The Sunset Series
Presented by the Henderson Area Arts Alliance and the Downtown Henderson Project
Bring your lawnchair, your blanket, your dinner, your friends and maybe your dancing shoes. Join HAAA and DHP every Friday in May for a free performance. The location (and the artist) will change each week, so check the line-up below and mark your calendars. All events begin at 7:00 PM
May 7 - Local Author, Joey Goebel at Planter's Coffeehouse
May 14 - Pop duo, Swan Dive at 124 S. Main Street (on the front porch of Mike and Susan Vicker's home)
May 21 - YogaDance performance with Gillian St. Clair at the Hughes Building (213 N. Main)
May 28 - Nashville singer/songwriter Peter Barbee at 2nd and Main (Farmer's Market)
A very special thanks to the sponsors of "The Sunset Series":
Hilliard Lyon, Breck's Bicycles, Bank of Henderson, Latta Insurance and Weaver, Dalton & Associates Branch of Ameriprise Financial
For more information contact Kyle Arnett at 270.826.5916 or email kyle.arnett@haaa.org or Julie Turnipseed at 270.827.0016 or email at julie@downtownhenderson.org.
JOEY GOEBEL, AUTHOR - Henderson native Joey Goebel, son of Nancy Bingemer Goebel and the late Adam Goebel, had his first novel published at 22.
Though he has a cult following in his own country, the 29-year-old has found his audience in Europe with his three comedic novels The Anomalies, Torture the Artist, and Commonwealth. His novels have been published in fifteen languages, and his most widespread success has been in the German-speaking domain, where over 100,000 copies of his books have sold. Joey has been featured in Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, the German equivalents to Newsweek and Time.
In 2006 Torture the Artist won the Jury of Young Readers Prize (Austria). Also in 2006, Torture the Artist was long-listed for the inaugural Dylan Thomas Prize (a $200,000 literary prize in Wales). In June of 2009, Joey won the 5,000 euro Days and Nights of Literature Festival Prize in Romania.
Goebel has taught English composition at Henderson Community College and Brescia University. He currently lives in Henderson with his wife, Micah.
Joey will be reading excerpts from each of his novels, "Commonwealth," "Torture the Artists," and "The Anomalies" at Planter's Coffeehouse at 7:00 in the evening.
SWAN DIVE - The duo of Bill DeMain and Molly Felder draw inspiration from their favorite music - The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Dusty Springfield, Burt Bacharach, Ennio Morricone, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Everything But The Girl, Rufus Wainwright - and make it into something that’s familiar and fresh, timeless and tuneful. As MOJO Magazine puts it, "Their songs are an imaginative line in classic pop." Since forming Swan Dive in 1993, Bill (guitar, vocals) and Molly (vocals, percussion) have been connecting with fans both in their hometown of Nashville and in far-off Japan and Korea, where they’ve enjoyed stellar success - four top 10 singles, many television and radio appearances, videos on MTV and multi-city tours. In the U.S. they’ve appeared on Late Night With Conan O’Brien, and opened shows for Norah Jones, Pernice Brothers, Jill Sobule, Jane Siberry and Sixpence None The Richer. They’ve also placed songs on TV programs such as Felicity and Pop Stars, and in the film National Lampoon’s Gold Diggers. They’ve twice won the Best Pop Album in the Independent Music Awards - for Swan Dive in 2000 and June in 2002. Their latest album, Until, was released in May 2007.
SWAN DIVE will be making their Henderson debut on the lovely front porch of Mike and Susan Vickers at 124 S. Main (next to the Presbyterian Church) at 7:00 in the evening.
GILLIAN ST. CLAIR, YOGA DANCE - I've been dancing all my life but from my first yoga class 11 years ago to the present day. I step on the mat and I am home. That's the feeling I try to convey in my yoga classes. Here you are safe to explore and are supported in your journey.
Having extensive background in Ashtanga yoga, and a passion for dance and music, my classes fuse creative sequencing with powerful movement. They will require only a few things of you; quality of breath, physical honesty, and mental focus.
For more information about me, please see visit my web site atwww.stclairyoga.com
Gillian will be performing her very own YogaDance (blend of Yoga and Modern Dance) at the Hughes Building, 213 N. Main Street, at 7:00 in the evening.
*Gillian will also offer a beginner yoga class at 10:00 am and a yoga master class at 12:30. Both classes are open to the public. For more information on the classes and fees, please call Kyle Arnett at 270.826.5916.
PETER BARBEE is the quiet unassuming artist you can't help but notice. His soulful, honest voice is a welcome reminder of true talent harking back to a time when musicians were few and artists were even fewer. An accomplished guitarist, his abilities have opened the door to an impressive working knowledge of blues, pop, rock and electronica. A natural composer from an early age he has developed a talent for creating a melody that is unexpected and yet feels inevitable, at once harmonious and then dissonant. He has gained experience in production and has himself written film scores with the sound that only he seems able to bring forth. As the fifth of six children raised in the heart of East Tennessee , this young, old soul has witnessed many things, thought many thoughts, developed a sense of humor and survived heartbreak with a good purpose in mind. His uncommon perspective is wonderfully distilled into the music he humbly and generously offers to you- his audience, his friends.
Peter Barbee will be serenading us on the corner of 2nd and Main, on the lawn where the Farmer's Market is located at 7:00 in the evening.
