters of Loni and Shalon Christensen of Mapleton, celebrated their first birthdays October 4, 2005. Their grandparents are Gary and Charlene Peters of Hesperia, California, and Bill and Carolyn Christensen Chris-tensen of Altamont, Utah. They have a sister, Lacey, age five; and a brother, Dilan, age 3. Jadyn Camri Gibb, daughter of Dave G. and Amy C. Gibb of American Fork, celebrated her first birthday on August 30, 2005. Helping her celebrate were her sisters, McCall and Sydney, and brother, Connor. Her grandparents grandpar-ents are Grant and Carolyn Gibb, Duane and Barb Alleman and the late Ron Christensen. Great-grandparents Great-grandparents include Gil White, Delia Christensen, Grace Alleman and Ralph and Dorothy Dunn. Friday, Oct. 21, Debra Fotheringham will bring her music to the Read Leaf. "De-bra's "De-bra's shows are always great," said Roger Layton, owner of the Read Leaf. "She is fun and full of energy en-ergy and everyone enjoys her shows. It's the perfect opportunity for local people to hear some good music in a small setting." Fotheringham has established estab-lished her own voice as a leader in the Utah music scene. Her songs mix elements of jazz, rock and bluegrass. The happy blend is an original listening lis-tening experience. She's got great sound and a great attitude. atti-tude. Her music is loved by students and young people but accessible to everyone. Fotheringham has been featured on the soundtrack of the popular Utah motion picture "The R.M." She won favorite local venue Muse Music's Battle of the Bands, beating out dozens of competitors com-petitors and most recently, Debra, was voted Utah Valley's Val-ley's Favorite Local Performer Per-former by the readers of Utah Valley Magazine. "I don't know if you can be a legend at such a young age," says Layton, "but Debra is well on her way." Music starts at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 21. The Read Leaf is located at 164 S. Main Street in Springville. Call 489-1390 for more information, informa-tion, or visit www.de-brafotheringham.com. The magic of claymation comes to Utah Nestled quietly between the movie theater, the gift shop and the Dinosaur Museum Mu-seum at Thanksgiving Point lies an exhibit that is, perhaps, one of Utah Valley's Val-ley's best kept secrets. Until Un-til now. Ageless Animation, a slop-motion animated film company founded by local artists Chris and Nathan Smith, has moved it's studio stu-dio to the museum in order to not only showcase its colorful sets and characters, charac-ters, but to share its entire creative process with the public. Within view of delighted onlookers, the animators work, sketching, molding and breathing life into their classic characters of clay. "Jonah: A Great Fish Story" Sto-ry" is the company's first major production and this award-winning film has been winning hearts of audiences au-diences and retailers alike. This charming movie follows fol-lows a reluctant Jonah and his Friend Sartan, a hermit crab, into the belly of a whale and has won top honors hon-ors at the Eclipse Film Festival. Fes-tival. There it caught the eye of filmmaker Richard Dutcher while he was serving serv-ing on the judging committee. commit-tee. "This film just blew away the competition. There was no doubt in anyone's mind that it was the best animated animat-ed show of the festival," said Dutcher, whose newly founded Main Street Movie W i L Company is distributing the film. ' "There are few people who can create claymation films with the skill that Chris and Nathan have shown in their work. I'm proud to have this film be the first project we've taken on to distribute. distrib-ute. It's in store across the U.S. and the response has been overwhelmingly positive." posi-tive." Sons of well-known artist Gary Smith, Chris and Nathan began training at an early age. Chris followed fol-lowed a more traditional path studying sculpting and painting, eventually receiving receiv-ing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from BYU; while Nathan's love of filmmaking filmmak-ing led him to years of working as an electrician, assistant director, cine-matographer cine-matographer and production produc-tion editor. In 1999, having been enthralled en-thralled with the unique, hand-crafted look of stop-motion stop-motion animation since they first saw Nick Park's "Wallace and Gromit," the Smith brothers decided to combine their talent for fine art and film to create Furniture Shelves $ Quilts Clocks Rugs Americana ALL HALLOWEEN ITEMS Excludes special order, wood-decor iind Willow Tree. Expires 1 1 3005. ADDDRESS: CITY: . STATE: ZIP: PHONE: . E-MAIL:. "1 f mm ' Z I HERITAGE WOODWORKS 241 S. 100 W. Springville 489-8242 Hours: Mem-Sat 10-6 uuoDLwmv sSna MPO saws amiiuiiy o Ageless Animation, whose first project was a two-minute two-minute short film entitled, "Bird Bonkers" based on the artwork of renowned fantasy artist James C. Christensen. The richness and depth of stop-motion animation provided pro-vided to be the perfect medium for Christensen's work, leading Chris and Nathan to create "Jonah: A Great Fish Story," followed by "Davy and Golimyr" which they recently completed. com-pleted. Currently in production produc-tion at Ageless Animation is "The Night Before Christmas" Christ-mas" the first in a series of holiday films, all inspired by James Christensen's art. "Jonah: A Great Fish Story" Sto-ry" is available at major retailers re-tailers throughout Utah. Essential Mormon Celebrations The long-awaited companion to the runaway bestseller "Essential Mormon Cookbook" is here-"Essential Mormon Mor-mon Celebrations" (Deseret Book, Hardcover, $16.95), by Julie Badger Jensen. The most anticipated Utah cookbook cook-book of the year is a collection of 200 time-honored recipes for traditional and non-traditional celebrations. "The Essential Mormon Cookbook" has been one of the top 10 best-selling LDS products since its release in 2004. "Essential Mormon Celebrations" is expected to do likewise. like-wise. This is the perfect source for menus and recipes to help commemorate any kind of gathering: the anticipated Night Before Christmas, a football tailgating party, a wedding or baby shower. There are haunting recipes for Halloween and a fitting dinner to make for Mother's Day. Filled with recipes gathered from Jensen's own family fam-ily traditions, the book is divided by seasons and events in this sequel of Mormon comfort food. Recipes invoke magical thoughts of each season-like snowballs on Christmas Even accompanied by a Quick Peppermint Stick Cake; or Sloppy Joe's in a Pumpkin with Monkey Bread and Chocolate Covered Spiders for Halloween. Celebrate the uniquely "Mormon Moments" with Missionary Chicken and Raspberry Pecan Salad for Conference Dinner; or Pioneer Beef Stew with Sourdough Sour-dough Bread and Beehive Honey Butter for Pioneer Day. No matter the size of the group or the reason for the gathering-a get-together with good friends, a Sunday dinner with the family, or a large church buffet-"Essen-tial Mormon Celebrations" has recipes with easy-to-follow instructions that will please all tastes and fit all occasions. occa-sions. "Essential Mormon Celebrations" is available at Deseret De-seret Book, deseretbook.com and select bookstores nationwide. Utah Music Teachers Assoc. Conference November 4-5 H bfJ t , - ? ? fro v v lis fa w ygBNm., n't i rQ' ; :pvi !; r 1 I ' A $ ! 'Q ! Bring in this form to register to win a w . iiifi i ruiihii iiir i : i " i I NAME: 20 J j I Utah Music Teachers Association, As-sociation, affiliated with Music Mu-sic Teachers National Association, Associ-ation, will hold its annual conference this year, entitled "A Celebration of Music," November 4-5 at Salt Lake Community College, Miller Campus. Outstanding educator, recording artist and concert pianist Gail Smith is the featured fea-tured presenter. Smith has done extensive research on women composers and will give presentations on "The Life and Music of Fanny Mendelssohn" and "One Thousand Years of Women Composers." She will also share tips on the tools of improvisation, im-provisation, in particular how to improvise on "Hymns Made Easy." Her landmark book, "The Complete Book of Improvisation, Fills and Chord Progressions" is being used in colleges and by piano teachers around the world. Main presenters also include in-clude Dr. E. L. Lancaster, Vice President and Keyboard Editor-in-Chief of Alfred Pub lishing, Carole Flatau, nationally nation-ally recognized teacher, composer, clinician and creator cre-ator of Noteworthy Publications Publica-tions and Mary Gae George, internationally recognized co-author of "Artistry at the Piano." More than twenty additional presenters are scheduled for the two-day conference. Session topics vary widely from new technology, tech-nology, recording students' music, overcoming technical hurdles, teaching adults, to becoming nationally certified. certi-fied. Three outstanding young performers will provide entertainment en-tertainment for the Friday evening banquet: Brandon Stewart, MTNA Young Artist Performance Competi tion winner, Jonathan Bowman, Bow-man, Utah Valley Youth Symphony Salute to Youth Award winner and John Sargeant, MTNA Junior High Performance Competition Competi-tion winner. For more information and to register, go to utahmta.org or call Lynette Morrill, 798-8323. The deadline dead-line for registration is October Octo-ber 28. Attendees do not have to be current members of UMTA. According to Lynda Lyn-da Broadbent, UMTA Vice-president Vice-president and Conference Chairperson, "Every music teacher who wants to be educated edu-cated and learn from a wide variety of people and ideas at minimal cost will not want to miss this opportunity." 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The musical, which will cast 22 UVSC students, follows fol-lows the life of songwriter Ellie Greenwich. The show will feature a live jazz band from the UVSC music department and will be operated completely com-pletely by UVSC students. "This music fits between the 50s innocent music and the hippy era of psychedelic pop. It was a time before the Vietnam War and after the Korean War. Elvis was still on the scene and the Beatles were starting to hit America" said James Arrington, UVSC professor and director direc-tor of the musical. "Many people, even those who were born after this period, can hum the melodies to these songs." Tickets are $6 for UVSC students, $8 for children, other students and seniors and $10 general admission. Tickets can be purchased at Campus Connection or by calling (801) 863-8797. |