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  Do you love the sound of bagpipes and drums?  Georgetown is lucky to have a group that serves and lives here in our city that travels around performing for various celebrations, ceremonies and events around the state.  In addition to being firefighters they play bagpipes and drums!   The pipe band began life in the military ...

  Dare I say it, but Sunday the weather forecasters are mentioning the possibility of you-know-what, r_ _ _ n!  I don't even want to say it out loud for fear of jinxing this rare and momentous event.  Saturday would be the day to get outdoor stuff done like mulching the flower beds, tying up the tomato plants, and playing a ...

  For the 12th time, it is occurring this weekend.  What began as a small celebration of the red poppies that have been a part of Georgetown's landscape for over seventy years, has grown into a two-day extravaganza!  Georgetown is one of the few locations in the U.S. where red poppies reseed themselves from year to year.  ...

  The French composer Ravel was brought to the national consciousness back when the movie "10" showed Bo Derek running down the beach in slow motion while "Bolero" played in the background.   Bo Derek was the epitome of the perfect woman and this was probably the first time most people had ever heard ...

  Wow!  It has just been perfect weather for outdoor activity.  SXSW Interactive and now SXSW Music and Film Festival has seen unprecedented success in attendance this year and conditions couldn't be better for the free outdoor music concerts held on Auditorium Shores in Austin.    Georgetown will have a great ...

  Do you love classic jazz and swing music from the '40's and '50's?  The Friends of the Georgetown Library has arranged for this talented band to perform for free in the library lobby this Sunday, Feb. 20th. The Lucky Strikes have been performing together for 13 years and will be doing vocal and instrumental versions ...

  When I saw this event I began wondering what distinguishes a wind ensemble from the rest of an orchestra and this is what I found out.    The modern wind ensemble was established by Frederick Fennell at the Eastman School of Music in 1952.  The performing ensemble consists of several members of the woodwind instrument ...

  Do you like Baroque chamber music?  What in the world is that, you may ask?  Music played in a small room that is elaborate and has extensive ornamentation?  Well, sort of.        Baroque, in the context of music, means that it was composed during the baroque period of highly decorated style during the ...

  Weekends are for unwinding, relaxing, having a leisurely meal, and enjoying some soothing music.  I am not a big fan of loud raucous music; it hurts my sensitive canine ears.  So I tend toward the sublime, classical, cheery lilt of rich big band orchestration or soft folk music for my soundtrack to life.  I'm in ...

  One of my most favorite musicals is The Sound of Music.  The music is memorable and the story is touching if not entirely accurate.  The von Trapps didn't really hike over the Alps to Switzerland to escape the nazis.  In reality they walked to the local train station and boarded the next train to Italy, fled to London and ...