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DECEMBER 15-21, 2016 FACEBOOK.COM/WHATZUPFORTWAYNE • WWW.WHATZUP.COM presentsBROADWAY At The Embassy Give the Gift of Broadway! ©LITTLESTAR FAREWELL TOUR TM January 17, 2017 March 7, 2017 THE BROADWAY MUSICAL TELECHARGE.COM or 212-239-6200 • MUSIC BOX THEATRE, 239 W. 45TH ST. • PIPPINTHEMUSICAL.COM March 27, 2017 April 18, 2017 June 13, 2017 To Subscribe: Box Office • fwembassytheatre.org • 260.424.5665 Single Tickets : Box Office • Ticketmaster.com EMBASSY 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com ----------------------------------------------------------December 15, 2016 whatzup Volume 21, Number 20 his is a special issue for us, and all you need to do is read Lillian Embick’s inspiring story Tto understand why. Recognizing and honoring people who make extraordinary contributions to the arts and culture of northeast Indiana is one of the most gratifying things we do here at whatzup. And the fact that Liddell Award winners are selected by prior honorees makes the award that much more significant. Read Liddell Award Winners: (top row, Mark Hunter’s feature on Mrs. Embick, left to right) Harvey Cox, Dorothy Rolling Stones Blue & Lonesome and we’re sure you’ll agree the commit- Kittaka, Lillian Embick, Christo- tee couldn’t have made a better choice. pher Guerin (standing in for Chuck Next week’s whatzup is our last ... of 2016. Surack), Guy Zimmerman, Matt Pink Floyd The Early Years We’ll be skipping the next couple of weeks Kelley; (bottom row) Richard Re- 1967-1972 (Dec. 29 and Jan. 5) and publishing our progle, Julia Meek, Doc West, Bob Cre/ation first 2017 issue on January 12. For musi- Roets. Not pictured: Brad Etter. cians and venues, this means you’ll want to get your bookings into us quickly if you want to be in print between December 22 Metallica and January 11. Even if you miss the print deadline, get your listings in, as we’ll be Hardwired ... updating whatzup.com during the break. to Self-Destruct inside the issue Neil Young • features FLIX ................................................. 16 Peace Trail Loving SCREENTIME ................................. 16 LILLIAN EMBICK ..........................................4 Disney’s Moana Still Hanging On Bringing Comfort & Joy ON BOOKS ...................................... 17 JJOSHUA .....................................................5 A Thousand Naked Strangers Mixing Creativity, Positivity CURTAIN CALL ................................ 18 DIXON & McRAE ..........................................6 Best Christmas Pageant Ever Making Music and Real Life DIVERSIONS .................................. 19 Make Yourself a Happy Holiday • columns & reviews • calendars SPINS ................................................7 The Rutabega, Soltre, Metallica BACKTRACKS ...................................7 LIVE MUSIC & COMEDY ....................8 The Animals, The Animals (1964) MUSIC/ON THE ROAD .................... 14 OUT AND ABOUT ...............................8 Your Chance to ‘Come on Down!’ ROAD TRIPZ ................................... 15 DINING OUT .................................... 11 ART & ARTIFACTS .......................... 18 The Venice STAGE & DANCE ............................ 18 See our huge selection of ROAD NOTEZ .................................. 14 THINGS TO DO ............................... 19 $5 CDs Cover by Brandon Jordan; Lillian Embick photos by Mark Hunter Gift certificates make great stocking stuffers Live Auctions Check out our newly Every Friday renovated W. 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Liddell Award Recipient • Lillian Embick -------------- 35 Concerts/Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood .......................17 Bell Tower Auctions .................................................................3 C2G Live .................................................................................15 C2G Music Hall.........................................................................5 Bringing Comfort & Joy Calhoun Street Soups, Salads, Spirits ...............................9 By Mark Hunter The story was about a man in New York the arts to about 2.8 million people. Columbia Street West ............................................................9 City whose company brought music to peo- Meeting Lillian Embick now it’s hard to The Guinness World Records website ple in nursing homes and hospitals. As she imagine that this tiny, impeccably dressed, Cute by Nature Jewelry ..........................................................9 lists Viola Cocran of Slidell, Lousiana as read, Embick’s heart began to beat faster. white-haired nonagenarian with a still-sharp Dupont Bar & Grill....................................................................8 the record holder for most volunteer hours Already a volunteer with the Red Cross, mind was ever anything but smiles and joy worked. Cocran, according to the website, Embick had spent the previous decade with and generosity. But her warmth and enthu- Eichhorn Jewelry ......................................................................3 put in 77,019 hours at the Slidell Memo- others who would load up a van with Kool- siasm didn’t come naturally to her. For the rial Hospital between 1959 and first decades of her life, Embassy Theatre .....................................................................6 2012, when she retired at age she endured a Dickensi- 89. an river of abandonment First Presbyterian Theater/It’s a Wonderful Lofe .............17 Not to take anything away and hardship. The lone- from Mrs. Cocran’s selfless ef- liness and sadness she Fort Wayne Dance Collective ..................................... 11 , 17 forts, but it’s clear the Guinness experienced planted a people have never heard of Lil- seed of hope deep within Fort Wayne Musicians Association ...................................11 lian Embick. her – but it was a seed Hamilton House Bar & Grill ....................................................9 By conservative estimates, that would take years to between 1971 and 2014, Em- sprout. Jam Theatricals/Broadway at the Embassy ......................2 bick logged more than 100,000 “My father left my hours as founder and volunteer mother when I was a Latch String Bar & Grill ..........................................................8 executive director of Audiences baby,” she said. “They Unlimited Inc., the organiza- had built a house and Mitchell’s Sports & Neighborhood Grill ...............................8 tion she created to bring the had a big mortgage on it, arts to people in nursing homes, and he left her with that NIGHTLIFE ......................................................................... 8-11 people otherwise cut off from mortgage and a pile of society and languishing in cold debts. My grandmother Northside Galleries .................................................................3 institutions. was supposed to take PERFORMERS DIRECTORY ................................................11 Of course, the folks at care of me, but she died Guinness might have a tough of cancer. And there’s Sweetwater Sound ..........................................................9, 20 time verifying the time Em- my poor mother now, a bick spent working without a little lady about the size WGL 1250 AM Fox Sports ................................................16 paycheck because during the of me, with a house and 43 years she ran Audiences Un- a mortgage and a baby.” whatzup Dining Club ...............................................................12 limited she was the only one in After a few years of the office. caring for old people in Wooden Nickel Music Stores ............................................3, 7 She was the one at her their homes, with Lillian WXKE 96.3 ............................................................................16 kitchen table at 2 am pounding in tow, her mother saw out grant proposals on her por- no option but to place table typewriter. her toddler in foster It was Embick who contact- homes. ed hundreds of local musicians and got them Aid and potato chips she had talked the Sey- “I cried for my mother night and day, so whatzup to take their talents to nursing homes for fert’s potato chip company into donating and nobody wanted me,” Embick said. Published weekly and distributed on Wednesdays and $25 an hour. It was Embick who convinced head to one of the five nursing homes in Fort Her mother then placed her in an or- Thursdays by AD Media, Incorporated. the Philharmonic, local theater groups and Wayne. There Embick would play the piano phanage. The tears continued. 2305 E. Esterline Rd., Columbia City, IN 46725 event sponsors to donate tickets and allow and lead sing-alongs for the residents. While But her mother had a plan. She rented Phone: (260) 691-3188 • Fax: (260) 691-3191 E-Mail: [email protected] bus loads of shut-ins to attend live perfor- she enjoyed the work with the Red Cross, the house fully furnished