Bloom Archives
Category: Arts & Entertainment
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Bloomington Chamber Singers Celebrate a Half Century of Making Beautiful Music (PHOTO GALLERY)
Half a century ago, about a dozen passionate amateur musicians gathered around a kitchen table sharing their love of singing.
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Enthusiasm Earns Local Women Magical Trip to Broadway Show
When friends Carolyn Anderson, Linda Burton, Sandy Martin, and Suzanne Roberts attended a performance of the musical Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times…
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WFHB’s Live ‘Saturday’s Child’ Celebrates 25 Years on the Air
WFHB-FM’s live monthly music broadcast, Saturday’s Child, aired for the first time in March 1994 from the Rose Firebay at the John Waldron Arts…
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Priscilla Barnes: TV & Film Star Performed Here in Play at BPP
Priscilla Barnes was in Bloomington for several weeks in April and May, performing in the Bloomington Playwrights Project production of the psychological thriller To…
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Southern Indiana Novelist Gets Hollywood Treatment
Frank Bill was working the night shift at a factory in Louisville, Kentucky, when he saw the movie Fight Club. The experience changed (and…
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At Carnegie Hall: Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED Talk Plays as a Choral Composition
In July 2018, neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor received an unexpected email from Brad and Doug Balliett, the renowned twin orchestral composers. They proposed making…
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Artist Dixie Ferrer: Inspired by Nature
In her 40-year career, longtime Brown County resident Dixie Ferrer has been a textile and ceramic artist and a painter. She has created quilts,…
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New Visitor Center for Guests at T.C. Steele State Historic Site
Summer visitors to the T.C. Steele State Historic Site will be greeted by a whole new experience. Singing Winds Visitor Center, a 4,600-square-foot structure,…
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‘Birch Bayh: Making a Difference’
In his new book about Birch Bayh, Indiana’s Democratic U.S. senator from 1963 to 1981, author Bob Blaemire shows his hand up front, writing,…