Kevin Dudley Performs Texas Swing at Creative Cauldron
"Masterful...gave me chills" is what Suzanne Vega said about Kevin Dudley. He will give a benefit concert on Friday, August 3 at 8 pm at Creative Cauldron at ArtSpace.
FALLS CHURCH TIMES STAFF
August 2, 2012
Award winning songwriter, Kevin Dudley, will play guitar and sing songs about love, death, diners and most everything in between in a benefit concert at Creative Cauldron at ArtSpace on Friday, August 3 at 8 pm.
Born in Dallas, Texas and now residing in Virginia, Kevin’s music is a gumbo mix of Western swing, blues, traditional country, Cajun and bluegrass with thoughtful, clever and often humorous lyrics delivered in a soft, dusty baritone.
Kevin released his first solo CD, “Texarkana Diner” in November 2011 and the title track received a Mid-Atlantic Songwriter Contest (MASC) Silver Award as well as the Nashville/Paramount Grand Prize for Fall 2011. Four other tracks on the album received a “Finalist” or “Honorable Mention” award.
Tickets are $20 Adults and $18 Students/Seniors. All proceeds from Friday’s performance will benefit Creative Cauldron. To order tickets, go to www.creativecauldron.org Creative Cauldron at ArtSpace is located at 410 S. Maple Avenue. Free parking is available in the garages at 410 and 400 S. Maple Avenue.
By Falls Church Times Staff
August 1, 2012
While I have no problem with the FC Times covering arts & leisure events in the area, it would be nice to see some actual news coverage once in a while. There was an apparent murder-suicide in Eden Center a few weeks ago. A 24 Hour Fitness is opening in late September, ending Vantage Fitness’ near-monopoly. A few days after the Hillwood standoff, a prank caller claimed an armed man was threatening to shoot people in a Falls Church house, resulting in heavily armed officers from FC and FFX surrounding the house and detaining people. The City has still not provided any explanation for its failure to have sufficient power backup to maintain water pumps during the derecho. In addition to serving as the community’s events calendar, please re-engage in some journalism!
No kidding! They claim this is a newspaper and not just a blog….I don’t see it. Seems like lately they avoid the news, as well as staying out of politics and school issues. Hmmmm.
Responding to the two comments above, I speak as one of the founding members of the Falls Church Times (I have since moved away). It’s true — the Falls Church Times doesn’t print the news like it used to. Why not? Because our source of volunteers seems to have dried up. I can’t explain this — the City of Falls Church should have an ample supply of bright, eager, educated citizen journalists. Is everyone just too busy? Or are people scared to get involved? I notice that the two comments above are quick to criticize the Times, but they don’t even list their real names. Sad.
Noticed the same thing, George (and indeed, wondered about the impact of folks posting on here — often in a negative tone — anonymously on the willingness of others to contribute).
I am definitely scared to get involved, on several levels, that’s why I prefer to be incognito. I appreciate the FCT conceding my desire to do that. I had no idea the FCT relied heavily on volunteers to come up with stuff to write about. That explains it! Believe it or not, the above comment was not meant as a criticism, but more as an observation. I had hoped you would take it as motivation to print some topical news rather than all this food info….because I have in the past preferred to read the FCT’s take on the news as opposed to the FCNP, but don’t get me started on that!
@ George Southern: I don’t really feel the need to splash my name across the Internet. If that’s “sad” and my opinions are therefore not valued, feel free to ignore any anonymous comments.
By the way, I totally appreciate the lack of volunteering issue, but FCT clearly has sufficient staff to cover the food and leisure articles. Why not have them focus on some of the hard-hitting issues facing the Little City? It seems to be a question of direction, not manpower.
Name Withheld, I think the FCT is an all volunteer organization – so the people interested in writing about food and leisure might not be as interested in writing about hard-hitting issues. I don’t think it’s an issue of direction – but rather interest.
I’m pretty sure the FCT would welcome any additional volunteers interested in writing about other issues.
I agree, but to remain viable, a news site should be driven by the interest of its readers, not its writers.
Mystery Person, fair enough – maybe the FCT will fail if they’re not able to write enough stuff to keep its readers interested. Of course, that’s the nice thing about technology these days – the FCT folks who write about food and leisure might be content to keep writing for a handful of readers rather than spend time writing about things they’re not as interested in writing about.
I think it would be interesting to see if the FCT could sell some advertising to generate enough money to hire a reporter or two.