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Take a look at the fun and interesting events happening at the Norfolk Library.
For more information, please go to http://www.norfolklibrary.org/events
All programs at the Norfolk Library are free.
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Southern Music Performance: Ed Snodderly
Saturday, April 2nd, 7:30pm
A one of a kind singer whose lyrics seemingly fall out, land square and stand ragged and true like the East Tennessee mountains they were born in, Ed Snodderly’s musical creativity drinks from an old well conjuring up a singular modern Appalachian style you won’t forget.
The name Ed Snodderly is synonymous with the best Southern music and culture. If you saw the movie Oh, Brother Where Art Thou? you saw Ed as the village idiot whose fiddling took center stage. If you visited Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, you read Ed’s song lyrics inscribed into the wall, chosen for their simple eloquence to embody that renowned institution. Born in East Tennessee, Ed is a musician, songwriter, actor and co/owner of one of the country’s longest running music venues, The Down Home located in Johnson City, Tennessee. In the 90’s his musical brilliance was feted in a duo with Eugene Wolf known as “The Brother Boys,” acknowledged critically for a decade with their now classic recordings on Sugar Hill. Ed’s songs have been recorded by artists such as Missy Raines, former New Grass Revival’s John Cowan, Sam Bush, and Jerry Douglas. Ed will offer a free songwriting workshop (pre-registration required, limited to 12, all ages) and a free concert in the evening.
To reserve a seat for the concert, please visit our website here.
To register for the workshop, please click here.
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Documentary Film: More Than Honey
Thursday, April 7th, 7:00pm
Oscar-nominated director Markus Imhoof tackles the vexing issue of why bees, worldwide, are facing extinction. With all the hallmarks of a great nature documentary, the film employs the latest in cinematic technology to observe phenomena undetectable by normal eyesight, beautifully portraying the dramatic story of the disappearance of millions of bees in the last decade. An unprecedented global examination of endangered honeybees spanning from California to Switzerland, China and Australia.
To reserve a seat, please click here.
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Norfolk Library Book Group
with Mark Scarbrough:
Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child
Friday, April 8th, 10:30am - 12:30pm
This is the final volume of Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, an extraordinary epic that spans six decades in the lives of Lila and Elena and a portrait of a neighborhood, a city, and a c0untry in transition.
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Two Afternoons of Poetry
Sundays, April 10th and 17th, 4:00pm
April is National Poetry Month, and the Norfolk Library will host two afternoons of poetry reading. On Sunday, April 10, professional singer and choral conductor Charles Fidlar will bring his wealth of musical knowledge to a recitation of Walt Whitman’s poetry, using rhythm and melodic contour to invoke the musical setting. Poets Susannah Wood and Karen Chase will read from their published works the following Sunday, April 17th. To reserve a seat for April 10th, please visit our Events Calendar here; and for April 17th, click here.
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Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia
In her new book, veteran foreign correspondent and Norfolk's own Anne Garrels takes us deep inside Russia, where citizens struggle with a shaky economy and widespread corruption but are nonetheless fiercely loyal to their authoritarian president. Anne spent years reporting on Chelyabinsk, which she describes as the perfect microcosm of the real Russia where attitudes toward the West soured after the chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Anne Garrels served as NPR's Moscow correspondent and reported on conflicts in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Earlier in her career, she was Moscow bureau chief for ABC and a State Department correspondent for NBC. She has earned many journalistic honors, including a George Polk Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award.
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