You are cordially invited to:
Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
Southeast Community College Learning Center at Plattsmouth
537 Main St.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 4 p.m.
There will be a short program, refreshments and tours of the facility. For more information, contact:
Lyn Belitz
SCC Plattsmouth Learning Center Coordinator
402-437-2298
LBelitz@southeast.edu
Greenblatt & Seay's Schoolhouse Performance Series features a concert of Scandinavian music on Sunday, November 13, at 2:30 PM, in the Old Avoca, Nebraska Schoolhouse. Greenblatt & Seay and Friends will be playing a variety of instruments, including fiddle, guitar, hammered dulcimer, recorders, pennywhistles, and the nyckelharpa. The nyckelharpa is the official keyed fiddle of Sweden, and has 16 strings.
Greenblatt & Seay have been playing and singing together since the night they met, decades ago. Their performance on November 13 will include the championship fiddling styles of Deborah Greenblatt, and the fancy whistle-playing of David Seay.
The concert will be downstairs in the 1925 brick schoolhouse, and followed by light refreshments, and a chance to chat and even jam with the performers. Avoca is in southern Cass County, Nebraska, on the 13 C Spur, one mile south of Highway 34.
Admission is $10.00 for adults, $5.00 for students and senior citizens, and $1.00 for children. Seating is limited.For more information, write to Greenblatt & Seay, The Old Schoolhouse, P.O. Box 671, Avoca, Nebraska, 68307, or call 402-275-3221, or e-mail them at debby@greenblattandseay.com.
The historic Old Avoca Schoolhouse has been the home of the Schoolhouse Performance Series since 1990. Music lessons, workshops, fiddle camps, and field trips are offered by Schoolhouse residents, Greenblatt & Seay, and are available by appointment.
Twenty-one fiddlers from Auburn, Avoca, Bellevue, Blair, Elkhorn, Crete, Lincoln, Omaha, Papillion, and Tecumseh gathered in The Old Avoca Schoolhouse on Sunday, October 9 for the 20th Annual Schoolhouse Fiddling Bee! There was a full house of enthusiastic fans to enjoy and encourage these brave competitors.
In the Open Division, each fiddler played a hoedown, a waltz, and a tune of choice. Here are the results:
Open Division 1st Place, Cari-Lynn Wenstrand, Lincoln, NE
Open Division 2nd Place, Grace Dowd, Lincoln, NE
Open Division 3rd Place, Gabriel Marks, Lincoln, NE
In the Singing Division, each fiddler played and sang a tune at the same time. Here are the results:
Singing Fiddler's 1st Place, Emma Ackerman, Auburn, NE
Singing Fiddler's 2nd Place, Gabriel Marks, Lincoln, NE
Singing Fiddler's 3rd Place, Mckenzie Groninga, Blair, NE
In the Fee-Fi-Faux Division, each contestant played a fiddle tune on an instrument that was not a fiddle. Here are the results:
Fee-Fi-Faux 1st Place: Patrick Marks, cello, Lincoln, NE
Fee-Fi-Faux 2nd Place: Grace Dowd, viola, Lincoln, NE
Fee-Fi-Faux 3rd Place: Sharon Roberts-Yuen, whistle, Lincoln, NE
In the Hocus Pocus Division, each musician showed off some trick fiddling. Here are the results:
Hocus Pocus 1st Place, Mackenzie Groninga, fiddling while hula-hooping, Blair, NE
Hocus Pocus 2nd Place, Gabriel Marks, fiddling the Orange Blossom Special, Lincoln, NE
In the Twin Fiddling Division, two fiddlers played together, with one playing the melody, and one playing the harmony. Here are the results:
Twin Fiddler's 1st Place, Hanila VanKirk & Olivia York, Omaha, NE
Twin Fiddler's 2nd Place, Gabriel Marks & Dorothy Marks, Lincoln, NE
Twin Fiddler's 3rd Place, Maddyn Wenstrand & Cari-Lynn Wenstrand
For pictures of this year's event, log on to https://www.facebook.com/Greenblatt-Seay-335439179807362/.
Next year's contest will be on Sunday, October 8, 2017. For more information, contact Debby at Debby@greenblattandseay.com
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