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Wednesday, November 04, 2009

First Friday in Calumet offers art, music Nov. 6

CALUMET -- First Friday in Calumet, Nov. 6, will offer three gallery exhibit openings and musical entertainment -- all free and open to the public.

The Calumet Art Center will host music by the Uptown Swingsters during First Friday art and music festivities Nov. 6 in Calumet. (Photo courtesy Ed Gray)

The Calumet Art Center will be open from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday for musical entertainment by the Uptown Swingsters: John Munson, piano and sax; Brian Parmeter, upright bass; Bob Norden, trombone and dancing; Oren Tikkanen, guitar and vocals; Greg Wright, drums and vocals; Lucas Lago, congas and vocals. The Calumet Art Center is at 57055 Fifth Street.

Tamarack Trading Company to honor artist, drummer Len Novak

The Tamarack Trading Company (formerly Beadazed Studio) will be open from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday to introduce this month's memorial to a location that a lot of people shared with artist and drummer Len Novak. His Teepee location was dismantled this fall after seven years of activity -- drummings, lots of guests, canoe excursions, etc.

The public is invited to share in the memories of the Esrey Park Teepee. Len Novak will be present to share his art works, memories and thoughts. Live music will be presented by Heaven and Tony.

The talented musical duo -- Heaven Hawkins, right, of Mohawk, and Tony Laux of Houghton -- return to the Tamarack Trading Company Nov. 6 for the First Friday event honoring artist Len Novak. (Photo by Keweenaw Now)

Healthy Nibbles too! The Tamarack Trading Company is at 300 Fifth Street in Calumet.

Miskwabik Ed Gray Gallery features fiber art

An opening reception for "A Woven Past: Fiber," an open, juried show for November, will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 6, at the Miskwabik Ed Gray Gallery, 109 Fifth Street. Phone 906-337-5970 for more information.

Vertin Gallery to host "Digital Realities" by Max Seel

Through the Martini Glass, photo print on etching paper, by Max Seel. (Photo courtesy Vertin Gallery)

An opening reception for "Digital Realities," photos by Max Seel, will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Nov. 6 at the Vertin Gallery, 220 Sixth Street, Calumet. The exhibit continues through Dec. 2, 2009.

Photographer Max Seel joined Michigan Technological University in 1986 as a faculty member in physics and served as Dean of College of Science and Arts from 1990 to 2008.

In his digital photography, he takes a slice of reality and transforms it into something else, into another reality. Things are never quite what they seem to be.

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