Clatsop Community College
1653 Jerome, Astoria OR 97103
For immediate release
Contact: Dinah Urell (503) 338-4878
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POPROCKIN’ FOLK CABARET a folk – rock reverberation!
WHEN: Saturday - Sunday
April 7 – 8 p.m. & April 8 - 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: CCC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 16TH & FRANKLIN IN ASTORIA
$10 in advance, $12 at the door
Advance tickets available at Bach & Rock in Astoria.

Poprockin’ Folk Cabaret
Featuring MC Dinah Urell
A Clatsop Community College Arts & Ideas Program
Sponsored in part by TLC Federal Credit Union

Poprockin’ Folk Cabaret, a new music/theater production, debuts Easter weekend, Saturday, April 7, 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 8, 7:30 p.m. at the Clatsop Community College Performing Arts Center in Astoria. Music and theater performance celebrate the emerging folk-rock era. From protest to politics and poetry, pop culture and social consciousness are set in vintage variety show style.

Poprockin’ Folk Cabaret is a CCC Arts & Ideas program sponsored in part by TLC Federal Credit Union.

Entertainment and imagination, the mission and the craft of theater, and music merge on stage to create an original, local production. Creator and MC Dinah Urell performs vocal arrangements of pop, rock, and folk from the 60s, accompanied by ensemble the PRFC Orchestra. Featured guests will perform dance, comedy, poetry and more. The debut weekend pilot-performance will see a developed concept with an extended run in the summer of 2007. A part of the project’s mission will be to showcase coastal artists in a staged setting, with a varied roster of performers on any given night. With a multi-disciplinary bent, the PRFC stage will nurture breakout artistry as well as featured musicians and artists using the 60s era as a creative and time relevant backdrop.
This pilot production features actor Walt Trumbull in a portrayal of comedian Lenny Bruce and dancer Sheila Harper takes us to the land of psychedelia. Poet Florence Sage and acoustic group Birch Trio also perform. Nationally known lighting designer Scott Holthaus and former Portland set designer, Sen Incavo, whose work is seen at the River Theater, help to set the stage, with light show effects created by Judy Lampi and Thomas Johnston.

PRFC ORCHESTRA: Guitar - Joey Patenaude, Drummer - Tom Peake, Bass – Bill Siewert Piano - Peter Unander and Violin - Jeffrey Reynolds. Song and Dance Muses: Gillian Hall and Joe Ewald


Actor Walt Trumbull portrays comedian Lenny Bruce.

 

Wing and Drop set design on the PAC stage by Sen Incavo.