PANOLA COLLEGE AND MUSIC CLUB TO PRESENT AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC 1900-1950

Panola College’s Fine Arts Division, in association with the Carthage Music Club, will present “American Popular Music: 1900-1950” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 9, in the Ballroom at Panola College.

Students from the college’s Fine Arts Division will present the program, which will include favorites from the turn of the century through the rock and roll era of the 1950s. Panola College student Aaron Boyce of Carthage will be the featured soloist on the saxophone.

Collaborating on the project are Freddy Mason, speech instructor and chairman of the Fine Arts Division; Mike McGowan, band director; Larry Brumley, music instructor; Liz Hedges, theatre instructor; Ann Boland, art instructor, and Teresa Cage, journalism and communication instructor. Dr. Lillian Cook, Carthage Music Club, will moderate the program.

“The popular songs of the first decade of the 20^th Century reflect simple pleasures, vaudeville and Broadway,” says McGowan, who wrote the script for the production.

Additional selections to be performed include music from the Jazz Age, the Big Band era, swing, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and country music.

While the program is free to the public, Panola College students will sell coffee and desserts as a fundraising project to support Fine Arts Division activities.

“We invite the public to join us as we celebrate 50 years of the best of American music,” Mason says. For additional information about the program please call 903-693-2095.