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S AT U R D A Y, J U n e 16, 2012 • S E C T I O N D

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Band Perrybuilds globalfan baseat CMA FestBy The Associated Press

NASHVILLE — The Band Perry is working to build an international fan base. They’ve played shows overseas and have more coming up. But at CMA Music Festival last week, roles were reversed as fans from around the world flocked to their home-town of Nashville.

“We’ve seen people from Germany, Scandinavia, the U.K,” said Reid Perry, before signing autographs at Fan Fair Hall. “So it’s like Nashville is the center of the world for a week.”

CMA Fest set a new attendance record this year, with 71,000 fans showing up each day. Attendees came from all 50 states and two dozen countries, including Aus-tralia, Chile, China, Swit-zerland, United Arab Emirates, South Africa and several places in Europe.

“It’s a big goal of ours to try and win the inter-national heart this year,” lead singer Kimberly Perry said. “We’ve been over to the U.K. now twice this year and are headed back over to Europe two more times, once with (Brad) Paisley and once to do a string of our own shows. So it’s really excit-ing to know that coun-try music has footprints across an ocean.”

The sibling trio is work-ing on a follow-up to the band’s self-titled, platinum album, featuring the No. 1 hit “If I Die Young.” They are also promoting their single, “Postcard From Paris.” This year marked their third CMA Fest as artists and the second time they were asked to play the big stage at LP Field.

With most major coun-try stars in town for CMA Fest, The Band Perry also got to see some of their own favorite artists.

“We are like the biggest fans,” said Kimberly. “We are fans first and fore-most. I got Blake Shelton’s autograph.”

“I took a picture with Glen Campbell,” added Neil Perry.

“So, we would love to wait in those signing lines, too,” said Kimberly with a smile.

If only they had the time. The group is on Brad

Paisley’s Virtual Reality tour and also has other gigs planned this summer. BrEndEn nEvillE•The Vicksburg PosT

Online:http://www.theband-perry.com http://www.cmafest.com

Kimberly Perry of The Band Perry

Shirley Roe, left, and instruc-tor Joyce Grey, right, work on paintings inspired by Missis-sippi blues musicians while Shirley Waring of the Vicks-burg Heritage League and the Vicksburg Blues Society watches at the Vicksburg Senior Center. Artists from the Senior Center are put-ting together a body of work on blues music that will be displayed during the Milt Hin-ton Memorial concert June 23 at the Coral Room and at the Lower Mississippi River Museum and Interpretive Cen-ter at a later date. For more information on concerts, visit www.vicksburgheritage.com

Painting the blues away

By Pamela Hitchinsphitchins@vicksburgpost.com

Young thespians will take the stage, direct and handle backstage jobs, too, as the Vicksburg The-atre Guild presents its 2012 Fairy Tale Theater performances beginning Thursday.

“Fairy Tale Theater is designed to be a kid-run production, literally,” said Jo Beth Britt, FTT’s coor-dinator, “though we do have adults that help, and adult supervision. Most of the productions have a stu-dent director and appren-tice director, and different kids act in each play.”

About 60 young people from 7 to 18 will be par-ticipating this year in four different productions: “A Dragon in the Mix,” “Supercomics,” “Rapun-zel” and “Darius the Dragon.”

Two dragons showing up onstage in the same season is coincidental, said Britt. “Each of the stu-dent directors gets to pick their play.”

Anna Belle Hayes, 9, a rising fourth-grader at St. Francis Xavier Elemen-tary School, plays the “rock and roll dragon” in “A Dragon in the Mix.”

“I like doing the plays,” said Anna Belle. “There’s a lot of work involved. We work on our lines over and over and over.”

A tradeoff is that the kids get to be someone else for a while on stage, playing a role.

“I think what I like about

it is sometimes I can get away with having an atti-tude, which my mom won’t allow,” said Aaron David, 10, flashing a mischie-

vous smile. In his third season with FTT, Aaron is a rising fifth-grader at

Nine-year-old Anna Belle Hayes, left, rehearses a dance number with student direc-tor Theresa Frost.

If you goThe Vicksburg Theatre

Guild’s Fairy Tale Theater will present four plays Thursday through June 24 at the Parkside Play-house, 101 Iowa Blvd. Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for children under 12. For more information, visit www.vicksburgthe-atreguild.com.

• Thursday — 10 a.m., “A Dragon in the Mix” (audience will include day care groups and pre-schoolers); and 7 p.m., “Rapunzel” and “Darius the Dragon.”

• Friday — 10 a.m., “Su-percomics” (daycare/pre-school); and 7 p.m., “Ra-punzel” and “A Dragon in the Mix.”

• Saturday, June 23 —2 p.m., “A Dragon in the Mix”and “Darius the Dragon”; and 7 p.m., “Ra-punzel” and “Supercom-ics.”

• June 24 — 2 p.m., “Supercomics” and “Dari-

us the Dragon.”mElaniE ThorTis•The Vicksburg PosT

Young actors, directors and stagehands put on Fairy Tale Theater

See Tales, Page D3.

Actors, from left, Kennedi Fitzgerald, 9, Anna Belle Hayes, 9, Ellen Pierce, 12, and Aaron David, 10, rehearse a scene from one of the Fairy Tale Theater performances of the Vicksburg Theatre Guild. Kennedi is the daughter of Doug and LeTitia Fitzgerald, Anna Belle is the daughter of Bradley and Sarah Hayes, Ellen is the daughter of Kristie and David Pierce and Aaron is the son of Michael and Katherine David.

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Porters Chapel Academy and plays Prince Arthur in “A Dragon in the Mix.” “What I don’t like is having to wear makeup. My little brother teases me and tells me I look like a girl.”

With his younger brother Raegan acting with him this year, those makeup cracks might stop.

Aaron is also a pitcher with the Vicksburg All-Stars, and said he might have to miss a tournament game because of the show.

Parent LeTitia Fitzgerald, whose 9-year-old daughter, Kennedi, is in her third year of Fairy Tale Theater, said getting busy kids to rehears-als and performances can be a juggling act. Kennedi plays a princess in “A Dragon in the Mix” and will also be a princess in the Miss Missis-sippi Pageant, which kicks off in Vicksburg on July 24. She’s attending vacation Bible school, too.

“We had to hot-foot it over here (for rehearsals),” Fitzgerald said. “She’s always on the go.”

The payoff is the training, commitment and community involvement the kids experi-ence, said 18-year-old Oscar Frost, a recent Vicksburg High School graduate who’s been a part of the VTG and FTT for eight years.

“It teaches you everything about the theater. Besides acting, I’ve learned lights, sound, backstage work, painting and raising and low-ering the flying backdrops,” said Oscar. “I like doing it for the community and I don’t want to get paid for it. I’m up here all the time and I don’t get paid a dime.”

Oscar said he wants to stay in community theater when he attends Hinds Commu-nity College in Raymond. He plans to get general edu-cation courses out of the way first and then pursue a career in criminal justice, he said.

“As these kids grow up, if they stay in the theater they learn to do all the jobs,” said Britt, FTT’s coordinator for more than 10 years.

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Circular pipe organis one-of-a-kind

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Agnes Flanagan Chapel is a 16-sided architectural marvel that seats 650 under stained glass windows depict-ing the book of Genesis.

In the early 1970s, it was also a big, conical quandary. Chapels aren’t really chapels unless they have an organ, and the newly minted structure at Portland’s Lewis & Clark Col-lege was in need.

But those 16 sides presented a hitch. How do you fit an ordi-nary pipe organ into a build-ing that’s anything but?

You don’t. So the college went in search of an organ builder willing to try some-thing different. Several, said organ curator Lee Garrett, backed away. But the world-renowned Larry Phelps took the challenge.

Phelps’ solution was to build something to fit the chapel, and the idea for the world’s only circular pipe organ was born. Unlike a traditional pipe organ — played by someone sitting in front of the instru-ment as the notes flow through the pipes into the audience —

this organ is suspended from the ceiling, allowing the music to reflect off the floor and into the crowd.

“One of the challenges of playing any organ is that no two are identical,” said Gar-rett, a professor emeritus of music at Lewis & Clark. “Here, it’s unusually difficult because the organist plays from the balcony and the organ is sus-pended from the ceiling.”

The electro-pneumatic instrument and its 4,000 pipes turned 40 last year. It has played to graduations, memorials and holiday celebrations.

Players use three keyboards, called manuals, along with pedals and a series of knobs, to create a range of sound. With a couple of setting changes, the organ can be altered to mimic other instruments, like a trumpet.

Now, it serves as a recruit-ing tool for the college’s music school.

“It’s one of the most unusual instruments in the country, if not the world,” Garrett said.

Designers plan for the ‘effortless’ beach lookNEW YORK (AP) — You want

to relax at the beach. You want to feel good. You want to look as if you don’t have a care in the world.

It takes a little bit of effort to appear so effortless.

You want to make smart choices, but not overthink it, said swimwear designer Shoshanna Gruss.

Buy for body typeDon’t buy for trend, buy

for body type, Gruss says, and a little ruching and dis-tracting detail never hurt anyone.

And, she adds, keep reminding yourself that soon you will feel the sand between your toes.

Be playfulFor the rest of the ensem-

ble, be playful, said Los Angeles-based designer Trina Turk. “With a colorful

tunic, a wide-brim printed hat, sun-glasses, sandals and sunscreen,

I’m ready for the beach,” she said.

Color is importantCoral and pink lipsticks set

the mood right away, says New York-based makeup artist Elle German. Apply the lipcolor with your fingertips to get more of a natural stained look.

The eye is instantly drawn to bright hues.

A few more tips• If you don’t know

where to start at the store, try a 1950s style suit that helps create

a pinup silhouette or a crocheted fabric that pays homage to the relaxed ’70s, Gruss suggests. There

is an ’80s scuba-inspired Body Glove moment hap-

pening now that also can be flattering, but takes a little confidence to pull off.

• Transition pieces such as a maxi dress or resin bracelets keep you going all day, says Turk, who collaborated with Banana Republic on a limited-edition summer collection. “If you are going from pool to dinner, you must be on vacation!” she said.

• Take good care of your swimsuit, including rinsing it with clean water as soon as you can. The combination of sun, surf and chlorine causes fabric to fade and stretch and elastics to crack.

• Since you should be wearing your SPF on your skin, you can fake the glow with a water-based tinted moisturizer and bronze powder, applied with finger-tips along the perimeters of the face and along the cheekbones, said German.

• Another fake-it tip from German is for the “wet-head” look. “There’s a difference between actual wet hair and the appear-ance of wet hair,” she said.

While your hair is still truly wet, apply leave-in conditioner all over your hair and add a waterproof protective product, especially if you have color-treated hair. Use a blow-dryer on the ends but leave the remaining hair damp.

The circular pipe organ is shown at the Agnes Flanagan Chapel on the campus of Lewis & Clark College, in Port-land, Ore.

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