How to go
What: Lone Raven in concert
When: 10 a.m Friday, Sept. 16
Where: Dave Finkelman Auditorium, Miami University Middletown, 4200 N. University Blvd.
Cost: Free
More info: To reserve group seats, or for more information, email Shawn Fenton at fentonsm@miamioh.edu. Individual walk-ins are welcome.
Miami University Middletown’s 17th annual Fantastic Free Fridays series will kick off the fall 2016 season on Friday, Sept. 16, at 10 a.m. with a performance by Lone Raven at Dave Finkelman Auditorium.
“Lone Raven is a four-piece Celtic group, but they also do fiddle tunes as well as original music that they compose themselves,” said series coordinator Shawn Fenton, who serves as an instructor of music and coordinator of Performing Arts Outreach at MUM. “Based in Columbus, Ohio, they are fairly well known to Celtic fans in the area. They are pretty popular. They’ve played the series before, and have had a very good response, so we are looking forward to having them back.”
Fenton said the Fantastic Free Friday programs are designed to allow students and others in the community to experience performing arts firsthand through a variety of performances, including music, theater, dance and more. Since the inception of the series, the total attendance to date has been 83,619.
“We are bringing a wide range of performing arts to children. The diversity of acts is also important. The season will kick-off with a Celtic group, but we will also have the world-famous Percussion Group Cincinnati, a trio based at the University of Cincinnati, that will do a performance on the history and evolution of percussion instruments from around the world,” Fenton said. That will be on Oct. 7.
For the first time, there is a hip-hop performance scheduled, which will focus on expressing yourself through hip-hop, but it will also encourage language arts such as developing vocabulary, creating poetry and expressive writing. (Napoleon Maddox presenting “Finding Your Voice Through Hip-Hop” on Nov. 11.)
The fall season will close with a holiday play, “A Christmas Carol,” performed by The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati. There are two performances slated for Friday, Dec. 2, and the first performance at 10 a.m. is already full.
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