Centre Stage

Saturday, May 9, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.  Join us for a full day of music, food samples, discounts, and surprises!  We are celebrating the grand opening of The Backstage Cafe’ and invite you to be part of the fun.

The music schedule is as follows:

11-12 to be announced

12-2   Rowdy Creek Band-Classic Rock & Blues

2-4  Perry Devine and Gil Kirk-Folk Rock Originals

4-6 Rick Wafler, Heather Clensay, Danny Clark-Jazz, Blues, BeBopp Intrepretations

6-7 To be announced…will go right into the Saturday Join In Jam and go until 10.

Featured Artist:  Bette Sherbourne, Billie Ruth Furuichi.  Bette will demonstrate between 4 and 6.

Saturday, April 25, 7-9 p.m.  Christian Rock Band, Johannes.  Due to technical difficulties the bio and pictures are not available at this writing.  Suggested donation $5. 

Free Concert!  Donations will be gladly excepted and will be used for the Stagelights Music Lesson Program, and will go toward overhead, tuition for low income students, supplies & instruments, and teacher compensation.

Refreshments will be available at The Backstage Cafe’.!

Friday, April 17 from 7:00 to 9:00 : Folk/Rock Songwriter, Perry Devine, will be debuting a new song called “All Hands On Deck”. He will also be selling a special comemerative CD containing his latest recording, “River Of Life”, as well as his recent full-length CD, “Just Devine”.

$5 Suggested Donation. Refreshments available at the Backstage Cafe’ before and during the performance.  Doors open at 6:45, show starts at 7.

Saturday, April 11, 4-7 p.m.  Join us for art demonstration, live music, and tasty refreshments during the 2nd Saturday Artwalk.  Featured artist:  Billie Ruth Furuichi…who will be demonstrating silk mandala and discussing her upcoming workshop, Anchoring the Light. 

Featured musicians:  Billie Ruth Furuichi, followed by Mariah Gurney & Shalyn Doan, with other surprise guests likely.

Refreshments will be served…additional food and beverage items will be available at The Backstage Cafe’.

This is a free event!

Friday, April 10, 7-10 p.m.  Rowdy Creek, offering a wide variety of music including jazz, country, blues, and rock…Features Brad Jones on guitar and vocals, Bob Sherman on bass, and Sonny Riner on drums, harmonica, and vocals. 

$5 at the door, includes snack sampler…other refreshments available at the Backstage Cafe’ before and during the performance.  Doors open at 6:45, show starts at 7.

Friday, April 3, 7-9 p.m.  Centre Stage presents Norm Davis, originally guitarist and vocalist for The Country Masters in Southern California.   Norm has a wealth of musical experiences to share with our audience.  His bio will be added to this page shortly. 

No Cover, suggested donation $5         Refreshments will be available at The Backstage Cafe’. 

Saturday, April 18, 7:00-9 p.m.  Rapp Brush, country/blues/folk artist, has been playing in the area for many years.  He has opened for Faron Young, Bobby Bare, Mo Bandy, and Rapp and his band backed the Hagger Twins of Hee-Haw fame.  He also performs originals, and likes to maintain a repoir with his audience by recounting funny stories of his many years in the music business. 

This will be a dinner show, featuring a homestyle Mexican Feast which will include beef tacos and chicken fajitas plus sides, and a desert.  Seating at 6:30.  Advance Tickets $15  Reservations recommended.  Space is limited so buy your tickets now at either Earl E. Books or The Backstage Cafe’.  

Saturday, April 25,   9 a.m. to 4 p.m.  “Anchoring the Light”:  A silk painting and movement meditation workshop.    Only  $85  with early bird discount…advance registration must be completed by April 15th to be guaranteed a space…there will be a limited number of participants for optimum results and enjoyment.  ($95 after April 15th if space available)  Fee includes continental breakfast and lunch prepared by The Backstage Cafe’ .

Billie Ruth has facilitated workshops for the Maui Youth Ambassadors, who painted a peace mural in Perslaval-Zalesky, Russia; Women of Vision and Action in Idaho; The Survivors Healing Center in Santa Cruz, California; the Colorado Department of Human Services in Denver, Colorado; South Western Oregon Community College in Brookings, Oregon, as well as many private groups for over 20 years.  She is available as a speaker and facilitator of the 7-MPractice ™ and the 5-D Process ™. 

“My work is a metaphor for the fabric of life, with overlaying design, color, texture, and text.  For the most part, none of us have lives with all of the edges neatly folded over and stitched into a perfect package.  The fabric of our lives is open, undone, hanging loose, leaving us vulnerable and feeling unfinished.  For that reason, many of my fabrics hang with the edges exposing raw fibers.  With my digital collages on paper, I tear the edges to evoke that same emotional motif. 

As a teacher, dancer, musician, poet, and workshop facilitator, I use interdisciplinary techniques.  Whether I am working on a fabric, a digital collage, or designing a piece of art-to-wear, my work integrates arts education, spiritual growth and societal change.  Things change whether we like it or not.  People who are interested in the arts are already poised to fly on the outside of the envelope and move into the future.  “  (Billie Ruth Furuichi)  

For more information please call Kim 541-251-3952  or go to www.furuichiarts.com