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MONROE ARTS CENTER
PO Box 472 1315 11th Street
Monroe, WI 53566
Summer 2015 www.monroeartscenter.com
Monroe Arts Center opens the 2015
-2016 Entertainment Season with a
variety of informative, entertaining,
and inspiring programs. This up-
coming season marks MAC’s 40th
year of presenting high quality and
affordable entertainment for the
entire family.
Five concerts are
scheduled for the
Sunday Concert
Series at MAC.
The new season
opens on September 13 with the
melodious sound of piano, cello,
and violins by the Mosaic Cham-
ber Players of Madison. Next,
Balalaika and Piano Duo performs on October 18
with a musical
repertoire ranging
from Russian and
Eastern European
folk to classical
and contemporary
compositions. On
November 15 The Damen Trio
brings a program of both classical
and jazz works played on the ma-
rimba, flute, and cello. Returning
to the MAC stage
for a breathtaking
musical perfor-
mance on Decem-
ber 13 are cellist
Ben Capps and
pianist Vassily
Primakov. Per-
music ranging from Elvis to Pucci-
ni, Gospel to Pop, and Country to
Broadway. It’s like Duck Dynasty
goes to Carnegie Hall.
A special
PAC
concert
by musi-
cian and
vocalist
S. Carey
is scheduled for March 19, 2016.
Best known as the drummer and
supporting vocalist of the Grammy
Award-winning indie folk band
Bon Iver, Carey also tours with his
own band. His blend of music,
which stems from his love of jazz,
modern classical, and Americana,
is described as “simultaneously
restful and rhythmic, complex and
simple, and always evolving.”
Cherish, Windy, Never My Love,
Along Comes Mary, Everything
That Touches You, and Six Man
Band are some of the hits by one of
the most popular and successful
bands in American music. Now on
their highly-acclaimed Anniversary
Tour, The Association will per-
forming along with them are
clarinetist Alexey Gorokholinsky
and pianist Natalia Lavrova. The
final concert of this series takes
place on May 22 when the Madi-
son Youth Choirs performs their
spring program.
Five
shows are
scheduled
to take
place at
Monroe
High School Performing Arts
Center (PAC) in the upcoming
season. On October 2 the Gram-
my-winning trio Los Lonely Boys
will heat up the stage with their
infectious mix of Rock, Blues,
Tex-Mex, Conjunto, and Tejano.
The three Garza brothers play an
explosive and thunderous style of
music they often refer to as
“Texican Rock n’ Roll.”
Direct from the stages in Bran-
son, Missouri and America’s Got
Talent in Las Vegas, the uproari-
ously funny musical comedy of
3 Redneck Tenors happens on
November 7. Billy Bob, Billy
Joe, and Billy Billee,
who are actually clas-
sically trained veteran
artists, will entertain
with their vocal prow-
ess and a smorgas-
bord of songs and
CELEBRATING FOUR DECADES OF
ENTERTAINMENT
Page 2 Monroe Arts Center - ArtsBeat
form in Monroe on May 14, 2016.
They have sold over 80 million
records, tapes, CDs, and DVDs,
along with six gold and three plati-
num discs. They were nominated a
total of seven times for Grammy
Awards, nominated for the Golden
Globe Award for Best Original
Music for their music in the film
Goodbye Columbus, and in 2011,
their hit song Windy was featured
in its entirety on the hit television
show Breaking Bad.
An incredible line-up of four shows
will be com-
ing to the
MAC stage.
On Novem-
ber 21, New
Odyssey is
the first
show to take
the stage in
the 15-16
seasons.
Just three guys who bring an unbe-
lievable show of great music, re-
markable vocals, audience partici-
pation, and comedy, along with
arrangements of favorite songs in
almost every style and genre, per-
formed on 30 different instruments.
The sharp-suited, classically vin-
tage Four Guyz in Dinner Jackets
perform on February 27, 2016 with
their new tribute production
“Everything Old is New Again.”
Backed by a live band, this crazy
foursome serves up the “best of
their best” doo-wop and rock 'n' roll
music, with stirring vocal harmo-
nies, humor, and captivat-
ing choreography music.
The upbeat musical “A
Closer Walk With Patsy Cline” will be presented on
March 12, 2016. Wearing a
stunning array of elaborate
show costumes, “Patsy”
performs 22 of Cline's
greatest hits such as Walk-
in’ After Mid-
night, Sweet
Dreams, and I
Fall to Pieces.
“A Closer Walk”
is a loving
tribute to
Cline’s spirit and a cele-
bration of the music of
her life.
Hailed as a “certified lunatic and
master of the impossi-
ble,” Tomáš Kubínek
-Miracle Man will
bring his comic geni-
us, virtuoso vaudevil-
lian antics, and all-
round charm to MAC
on April 2, 2016. His
brilliant and outra-
geous theatrics leaves
audiences clutching their sides with
laughter, breathless, and madly in
love with this consummate
master of whimsy, who beau-
tifully balances the absurd and
the profound.
Holiday performances include
“It’s a Wonderful Life: Live
From WVL Radio Theatre” on December 6, and The
Dickens Carollers on
December 12.
On October 15, Marvel Comics
illustrator Jerry DeCaire brings his
artistic talent to MAC with the
special presentation Science of
the Superhero. Watch favor-
ite superheroes such as Thor,
X-Men, The Phantom, and
Wolverine come alive as
DeCaire’s live hand-
drawing demonstrations are
projected onto a large
screen. DeCaire will illus-
trate how math and science
merge, as well as comment
on the history of comics and
other nuances of comic art.
Numerous MAC-
sponsored community
events are also planned for
the new season. Broad-
cast on Big Radio,
“Showcase of Talent” brings some
of the most talented individuals in
the area to the stage for two con-
secutive nights of entertainment in
January. Other annual events in-
clude the
Holiday
Silent
Auction,
Underwrit-
ers Pre-
view Party,
A Taste of
Spring, the
rebroadcast of “A Christmas Car-ol Radio Show,” and much more.
Single tickets and money-saving
ticket packages are now available
for purchase. For information or to
request a season brochure, contact
the Monroe Arts Center at 608-325
-5700, or 888-596-1249, or online
at www.monroeartscenter.com.
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MAC Annual Meeting Announced
Proposed By-Law Change The Monroe Arts Center annual
meeting is set for 6:00 pm
Tuesday, September 8, in MAC’s
Wesley Hall, 1315 11th Street,
Monroe, WI. The Board of
Directors will hold a business
meeting immediately after the
annual meeting. All members are
invited.
This year’s annual meeting agenda
includes election of new directors,
approval of the 2015-2016 budget,
and a proposed change in the by-
laws. The current by-laws and
proposed change follow.
MAC members are encouraged to
consider the by-law change and
attend the annual meeting.
Current By-Law, Article V,
Section 3:
Article V
Board of Directors
3. Directors shall be elected to
three year terms. The terms of
the Directors shall be stag-
gered such that one-third of
the Directors shall be elected
each year. No Director may
serve more than twelve (12)
consecutive years.
Motion to Amend:
RESOLVED; that Article V,
Section 3 of the By-laws is
amended to read as follows:
Article V
Board of Directors
3. Directors shall be elected to
three-year terms. The terms of
the Directors shall be staggered
such that one-third of the Direc-
tors shall be elected each year.
There will be no limit on the
number of three-year terms a
Director may serve.
The Monroe Arts Center held a
ground breaking ceremony for the
new addition on July 21st.
Construction began
the following week.
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This exhibit features the unique photographs of Madison pho-
tographer Cameron Gillie, as taken with a pinhole cam-
era. Gillie's passion in photography has always been photo-
graphing the wonders of the world that we all are so closely
intertwined with, but in our day-to-day life between work and
home, rarely stop to appreciate.
Gillie will serve as judge for the 26th Annual photo Contest &
Exhibit that will be on display in Wesley Hall.
Both exhibits will be open from Sept. 4 to Oct. 23 with an
opening reception on Friday, Sept. 4.
GALLERY RECEPTION
Sept. 4, 5 pm-7 pm
Gallery talk at 5:30 pm.
Awards presented at 6 pm.
ArtsBeat Edited by Becky Venden
Monroe Arts Center PO Box 472/1315 11th Street
Monroe, WI 53566 www.monroeartscenter.com
The Pinhole Thing by Cameron Gillie
and 26th Annual Photography Contest & Exhibit
Spin by Cameron Gillie