The Flint Hills Masterworks Chorale will perform Dvorak Mass in D and Brahms “How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place” from A German Requiem on Friday April 26th at 7pm. The chorale is under the direction of Arianne Thomas. There will be a free will donation accepted.
The Chorale was founded in 1994 and sponsored by Manhattan Christian College. In 2020, the Manhattan Arts Center obtained a three-year Deihl grant for the choir. The choir performs a variety of chorale music, ranging from J. S. Bach and W. A. Mozart to Zoltan Kodaly and John Rutter.
Flint Hills Masterworks Chorale is Manhattan’s community choir and is now one of three programs of Side by Side Theatre & Music. All singers are eligible to join the choir. Email Masterworksmhk@gmail.com for more information of just come to rehearsal. There are no formal auditions, but new members should be prepared to sing a few bars for the conductor.
Join the fun at the Run for the Roses 5K run and 1K walk! Runners will start and finish in the beautiful K-State Gardens, take a lap on the track inside historic Memorial Stadium, and cruise by Anderson Hall, the Student Union, and Ahearn Fieldhouse. First, second, and third place winners will get a beautiful glazed purple pot with rose-shaped succulent plant! T-shirts, snacks, and participant medals for all! Enjoy face painters, balloon art, and 10,000 tulips in bloom by the visitor’s center.
Note: the 2024 course is NOT USATF certified due to construction.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees!
Timeless in a way that few other acts today are, The Spinners are one of the most iconic and enduring groups in R&B history. With a towering legacy spanning over six decades, The Spinners have never lost their universal appeal. The band both created and came to define the singularly smooth sound of Philadelphia Soul, channeling the highs and lows of romance and heartbreak into a catalogue of classic hits, beloved across generations. Throughout the years the Spinners have topped both the Pop and R&B charts with smash singles like, “I’ll Be Around,” “Could It Be I’m Falling In Love,” “Then Came You,” “The Rubberband Man” and many more– earning six Grammy nominations, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, over 100 million YouTube views, and selling millions of records worldwide in the process. Their legendary repertoire has earned a permanent place in the American songbook.
Come hike and see the glory of the prairie in full bloom! A guide will lead you through the beautiful 1.5 mile Butterfly Hill trail (easy hike) located at the Konza headquarters area, not often open to the public. Join us for this one special night! This event is family friendly! Children are welcome, but with the terrain, strollers are not. Proceeds benefit the Friends of the Konza Prairie, which works to support the educational programs introducing K-12 students to ecology and beauty of the tallgrass prairie.
Free to the Friends of Konza Prairie Members. For others it’s just $10.
Come join family and friends to support neighbors in need. It’s the annual Nelson Family Community Foundation Benefit, on June 7th and 8th in Leonardville. The festivities begin Friday evening with a barbeque meal served from 5-7pm. A cornhole tournament starts at 6:30pm, with music provided by DJ Rick Stanley. There’s also a beer garden opening at 5pm.
A full day of activities is scheduled for Saturday, starting with a golf tournament at the Leonardville Golf Course. At 11am it’s a Drive or Ride, as well as a silent auction at the Sikes Venue. There will be food vendors and the beer garden, all leading up to the Live auction at 6pm.
Proceeds from the event will go to help out Haisley Dow, Harold Oliver, and Riley & Kenzi Beard.
Stay tuned to the Nelson Family Community Foundation Facebook page for updates and more information.
At age 86, Buddy Guy is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, and a living link to the city’s halcyon days of electric blues. Buddy Guy has received 8 GRAMMY Awards, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, 38 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #23 in its “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”
In 2019, Buddy Guy won his 8th and most recent GRAMMY Award for his 18th solo LP, “The Blues Is Alive And Well”.
In July of 2021, in honor of Buddy Guy’s 85th birthday, PBS American Masters released “Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away”, a new documentary following his rise from a childhood spent picking cotton in Louisiana to becoming one of the most influential guitar players of all time. The documentary features new interviews with Buddy Guy, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Gary Clark Jr, and more. Watch the full documentary at PBS Online here.
Though Buddy Guy will forever be associated with Chicago, his story actually begins in Louisiana. One of five children, he was born in 1936 to a sharecropper’s family and raised on a plantation near the small town of Lettsworth, located some 140 miles northwest of New Orleans. Buddy was just seven years old when he fashioned his first makeshift “guitar”—a two-string contraption attached to a piece of wood and secured with his mother’s hairpins.
In 1957, he took his guitar to Chicago, where he would permanently alter the direction of the instrument, first on numerous sessions for Chess Records playing alongside Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and the rest of the label’s legendary roster, and then on recordings of his own. His incendiary style left its mark on guitarists from Jimmy Page to John Mayer. “He was for me what Elvis was probably like for other people,” said Eric Clapton at Guy’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2005. “My course was set, and he was my pilot.”
Seven years later, July 2012 proved to be one of Buddy Guy’s most remarkable years ever. He was
awarded the 2012 Kennedy Center Honor for his lifetime contribution to American culture; earlier in the year, at a performance at the White House, he even persuaded President Obama to join him on a chorus of “Sweet Home Chicago.” Also in 2012, he published his long-awaited memoir, When I Left Home.
These many years later, Buddy Guy remains a genuine American treasure and one of the final surviving connections to an historic era in the country’s musical evolution.
