Playing football at Michigan got Joe Holland more than an education. It got him a job. Two, in fact. The linebacker on the Wolverines’ 1988 Big Ten championship team was hired out of college by a fellow Michigan alum, with his football connections landing him the initial interview. That he’d worn the famed winged helmet caught the eye of his second employer, too. “The president of this startup was a huge Michigan fan and lived in Ann Arbor and was a good friend of Bo Schembechler. I’m going to potentially go work for these guys and he’s a Michigan fan? That didn’t hurt me,” said Holland, now the co-owner of an Internet software company.
For more information, go to www.art4antioch.org, or contact Diane Gibson-Gray at the Arts & Cultural Foundation, 925-325-9897, or email Diane@art4antioch.org, ‘An East County Christmas’ is Dec, 8, ANTIOCH — The Summerset Singers, an East County senior chorus, performs “An East County Christmas” that will include Christmas music favorites from Handel to The New Christy Minstrels, Hayden to Cohen, and an original composition ballet necklace, personalized with silver initial and add swarovski crystal birthstone of your choice. on stainless steel chain, from Nancy Bachmann, Various East County musicians from the Delta Strummers and the Summerset Big Band, will also accompany the Summerset Singers..
Tyler Ward (Denver CO). Liv Warfield (Portland OR). Warm Soda (Austin TX). The War On Drugs (Philadelphia PA). War On Women (Baltimore MD). Jesus Warr (Monterrey MEXICO). Water Liars (Oxford MS). Dale Watson & His Lone Stars (Austin TX). Juan Wauters (New York NY). Wave Chapelle (Milwaukee WI). WAVVES (Los Angeles CA). Waxahatchee (Philadelphia PA). Wax Witches (Gold Coast AUSTRALIA). Waylon Speed (Burlington VT). Dallas Wayne (Austin TX). Wayward (London UK-ENGLAND). Ryn Weaver (New York NY).
What makes Mariza’s music so potent, beyond her astonishing voice, is that she draws her musical influences directly from her family’s roots, Born in Mozambique when the ballet necklace, personalized with silver initial and add swarovski crystal birthstone of your choice. on stainless steel chain, southeast African nation was part of Portugal’s fading and tattered empire, she moved to Lisbon’s historic Alfama district as a child, absorbing a love of fado from her father and pride in her African heritage from her mother, “My mom was African and Portuguese and my great grandmother was from Goa,” says Mariza, 42, referring to the small Indian state that ended 450 years as a Portuguese colonial outpost in 1961, “She tried to show me a little bit of Africa so I don’t forget that part, I was listening to music from the Antilles, Bonga from Angola, Wazimbo from Mozambique, as well as Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Elis Regina.”..
lyrics by Tom Lawrence and Hal Zuckerman. “Pinocchio” features David Menelik as Pinocchio, Isaiah Holly as Geppetto, Jasmine Richardson as Angelina, Miresa Wilson as Antonia, John Wilson as the Coachmen, Lyric Fox as the Blue Fairy, Taylor Knecht as the Fox, Sarah Oshel as the Cat, Kaileigh Crofutt as Candlewick, Stevie Burks as Gina, and Diamond Lewis, Carly Oshel, Halanie Hinojoza, Janiene Maxon and Cadence Fox all as truants. “Midnight Madness” is an original one-act play written and directed by Alex Schepers.
