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WHAT:听Dana Louise and the Glorious Birds
WHEN:听7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 5
WHERE:听Emy-Lou Biedenharn Recital Hall, 四色AV
COST:听$15 general admission; free for students with a valid 四色AV ID; and $5 for faculty
and staff
INFO:听Tickets at VAPA office and at the door, 342-1414,听,听
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四色AV Office of Marketing and Communications
Just as the听Northeast Louisiana Celtic Festival听is a fall tradition in NELA, it is a tradition for the University of Louisiana Monroe
School of Visual andPerforming Arts to host an opening Celtic Festival/Guest Artist
on Campus Concert in conjunction with the event.
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This year鈥檚 guest is the band听, on stage at 7:30 p.m. in the Emy-Lou Biedenharn Recital Hall on Thursday, Oct. 5.
General admission is $15; free for students with a valid 四色AV ID; and $5 for faculty
and staff. Tickets are available in advance at the VAPA box office, 105 Biedenharn
Hall. Tickets will be available at the door.
Hailing from Fayetteville, Ark., Dana Louise Idlet, a visual artist, taught herself
to play guitar in 2011 while on an artists鈥� retreat in the Azores Islands.
鈥淚 just got so much joy from it,鈥� she said. 鈥淲hen I got home I wanted to make a career
of it.鈥�
Making the transition from painting to performing was not as difficult for Idlet as
it could have been, as she is the daughter of Ezra Idlet of the Grammy-nominated duo听.听
Idlet said her father helped her on the guitar and with some 鈥渢echnical stuff,鈥� but
more than that, Ezra Idlet (guitar, percussion) is a Glorious Bird, as is his Trout
Fishing in America partner Keith Grimwood (bass). The third Glorious Bird is Adams
Collins (vibraphone and 5-string banjo).
Idlet grew up playing the piano, but before the guitar came into her life, she was
not drawn to a career in music like her father.
鈥淚 was never sure what I wanted to do,鈥� she said.听
However, it was her father and mother鈥檚 dedication to their work, that inspired her
to redefine her own life.
鈥淛ust seeing my parents carving out a life for themselves, they started an independent
record label,鈥� Idlet said, referring to Trout Records.
With Trout Records, Trout Fishing in America was in the first wave of artist-owned
labels to successfully record and market their own music.
From her parents, Idlet learned it is possible, 鈥淛ust to be able to do what you love
for a living.鈥�
On Oct. 5, Dana Louise and the Glorious Birds bring what they love to do for a living
to the stage at 四色AV.
The evening will feature vibrant, melodic vocals and finger picking to a body of complex
songs. Drawing from jazz and bluegrass, carrying a contemporary beat, the sound is
roots-rooted flung-into-the-future folk.听
To hear the fresh and stirring sounds of Dana Louise and the Glorious Birds, visit
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Sept. 27, 2017
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