Gettysburg Brass Band Brass Band 6:00 GETTYSBURG AREA HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM – FRIDAY, JUNE 13TH the U.S
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THE BEST 5 DAYS OF YOUR SUMMER www.GettysburgFestival.org Printed In Partnership with the Gettysburg Times 2 • Gettysburg Times • Gettysburg Fest • Saturday, June 7, 2014 GettysburgFestival.org Starting this year, the “new” condensed five-day Gettysburg Fest (June 11-15) offers an action- packed, must attend experience for locals and visitors alike. I refer to it as “The Best Five Days of Your Summer!” We are very excited to call the historic Gettysburg College campus our new home for what we consider the “core festival”—the Thursday June 12 through Saturday June 14— of the event. This year, attendees will be able to enjoy over 50 live performances on three outdoor stages and four indoor venues. We have teamed with three wonderful new partners to present the entertainment on these three primary stages: Fitzgerald Auto Malls, XFINITY and Troegs Brewing. The best local, regional and national entertainment—representing Broadway to Alternative Rock, from Classical to Country, Blues to R&B— will energize Gettysburg this coming week! The US Army Concert Band and Soldiers’ Chorus returns as does the always popular Blues BBQ; and we will offer an all-new comedy night—Laughing With Lincoln—present- ed by Steven B. Wiley and the Lincoln Leadership Institute. We close the event on Father’s Day, June 15th with a powerful, memorable production of “Beyond Glory”, starring world-re- nowned actor, Stephen Lang! We are selling tickets but all are affordable—the most expensive ticket price being $50 (and that includes a ‘meet and greet’ with Stephen Lang!). Most tickets are in the $15 to $30 range for some really world-class entertainment—the caliber of tal- ent you expect to spend much more to see! We will offer seven different visual arts exhibits to showcase the best talent in the region. Returning is the annual Juried Art Show, in collaboration with the Adams County Arts Council; and two new student exhibits at the Musselman Library. A number of popular programs are back and in new locations throughout the campus: the plein air artist exhibit and fun Quick Draw competition presented by ACNB Bank; and the Edible Art Tour serves up the best visual and culinary art Gettysburg has to offer! The community’s merchants and organizations are still a “part of the show” through the annual Gettysburg Fest Fringe, presented by ACNB Bank. You will struggle (in a fun way!) to decide where to start to take in the approximately 25 different events offered by the Fringe! On Saturday, we offer six hours of amazing, free, family-friendly events as part of the new Family Celebration presented by PNC “Grow Up Great” and WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital. Families will be able to “make and take” art projects, be a part of the “Carnival of the Arts”, with a theme of Venice in celebration. Our popular Brass Band Festival returns, with a new twist that is sure to please guests of all ages—the Old Fashioned Pie and Ice Cream Social, presented by Kennie’s Markets and Turkey Hill Dairy! You will even be able to cheer on your favorite restaurant server in the First Annual Waiter-Waitress Challenge! Thank you to our Fest sponsors—partners, really. While too numerous to mention in this introduction, the Gettysburg Fest is mostly a free and family-friendly event because of their investment—in time, financial support, and spirit. Please take a mo- ment to look at our sponsor page at the end of this program booklet—and show your appreciation for their investment in this event. We really could not offer this level and variety of programming without them. We retained what was great with the “old festival” as we built the “new fest”. We continue offering the best performance, visual and culinary arts in the region. The Gettysburg Fest: Arts and Culture, Here and Now. This is YOUR festival—make the experience your own…but please experience it. Bring a friend. Randy Prasse, Director GettysburgFestival.org Gettysburg Times • Gettysburg Fest • Saturday, June 7, 2014 • 3 4 • Gettysburg Times • Gettysburg Fest • Saturday, June 7, 2014 GettysburgFestival.org Eric Paslay One Of Country’s Hot Newcomers BY ALEX J. HAYES Paslay, who grew up playing an old guitar that his dad Times Managing Editor would tune with needle nose pliers. Between Eric Paslay’s June 10 show in Charleston, S.C. “Its a cool thought that people can listen to 11 songs and his June 13 performance in Hunter Mountain, NY, that you have on their own,” he said of his recent album he will stop in the historic town of Gettysburg to take the release. stage on June 12 at Gettysburg Fest. The June 12 performance will be special to Paslay, as he Those who frequently listen to country music radio know has never performed for a crowd in Gettysburg. Paslay for hits such as “Friday Night” and “If the Fish Don’t Bite” but the relative newcomer has a complete set, “It is an amazing and sad thing to think we were fighting and released an album earlier this year. against ourselves. To see the statues and fields is amaz- ing,” he said. That’s a long way from his roots of performing in Texas. “We get to play shows and people are turning me up on History aside, Paslay said he is a big fan of festivals be- the radio,” he said. cause the crowds tend to be rowdier than at indoor shows. “The best thing is the weather is usually warm outside and The past eight months have been a great experience for I love that,” he said. Gettysburg’s Gift Shop for the Unique, Decorative & Handmade. www.facebook.com/larkgifts 40 Baltimore St., Gettysburg,tttyyssbuburrgg PAPA 17325171732325 Eric Paslay (717) 334-LARK • www.larkgifts.com GettysburgFestival.org Gettysburg Times • Gettysburg Fest • Saturday, June 7, 2014 • 5 Stephen Lang to portray Congressional Medal of Honor recipients in ‘Beyond Glory’ BY JIM HALE particular war. Times Staff Writer “This is not a rah-rah piece,” Though he played a villainous colonel in the hit movie “Avatar,” Lang said. “I like to wave Stephen Lang dreams of military heroes. the flag as much anybody on July 4 or Memorial Day, but The actor will be in Gettysburg June 15 to portray eight Congres- that’s not what this is about.” sional Medal of Honor recipients in the one-man show he wrote, “Beyond Glory.” Instead, the play is “about the phenomenon of war” and Stephen Lang After performing the piece hundreds of times, often for troops in lo- what it means for those who cales ranging from the Persian Gulf to Korea, he said he sometimes experience it, such as “these men, who are so human, like you or I,” dreams of the men whose true stories he tells. Lang said. “I won’t go so far as to say I’ve been visited by them in my “People connect with them,” he said. “People see their fathers, a lot dreams,” he said, “but that’s not out of the realm of possibility.” of times.” Lang based the 80-minute show on a book with the same title, in Every performance of the play “strikes new chords deeply, or some- which journalist Larry Smith gathered oral histories from 23 recipi- times familiar chords with a slightly different reverberation,” he ents of the nation’s highest honor for action in the face of an enemy. said. “Knocked out” by the book, Lang said he chose recipients from “If you love theater, this is what I’ve got,” Lang said. “I can’t do World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars, and “attempted to better than this.” refine the stories into 10-minute bullion cubes of drama.” Picking a favorite would be like choosing among one’s children, Lang said, but the story of U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye is “beautiful.” Before becoming the first Japanese-American to serve in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, Inouye earned his Medal of Honor during World War II. His unit captured German machine-gun emplace- ments in Italy, with Inouye continuing to fight and lead even after a grenade shattered his right arm. Lang performed the piece for Inouye on the occasion of his 80th birthday. “He wept and said he wished his father could have seen it,” Lang said, adding that other medal recipients have seen and been moved by the show. The show’s central question, Lang said, is what led the men to “the crazy moment when they go above and beyond,” and what changes rippled outward from the profound “pebble in the pond of their lives.” “Their lives articulate several qualities that are among the most noble qualities a person can have - courage, humility, fortitude,” Lang said He said he hopes “it rubs off on you,” because the men’s character “represents an ideal not merely in combat, but really in life.” “Truthfully, these are ancient stories,” Lang said, and could just as easily have come from ancient battles like Agincourt or Thermopy- lae. “There is a universality to them.,” he said, and for that reason the audience doesn’t need to come to the show with a detailed knowledge of history or a particular political stance regarding any 6 • Gettysburg Times • Gettysburg Fest • Saturday, June 7, 2014 GettysburgFestival.org The Lone Bellow set to perform at Gettysburg Fest By Ashley Andyshak Hayes Bluegrass Festival. For the Gettysburg Times Williams said he’s never been to Gettysburg, but has enjoyed watching Zach Williams’ songwriting career grew out of tragedy, but grew into the excitement build for the band’s Fest performance on social media.