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Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful and the East Texas Jeep Club Presents:
#Trashtag @ Shawnee River Bottom

Nacogdoches, Texas – Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful and the East Texas Jeep Club will present #Trashtag @ Shawnee River Bottom, taking place on November 23, 2019, from 9:00 A.M. to 2:30 P.M.

Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful and the Nacogdoches Jeep Club presents #trashtag, an event to help clear up all the litter that is currently residing along the Shawnee River Bottom. Volunteers are needed for this event to help clean up litter.
Volunteers will meet at 2500 Woden Road (Woden Road Quick Stop) Nacogdoches, TX 75961 at 9:00 A.M. and the departure time will be promptly at 9:00 A.M.

More details about the event;

● Volunteers will need to check in at the Woden Road Quick Stop by 9:00 A.M.
● Closed-toed shoes are REQUIRED. (rain boots are preferred)
● Wear OLD CLOTHES(long sleeve shirts and long pants are highly preferred)
● Equipment and supplies will be PROVIDED
● Lunch PROVIDED

Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful
Offices at 2516 North Street
P.O. Box 633030, Nacogdoches, TX 75963
info@keepnacbeautiful.org | Tel: 936-560-5624

A community sing-along of George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” will raise funds for the A Cappella Choir at Stephen F. Austin State University to travel to Italy in 2020.

The community event, with conductors, soloists and pianists, and featuring the audience and SFA A Cappella Choir as the chorus, is at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

The fundraiser is designed to help defray the costs of the choir’s 2020 Italy tour, according to Dr. Michael Murphy, director of choral activities in the SFA School of Music. For information on how to donate to the Italy trip, email Murphy at murphymt2@sfasu.edu or call (936) 468-1181.

“Ring in the holiday season with the perennial favorite, Handel’s ‘Messiah,'” Murphy said. “The SFA choral area is hosting a community sing-along for Nacogdoches and surrounding communities. Bring your ‘Messiah’ score or rent one for $2 from the SFA choral area and sing or listen to Handel’s glorious masterpiece.”

The program will feature graduate and undergraduate student soloists Cole Jones of Livingston, Nathan Ponder and Anthony Rodriguez, both of Houston, William Murphy of Nacogdoches, Summer Price of Needville, Reagan Bradshaw of Wiley, Kayla Luptak of Bullard, Megan Stone of Spring, Brianna Glaze of Beaumont and Viveca Richards of Houston. In addition to Murphy, conductors will include Dr. Tod Fish, associate director of choral activities, and SFA graduate students in choral conducting, Jacob Rivas of The Colony, David Zielke of Albany, Oregon, and Greg Simmons of Lufkin. Accompanists will be SFA collaborative pianists Dr. Ron Petti and Dr. Thomas Nixon.

Cole Concert Hall is located in the Tom and Peggy Wright Music Building, 2210 Alumni Drive.

Tickets are $15 adults, $10 senior citizens, $5 students and youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit www.finearts.sfasu.edu.

The Cello Club will present the program “Around the World” at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, in Cole Concert Hall on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus.

“It has been 500 years since Ferdinand Magellan left Spain sailing west to circumnavigate Earth,” said Dr. Evgeni Raychev, cello instructor in the SFA School of Music and artistic director for Cello Club. “This concert will take us on a musical journey together from Spain to the Caribbean and through the Far East.”

Cello Club is an educational project aimed at establishing a path of success for developing young artists, according Raychev.

“This endeavor seeks to promote and provide opportunities for cello ensemble playing, establish connections between musicians, develop an awareness of ensemble techniques, and provide competitive opportunities and collaborations with professional musicians,” Raychev said. “It is designed to help build one’s creativity and imagination and to promote the esthetics of art.”

The program of original arrangements will include the world premiere of “Latin Dances,” commissioned and composed for this event by Mike McGowan, adjunct professor of music theory in the School of Music.

Participants in this year’s Cello Club are all from Texas and come from Henderson, Houston, Nacogdoches, Lufkin, Beckville, Carrollton, Gary, Tyler, Frisco, Longview, Tomball, Plano, Flower Mound and Diana.

Any donations and profit exceeding the Cello Club’s expenses will be used for building scholarship opportunities.

Admission to the concert is free. For more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit www.finearts.sfasu.edu.