#NMpoetry Reminder & Schedule for @PWPicnic Reunion Sat Aug24, Mountainair

Dale's update and reminder...

Here is a schedule for Sat. 8/23. at the Shaffer Hotel. Time slots are short, 10 minutes for featured readers, 15 for music. Keep your fingers crossed for good weather and bring a hat, sun screen. Should be a fabulous afternoon!

Emcees: Stewart Warren 12 noon to 2:30 pm, Ken Gurney 2:30 to 5 pm

12 noon to 1 pm: Music (Blue Rose Ramblers), Open Mic

1 to 2 pm: Gary Brower, Dorothy Alexander, Amalio Madueño, Kenneth Gurney, Charles Usmar

2 to 3 pm: Music (NM Celtic Singers), Sharon Niederman, Jane Lipman, Mary McGinnes, Richard Wolfson

3 to 4 pm: Music (Paul Trujillo), Stewart Warren, Bob Reeves, Sari Krosinsky, Merimee Moffitt , Georgia Santa Maria

4 to 5 pm: Music (Blue Rose Ramblers), Carol March, Open Mic, Dale Harris

PS links for reader info, bios here...

Picnic Performance Schedule

12 noon Welcome, emcees Kenneth Gurney and Dale Harris

Open mic until 1 pm

1 pm Charles Usmar – historian, Lincoln County War

1:15  Music by the New Mexico Celtic Singers

1:45 Unidos Championship Youth Slam Team

2:20 Tani Arness

2:30 Donald Levering

2:45 Sirena Rayes

3:00 Gregory Candela

3:15 Music by the Blue Rose Ramblers

4:00 Gary Brower


4:15 Mitch Rayes

Open mic until closing 5:30 pm  

More: Sunflower, Salinas & Van of Enchantment

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The Sunflower Festival starts at 10 am - time to take in a couple hours of festival at the Community Center and Town Square on in front of City Hall, treat yourself to a $2 bag 'o books at the annual Library Book Sale and stop in at the Van of Enchantment's History of Travel in New Mexico exhibit at Salinas Pueblo NPS Visitors Center (across from the train mural & on the way between Shaffer & Sunflower) before readings & music start. Torrance County Community Radio KXNM 88.7 will also be broadcasting from the Visitors Center, covering festival, poets and more.

The Van of Enchantment

Reading & Music Schedule

To help you plan your day... for a more detailed schedule.

11:30	Set-up
11:45	John Bullock, guitarist
12n-12:30	Open Mic starts with introducing Emcees: Dale Harris and Ken Gurney
12:30–2:40	Tamra Hays. poet
12:40–1:00	Gary Brower, poet, accompanied by John Bullock, guitarist
1:00–1:20	Headliner: Gary Glazner, poet
1:50–3:00	Individual featured readers
2:30–3:30	Music: NM Celtic Singers and LuLu
3:30–4:30	Individual featured readers
4:30-5:00	Open Mic

Individual featured readers, 10 min each, unless otherwise noted on schedule, in order of appearance: Tamra Hays, Gary Brower, Gary Glazner, Kate Horsley, Jim Fish, Beth McDonald, Nancy Costea, Jessica Helen Lopez, Ken Gurney, Lisa Gill, Bob Reeves, Mitch Rayes, Dale Harris

Albuquerque Word Weavers: Chandra Bales, Karin Bradberry, Merimee Moffit, Sylvia Ramos Cruz, Kate Padilla, Elaine Schwartz

NM Celtic Singers: Jenn Brooks, Michelle Buchanan, Nancy Costea, Dale Harris, Erika Kretzmann, Mary McDaniel, Cory Johnstone Meyer, Gwen Montgomery, Scott Sharot, Kathy Wimmer

LuLu: folk/ blue grass vocalists Lou Blackwell on fiddle & Greg Candela on guitar