appearances across Amer- ica and Japan, plus seven successful albums have established The Trail Band as the premiere historic music ensemble from the Benefit for The Dalles Civic “A Trail Band Christmas” Starts the Season Off Winter Flea Markets Support The Civic Christmas must be com- ing if The Trail Band is coming to The Dalles Civic Auditorium on December 1st. This year’s special guest is Andy Stokes. If you look into the Soul of Portland, you will find Andy Stokes. He has re- corded with A & M Re- cords, Warner Brothers Records, toured Japan, and en- joyed a solo ca- reer. His recording of the song Test of Time made the Top 10 on the Billboard charts. Andy has per- formed with Curtis Salgado, Linda Horn- buckle, and Nu Shooz lo- cally, along with Michael Bolton, George Clinton, Connie Stevens, Tempta- tions, Stylistics and many others. Additionally, he was the voice for one of the famous California Rai- sin characters, developed at Will Vinton Studios. Andy continues to perform his unique soulful music throughout the Northwest. The Trail Band is an 8- piece ensemble that creates an energetic blend of brass and string arrangements of traditional and original mu- sic featuring five great vo- calists including Quarter- flash's Rindy Ross. Hun- dreds of public and private may add the Ballroom to the mix in order to accom- modate more vendors since it will be close to Christ- mas. Besides filling a niche for the winter months, the mar- ket brings people to The Civic and it supports the operation of the facility. Tours are also offered to those interested. It’s a win- win for everyone. What are you doing on a Sunday afternoon this winter? The fall/winter Flea Markets are scheduled for Nov. 16, Dec. 14, Jan. 11, and Feb. 8. Board Member Trish Neal is heading up the monthly Flea Markets with the help of fellow board member, Sherry Munro, and Pro- gram Manager, Debbie McBain. The first market was held in October. It was a bit of a last minute gather- ing but proved to be suc- cessful nonetheless. No- vember’s market is maxed out; filling up the Com- munity and Fireside rooms. Vendors rented the available 36 spaces in about two weeks. There’s even a waiting list. December’s market Inside this issue: Support The Civic 2 2014 Busy Year 2 Planning for 2015 3 Insert: Membership Benefits Membership Form Booking Information Please don’t wait un- til the last minute to inquire about booking a room at The Civic. The calendar fills quickly, especially around the holidays and community events. The Civic has rooms sized for most any gath- ering. The entire build- ing is available for rent! Call Debbie McBain, Program Manager, at the Civic office at 541- 298-8533 or by email at [email protected]. Guest Artist Andy Stokes. November 2014 Volume 1, Issue 1 Photo by Keith Buckley Continued on page 4
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appearances across Amer-ica and Japan, plus seven successful albums have established The Trail Band as the premiere historic music ensemble from the
Benefit for The Dalles Civic
“A Trail Band Christmas” Starts the Season Off
Winter Flea Markets Support The Civic
Christmas must be com-ing if The Trail Band is coming to The Dalles Civic Auditorium on December 1st. This year’s special guest is Andy Stokes. If you look into the Soul of Portland, you will find Andy Stokes. He has re-corded with A & M Re-
cords, Warner Brothers Records, toured Japan, and en-joyed a solo ca-reer. His recording of the song Test
of Time made the Top 10 on the Billboard
charts. Andy has per-formed with Curtis Salgado, Linda Horn-buckle, and Nu Shooz lo-cally, along with Michael Bolton, George Clinton, Connie Stevens, Tempta-tions, Stylistics and many others. Additionally, he was the voice for one of the famous California Rai-
sin characters, developed at Will Vinton Studios. Andy continues to perform his unique soulful music throughout the Northwest. The Trail Band is an 8-piece ensemble that creates an energetic blend of brass and string arrangements of traditional and original mu-sic featuring five great vo-calists including Quarter-flash's Rindy Ross. Hun-dreds of public and private
may add the Ballroom to the mix in order to accom-modate more vendors since it will be close to Christ-mas.
Besides filling a niche for the winter months, the mar-ket brings people to The Civic and it supports the operation of the facility. Tours are also offered to those interested. It’s a win-win for everyone.
What are you doing on a Sunday afternoon this winter? The fall/winter Flea Markets are scheduled for Nov. 16, Dec. 14, Jan. 11, and Feb. 8.
Board Member Trish Neal is heading up the monthly Flea Markets with the help of fellow board member, Sherry Munro, and Pro-gram Manager, Debbie McBain.
The first market was held in October. It was a bit of a last minute gather-ing but proved to be suc-cessful nonetheless. No-vember’s market is maxed out; filling up the Com-munity and Fireside rooms. Vendors rented the available 36 spaces in about two weeks. There’s even a waiting list.
December’s market
Inside this issue:
Support The Civic 2
2014 Busy Year 2
Planning for 2015 3
Insert:
Membership Benefits
Membership Form
Booking
Information
Please don’t wait un-til the last minute to inquire about booking a room at The Civic. The calendar fills quickly, especially around the holidays and community events. The Civic has rooms sized for most any gath-ering. The entire build-ing is available for rent! Call Debbie McBain, Program Manager, at the Civic office at 541-298-8533 or by email at [email protected].
Guest Artist Andy Stokes.
November 2014
Volume 1, Issue 1
Photo by Keith Buckley
Continued on page 4
It’s Been Happening at The Dalles Civic
our membership dues were on a month to month basis. If you joined in June, your dues were renewed the fol-lowing June. The board of directors determined that an annual membership run-ning January 1st through December 31st was more efficient. We’ve also im-plemented a new Member-ship Benefits program that is geared to the level of membership.
The new program will roll out on January 1, 2015. If your dues were to be re-newed in the past few months, you have a choice of pro-rating those dues through the end of the year and then pay for 2015, or send in your check for your membership renewal and note on the application that you wish your dues to take effect January 1, 2015. If you wish to pay by credit
By Trish Neal
Membership Chairperson Your support of the Civic Auditorium is much appre-ciated by members of The Dalles Civic Auditorium Historic Preservation Com-mittee. Without our friends who see the value of preserving the Civic, our job would be much more difficult. We salute you!
This past year has been a busy one for us. (See be-low.)
The long awaited restora-tion of the Civic’s Theatre is upon us. We’ve re-ceived the engineer’s plan and just need to factor in the costs to have a com-pleted plan.
If you haven’t seen the ar-chitect’s renderings of what the fully-restored Theatre will look like, please check out our web-site or stop by the Theatre
the next time you are in the building. We are excited to get started and 2015 will be the year our campaign starts moving forward with greater speed.
Your continued support of The Civic is important to us for many reasons:
1.Your investment finan-cially supports us.
2.Your investment shows foundations and grantors that we have the support of the community.
3.Many of our volunteers come from our supporters and those volunteer hours are used as match for grant applications. We have many areas where we need volunteers.
4.Your investment assures our TDCAHPC Board of Directors that we’re not alone in this.
Over the past several years,
fered tours of the Civic.
The 4th Annual Beer Fest was held in September. This is an annual benefit event for the Civic and the beer was graciously donated by the breweries.
We were part of the PEO
Tour in October. Tours were given of the space under the stage. Our board members were on hand to greet the visitors, offer information about the Civic, hand out membership information,
This past year has been busy for the Civic! We’ve hosted several events such as:
Pianist Matt Bowers en-tertained us in April. This was a benefit concert for The Civic and he made the grand piano sing!
In May, we hosted the first “Preservation Month
Open House.” We fea-tured the Civic with spe-cial exhibits by local his-torical venues and we of-
Civic was dedicated to Jill Minnick and our dedicated
Winter Flea Mar-
kets October
through February.
What Are You Doing in 2015?
of course, we’ll be provid-ing tours of the building.
We are already planning for a bigger and better 5th An-
nual Beer Fest event!
There’s more in the works but we’d rather surprise you!
We are already planning events for 2015, so next year won’t be just about the restoration of the Theatre.
We will wrap up the Flea
Markets in February. They have been a big hit!
The Civic and The Fort Dalles Museum/Anderson Homestead Foundation will be co-hosting “History Af-
ter Hours” on February 10th for local history people.
In March, musician Scott
Helmer will be performing at a benefit concert. Scott has made it his mission to help raise $1,000,000 for
Historic Theatres across the U.S. We are honored that he se-lected our facility to assist. We’ll have local musicians as the open-ing acts so stay tuned!
The “Historic Preservation
Month Open House” re-turns the first Sunday in May. This year we’re going to feature the Century Farms and Ranches of Wasco County. Wasco County his-tory venues will be invited to participate as well. And
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Festival of Trees
to be held at The
Dalles Civic Audi-
torium December
5-6, 2014.
card, we can do that as well by phone or online.
The application form and Membership Levels and Benefits are included in this mailing.
Again, on behalf of the TDCAHPC Board of Direc-tors, I would like to express our sincere thanks for your continued support. We take a lot of pride in maintaining the Civic and are excited to begin restoration of the Theatre.
If you have any questions about becoming a member of the Civic, would like to volunteer at our events or to help in other ways please contact Trish Neal by phone at 541-404-0724 or via email at [email protected]
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area music teachers. The concert fea-tured guest pianist David Vest along with Terry Robb, Albert Reda, and Jeff Minnick. Our grand pi-ano never sounded so won-derful!
This fall and winter, The Dalles Civic is hosting a Flea
Market one Sunday a month October through February. It’s a benefit for the Civic. November’s Flea Market filled the Community and Fireside rooms.
The Cowboy Gathering will be held at The Civic on Nov.
Musician Scott Helmer hits the road to The
Dalles in March. www.ScottHelmer.com
29th. We love seeing all those cowboys!
The Trail Band
Concert will be held in the Theatre on Monday, De-cember 1st.
This annual benefit concert is looked forward to by eve-ryone.
We’ve also hosted many weddings, memorials, meet-ings, Quinceañeras, recep-tions, plays, and more.
Our website was revamped in the Fall of 2013 and we have a Facebook Page now. The Events Calendar is online and updated regu-larly.
Guest artists David Vest.
Women’s Expo at
The Dalles Civic
Auditorium Nov. 22.
Cowboy Gathering at
The Civic on Nov. 29,
2014.
keystone of the band's reper-toire for over 10 years. Tickets are available at Klindt’s Booksellers and Columbia River Music and are $20 per person. Tickets will be available at the door but concert goers are en-couraged to obtain their tickets early. The concert will be per-formed onstage in the Civic’s Theatre. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the concert begins at 7:00 p.m. At press time, sponsors of the concert are: Bill & Neva Reid, Wasco Title, Inc., Meadow Outdoor Advertis-ing, and Crestline Construc-tion Co. See you at The Civic!
saxophone, spoons, bones, drums, bass, and recorders combine with their rich vo-cal harmonies to create a
diverse tapestry of sound. Formed by Marv Ross in 1991 at the request of the Oregon Trail Council to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the trail, the band initially performed music exclu-sively from and about the era of the Oregon Trail with costumes, diary readings, traditional folk tunes, marches, hoe-downs, and Native American melodies. Ti-tled, Voices From The Oregon Trail, this per-formance has been the
Tidings of Comfort & Joy features 14 unreleased songs and, for the first time, recordings of Cal Scott's monologue and Scott Parker (as "Harold") telling the Christmas story through the eyes of a first grader. Also, the CD is packaged in an 8 page souvenir photo album with lots of beautiful images from shows through the years. Purchase their albums at: http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/TheTrailBand
