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Concerts & FestivalsProgram Description
Event Details
Music in the Stacks is a showcase of local and national musicians who entertain regularly in Northern Arizona. There are 3-5 different performers during the show, with a rotating variety each month.
February's concert features Ed Cooper, Bernice Lewis & Paul Gazda.
Ed Cooper spent decades playing in bands around the country before settling in Sedona and becoming a solo performer. With soulful vocals and shredding guitar, Ed plays exciting arrangements of classic rock favorites from the '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s. You can see Ed performing regularly at several venues around the Verde Valley.
With almost four decades of performing festivals, concert halls, coffeehouses, colleges, and house concerts, along with a half dozen acclaimed CDs, Bernice Lewis has built a solid national fan base. She is also a storyteller, published poet, producer, and educator extraordinaire. Lewis — who studied vocal improvisation with Bobby McFerrin, guitar technique with Alex DeGrassi and Guy van Duser, and songwriting with Rosanne Cash and Cris Williamson — has been a featured performer on NPR’s Mountain Stage program, as well as at the Kennedy Center. She has a forty-eight year old daily yoga practice, loves strong coffee, and her religion is the Grand Canyon. “For me, it’s about the songs, each different, each a well thought out message, each a labor of love,” says Bernice.
Paul Gazda began learning guitar and playing in bands when he was 16. His early influences included Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Paul Butterfield, but over the years, he has developed a broad spectrum of musical interests, ranging from rock and pop, to blues, folk and jazz. In the 1970’s, he began writing instrumental and vocal songs, and has continued ever since. He enjoys the fun, musical growth and camaraderie of playing local open mics, concerts and gigs.
Camp Verde Community Library is located just off of Montezuma Castle Highway at 130 Black Bridge Road, Camp Verde AZ. For more information about this or any other library program, visit the library’s website at www.cvlibrary.org or call 554-8380.