HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014!!!!

We will continue featuring our local lalent and inspirational stories on our weekly show. The year 2014 has already started out with excitement!!! The Louisiana Heart Beat Show  crew and I have been asked to help produce some footage for an upcoming documentary on one of the original stars of the old black and white  low budget horror classic “Axe”. The bueray disc will be released by March in Hollywood.

One of our own now local, Ray Green had starred in this horror flick. His son, and  long time friend of mine, Pastor Scott Green will do the interview. Scott has always been a movie buff himself. He now pastors a church in Natchez Mississippi.

It will be on AOC soon!!!

Sudie Landry

Louisiana Heart Beats

Show Producer

Watch Our Shows!!

Want to see all of the AMAZING talent we’ve had on our show over the last few years?

Click here and watch any of them as many times as you want on our LAHB USTREAM page!

Do you have a gift or talent to share with the world?  Do you know someone else who deserves to be seen and heard for what they do each and every day to change lives and affect our community?  Let us know – we’d LOVE to have you on our show!

Do you Mishmash???

I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t offer our services out to all our readers who may include artists and authors looking for INEXPENSIVE ways to promote their work!

So, let me give you a brief history of Mishmash Promotions:

We are also Surge Productions, a company that organizes, facilitates and promotes both local family-friendly music events AND a quarterly magazine here in Acadiana.  Owner, Danny Dardeau, works with 2 local graphic artists to create each and every promotional piece (including our website, http://www.surgefest.com), for every event we’ve had, SO it was only logical that he find both the BEST and most cost-effective designers and method for printing what we needed to keep within our  OWN event budgets.  As a result, other local businesses took notice (most of them either volunteers, friends, or sponsors for our events), and ask if we could provide the same service to them.

Since our heart is to HELP people, the answer was “YES!”  Now we are expanding and offering it to YOU!  We also have discounted rates for NON-PROFITS, both because we love what they do in the community and want to help them spread the word about their services, but ALSO because we know how limited funding is within a charity organization.

Please email me at cori@surgefest.com to schedule a quick 15-min appointment, so I can assess your needs and help you save some money!

This Month in the Arts

Arts for January

If you’re like me, you don’t make any resolutions you feel you won’t keep anyway – but I do try to make a promise to myself to see new things in the community whenever I can, support local talent, and try to keep on learning each day.  Here’s a list of what’s going on this month for the Arts in our area!

*Acadiana Center for the Arts  – www.acadianacenterforthearts.org

Did you know the stats reported about the galleries and shows they’ve had?                                                                     

25 Exhibits/132 Artists/536 Artworks/9,935 Art Walk Patrons/11,233 Audience

Sounds like there’s a lot to see, right? Yep – look below. (See their website for $/more details!)

• Sat., January 8, 2011;  8:30 PM-9:30 PM

 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers – features film called Dive! 

By Producer/Director Jeremy Seifert – follow Jeremy and his team as they dumpster-dive and show the amount of food thrown away in our country…very interesting!

Films like this are supported by the Southern Arts Organization (www.southarts.org), “a regional arts org. making a positive difference in the Arts throughout the South since 1975.”  Southern Arts serves 9 Southern states.

• Sat., January 8, 2011;  12 Noon

The Met Live in HD (The Metropolitan Opera broadcast), in the James Devin Moncus Arts Theatre

See Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West (run time approx. 3hrs/30mins)

• Mon., January 17, 2011;  2PM

Film @ the Center – “Thunder Bay” – 103 mins./no rating

This is a FREE film series offered by the ACA, to show films portraying Louisiana people & LA life.  Shown in the ACA’s Art House.

Creativity @ the Center – Hands-on workshops given by professional artists, educators, and lecturers.

Sample Classes:

Beginner’s Guitar Class – 6 Saturdays;  January 22 – February 27 (see website for details!)

Louisiana Folk Roots/Home Music Singing Workshop – Louisiana Cultures theme – January 22,    10AM-12Noon

ACA’s Education in Arts

Did you know the following stats about the educational programs offered by the ACA? 

30,367 children/2,085 teachers/8,346 activity hrs/80 performances/15 teacher events/10 teaching artists

Pretty amazing, right?  They have far too much to offer to list it all here, so be sure to visit their “Education” tab on their website today!  

 

*PASA – Performing Arts Society of Acadiana – www.pasa-online.org

• Wed., January 25, 2011;  7:30PM – at Heymann Performing Arts Center   

Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca – per the PASA website – “From Madrid, the award-winning Noche Flamenca brings the fiery seductive complexity of flamenco to south Louisiana. This unparalleled night of dance, song and guitar, includes La Strada – a narrative work based on the story made famous by Fellini in his film of the same name.”

PASA also offers tons of educational workshops and other learning opportunities in the Arts – check out their website!

 

*Lafayette Art Association – www.lafayetteart.org

• Now till January 4, 2011 – “LAG Uncorked” – an all member, all media holiday exhibit

 

*Paul & Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum – at UL of Lafayette – www.museum.louisians.edu

This is a gem right here at our local University, so I thought I would share the hours of operation and some of the admission rates!  Be sure to check out their site, to see all the arts and classes they offer as well.

Hours of Operation:

9AM – 5PM Tues. – Thurs.

9AM – 12PM Fri. /10AM – 5PM Sat.

Closed on Sun., Mon., and all major holidays.

Admission:

$5 for Adults

$4 for Seniors (62 & older)

 

*Louisiana Crafts Guild – www.louisianacrafts.org

To quote their site, this Guild “passionately teaches and promotes creative expression and artistic excellence in fine craft.”  The artists selected to be members of this Guild are carefully chosen, and their work is displayed and available for purchase on the website, and also in Lafayette at the Sans Souci Fine Crafts store.  Good stuff!!

 

 

 

New Year, New Series & New Bloggin’

After a two-month break from our posts here, we are back!! Today is 1/1/11 – and our show is now a SERIES, to be seen EVERY TUESDAY nite @ 9PM on the Acadiana Open Channel!

We met so many WONDERFUL people in the first six months of our program, that the excitement for the new year is RIDICULOUS! For those of you reading our blog for the first time, we are a local talk show that LOVES to promote Louisiana folks with talents, incredible businesses/services, and other gifts to offer to our local community! If you or someone you like to brag about would like to be on our show in the new season, contact our Producer, Sudie Landry, at praisemusicpro@peoplepc.com, to get on our show schedule! 26 minutes each show just to talk about YOU!

Read a lot? Then meet a lot…of authors & fantastic books!

Before the chaos of the sugar rush that will take over your household next Sunday, take a day out for you and any other aspiring author or book-lover you know!
Join us, as the Writers’ Guild of Acadiana brings 45+ authors together in one place to talk about their work, answer your questions and sign some books just for you! Get your Christmas book list together, then head on down early to Cite des Arts for the Acadiana Book Festival, on Saturday, October 30th at 8AM, grab a program and wander from area to area hearing from the folks that spend their time putting the words on paper that transport our hearts and minds to faraway places and into strange tales. Coffee and some snack items will be available, as well as WGA book bags to carry all your new adventures (or early Christmas presents), and books being sold by the folks of Barnes & Noble. The festival lasts till 5PM, so don’t wait!

If you’re reading this – you’re able to help…

Most of us search for a way we can give back somehow, and if that describes you – keep reading! Friend of LAHB and fellow AOC member, Richard Phelps, is on the Board of a non-profit organization called Radio Reading for the Blind, and they need your help!

The first part is easy, laid-back and fun too – just show up to listen to some amazing music at their upcoming fundraiser, “Voices of the Bayou” Music & Arts Gathering. The sounds of the likes of Selwyn Cooper, Sonny J, The Wooden Wings, The Magnolia Sisters and more, will have you chillin’ while you grab yourself a chance to win with some raffle tickets, or just make a much needed donation. Your generosity will help not only the Radio Reading for the Blind, but the Affiliated Blind of Louisiana (ABL) too. Their mission – to make the world accessible again to those who are blind, visually-impaired, and can’t access printed material.

Fundraiser details:

Date/Time: October 24th, from 1PM to 8PM
Location: The Shed BBQ & Blues Joint, 308 HWY 93 North (off of exit
97 on I-10); (337)706-7079
Admission: FREE
More information: http://la-airs.org and http://affiliatedblind.org
To volunteer: email Richard at wordsmith1776@yahoo.com or call
(337)529-7109

If you can’t make it but still wish to help out, you can also may donations to these 501c3 organizations through PayPal at http://la-airs.org, or by mail at LA-AIRS, c/o 409 W. St. Mary Blvd., Lafayette, LA 70506.

The second way you can help out the Radio Reading for the Blind, requires a little Cajun flair, and the ability to translate English to French! 🙂 I love to read out loud, but since I don’t know any French other than “hello,” “goodbye,” and some residual ballet terms, I can’t help out – but maybe YOU can! Once again, contact Richard for the details if you qualify and have a little time to read some important stuff to those who can’t read for themselves.
Contact Richard at either wordsmith1776@yahoo.com or (337)529-7109.

On a Roll…

With taping two shows on average every Wednesday, we’ve had a LOT of guests! Throw in editing, copying, promoting, our day jobs, and all the same stuff you have in your lives too, and that explains why we (really I) have been a lil’ slow on the bloggin’. 🙂

Click on the “Stars of our Show” tab, and prepare to be WOW’d by the spectacular things our guests are doing in our community! They’re quite a talented bunch, and we give you all the information necessary to contact them on your own and get to know them like we did.

Hope you enjoy learning about each and every one of them, and let us know if you’d like a copy of one of the shows, or if YOU would like to be a guest on our show!

What’s black & white and read all over? US, in the newspaper!

Look mom, I’m in the paper!  Actually WE are in there, with our guest Mack Johnson – written by our friend and also guest of the show, Linda Meaux.  Click on the link below to take a peek, and here’s hoping we’ll make the paper many more times on the road to helping folks make the most of their talents and improve their careers!

Acadiana Gazette article on LAHB

Art Walk this Saturday, Aug. 14th

Don’t forget to continue to support your local artists by taking a stroll downtown in Lafayette to see the incredible creations by all the artsy-fartsy Cajuns in Acadiana!!

Hopefully the rain will stay away for this weekend…enjoy!! 🙂