Season tickets for Performing Arts

JEFFERSON -- The Council for the Performing Arts season tickets are now available for the 2004-05 season titled "There's No Business Like Show Business."

Last year's season ticket holders should order their tickets by July 31 to guarantee the same seats as last year.

New season ticket holders are welcome. Patrons may choose to purchase a full season and attend all nine shows saving 15 percent. Pick-your-own season tickets are also available. Pick any five shows and save 10 percent or any three shows and save five percent off the total cost.

The 2004-05 season "There's No Business Like Show Business" runs from October to March and will feature song and dance review Red, Hot. . . & Blue!, Missoula Children's Theatre's Pinocchio, a cappella group Three Men and a Tenor, the Many Moods of Christmas with Dallas Brass, the Dutton Family Christmas Special, Steel Drums from Trinidad, The Spencers: Theatre of Illusion, the big band sounds of Big Band Cavalcade, and the folk music of the Tom Chapin Duo.

Contact the council to order season tickets or to request a season brochure at 920-674-2179 or purchase tickets at the council's office at 100 N. Main St., Suite A; in Jefferson. More information on the upcoming season is also available at www.councilfortheperformingarts.org

IRONDALE, Ala. -- EWTN Global Catholic Network (EWTN) announces its recent move to the DIRECTV primary satellite location making the network available to more than 12.6 million DIRECTV subscribers.

EWTN was previously available to a smaller percentage of DIRECTV homes equipped with "multi-sat" equipment. This change enables all of their subscribers to see EWTN, representing the largest single subscriber gain in EWTN's history.

The DIRECTV Group is a world-leading provider of digital multi-channel television entertainment, broadband satellite networks and services, and global video and data broadcasting.

EWTN Global Catholic Network, in its 23rd year, is available in 95 million television households in 110 countries. And with its worldwide short-wave radio station, direct broadcast satellite service, satellite delivered AM & FM radio networks, Internet Web site (www.ewtn.com), and publishing arm, EWTN is the largest religious media network in the world.

MADISON -- A concert of Norwegian music and dance sponsored by the Hardanger Fiddle Association of America will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1904 Winnebago St., on Sunday, Aug. 1, at 7 p.m.

Featured will be award-winning fiddler Jan Beitohaugen Granli, of Norway, playing the Hardanger fiddle. The Hardanger fiddle is often called the national instrument of Norway.

The concert will also feature award-winning Norwegian dancers Anne and Erik Røine performing the Valdresspringar, a traditional Norwegian dance.

The Hardanger Fiddle Association of America (www.hfaa.org) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle and related traditions of Norwegian music and dance.

The Madison area has a Hardanger fiddlers' group, Fykerudn's Spelemannslag. For more information or lessons, contact Inna Larsen at 608-236-0468, ivlarsen@wisc.edu

MADISON -- The "History Sandwiched In" program "Roadside Geology of Wisconsin" will be held Tuesday, Aug. 3, at 12:15 p.m. at the Wisconsin Historical Museum Theatre, 30 N. Carroll St.

When glaciers started to move across Wisconsin 15,000 years ago, they carved out one of the most notable features of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus - Bascom Hill.

The program will be presented by authors John Attig and Robert Dott Jr. as they describe that particular geological landmark and many others throughout the state.

Dott is a UW-Madison emeritus professor of geology and Attig is a professor in the UW-Extension Department of Environmental Science and a staff member at the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. A book signing will follow the program.

There is a suggested donation of $2 per person. For more information, call 608-264-6555.

MADISON -- Wisconsin Historical Museum will present a program entitled, "Georgia O'Keeffe and her Wisconsin Connection."

This illustrated lecture features O'Keeffe's early years in Dane County and the sights and influences that affected her childhood years. There will be an overview of different eras of her art with a focus on the agrarian themes.

Speaker Joe Chase has been active in the Dane County and Sun Prairie Historical Societies and was instrumental in recognizing O'Keeffe with a Wisconsin Historical Society marker placed in Sun Prairie in 2003.

The program will being at 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 24, in the museum theatre. Suggested program donation is $2.

The Wisconsin Historical Museum is located on the Capitol square at 30 N. Carroll St. Call 608-264-6555 for more information or visit www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum