[RP TownTalk] ArtsFest2015 on May 3rd

[Ken Laureys]

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ArtsFest2015

Riverdale Park Artsfest 2015 scheduled for May 3, Smokin Polecats
headlines musical lineup

RIVERDALE PARK, MD, April 27, 2015. -- Music is a beautiful art form and
the 2015
ArtsFest will feature several genres from Archie Edwards style
Piedmont Blues performed by Michael Severer and the Miles Spicer Trio;
to jazz and blues performed by the Brendan Schnabel Trio and the MSG
Acoustic Blues Trio; to old school rock performed by the Smokin
Polecats.

All five locally based performers will be featured at the 8th annual
ArtsFest is the premier gathering sponsored by the Riverdale Park Arts
Council (RPAC) every first Sunday in May.  It will be held this year
(rain or shine) from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday,
May 3, 2015, at the  MARC Train station located at 4650 Queensbury
Road, Md. In Riverdale Park’s Town Center on Queensbury Road.

The RPAC Board of Directors is also proud to announce that Rebecca Alvarado
has been named as the winner of the fourth annual Gerald King Fine
Arts Award. Alvarado’s work will be displayed and she introduced at
the event. The award is given by RPAC to an art student who shows
great promise in realism and is named in honor of the late Gerald
King, a longtime resident of  Riverdale Park.

Once again, ArtsFest is expected to draw more than 1,000 to enjoy
several dozen local artists selling their own original artworks, along
with food vendors and a free, day-long concert featuring blues, rock,
classical and folk musicians.

ArtsFest has grown to reflect the boom in local talent throughout the
Route 1 Arts corridor and beyond.  Paintings both abstract and
realistic, pottery fired by gifted hands, home-made soaps and jewelry,
and the living art of bonsai -- all combine to show the diversity of
art forms that will delight ArtsFest 2015 attendees.  The Children’s
Pavilion will be bustling with craft-making and face painting for the
young...and young at heart.

Add  to that a Writer’s Row, featuring local authors such as
Hyattsville, Md. resident Richard Morris who has written the much
acclaimed novels as  “Well Considered” and “Cologne No. 10 for Men”;
Mount Rainer-based author Juliana Barnet who co-authored her “social
justice mystery” entitled Rainwood House Sings with Sophie
Barnet-Higgins  and  Riverdale Park, Md. resident Samuel Williams, Jr.
(President of  RPAC board of Directors)  whose 2012 historical
fiction novel,  Anomalous: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes featuring
Jack Johnson and Alphonse Capone holds the distinction of being the
first major Holmes adventure ever written by a black author.

More information can be found at  www.RPartscouncil.org
<http://www.rpartscouncil.org/>.
or call Samuel Williams, Jr. at (909) 380-4231 or
Ken Laureys (301) 661-6682.
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