Celebrate opera's shining moments as the soundtrack to many great films in cinema history. From rom-coms to action-adventure and high drama, opera has done it all! DVOC presents a sampling of these exciting moments from movies including A Room with a View, Shawshank Redemption, Sunday Bloody Sunday, To Rome with Love, and even a few nods to the slapstick humor of Warner Brothers cartoons and the Three Stooges!

Raised on the music of the Smokey Mountains, Joshua Ray Walker took a precarious path back to traditional country music; one forged by musical exploration, and emotional hardship. Joshua has played his songs on stages all across Texas, and beyond, enthralling listeners with his brand of melodic, character driven writing which puts a new spin on traditional story-telling country. Expect his debut full length album this Summer, 2018.

http://www.joshuaraywalker.com

Tennessee Shines Radio Show is performed for a live audience every Wednesday at 7pm at Boyd's Jig & Reel musical pub in Knoxville's historic Old City. The show is broadcast live on WDVX FM and WDVX.com.Tickets are $7 plus applicable fees in advance, available at http://jigandreel.ticketleap.com/ or $10 at the door starting at 6pm.

What will we do? For Lula Wiles, the trio made up of Isa Burke, Eleanor Buckland, and Mali Obomsawin, the question is central to the creation of their music—and it’s the title of their new album. “We wanted to make an album that reflected, in a current way, what we are all staying up late thinking about and talking about over drinks at the dinner table,” says Obomsawin. “What is everyone worried about, confiding in their friends about, losing sleep about?” On What Will We Do, the band’s sophomore album, the trio’s voices burn, twist together, mingle, and rise like smoke signaling changes to come. But anchoring that delicate touch is a mastery of folk music —and a willingness to subvert its hallowed conventions.

Long before they were in a band together, the members of Lula Wiles were singing folk songs and trading fiddle tunes at camp in Maine. “All of us were lucky to have access to the folk music community at a young age,” Burke says. “The music traditions that we’re drawing on are social, community-building traditions.” On those warm summer nights, playing music was just plain fun. But the members of Lula Wiles carry those early lessons of community and the meaning of shared art with them to this day, as they seek to create music that questions cultural virtues, soothes aching wounds, and envisions a better world.

Lula Wiles came of age in Boston, in the practice rooms of Berklee College of Music and the city’s lively roots scene. In 2016, the band self-released Lula Wiles, a sensitive, twang-tinged collection of originals. Since then, they have toured internationally, winning fans at the Newport Folk Festival and the Philadelphia Folk Festival, and sharing stages with the likes of Aoife O’Donovan, the Wood Brothers, and Tim O’Brien.

Now, the release of What Will We Do on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings places the group squarely in line with some of its deepest influences, from the protest anthems of Woody Guthrie to the trailblazing songs of Elizabeth Cotten and Hazel Dickens. (Even the band’s name is a twist on an old Carter Family song.)

Going into the recording sessions with engineer and co-producer Dan Cardinal at Dimension Sound Studios in Boston, the members of Lula Wiles knew how they wanted this record to feel: intimate, warm, with the edges left rough. “We really wanted this album to sound like three people making music in a room,” Buckland explains. The songs on What Will We Do draw their power from small moments captured in real time, like the scrape of pick against string or the collective inhale at the start of a verse. The musicians take turns in different roles––Burke and Buckland on guitar and fiddle, Obomsawin on bass, all three singing—but no matter who’s playing what, they operate in close tandem, buoyed by the nimble touch of drummer (and frequent collaborator) Sean Trischka. In carrying on the folk ritual of innovation, they infuse their songs with distinctly modern sounds: pop hooks, distorted electric guitars, and dissonant multi-layered vocals, all employed in the service of songs that reclaim folk music in their own voice.

At its core, What Will We Do is an album centered around songcraft. The lyrics are sharp and the melodies finely wrought. You can hear, too, a growing maturity, a widening worldview. These aren’t your typical lovesick country tunes. “Last night we held a lie between our lips/ Another dead-end kiss,” Buckland sings about the end of a relationship on “Love Gone Wrong.” These are songs of stinging insight, of weary acceptance, of growing resilience.

The songs on What Will We Do speak to the issues of the day, even as they riff on folk music’s tropes. “Is this land yours/ Is this land mine/ The fault lines crack/ And the fists they fly,” Burke sings on “Shaking As It Turns” in a nod to the country’s deepening political divisions. Obomsawin punctures cowboy song nostalgia on “Good Old American Values,” a searing rebuke of American expansionism: “Good old American cartoons/ Indians and cowboys and saloons/ It’s all history by now/ And we hold the pen anyhow.” Sometimes, the best thing to do with an old idea is to turn it upside down.

That’s not to say that no traditional material made it onto What Will We Do. The title track is an Irish ballad—although the band couldn’t resist adding a twist of their own. Says Burke, “We wrote the verse about marrying the banker and redistributing all his money.” Lula Wiles brings new perspective to age-old traditions––above all, the people’s practice of sharing their communities’ struggles through songs. The band exists in the tense space where tradition and revolution meet, from which their harmonies rise into the air to create new American music.

Tennessee Shines Radio Show is performed for a live audience every Wednesday at 7pm at Boyd's Jig & Reel musical pub in Knoxville's historic Old City. The show is broadcast live on WDVX FM and WDVX.com.Tickets are $7 plus applicable fees in advance, available at http://jigandreel.ticketleap.com/ or $10 at the door starting at 6pm.

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Andrew Leahey & the Homestead
http://andrewleaheymusic.com

Written in the wake of a brain operation that nearly cost him his life, Andrew Leahey's sophomore LP, Airwaves, is as carpe diem as they come, an urgent sonic love letter channeling the 1980s FM-radio anthems he cut his teeth on as a kid.
“We didn’t have cable TV growing up,” Leahey says, “but my big brother would go over to his friend’s house with a blank VHS cassette and tape a two-hour block of MTV, commercials and all. We’d watch those videos over and over for months. I loved Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. They looked like my G.I. Joes—Springsteen was positively ripped, and they were all wearing bandanas, playing in front of these huge American flags. They looked like action heroes.”
Back then, Leahey was living in Richmond, Va., where his mom sold Mary Kay cosmetics door to door. Every day after school, he rode shotgun in her station wagon, the floorboards littered with the latest lipstick shades, the radio soundtracking their rounds. The music was always Top 40, most often the pop rock of the late ’80s: the big guitars, big drums and even bigger hooks of artists like Springsteen, Tom Petty, John Mellencamp and Bob Seger. These larger-than-life stars at the peak of their popularity, playing massive stadium shows to throngs of adoring fans, their videos in heavy rotation on MTV and their platinum records flying off the shelves—it was rock & roll unfolding on the grandest of scales. Their music became Leahey’s bedrock and, all these years later, the guiding force behind Airwaves, which shepherds the sounds of this golden era into the present day.
In addition to being an acclaimed solo artist featured at Rolling Stone, Billboard and American Songwriter, the Nashville-based Leahey is also a sought-after guitarist who regularly tours with Elizabeth Cook, and has backed Rodney Crowell, Drew Holcomb, Will Hoge and more. For Airwaves (out March 1), Leahey tapped multi-platinum producer Paul Ebersold, who enlisted Steelism’s Jon Estes and Jon Radford on bass and drums, respectively. Leahey also brought in his childhood best friend Phil Heesen III to add harmony vocals and guitar, as well as his buddy Sadler Vaden, who took a break from touring with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit long enough to drop by the studio and lay down some guitar leads on “Start the Dance,” “We Came Here to Run” and “Workin Ain’t Workin.”
Airwaves is timeless American rock & roll that rings from sea to shining sea, a candy-apple-red Mustang convertible of a record burning up the interstate with the ragtop down. With it, Leahey refines the jangly Americana of his 2016 Ken Coomer-produced debut, Skyline in Central Time, grasping for the still-smoldering torch of Petty and Springsteen, angling confidently to assume the mantle of their unpretentious everyman sound. Unadorned but poignant lyrics carried by simple, uplifting melodies. Distorted windmill guitar strums. Triumphant swells of organ cresting like whitecap foam on the ceaseless ocean. Driving bass lines locked tight with the kick, pumping in unison like the pistons of an engine straight off a 1980s Detroit assembly line. Would-be stadium anthems loping forward, the echoing crack of the snare faithfully charting miles per song. In an era hellbent on declaring the genre doornail dead, Airwaves is the kind of record that could only be made by a true believer in the power of rock & roll.
“Early on, I shared the first mixes of the record with some industry friends,” Leahey says. “They were like, ‘This sounds cool, but rock & roll isn’t really popular right now. Are you sure you want to do this?’ I said, ‘Of course! That’s what these tunes are. And what do you mean it’s not popular? Rock & roll has been around longer than any of us.’ I have a very clear idea of what my musical strengths are, what I’m meant to do, and I have no interest in diluting that or sanding away the rough edges that make it unique and specific to me.”
Leahey’s uncompromising attitude and renewed passion for his music have a whole lot to do with his staring down the prospect of an untimely death—or possibly the loss of his hearing—earlier this decade. Requiring brain surgery to remove a life-threatening tumor from his hearing nerve, the odds of the latter were an anxiety-inducing 50 percent. “Driving to the hospital with my wife the morning of the operation, I put on Lightning 100 in Nashville. Petty's 'A Face in the Crowd' was on the radio, and it hit me hard—the production was so enveloping, and I was really cognizant of the different instruments coming from the left and right speakers. It was a gorgeous, lush, layered sound. I wanted so badly to be able to wake up after the operation and still hear music with the same appreciation I had in that moment.”
Thankfully for Leahey, the procedure was a success, his hearing was unfazed and, after a long recovery, he remains cancer free. The experience redefined what playing music meant to him. “I nearly lost my ability to make, hear and appreciate music, and that inevitably changes you,” he says. “As I got healthier, I was drawn to writing songs that celebrated life. Songs that sounded as huge and immediate as the songs I heard on the radio as a boy in 1989—which is why we called the new album Airwaves.”
One of the record’s key tracks was actually hatched while Leahey was getting an MRI. “The sound of the magnets in the machine — it was almost like club music, like techno,” he says. “I remember being in there, and this percussive sound kept echoing around my body. To me, it sounded like a four-on-the-floor kick drum, and I started humming a melody to it. That became ‘Make It Last.’”
Once strong enough to return to the road, Leahey played 180 shows in 2016 in support of Skyline in Central Time. During that period, “Make It Last” was a staple in the band’s sets. “Playing that song live, with those huge, ringing chords—it felt so good on stage. We were working with an Americana label at the time, but all the slower, sadder songs I'd written no longer felt like me. I'd been to the brink, peered over the edge and escaped with my life intact, and I wanted everyone to know what that exhilaration felt like."
Still on tour, and with a fresh sense of purpose and perspective, Leahey began writing the rest of the songs that would become Airwaves. The record was cut almost entirely live in just 10 days at Ebersold’s Nashville studio, The Bakery, in 2018. As with Petty and The Boss, a lot of Leahey’s songs get at the essence of young adulthood spent on the run, and just about every last one could be a set closer or an encore. “This record is rooted in the sound of a band playing live,” Leahey says. “Everything was written on tour, with last night's show still ringing in my ears, and a lot of it was road-tested. To me, this kind of rock & roll never left. It's always on my stereo. It's always in the air. We're torchbearers of a sound that's bigger than us, and we're gonna keep the fire burning."

Tennessee Shines Radio Show is performed for a live audience every Wednesday at 7pm at Boyd's Jig & Reel musical pub in Knoxville's historic Old City. The show is broadcast live on WDVX FM and WDVX.com.Tickets are $7 plus applicable fees in advance, available at http://jigandreel.ticketleap.com/ or $10 at the door starting at 6pm.
 

OVERVIEW

PivotTables can help you sort and sift through large data sets to focus quickly on just the data elements that matter most to your specific needs. In addition, you’ll get tips on the easiest way to group your data.

Most importantly, when you use the power of Microsoft Excel PivotTables, you’ll be saving time and making your job easier.

Excel functions can greatly enhance your ability to perform tasks in day to day activities in Excel. While there are hundreds of functions available, there are 10 Functions that all Excel users should know.

Whether you are an office worker or a small business owner using Excel to keep track of your finances or just the casual user, these Excel functions can be very important time savers and enhance your ability to create better performing spreadsheets!

You’ll learn how to create a macro the easy way by using the built-in macro recorder. You’ll then progress on to learn how to make simple changes to a macro using the built-in programming language called VBA.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND

As an intermediate-level user of Excel, not only do you want to take your knowledge and skills to the next level, you want to produce meaningful, impactful and insightful reports in the shortest time possible. These features of the application will help you to do just that.

AREAS COVERED

Create a simple Pivot Table
Change the way data is calculated in a PivotTable
Group date data by month, year or quarter
Learn about slicers – the new visual way to filter PivotTables
Format a PivotTable report for greater appeal
Learn many statistical functions including SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN and COUNT
Use IF and its counterparts COUNTIF, SUMIF, and AVERAGEIF
Understand VLOOKUP
Calculate dates using TODAY, NOW and NETWORKDAYS
Learn many functions to manipulate text once imported including LEFT, RIGHT, LEN, TRIM and CONCANTENATE
Use IFERROR when errors can’t be avoided
Learn the difference between workbook macros and personal macros
Making your macros available to all your workbooks 
Use the macro recorder to create a macro
Save a file as a macro enabled excel workbook
Run a macro
View the recorded macro in VBA
Edit the macro

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This Microsoft Excel training session covers THREE advanced features of Excel that provide automation within the application.

Microsoft Excel Pivot Tables make building reports a breeze. You will be introduced to the basic task of building, formatting and refreshing PivotTables.

Formulas are equations that can perform calculations, return information, manipulate the contents of other cells, test conditions, and more. Explore what are considered the top 10 functions.

Being able to create and edit macros is one of the must have skills for Excel Power Users. Having this knowledge will save you hours of time by allowing you to automate any Excel-based task or process. If you’ve never created macros or used VBA before, this advanced Excel training is for you.

WHO WILL BENEFIT

This session is aimed at Excel users who have intermediate level knowledge and who wish to take their knowledge and understanding of the application to the next level.

Business Owners
CEO's / CFO's / CTO's
Managers
Accountants
CPA's
Financial Consultants
IT Professionals
Auditors
Human Resource Personnel
Bookkeepers
Marketers
Anybody with large amounts of Data
Anybody who uses Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, and wants to be more efficient and productive

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The essential guide to putting your business on a global stage.  This workshop will provide an understanding of the key principles to successfully market and sell overseas.  Learn how to produce a strategic plan for entering overseas markets.

Agenda: 

09:00am: Registration 

09:15am: Workshop start 

12:45pm: Lunch 

16:00pm: Finish

Overview

This course is designed to help companies improve their knowledge, thinking and capability in winning business overseas, and delegates will leave with added confidence and skills to apply when considering future opportunities. The highly interactive workshop is appropriate for delegates who are new or relatively inexperienced exporters, or  current exporters who are looking to improve their marketing and sales strategies.  

The networking element of the workshops is an important benefit of attending. We encourage attendees to reflect on the issues covered as they affect their own businesses and also group delegates together to give them every opportunity to share their experiences and relevant case examples with others who may have similar products and/or services or target customers.

Winning Business in International Markets - learning outcomes

On completion of this masterclass, delegates will have learned about:

• some business models which will help them to understand and focus their international offer
• introducing their company (getting the pitch and positioning right) both in writing and verbally
• understanding the opportunity, who the client is, and what will make them sit up and take interest
• marketing communicating and working with customers and intermediaries overseas, and how to initiate and follow up discussions
• preparing for a visit to the market (either as part of a group or individually) and presenting their company’s offer
• how to negotiate successfully in different markets
• following up and getting feedback

All delegates receive a set of notes and exercises to help them plan and prepare for sales and marketing activities with potential customers overseas.  These can be used to help throughout the process and for targets in any sector in any export market.  

Speaker: This workshop will be led by Mr John Harrison (JH Market Strategy Ltd)rnrnJohn is a specialist in export training, mentoring and business strategy, market research & communications – in particular for companies and organisations that are currently or in fact planning to develop and grow through international trade.

Safari is a web browser which represents the data graphically and is developed by Apple. Initially it was compatible only with the Mac operating System but now the updated versions are compatible with the Windows also. It is always the default browser on the Apple devices.

Safari browser is an efficient browser and is compatible with almost all the applications. If the user wishes to remain updated, all the updated versions of operating system and the applications should be there in the device. Sometimes the user faces the issue of Safari not working on Mac after update. In this case, the below mentioned fixes can be tried to make it working:

The very basic method can be tried by restarting the Apple device. In this the device is kept off for few seconds before turning on. If it does not work, the other methods can be tried.

The user can try changing the network of the device. For this, the user needs to check if the internet connection (Wi-Fi or cellular) is proper. In case of Wi-Fi, the router’s connection and DNS should be checked.

Sometimes the issue comes up due to incorrect settings of the network. It can be fixed by resetting all the settings to default. After resetting, the details of Wi-Fi will be removed, so the user has to save it again.

The Safari history and the data of the website might be causing the issue. So, if the cache and cookies of the browser are cleared, it might resolve the issue.

If still the issue is there, the technical support of Apple can be contacted and the contact info for reaching them is mentioned on the Apple’s website.

The KY Division of Compliance Assistance (DCA) and the Kentucky Pollution Prevention Center (KPPC) invite you to participate in an upcoming Sustainable Spirits workshop: Energizing Sustainable Growth. This introductory workshop will provide training on how to identify sustainable energy related opportunities that can reduce save time and money while increasing employee and production efficiency. Attendees will also be provide guidance on how to justify incorporating the identified opportunities to management, stakeholders and customers.

Topics that will be covered include:

• Energy Assessment and Management Tools
• Sustainable Value Stream Mapping
• How to Identify Your Facility’s Carbon Footprint
• Renewable Energy Options for Your Business

Who should attend?

• Facility managers and owners
• Environmental, health and safety professionals
• Representatives of the winery, distillery and brewery industries.

Space is limited...register today!

Lunch is not provided, but attendees are encouraged to try Goodwood's Galley. After the workshop, enjoy a behind-the-scenes tour provided by our host, as they share their hard work and unique efforts to treasure and preserve our environment. 

For questions please contact Robyn Whitted at robyn.whitted@ky.gov.
 
See the agenda here.

Join Chartered Accountants Nicklin LLP for a breakfast presentation on planning for the future to include; estate planning, Inheritance tax and probate. The talk will seek to give an overview of important points to consider in ensuring clients have peace of mind over their affairs, safe in the knowledge that they can be confident that their wishes will be followed. Current sensible planning opportunities will be discussed and attendees will be provided with options they may wish to consider in structuring their estate for tax efficiency.

This event will provide an overview of the importance of forward planning for your future and that of your family. We are quite often caught up with the day to day pressures of work and life in general and allow little time to plan for the future financial security of our families and also as a business owner, the staff we employ. This event will provide an overview of the services that can be accessed, informally over breakfast. It will also provide an opportunity to ask any questions as well as a networking opportunity.  

The event is aimed at business owners - to plan for the future with regards to their business.  Attendees will gain information about wills, probate and estate administration.  

Agenda:

7.30am: Arrive & networking

8.00am: Breakfast

8.30am: Speaker

9.00am: Networking and Q&A

9.30am: Depart

Speaker: Chris Steele - Partner, Nicklin LLP

Join us in hearing Jonathan Segal’s Legislative Overview at the Duane Morris Institute on September 18th as our kick off Fall event! More details will be posted shortly.

Third event in Odessa Texas. 

Join us for an evening of great food, drinks and networking at the Yards Brewing Company.

Yards Brewing Company
500 Spring Garden Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123

5:30pm-7:30pm
 

Join HREA for a night at the ballpark as the Phillies take on the LA Dodgers for Star Wars Theme Night! Only 20 spots are available - first come, first serve! Register today! 

This is a Middle School and High School Theatre production. Tickets supports the Theatre Department and are non-refundable. 

The Avitus Group supports 4000 USA based and International companies who have made a USA investment. Our head office is based in Denver, Colorado with the Operational hub in Billings, Montana. We employ more than 400 staff with 15 offices distributed across the USA. We are state & industry agnostic. We have been in business 23 years. We work extremely closely with the AMCHAM & USA Commercial Service across EMEA.rnrnOur service offering is a ‘ one stop shop ‘ sort of solution. AVITUS services includes, market research, marketing, location advise, USA incorporation, opening a USA bank account, recruitment, HR. and taking care of the entire back office once landed in the USA. This would include, payroll administration, co-employment, finance, accounting, tax planning/management, risk management, health & safety, compliance and the provision of multiple lines of insurance - which are frankly very difficult to source as a USA start up e.g. health insurance, life, vision, dental, 401k, general & public liability, and finally workers compensation which is mandatory in a great many USA States.  

The event is aimed at SME's - Currently exporting to the USA and seek to go to the next level & invest in the USA.  

AVITUS Group, UK Representatives from both Fairfax County and the State of Pennsylvania bring their market specialists to meet companies in Lancashire who are actively looking to invest the USA.

Overview

AVITUS GROUP will offer a 12 - step program to help you enter the US market, establish your business and operate successfully in the US. A panel of expert speakers will ensure you gain an understanding of the routes to market and establish a sustainable business in the USA.

Who should attend?

This event is intended for exporters seeking to GO to the next level, and establish an investment presence in the USA.

Highlights:

• Meet market experts

• Help with building your company strategy in the market

• Identifying opportunities in the market

• Help with benchmarking existing competition

• Opportunity for 1:1 consultation with market specialists

• Opportunity for networking and a light breakfast

Speakers: 

Dr Frank Levene, Avitus

Graham Croome, Black Country Chamber of Commerce

Ian Metcalf

First Friday April 5th Grammy nominated rapper Mystikal will be performing live at The Thirsty Turtle in Macon, GA!  Come see the man that brought you "Danger"!

Tickets are $25 in advance.

Must be 18 years or older to attend

Open Exchange: Belonging
SoART Lecture | April 9 | 7-9PM | Pratt Student Union

Pratt’s School of Art (SoArt) and the Fine Arts department are proud to present an evening of open exchange for the third annual School of Art Lecture Series event. 

This year’s event will bring together five thought leaders to share the ways that they have approached notions of safety in their practice. Participants include Jammal Lemmy, creative director for March for Our Lives; Tom Finkelpearl, commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA); Hank Willis Thomas, conceptual artist and activist; Ana M. Bermúdez, commissioner of the New York City Department of Probation; and niv Acosta, multimedia artist and activist. The discussion will be moderated by Pratt Visiting Fellow and multidisciplinary artist and activist Shaun Leonardo. 

Prompted to consider a single word – ‘Belonging’ – each panelist will address one related, critical question that drives their work. The audience will be invited to participate and further distill and respond to these questions, engaging guest speakers in an open exchange.

RSVP is strongly encouraged. Seating is limited and is first come first serve. Doors close strictly at 6:55 PM. Guests are asked to stay for the entire program. Refreshments will be served throughout the event. 

Please RSVP (757) 408 - 5825  or Pay Online!
Enjoy the day painting along with the artist as you
dine and drink (food and drinks sold separately)
  Kids 15 and younger get $5 OFF
All supplies included!

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