Ford, serials and documents librarian, was part of a Burlington-Alamance Sister Cities delegation that was presented the keys to Burlington’s sister city, Soledad de Gráciano Sanchez, Mexico in late 2010.

Saturday, March 6, 8 p.m. 
The Paramount Theater, 128 E Front St., downtown Burlington
Tickets: $10 advance, $12 at door, $8 students/seniors. 
Call the box office to reserve tickets: 336-222-TIXS

Seating is limited. Please RSVP with the number of seats you’d like to reserve by emailing us at odeafour@bellsouth.net.

When:
Friday, June 19, 2009
7 – 9 p.m.

Where:
Home of Neal Jones and Dianne Ford
5645 Jewell Rd.
Graham, N.C. 27253
Contact: 336-376-8948 (home) or 336-675-8444 (cell)

Cost:
$15/person

Please pay at the door. Proceeds benefit the musicians and the scholarship fund of Burlington-Alamance Sister Cities.

The outstanding musicians for this concert include:

Alison Weiner on piano; Louis Sawyer on saxophone; Ben Palmer on bass; and David Shore on drums. They will fill your musical requests if possible. Feel free to suggest tunes you’d love to hear.

Directions:
We are located approximately 20 minutes south of Graham.

From I-40/85: Take exit 147 for Graham, and drive south on Hwy 87. Drive ~7.2 miles and turn right (just after Wildlife Club Road) onto Snow Camp Road. Drive ~.7 miles and turn left onto Moore’s Chapel Cemetery Road (Careful! Blind intersection!). Drive 1.3 miles and turn right onto Jewell Rd.

From Chapel Hill: Take Hwy 54 West from Chapel Hill. Turn left when you see the big green sign indicating a left turn to the village of Saxapahaw. Follow Sax-Bethelehem Church Road down into Saxapahaw. Pass the old mill and cross the Haw River. Immediately turn right on to Moore’s Chapel Cemetery Road. Stay on this road as you cross Hwy 87, go one mile, then cross Lindley Mill Road. Take the next LEFT onto Jewell Road.

Our driveway is the first on the right, with Jones-Ford on the mailbox. There will be assistance with parking.

See you soon!
– Neal and Dianne
 

Greg McCallum – playing in Saxapahaw!
Sunday, Feb. 8, 2-4 p.m.

“Internationally renowned pianist Greg McCallum will perform works by Beethoven, Chopin, and Ravel’s monumental work, Gaspard de la Nuit”

(Please see Greg’s bio at the end of this invitation)

Tickets are $15 each. Proceeds benefit the scholarship fund of Burlington/Alamance Sister Cities and will provide partial financial aid to English tutors traveling to our sister city of Soledad de Graciano Sanchez, MX.

Email Dianne Ford (dford@elon.edu) to reserve tickets; seating is limited and reservations are required. You may pay at the door. Directions will be emailed to you – we look forward to having you in our home and enjoying this wonderful music! Dianne Ford and Neal Jones – 5645 Jewell Rd, Graham, NC 27253 (336-376-8948)

Pianist Greg McCallum has performed across the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls including the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Preston Bradley Hall in Chicago, New York’s Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London. A versatile musician, McCallum plays a wide range of repertoire from Bach to Brubeck, and has been praised by critics for his “deeply felt, sensitive playing” (Die Main Post, Germany) and “consummate technical and artistic skill” (The Spectator, Raleigh, NC).

McCallum received music degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park, the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg, Germany. He frequently performs for radio and television, and records for the MSR Classics label. Currently McCallum is working on an international recording project that includes residencies abroad and documents cultural and musical evolution through the piano and its diverse repertoire. His next release in this series, Voyage à Paris, explores the development of French piano music around the turn of the twentieth century and includes works by Franck, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc and Messiaen.

McCallum’s first release in this series, Southern Quilt, documented his own American heritage and was praised by Fanfare Magazine as “an imaginative recital…McCallum makes strong claims for the music, showing himself to be equally adept in the sweet lushness of the Still and in the mechanistic drive of the Rzewski.” For the 2007-08 concert season, McCallum’s schedule included performances in North Carolina, New York, Paris, Hong Kong, and at the Banff Centre in Canada, where he was an artist in residence. In 2008, McCallum served as an adjudicator for the 60th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival and the Great Melody School of Music Competition in Hong Kong, where he also gave master classes.

A dedicated teacher, McCallum maintains a private studio of advanced students who have won honors in regional and international piano competitions. For more information, please visit his website, www.gregmccallum.com .

Free and open to the public.  See weblink to the right for a full schedule of events.