Interlude - May 28
May 28, 2020
Indy rockers, Tiny Dancers, book club, Peggy Lee online
Welcome back to Interlude, your twice-a-week dose of digitally accessible arts and entertainment opportunities!
Get a taste of Veseria
Over the winter, we launched our new Studio Series, featuring local and regional music artists performing in the relaxed and intimate ambience of the Studio Theater. This coming weekend would have brought you a live show from Veseria, a top-notch Indianapolis rock band fronted by the husband/wife songwriting team of Jen and Patrick Roberts.
We hope to reschedule that performance under better circumstances, but meanwhile, you might enjoy:
- Veseria’s most recent full-length album, titled simply RLTVY
- a recent EP, Post Party Depression (get it?)
- and an inspiring video from a few years back, reminding us to be proud Hoosiers and nice people.
Cut a rug with your rugrats
Our friends at Phoenix Rising Dance Company have a new Saturday morning movement session designed for preschoolers and their families. In the Tiny Dancers class, company founder Justin Sears-Watson combines age-appropriate action songs, elements of dance and lots of imagination to stimulate young minds and feet.
The next two Tiny Dancers sessions start at 10:30 a.m. this Saturday, May 30, and again June 6.
If you only had a book
Good news: You can read and talk about books without leaving your home! And a great group for that sort of activity is the Palladium Bookies, the Center’s performing arts book club.
Their next Zoom chat session is set for 7 p.m. June 8, which gives you plenty of time to read the bestselling subject of discussion. Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts is a deeply researched novelization of the fascinating life of Maud Gage Baum, who among other deeds helped turn a children’s book written by her husband into the classic film The Wizard of Oz.
You can learn more about Letts here, and learn more about the event here – or email us at Outreach@TheCenterPresents.org for more information about joining the Palladium Bookies.
Happy 100th, Peggy Lee!
Tuesday was the 100th birth anniversary of the late Peggy Lee, a hugely influential singer and songwriter whom the Great American Songbook Foundation will induct into the Songbook Hall of Fame later this year.
The Los Angeles-based Grammy Museum® – which counts the Songbook Foundation among its handful of worldwide Cultural Affiliates – marked the occasion by launching an online exhibit of Lee’s career milestones and accomplishments from the 1930s through early 2000s, featuring a variety of rare artifacts that you can view here. The museum also hosted a panel discussion and birthday toast with Lee’s granddaughter Holly Foster-Wells, four-time Grammy winner k.d. lang, five-time Grammy winner Billie Eilish and other folks Lee has inspired, which you can watch here.
