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ON THE STAGE THEATRE, FILM, DANCE, MUSICA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the ForumSimple Gis from the SOSTThe Man Who Planted Trees Cirque ChinoisQuiltersThe Full MontyThe Ugly Duckling & The Tortoise & the HareDead Mans Cell PhoneInducon Ceremony & Concert: Becky BarksdaleFall Dance ConcertSOST: A Taste of ItalyCatch Me If You CanLamarissimo! Jazz BandsA Behanding in SpokaneCliord The Big Red Dog Live!A Chorus LineThe Midtown MenWhite ChristmasMorrissey with Special Guest Kristeen YoungLamarissimo! University ChoirsGuess How Much I Love You & My Lile StorybookA Christmas With Shoji TabuchiSOST: Home for the HolidaysShatners WorldHay FeverSOST: A Gospel CelebraonSTOMPThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe True Story of the Three Lile PigsMama Wont Fly

Bey Greenberg Center, BeaumontJulie Rogers Theater, BeaumontLutcher Theater, OrangeLutcher Theater, OrangeLamar University Theater, BeaumontOrange Community Playhouse, OrangeLutcher Theater, OrangeBey Greenberg Center, BeaumontMuseum of the Gulf Coast, Port ArthurLamar Dance Annex, BeaumontJulie Rogers Theater, BeaumontLutcher Theater, OrangeJulie Rogers Theater, BeaumontLamar Studio Theater, BeaumontLutcher Theater, OrangeLutcher Theater, OrangeLutcher Theater, OrangeBey Greenberg Center, BeaumontJeerson Theater, BeaumontJulie Rogers Theater, BeaumontLutcher Theater, OrangeLutcher Theater, OrangeJulie Rogers Theater, BeaumontLutcher Theater, OrangeBey Greenberg Center, BeaumontJulie Rogers Theater, BeaumontLutcher Theater, OrangeLutcher Theater, OrangeLutcher Theater, OrangeOrange Community Playhouse, Orange

Sept 7 - 22Sept 25Sept 30 - Oct 1Oct 7Oct 11 - 14Oct 18 - 28Oct 18Oct 19 - Nov 3Nov TBANov TBANov 3Nov 3Nov 8Nov 8 - 11Nov 16Nov 25Nov 29 - 30Nov 30 - Dec 15Dec 1Dec 2Dec 6Dec 15Dec 16Jan 7Jan 18 - Feb 3Jan 19Jan 22 - 23Jan 28Feb 1Feb 14 - 24

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ON THE WALL VISUAL ARTS AND EXHIBITIONS

ON THE AVENUE OPEN HOUSES, FESTIVALS, WORKSHOPS, CHILDRENS ACTIVITIES

Lamar Faculty ShowArtwork by Jane PetermanTenants ShowOne Man ShowMarriedMembership ShowAndy CoughlanLights, Camera, Acon!Sean WilcoxJoe Winston

Saturday Adventure SeriesGet to Know the Beaumont Heritage SocietyUp Close With NatureMuseum Day Live!Art of BeerOrchid Fesval4th Annual Scarecrow FesvalEat a Bug! Family Arts DayFlorence Chambers 100th Birthday PartyPeel Out Open Car Club ShowUp Close With NatureAutumn FairFree Holiday Photo OpportunityDrop-In Art AcviesChristmas at the McFaddin-Ward HouseHoliday Shop-o-RamaCardinal Court: An Evening of Renaissance RevelsChildrens Holiday EventChristmas StollsDreaming of a Green ChristmasHoliday Open HouseHoliday Exhibit CelebraonHoliday Open HouseDrop-In Art AcviesEggnog EveningHearts for the Arts

Dishman Art Museum, BeaumontArt Museum of Southeast Texas, BeaumontThe Art Studo Inc., BeaumontBeaumont Art League, BeaumontArt Museum of Southeast Texas, BeaumontBeaumont Art League, BeaumontThe Art Studo Inc., BeaumontMuseum of the Gulf Coast, Port ArthurThe Art Studo Inc., BeaumontThe Art Studo Inc., Beaumont

Shangri La Botanical Gardens, OrangeBroussards Farm, BeaumontShangri La Botanical Gardens, OrangeStark Museum of Art & Stark House, OrangeArt Museum of Southeast Texas, BeaumontShangri La Botanical Gardens, OrangeShangri La Botanical Gardens, OrangeArt Museum of Southeast Texas, BeaumontChambers House Museum, BeaumontW.H. Stark House, OrangeShangri La Botanical Gardens, OrangeShangri La Botanical Gardens, OrangeMcFaddin-Ward House, BeaumontStark Museum of Art, OrangeMcFaddin-Ward House, BeaumontThe Art Studo Inc., BeaumontLamar Setzer Center Ballroom, BeaumontMcFaddin-Ward House, BeaumontShangri La Botanical Gardens, OrangeShangri La Botanical Gardens, OrangeMcFaddin-Ward House, BeaumontStark Museum of Art, OrangeW.H. Stark House, OrangeStark Museum of Art, OrangeMcFaddin-Ward House, BeaumontSugas Deep South Cuisine & Jazz Bar, Beaumont

Aug 22 - Sept 17Aug 23 - Nov 4Sept 1Sept 5 - 26Sept 21 - Jan 6Oct TBAOct 6Oct 14 - Dec 30Nov 3Feb 2

Sept 8 - Nov 3Sept 15Sept 29Sept 29Oct 4Oct 6 - 13Oct 16 - Nov 10Oct 27Oct 27Oct 27Nov 10Nov 10Nov 11Nov 20 - 24Nov 28 - Dec 30Dec 1Dec 1Dec 6Dec 6 - 22Dec 15Dec 15Dec 15 - 18Dec 15 - 18Dec 18 - 28Dec 20Feb 10


It wasnt always Swamp Pop. When Gene and his buddies picked up instruments and started jamming in whichever garage was available they just called it plain ol rock & roll. We formed like a lot of bands did in those days, a lile ol garage band, he says. And I think the first booking we played at was a lile club on 39th Street and they gave us some crawfish to play. Brish music writer Bill Millar is the man who coined the phrase and John Broven popularized it in the 1983 book South to Louisiana. But what does the term mean? What is Swamp Pop?

The American melng pot brews a parcular stew on the Gulf Coast: rhythm and blues, Cajun and Creole music, southern country and rock & roll. Young musi-cians grew up in Texas and Louisiana listening to Fats Domino, Chuck Willis, Lloyd Price, and all the tradi-onal Acadian and African music unique to the region. When they picked up an instrument they began play-ing what they knew and the style they created rocked the charts in the 1950s and early 60s. Even someone who has never heard the term Swamp Pop had almost certainly heard Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Sea of Love, or Lonely Days, Lonely Nights. The music is characterized by disnctly Cajun melodies driven by rock & roll or rhythm and blues instrumentaon. Perhaps its most unique quality is a lack of racial con-trast in its listeners. Unlike most types of music which have some tendency to draw fans from a parcular ethnicity, Swamp Pop can appeal equally to any nave son or daughter of the Gulf Coast region, regardless of origin.

Swamp Pop went underground in the 60s, a result of the extraordinary popularity of Brish pop. Some of the musicians, like Gene Borgeouis, did the same. During this me the music was generally only naon-ally appreciated by aficionados and crics like Millar and Broven. In the Gulf Coast however, it retained some of its former adoraon and has become an inte-gral part of local folk music.

Unfortunately, the long gap in naonal recognion and the heavy influence of foreign music had an unin-tended eect on area musicians, and there arent many Swamp Pop arsts le. Its especially rare in Texas, where Gene Borgeouis is the last acve arst from the original era. The music has found more ferle ground in Louisiana with widespread airplay and many more venues.

That said, one can sll hear Swamp Pop in Southeast Texas, if one knows where to look. The best place to go is Larrys French Market in Groves, Texas, where Gene plays monthly, usually accompanied by Ken Marvel, a bonafide swamp pop arst who missed the first boat by about a decade. Genes nephew Larry runs the place and he packs it to capacity every weekend with Creole, Zydeco, and Swamp Pop bands. Larry is a man whose face is creased into a permanent laugh and his restaurant serves some truly fine Cajun ean. Visit larrysfrenchmarket.com to see which bands are play-ing each week. Gene also plays regularly at the Jeer-son County Singles Club in Nederland.

In 2009, aer 20 years out of the industry, Gene released his first full album, Jivin Gene: Its Never Too Late. The recording includes 7 never before released originals and 7 new recordings of his older hits. Press play and its like going back to the 50s. With inducons into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, Museum of the Gulf Coast Hall of Fame, and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame Living Legend Award, Jivin Gene proves that it really is Never Too Late.

Gene will also be featured in an upcoming Swamp Pop Christmas album. The album will be a compilaon and include arsts such as Nederlands Ken Marvel, Charles Mann, Johnnie Allan, and more.


Parcipang museums in the Naonal Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West opening on October 27 include:

Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, Georgia

Bualo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming

Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Naonal Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Naonal Geographic Museum, Washington, D.C.

Naonal Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York

C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, Montana

Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas

Nevada Cowboy Brian Morris, 1970William Albert Allard/Naonal Geographic Stock

Antelope Canyon, Arizona, 2010Frans Lanng/NaonalGeographic Stock


Nevada Cowboy Brian Morris, 1970William Albert Allard/Naonal Geographic Stock

Haying, Nebraska, 2004Jim Richardson/Naonal Geographic Stock

Cherokee Outlet, Oklahoma, ndTulsa Chamber Of Commerce/Naonal Geographic Stock

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A companion book to the exhibion, Naonal Geo-graphic Greatest Photographs of the American West: Capturing 125 Years of Majesty, Spirit and Adventure (Naonal Geographic Books; ISBN 978-1-4262-0956-1; on sale Oct. 10, 2012; trade paperback; $30), features 175 photographs, including rarely published and never-before-seen images, capturing the real West and its enduring legacy from earliest images through contempo-rary issues. The book will be available at museums and online from Naonal Geographic Books.

The Naonal Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West exhibion was organized by the Naonal Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyo-ming, in collaboraon with the Naonal Geographic Society and Museums West, presented by The Mays Family Foundaon.

Located at 712 Green Avenue in Orange, Texas, Stark Museum of Art is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. Group tours are available by appointment. For more informaon, call 409.886.ARTS (2787) or visit www.starkmuseum.org

Tehachapi Wind Farm, California, 2008Je Kroeze/Naonal Geographic Stock

Natural Bridges Naonal Monument, Utah, 2008Jim Richardson/Naonal Geographic Stock

Monument Valley, Utah, 2001Bruce Dale/Naonal Geographic Stock

American Indian Beauty Pageant Winner, Oregon, 1997William Albert Allard/Naonal Geographic Stock


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