Saturday, April 19, 2008

Umphrey’s McGee at The Sherman

The Sherman Theatre* in Stroudsburg, PA presented The Umphrey’s McGee Show on Friday April 18th. The four hour concert featured an unique improvisations of a wide variety of musical styles including straight-up pop and rock, jazz, progressive, metal, and classical filled the near capacity audience who danced and swayed while breathing in the meditative experiences with delightful enticements towards a more blissful countenance. Richard Berkowitz*, Cheryl Yost*, Theresa Woehrel*, and Bill Kelly* (all of the Sherman) were among the multitudes as were Arline M. Smeltz*, Gary Lambert*, and our friends at Strangers Helping Strangers* who held a food drive to help those in need. The next events at The Sherman Theatre* will be “A Clean Comedy Night” to benefit Family Promise featuring Rich Praytor and Charles Marshall with Jack Swersie as emcee on Saturday April 19th at 7pm, The Mock Turtle Marionette Theater’s production of "Book Beast Puppet" which will be a part of The Fine Arts Discovery Series (FADS)* on Sunday April 20th at 2pm, and The Pocono Choral Society presentation of “American Tapestry” Concert featuring Jerrold Fisher as conductor and Tomoko Kawamukai as piano accompaniment along with numerous voices creating a vibrant tapestry of exhilarating musical revelry on Saturday April 26th. Please Explore The Sherman Theatre* Website at www.shermantheatre.com for more information. You’ll find several photographs at The Forwardian Arts Society Umphrey’s McGee at The Sherman Gallery at myspace.com/forwardian_arts. You’ll find a more complete collection at the flicker Music 08 gallery on The Forwardian Arts Society Blog at Yahoo 360 (360.yahoo.com/pauladam).

(*) denotes members of The Forwardian Arts Society in good standing and are considered Our Good Friends.

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