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Next Flagpole Radio Cafe

Newtown Cultural Arts Commission is pleased to announce that internationally renowned resonator guitarist and violin player Stacy Phillips will be performing at the next Flagpole Radio Café on Saturday, February 7, at 7 pm. The café takes place in The Alexandria Room at Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street in Newtown.

Tickets are $5 and $10 and reservations can be made by calling 364-0898.

Stacy Phillips has performed with top acoustic musicians all over the world including Bela Fleck, Mark O’Connor, David Bromberg and Andy Statman. Mr Phillips is also the author and producer of more than 25 books and DVDs celebrating various aspects of his chosen instruments.

He plays with several ensembles including original songs and Americana with Stacy Phillips and Paul Howard Duet; American and Irish traditional music with Stacy Phillips and Joe Gerhard Duet; Three Finger Poi, a Hawaiian music and dance troupe; The Afro Semitic Experience, a six piece ensemble performing jazz approaches to the scared music of the African and Jewish diasporas; and The Swivets, a contra dance band.

Mr Phillips is a fine violinist, but he is renowned for his skill on the Dobro, a guitar with the single-inverted-cone resonator design. The name originated in 1928 when the Dopyera brothers formed the Dobro Manufacturing Company. Dobro is both a contraction of Dopyera Brothers and a word meaning “good” in their native Slovak.  An early company motto was “Dobro means good in any language.”

The Flagpole Radio Café is an ongoing variety show produced by Newtown residents Jim Allyn, Martin Blanco, Robyn Fitzgerald and Barbara Gaines in conjunction with Newtown Cultural Arts Commission.

Returning to Flagpole Radio Café will be music director Jim Allyn, musician Dick Neal, host Chris Teske, and The Flagpole Shakespeare Repertory Theatre.