Jimmy Wayne put on a great show last year for Capital City CASA supporters at Millbottom. This year CASA is expanding the venue to the Miller Performing Arts Center. The show is a combination of Wayne's original songs and the story of his challenging childhood -- a perfect inspirational agenda for a CASA evening. Get your tickets today!
I poke fun at wife Peggy and her fellow Macintosh followers -- they really are a cult. This clip is unbelievable. Anyone who finds an iPhone or an iPad under the tree (and most non-believers) will enjoy it. Merry Christmas from the Landwehrs.
For the last twenty-six years a choir comprised of state employees, the Missouri Music Makers, has put together a holiday concert. Thursday they sang in the Capitol rotunda over the noon hour, and Friday they set up in the Truman Building. The eight floor open interior of the building was a great venue for hundreds of state workers (and a few visitors like me) to soak up some very nicely done holiday tunes. Director Glen Webb (also the Cantorum director) brings it all together. Glen, Peggy, and long-time friend MaryAnn are from the Attorney General's Office. They clearly enjoyed this right brain departure from their left brain world!
Thanks, guys!
The Capitol steps and the Supreme Court Building provided a beautiful setting for Aaron Tippin last night. The weather was perfect and the crowd was one of the largest we've seen at the Salute to America opening ceremonies. Aaron said of all the places where he has performed this is second only to the Washington Monument.
At about the same time our ancestors discovered fire, they started to think about whether there is any individual identity after being eaten by a saber tooth tiger. Some modern cultures have rejected traditional Judeo Christian conepts of life after death. Humanists in Sweden recently paid for billboards questioning whether God exists.
Putting aside Sweden and Nietzsche for the moment, there does seem to be a basic human need to look beyond the cadaver. This week the national media attemtped in its goofy, breathless way to have Michael Jackson live past his autopsy. Rest assured that Michael will be celebrated, castigated and litigated for a long time. He was a talented, complex and tragic guy whose heart stopped beating, prematurely perhaps, but as all our hearts will some day.
Hats off to Alan Tatman at Paddy Malone's for bringing The Fuchsia Band to Langston-Hughes Auditorium at Lincoln University. Great intimate venue for a very talented group.
We should watch for other chances to bring talent to this nice setting. Not a bad seat in the house.
The Fuchsia Band from Ireland will perform at Langston Hughes Auditorium (on the Lincoln University campus) in Jefferson City on Wednesday evening, August 6th.
Looks like they put on a great show. Check them out at www.thefuchsiaband.com.
Allen "Tinker" Tatman, proprietor of Paddy Malone's Irish Pub by the bridge on West Main is a co-conspirator. Get more information and tickets at the pub, or call (573)761-5900, or at his page: www.paddymalonespub.com.
High Street Beat is the personal weblog of John Landwehr, a partner at Cook Vetter Doerhoff & Landwehr and a former Mayor of Jefferson City. Your comments, feedback and suggestions are welcome.