Grangeville Arts

I just realized that if we standardize on a date format then readers can easily search for activities based on a specific date. Like if they are looking for something to do on May 19th they can use the search feature (on the right there) to pull up everything that contains a certain date, like 5/19. Shall we try to be consistent and use a mm/dd format when mentioning dates in our posts? What do you think, would that help?

For us rural folks who rely on radio, internet radio in particular, please be aware that we are at a major crossroads. Rates may go way up (retroactively) for Internet radio broadcasters and in all likelyhood most of the smaller & non-commercial ones will go away if the proposed rules are implemented in mid May. I’ve been wrong before so check it out for yourself. Book up at Save Net Radio or here or here

By the way, I love KJAZ (classic jazz archive) and Secret Agent (upbeat silliness). What stations do you listen to?

The Kooskia Opera House is for sale and a committee has been formed to save it. They have a beautiful Save The Opera House site that talks about Jazz great Lee Morris’ connection to the building. The site has some wonderful pictures of old Kooskia and video too. And there is also mention of the preservation effort on the Kooskia site as the Opera House Committee.

The Idaho Sawtooth Bluegrass Association is sponsoring the second Annual Spring Jam 4/27, 4/28, 4/29 at the Lewis-Clark Resort in Kamiah. For information call 935-2556, log onto lewisclarkresort.com or email wanab@starband.net

The annual Friends of the Kooskia Library Word Jam is Saturday 4/28 at 7pm at the Grapevine Cafe on Main Street in Kooskia. We went a couple of years ago when Idaho Writer in Residence Kim Barnes and Robert Wrigley were reading and it was a wonderful evening of stories and poetry.

A class in Simple Scrapbooking is being offered by April McCarthy at the Clearwater Valley LCSC outreach center on 5/19. You can call Vincent at 208-926-7085 to get more information or to register.

Speaking of new websites, Dan Faller has a nice site up now. It even includes a picture of Dan playing at the Grangeville Arts sushi dinner at The Gallery back in February. This was such a nice evening that I ended up joining the group right then and there.

Welcome to the new Grangeville Arts website. We now have this blog that all members may post to. There is also a page for updates on the upcoming Music Fest and some Links to arty friends with web pages.

Please feel free to go ahead and leave a comment or email us and let us know what you think. Yes, especially you.

The words here are those of the poster and do not necessarily reflect the position of Grangeville Arts, Inc. Particularly when it comes to favorite musicians, desserts and what a reasonable amount of wasabi is.

My thanks to Rachel Young who had the original idea for the website. She gets all the credit for getting things rolling, the board’s approval, the domain and putting up the original site. And thanks for being so supportive of this update, it wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.