[NEohioPAL] Lake Erie College collaborates with Cool Cleveland for party and John Bassette Memorial Folk Festival

[Lawry, Kathleen (Public Relations and Marketing Specialist)]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Contact:   Kathleen Lawry            

             Public Relations and Marketing Specialist

Office:      440.375.7230    

Date:      Oct. 22, 2007

 

Lake Erie College collaborates with Cool Cleveland for party and John
Bassette Memorial Folk Festival

 

(PAINESVILLE, Ohio) - In honor of the first anniversary of the death of
former local folksinger John Bassette, Lake Erie College will host a
party with Cool Cleveland Nov. 14 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. prior to a live
memorial concert titled, "John Bassette & The Spirit of Individuality,"
at 8:00 p.m. 

 

The party is open to those 21 and older and will take place in the Lake
Erie College Fine Arts Building. The event will feature live
performances from the College's fine arts programs, including excerpts
from the dramatic productions of "Three Musketeers" and "The Good Woman
of Szechuan"; a dance performance from undergraduate dance majors and an
acoustic guitar duet by professor and student. The cost to attend the
party is $15 and includes beer sponsored by Lake County's microbrewery,
Willoughby Brewing, along with wine and food samplings from Gavi's,
Bistro 70, Metz's and more.

 

Local singer-songwriter Alex Bevan will be the opening act for Tiny
Alice, a northeast Ohio jug band, for the free concert that will take
place in the Morley Music Hall following the party. Bevan will be
performing songs of Bassette on acoustic guitar. 

 

The concert is designed to honor Bassette's musical spirit on the first
anniversary of his death. Bassette was one of the first local artists to
record and produce music for his own independent label, Tinkertoo
Records. 

 

Born in Hampton, Va., on Dec. 28, 1941, Bassette attended Virginia Union
College. Upon graduation, he relocated to New York City in pursuit of a
music career, and became a fixture of the thriving Greenwich Village
folk scene during the mid-'60s. While there, he performed with Sammy
Davis, Jr. in the Broadway play, "Golden Boy." Relocating to northeast
Ohio in the late 1960s, Bassette worked as a folksinger,
singer-songwriter, poet and cable TV personality until a debilitating
stroke limited his pursuits in the early 1990s. 

 

For more information about the event, contact Richard Sax at
440.375.7151 or rsax at lec.edu or log onto coolcleveland.com.

 

Founded in 1856, Lake Erie College is a dynamic and progressive
institution of higher education. The College offers 27 undergraduate
majors, including a new program in equine entrepreneurship - the first
of its kind throughout the country. This coeducational college, grounded
in the liberal arts, enrolls just over 1,100 students of all ages and is
nationally recognized for its equine studies programs and international
learning opportunities for students.

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Kathleen Lawry

Public Relations and Marketing Specialist

Lake Erie College

391 W. Washington St.

Painesville, OH 44077

Phone: 440.375.7230

Fax: 440.375.7204

E-mail: klawry at lec.edu <mailto:klawry at lec.edu>  

www.lec.edu <http://www.lec.edu/> 

 

 

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