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“Theory of
Mind” comes to
Clear Lake
Mixed Blood Theatre’s produc-
tion of “Theory of Mind” will be per-
formed at E.B. Stillman Auditorium
at Clear Lake Middle School on April
19. The performance is sponsored by
the Opportunity Village Children’s
Autism Center in partnership with
United Way of North Central Iowa.
The performance is free and open to
the public.
“Theory of Mind” is described
as a sensitive yet unsentimental story
presenting a portrait of a young man
with Asperger’s Syndrome. Bill is a
college-bound seventeen year-old,
equipped with scholastic brilliance
but low emotional intelligence; a keen
self-awareness yet, an inability to read his storied career of nearly six decades. and in 1966 became a member of the
social cues, and a charming direct-
ness yet prone to taking everything
he hears literally. His outing with a
young woman becomes a memorable,
insightful look at the tugs, shifts, and formances, distinctive voice, gift for
about-faces found on the autism spec-
trum.
“Theory of Mind” is written by
Ken LaZebnik, a veteran Mixed Blood
company member whose other writ-
ing credits include Touched by an
Angel and the Mixed Blood-produced
plays “Calvinisms,” “League of Na-
tions,” “Vestibular Sense,” and “On
The Spectrum,” the latter two also
autism-themed.
The show is one of four produc-
tions toured this season by Mixed
Blood, a professional, multi-racial
theatre company based in Minneapo-
lis that promotes cultural pluralism
and individual equality through artis-
tic excellence. Incredibly, he has charted a record
“Theory of Mind” begins at 6:30
p.m. on April 19 at E.B. Stillman Au-
ditorium in Clear Lake.
Festival of
Brass returns to
North Iowa
North Iowa will once again enjoy
the thunder of drums, the power of
brass and the pageantry of the color
guard as North Iowa’s Festival of Brass
2016 comes to Forest City on Friday,
Aug. 5, at 7 p.m. The competition
happens under the lights of the Forest
City High School Stadium.
Tickets are on sale now at www.
northiowamusicarts.org. They will
also be available April 1 at the fol-
lowing: MBT Bank locations (For-
est City and Clear Lake), Forest City
Chamber, TSB Bank (Forest City)
and Rieman Music in Mason City.
Tickets are $15 in advance and will
be $18 at the gate on the day of the
event.
The action packed line-up in-
cludes eight drum and bugle corps,
featuring the Vanguard Cadet (Ca-
lif.) 2015 World Champions, Blue
Devils B (Calif.) 2015 World Cham-
pion Runner-up, Gold (Calif.), Colt
Cadets (Iowa), Govenaires (Minn.),
Louisiana Stars (La.), Minnesota
Brass (Minn.), and the Racine Scouts
(Wis.).
“The Festival of Brass is an excit-
ing opportunity to introduce local
bands to the thrill of Drum & Bugle
Corps,” said Dr. John Aslakson, presi-
dent of the North Iowa Music Arts &
Pageantry.
This night of music and visual
pageantry on the football field is
perfect for all ages, added Aslakson.
“Bring the family and be inspired by
what these young people do.”
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would like to welcome Dr. Dan Scarrow!
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The Surf Ballroom will host the legendary Kenny Rogers on Sunday, May 15. -Submitted photo
Kenny Rogers to perform at The Surf
Ballroom on May 15 as part of farewell tour
The Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake
is included in country music legend
Kenny Rogers’ farewell tour. The Surf
will host “The Gambler’s Last Deal”
Sunday, May 15.
Tickets went on sale Tuesday,
March 22, at a cost of $69. Surf per-
sonnel reported tickets remain for the
show, however all seating has been
sold-out. If tickets remain, they will
be $74 at the door. Doors open at 7
p.m. for the show, which includes spe-
cial guest Linda Davis.
Grammy Award-winning country
superstar and music icon Kenny Rog-
ers has enjoyed great success during
The enduring Country Music Hall
of Fame member and pop superstar
has endeared music lovers around the
globe with his songs, heartfelt per-
storytelling and universal appeal. The
Gambler’s Last Deal will celebrate his
musical legacy.
Rogers has played to mil-
lions of fans around the world,
performing chart-topping songs
from a rich catalog of hits, includ-
ing “The Gambler,” “Lady,” “Islands
In The Stream,” “Lucille,” “Cow-
ard of the County,” “She Believes
In Me,” “Ruby, Don’t Take Your
Love To Town,” “We’ve Got To-
night,” “Daytime Friends,” “Through
The Years,” “Love Will Turn You
Around,” “You Decorated My
Life,” “Crazy,” “Every Time Two Fools
Collide,” and “Buy Me A Rose.”
within each of the last seven decades
(’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, 2000s,
2010s), while sending 24 songs to the
number one spot of the charts. He has
sold more than 120 million albums
worldwide, making him one of the
Top Ten Best Selling Male Solo Artists
of All Time, according to the RIAA.
Rogers earned a Grammy Award
nomination and CMA Award nomi-
nation in 2014, along with longtime
friend and collaborator Dolly Parton,
for their new duet, “You Can’t Make
Old Friends,” the title track of Rogers’
current acclaimed 32nd studio album
released by Warner Bros. in 2013.
Rogers’ music has always crossed
boundaries — his 28 Billboard Adult
Contemporary Top 10’s is sixth-best
all-time, and fourth-best among men,
trailing only Elton John, Neil Dia-
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mond and Elvis Presley. Rogers was
the only male artist to notch Billboard
AC Top 10s in the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s and
‘90s (only Barbra Streisand also man-
aged that feat in those decades).
Houston-born Rogers formed
his first band while in high school in
1956—a doo-wop group called the
Scholars—and has never quit mak-
ing music. He charted as a solo art-
ist in the late ’50s with “That Crazy
Feeling” and performed the song on
American Bandstand, played stand-
up bass in the jazz group the Bobby
Doyle Three (appearing on their al-
bum released by Columbia Records),
popular folk group, The New Christy
Minstrels.
The spotlight started focusing
on Rogers when his group, the First
Edition, scored their first hit, “Just
Dropped In (To See What Condi-
tion My Condition Was In).” Pop and
country chart success followed for the
band with “Ruby, Don’t Take Your
Love To Town” (when the group of-
ficially became known as Kenny Rog-
ers and the First Edition). A string
of hits, including “Reuben James,”
“Something’s Burning” and “Tell It
All Brother,” and a TV variety show
called Rollin’ continued to make the
popular group relevant. But it was
Rogers’ breakthrough, GRAMMY-
winning performance of “Lucille” as a
solo artist in 1977 that propelled him
to superstardom, launching one of the
most prosperous careers in the history
of music. Certified gold, “Lucille” was
named Song of the Year and Single of
the Year by the Academy of Country
Music and also earned Single of the
Year honors from the Country Music
Association.
“Daytime Friends,” “Sweet Mu-
sic Man,” and “Love Or Something
Like It” continued Rogers’ run of suc-
cess. Then came his smash hit, “The
Gambler,” a story song so vivid it
not only delighted country and pop
fans, it also became a TV movie, star-
ring Rogers himself in the title role as the way, but there comes a time when
Brady Hawkes. The movie spawned
four follow-ups, making it the longest
running miniseries franchise on tele-
vision. The five Gambler mini-series
have attracted over 100 million view-
ers nationwide and launched a second
career for Rogers as an actor on tele-
vision and movies, including another
TV movie based on one of his number
one hit songs, “Coward of the Coun-
ty.” While drawing new listeners and
fans to country music in the 1980s, he
came to embody the role of the sensi-
tive male, singing such romantic hits
as “Through The Years,” “She Believes
In Me,” “You Decorated My Life,”
and “Lady,” the biggest song of his ca-
reer.
In 1999, Rogers returned to the
charts in a big way on his own record
label, Dreamcatcher, with the hit and
number one video, “The Greatest,”
and when the follow-up, “Buy Me
a Rose,” hit Number One in 2000,
Rogers, at age 61, became the oldest
artist in chart history to have a num-
ber one solo record on the country
chart, proving his talent was just as vi- est City, Garner, Goodell, Greene, Hampton, Lake Mills, Manly, Mason City,
brant and meaningful as it was when
he first started out.
Rogers has continued his amaz-
ing run into the 21st century with a
Country Music Hall of Fame induc-
tion, a CMA Lifetime Achievement
Award, two Grammy Award nomina-
tions (“Calling Me” with Don Henley
and “You Can’t Make Old Friends”
with Dolly Parton), a CMA Award
nomination (“You Can’t Make Old
Friends” with Dolly Parton), a Gold-
certified record (21 Number Ones),
and three critically acclaimed albums
(Water and Bridges, The Love of God,
and You Can’t Make Old Friends),
considered by Rogers to be some of
the very best work of his entire career.
Remaining a popular entertainer
around the world, Rogers, who was
once voted the “Favorite Singer of
All-Time” in a joint poll by readers
of both USA Today and People, still
loves touring and recording new mu-
sic. Even so, Rogers came to a conclu-
sion that family is more important
than touring at this stage in his career,
once he’s played the final date of his
last world tour. “I’ve been so lucky to
have enjoyed such a long career and to
have such amazing support from my
fans and all who have helped me along
I need to focus on spending time with
my family. My life is about my wife
and my 11-year-old twin boys right
now. There are a lot of things I want to
do together with them to create some
special memories. I don’t have a buck-
et list of my own...I have a bucket list
of things I want to do with them.”
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North Iowa Concert Band to
present Spring Concert on April 5
The North Iowa Concert Band, under the direction of John Klemas, will
present a Spring Concert on Tuesday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the North Iowa
Community Auditorium on the NIACC campus.
The program will open with great flourish featuring the world premiere of
a Jared Barnes’ work, “Ascen.” An alumnus of Newman Catholic High School
(2003), NIACC (2005) and Wartburg College (2007), Barnes’ instrumental
works have enjoyed performances throughout the United States and around the
world, including performances at honor bands and festivals, as well as the presti-
gious Midwest Clinic in Chicago.
Barnes is a former band director of the Newman High School Concert Band
where his bands regularly received Division I ratings and, in 2011, was selected to
perform as the Class 1A Honor Band at the Iowa Bandmasters Convention. He
remains active as a music educator in north central Iowa, currently serving as the
5-12 Instrumental Music Director at Northwood-Kensett Schools.
The North Iowa Concert Band’s program includes: the world premiere of “As-
cent” by Jared Barnes; “Overture to “Candide,” by Leonard Bernstein as arranged
by Walter Beeler; “Irish Tune from County Derry,” by Percy Aldrige Grainger as
edited by R. Mark Rogers; “Excerpts from “Appalachian Spring,” by Aaron Cop-
land as arranged by Robert Longfield; and “Voice of America,” by Karl L. King.
Members of the North Iowa Concert Band represent communities from all
over North Iowa, including the towns of Belmond, Charles City, Clear Lake, For-
Nora Springs, Osage, Pocahontas, Rockford, Rockwell, Rudd, Union and Gales-
ville, Wis.
North Iowa Concert Band members from Clear Lake include Heather Curtis,
Ken Schneider and Mark Tesar. Paula Schultz is from Garner.
Tickets for the performance are $5 for adults and are available at the NIACC
Business Office 641-422-4188. Tickets can also be purchased at the door the night
of the concert. All students will receive free admission. A reception in the Muse-
Norris Conference Center will be held following the concert.
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