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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Hannibal Arts Council, 105 S. Main, will be the host of a special dinner and performance event at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22. Dinner+Music combines food for the body and music for the soul. Admission includes music by cellist and music educator Katie Schisler accompanied by pianist Michael Gaines. Before the…
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QUINCY — Not by bread alone can one just start a sourdough bakery. A starter, some skill and a cottage license are all necessary ingredients when running a microbakery out of your kitchen. Lindsey Wellman checked those steps off the list and has been busy baking this project with love and care since July of…
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QUINCY — The Bay City Performing Arts Foundation will present “Bay City Live!: A Night Under the Moonlit Sky” at The Corinthian Event Center, 415 Hampshire, beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24. The evening will feature a performance by Vancil Performing Arts Center’s Bay City Dance Troupe and an appearance by local band Prospect…
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Brittany Boll and Randy Phillips are out and about to give you tips on good eats around the region with our new “Taste of the Town” segment. The first stop is in Quincy at Tower Pizza and Mexican. Of course, the visit ends with Margaritas! SeeQuincy brings you “Taste of the Town”.
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Mark McDonald and Randy Phillips take you to Ralls County, Mo. and Northeast Missouri’s first distillery. Sweetwater Distillery first began pouring product, May 2020. but years of work went before that first sip of whiskey was ready to enjoy. Dot Foods brings you Muddy River Gems.
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Hannibal Concert Association’s fourth concert of its 2023-24 concert season is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15 with the violin and classical guitar duo Yu & I performing at Calvary Baptist Church, 4605 W. Ely Road. YuEun Kim and Ines Thomé met when they both had just moved to the…
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CANTON, Mo. — Culver-Stockton College will perform its upcoming spring theatre production, “This Is How We Get Better,” a dark comedic play written by alumna Courtney Deeds, a 2022 graduate, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, Friday, Feb. 9 and Saturday, Feb. 10 at the Robert W. Brown Performing Arts Center in the Mabee Foundation…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Hannibal Arts Council will continue Art Adventures, its popular creative project series, at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13, at the Hannibal Arts Council, 105 S. Main. The February Art Adventure is designed for kindergarten through fifth-grade students. Participation fees include all supplies, an instructor and step-by-step instructions. Participants will learn about…
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QUINCY — The Quincy Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Bruce Briney, will commemorate prolific film composer John Williams at its Saturday, Feb. 10, concert which will begin at 3 p.m. at Quincy Junior High School. Williams has written music for more than 100 films, including some of the most recognizable songs in the movie…
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QUINCY — Quincy High School’s theatre department is presenting the historical drama, “Rosie the Riveter,” at 7 p.m. on Feb. 8, 9 and 10 in the Quincy High School Theatre. It’s January 1942 in the throes of World War II. Eddie, the owner of Eddie’s Auto Parts Factory in Cook County, Ill., is struggling because…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — An upcoming art sale at the Hannibal Arts Council features 12 large-scale landscape paintings by Capt. Robert M. Lumpp (1931-2023). The works will be on display at the Hannibal Arts Council through Feb. 23. The Hannibal Arts Council is pleased to present this special exhibit and sale of 12 landscape paintings by Lumpp.…
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QUINCY — Grammy-winning multi-platinum group Casting Crowns will be back in Quincy after a 10-year absence for a concert at 7 p.m. n Saturday, March 2, in Morrison Theater at Quincy Junior High School. The concert, entitled “An Evening With Casting Crowns,” comes as the band celebrates a milestone 20-year career. The evening’s performance will…
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CARTHAGE, Ill. — The 2024 season at The Legacy Theater will open with the Liverpool Legends at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17. The Beatles arrived in the United States on Feb. 7, 1964. Now the Liverpool Legends will bring their music and costumes back to The Legacy Theater, covering the full range of the Beatles’…
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QUINCY — Chaddock has been awarded $500 from the Arts Quincy Arts Dollars Grants program for the Chaddock Youth Theatre Club funding. Funded in part by the Illinois Arts Council Agency, the Stillwell Foundation and the business and individual members of Arts Quincy, this grant will be used for Chaddock’s after-school Theatre Club program. Instructors…
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PEORIA, Ill. — Twenty-six Quincy High School students recently participated as All-State musicians for 2024 at the Illinois Music Educators Association (ILMEA) All-State Convention in Peoria on Jan. 24-27. More than 10,000 students from elementary, junior high and high schools around Illinois participated during the fall of 2023 in a virtual audition process. More than 7,000 students…
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QUINCY — Quincy Community Theatre recently celebrated its 2023 season at the Atrium on Third with a formal dinner followed by an awards and recognition ceremony called the QUILTAs — Quincy Little Theatre Awards — which have been a tradition at QCT since 1970. Twenty volunteers were recognized for their contributions to the theatre. The…
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QUINCY — Tickets to the 2024 season-opening show “Matilda: The Musical” at the Quincy Community Theatre now are on sale to the general public, with opening night scheduled for Friday, Feb. 16. The free Discovery Night, an event showcasing the production process, a live rehearsal preview and a discussion of show topics, will be held Tuesday,…
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QUINCY — Arts Quincy provided every K-5 student in Adams and Brown counties with a voucher to tour the Quincy Museum during their holiday break. This initiative brought in hundreds of visitors, allowing students to bring guests to tour and create lasting memories. Laura Sievert, executive director of Arts Quincy, emphasized in a press release…
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QUINCY — Quincy University’s Gray Gallery, inside Brenner Library, is the site of an art exhibition featuring recent works by local watercolorists and works produced in a workshop titled “Landscapes from the Heart” held in October and led by Fred Jones, WIU distinguished lecturer. The Great River Watercolor Exhibition runs through Feb. 16 and is…
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Ashley Conrad and Brittany Boll briefly visit with Muddy River News Editor David Adam to talk about Ashley’s trip to the salon, Brittany’s car problems and the news about the Range at KC project. Ashley and Brittany then meet with Terry Good, a Professional Bull Riders photographer and a retired sergeant with the Drug Enforcement…
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QUINCY, Ill. – The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa & Associated Disorders (ANAD) will be the host of an original “This Is My Brave” production celebrating the voices of eating disorder recovery while cultivating hope for the estimated 28.8 million Americans suffering from an eating disorder. Twenty-one individuals are set to take the stage to…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Hannibal Arts Council will continue Art Adventures, its popular creative project series, at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13 at the Hannibal Arts Council, 105 S. Main. Art Adventures are designed for students in grades K-5. Participation fees include all supplies, an instructor and step-by-step instructions. Participants will learn about surrealism and…
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Macy Waters and Avery Wyatt both of Pittsfield won the Senior Division of the Illinois Association of Agricultural Fairs’ State Talent Contest. The girls represented Calhoun County after winning the fair’s local competition in September. The talent contest was held on Saturday, January 13 at the annual IAAF State Convention in Springfield.…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Hannibal Concert Association’s third concert of its 2023-2024 concert season is scheduled for Friday, Jan. 19. Joanne O’Brien will present a Karen Carpenter tribute show titled “Yesterday Once More” beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Roland Fine Arts Center’s Parker Theater on the campus of HLGU, 2800 Palmyra Road. “Yesterday Once…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Hannibal Arts Council will host a beginner-friendly crochet class with Grace Tate of Graceful Stitching Co. at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7. at the Hannibal Arts Council, 105 S. Main. Tate has been crocheting as a hobby for 10 years. The workshop will include making pocket-size hearts and worry worms while…
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