Words & Music Library Benefit at Music Mountain on Sunday, Oct. 18 @ 2 pm

When I heard that Betsy Howie and Lonnie Carter were going to share the Music Mountain stage on Sunday, October 18, and read 84 Charing Cross Road as a benefit for the library I immediately thought of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Why? Because Howie and Carter were once a couple and just like the Burtons, who performed in Private Lives after they split, it's kind of fun to watch a play when there's an added subtext. Besides, as everyone in town knows, Betsy and Lonnie are gifted and generous artists and the reading should be a once in a lifetime theatrical experience.

Here's the Hunt Library's press release on the event, which includes great local music too:

Come remember or learn what it was like to write letters and listen to great music!

84, CHARING CROSS ROAD will be read by Betsy Howie & Lonnie Carter as a benefit for the David M. Hunt Library on Sunday, October 18, at 2 p.m. at Music Mountain. 84 records a correspondence and a love story of 20 years in funny, warm and moving letters between a New York City book lover and her favorite London bookshop. It was supposedly the inspiration for the best seller The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society.

Joshua Stone will direct talented volunteers from the HVRHS Jazz Band and Sweethearts in great s-w-i-n-g-i-n-g songs: Blue Moon, Satin Doll, Take Five, Mr. Sandman, Something's Gotta Give, Where the Boys Are, Jump, Jive & Wail, and more!

You will hear Joshua Stone on piano and Tom Krupa, HVRHS Musical Director, on trumpet. Tom Krupa will direct the HVRHS Jazz Combo--Kellogg’s own: Jacob Horowitz, Piano; Van Daalhuyzen, Bass; Ben Paley, Guitar; Dylan Vadakin, Drums; Ben Finkelstein, Trumpet. Joshua Stone will direct several "Ensembles à la McGuire Sisters" and Alicia Simonetti-Schpurr, HVRHS Night Choir Director, will direct the Chorus--Meghan Brown, Shyla Gregory, Danielle Kearns, Samantha McKenzie, Kayla Robinson, Becky Sawicki, Cornelia Smith, Genevieve Terrall, Cassie Worthington, Ellie Yahn


And a special bonus performance: Three Generations of Falls Village Sinclairs--Mary Lu Sinclair and Laura, Lusanna & Kneeland Munson--will sing Que Sera, Sera!




Hunt Library’s 12th Annual Words & Music*

Sunday, October 18 at 2:00 pm at Music Mountain

$15/$18 @ the door
Teenagers: $10, Children 12 & under: $5

* All proceeds help pay for the operation (buying books, DVDs, computers, salaries) of our wonderful library and staff!