NEXT EVENT: RIVER CITY FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS - MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
11:00AM - Historic Rowlesburg School/Szilagyi Center Auditorium - Donation at the door
Actor - Storyteller - Writer
DOUG RILEY
Presents a living history program
MARK TWAIN:
The Early Years
Sponsored by the WV Humanities Council
2:00PM - Historic Rowlesburg School/Szilagyi Center Auditorium - Donation at the door
Actress - Storyteller - Writer
JOANN PETERSON
Presents a living history program
FRANCES PERKINS:
American workers-rights advocate
Sponsored by the WV Humanities Council
LUCAS TANNOUS
Tenor Lucas Tannous is a Graduate in Music and Vocal Performance from Westminster Choir College. He also holds a Master of Music degree from The University of Illinois School of Music, and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. Tannous has performed lead tenor roles in the classic opera repertoire with theaters in several U.S. cities, including Washington, D.C., Portland, OR and Houston, TX. He has also participated in several European summer programs including the University of Miami’s School of Music Program in Salzburg, Austria, Le Academie de Cimiez de Nice Pour Chanter, Nice, France and Le Sessione Senese per La Musica e l’Arte, Siena, Italy.
In addition to his musical career, Mr. Tannous holds a Master of Arts degree in speech-language pathology from Lehman College, CUNY. As a speech-language pathologist, he is certified by the World Learning SIT Graduate Institute in TESOL, and has taught as an ESL teacher in the Professional Department of the Rennert School for English in New York City, as well as at the Lehman College, CUNY Department of Continuing Education.
Dr. THOMAS J. NASSIF
Dr. Thomas Nassif began piano studies as a child in his native town of Rowlesburg, WV, under Naomi Hooten, continuing with Ruby Ward of Kingwood, WV and later with Oliver Manning and Miriam Gainer Goder, while completing pre-medicine studies at West Virginia University.
He completed his first two years of medical studies at West Virginia University and received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He was an associate professor of anesthesiology at George Washington University in DC.
A former flight surgeon and now retired colonel of the U.S.A.F., Dr. Nassif’s tours of duty included Spain, where he studied Spanish repertory with Concepcion Badia and Carmen Coll and more recently, in the U.S. with pianist Miguel Valdés. He has accompanied his wife, Cristina Herrera de Nassif, their daughter, Cristina Nassif, and other soloists, in numerous recitals here and abroad.
MOTOWN STRUTTERS
7:00pm - Historic Rowlesburg School/Szilagyi Center Auditorium - Donation at the door
SENIOR TAP DANCE ENSEMBLE
A variety of songs with a swift change of fabulous outfits!
Additional performance of Juniors from the Morgantown Dance Studio
The Motown Strutters will be performing some military and other numbers. It will be an entertaining hour long evening of dance.
The ladies in Motown Strutters are from Morgantown, Mt. Morris, and Kingwood.
