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The
final show of Dick Clark and the Flashbacks will be presented by the
BYU-Idaho Center Stage Performing Arts Series Thursday, July 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kirkham
Auditorium.
Special guest performers will be country flutist Hally Loe of Driggs and World War II-era singer Theresa Eaman of Idaho Falls.
The
concert will be followed by an outdoor party and refreshments in
celebration of Clark’s 80th birthday that was
in June.
Tickets
are $4 for the general public and $1 for currently enrolled BYU-Idaho
students. They can be purchased from the BYU-Idaho Ticket Office in the Manwaring Center,
over the phone at 496-2230, via the Internet at www.byui.edu/tickets or at
the door.
The
show will feature the Flashback trio with Clark on
the tenor saxophone, along with Rexburg musicians Wilson Brown and Millie
Matson on piano.
Clark, who lives in Sun City
West, Ariz., for most of the year is spending his 19th summer in Rexburg. He started
presenting annual shows in 1992 at the Rexburg
Tabernacle Civic
Center and later moved his show
to the campus.
He grew up in the small town of
Linn Grove, Iowa,
and started playing the saxophone in 1939 during his freshman year of high
school when his brother and sister each pitched in $18 to buy him a
saxophone for $36. He played all four years in the high school band. His
saxophone career was rekindled after playing at his 50th class reunion.
“This was my life,”
he said. “I only weighed 120 pounds as a freshman, so I wasn’t
big enough to play football.”
Every
day he would practice after his paper route. Going into the service after
high school, he played there a little and then put down his sax, not to
play again until 1992.
Eaman is a popular performer and band singer in Idaho
Falls. She has been singing since she was a small children and has developed a strong interest in music
from the World War II era. Each year she entertains at the Mid Atlantic Air
Museum’s World War II Weekend in Reading,
Penn.
Loe returns for her third performance at BYU-Idaho. She
turned to the flute to express her passion for music after a car accident
divested her of both her singing voice and her career as a country music
singer. Today, she entertains audiences with unique interpretation of
country music classics.
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