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Piano music on tap for next ‘Summer Evening’
A concert of piano music is on tap for this weekend’s fourth “Summer Evening in Webster” performance on Sunday, July 23, at 5:30 p.m.
Dave Magill’s program is titled “They Can’t Take That Away From Me.”
Webster resident Dave Magill will present a concert of familiar piano music this Sunday during the season’s fourth installment of the “Summer Evening in Webster” series of entertainments set for Sunday, July 23, at 5:30 p.m. at the historic Webster Methodist Church.
It may be the title of a Gershwin tune, but it is also the kind of music that Magill will play when he sits down at the Webster piano, said “Summer Evening” organizer Joe Rhinehart. “You’ll hear all those songs that you remember so well that the Gershwins (‘Someone to Watch Over Me’) wrote, or Frank Sinatra sang (‘Blue Skies’) or maybe be Jerome Kern’s ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’ or Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Climb Every Mountain.’ Magill will probably play ‘Tennessee Waltz,’ a Pee Wee King song that Patti Page made the first country music hit to sell a million copies and maybe ‘Georgia on my Mind.’ And you can count on ‘Stardust.’
Magill and his wife Cindi have lived in Webster since 2001, when they moved to Western North Carolina from Austin, Texas, where he played for several years in the southwest with local bands.
Dave Magill owns and operates the Music Room, a recording studio where he helps songwriters arrange and produce their material. He describes himself as a “musical jack of all trades” by choice as much as necessity. He plays guitar, piano, and bass and said he “enjoys getting together together with friends for informal jam sessions.” Last year he did this in a “Summer Evening” program, “Blues and Jazz Jam Session,” with Karen Barnes and Ron Smith.
This is the 25th year of “Summer Evening in Webster,” a series of seasonal entertainments founded in 1981 by the Webster Historical Society to honor Robert and Ella Madison, who often entertained their neighbors with their evening porch concerts. Programs are held at the Webster Methodist Church and are free and open to all. A reception to honor Magill will be held on the churchyard after the concert.
For information, call Rhinehart at 586-0921.
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