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C1 • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2011 • THE BAY CITY TIMES •
Quick Hits Entertainment choices for this week: The Treasure Hunters Roadshow
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and Friday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Bay Valley Resort & Conference Center, 2470 Old Bridge, Bay City. What’s up: A show with hunters looking for coins and paper currency issued prior to 1965, toys, dolls, trains, vintage jewelry, old and modern musical instruments, war memorabilia, gold and silver jewelry, costume jewelry, advertising memorabilia, swords and knives. Price tag: Free. Info: www.treasure huntersroadshow.com
Arts from the Heart
6 to 9 p.m. today at Mid-Michigan Children’s Museum, 315 W. Genesee, Saginaw. What’s up: Music by The Robert Lee Review, a silent auction, delicious food, specialty beverages, design-your-own cupcake bar, interactive gallery games and entertain adults and more. Price tag: $50 per person. Info: (989) 399-6626
Paul Keller Orchestra
7:30 p.m. today at Temple Theatre, 201 N. Washington, Saginaw. What’s up: One of Michigan’s welltraveled jazz big bands. Price tag: $25-$20. Info: (989) 754-7469
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7 p.m. Friday at Studio 23, 901 N. Water, Bay City. What’s up: Studio 23’s version of the Dating Game. Price tag: $10. Info: (989) 894-2323
Starry, Starry Night Special Event
7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Delta College Planetarium and Learning Center, 100 Center, Bay City. What’s up: A romantic night with music, sky legends, movies and delectable desserts. Price tag: $35 per couple. Info: (989) 667-2260
SVSU play touches on history, controversy SUE WHITE FOR THE BAY CITY TIMES COURTESY | FOR THE BAY CITY TIMES
“When we started on the new album, ‘All American Nightmare,’ we wrote 70 songs instead of 15 and we came up with the best 12 possible,” says Hinder frontman Austin Winkler.
Hinder bringing tour-tested rock to Saginaw on Sunday SUE WHITE
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Talking with Hinder frontman Austin Winkler the other day, it was hard to avoid the elephant in the room, the topic on everyone’s mind. What exactly does a rock band do when a monster storm paralyzes the whole country? Winkler, calling from a restaurant in New York, laughed. “You stay where you are and close the nearest bar down every night,” he said. And while the snow forced them to reschedule a Boston concert, he said they’re ready to rock Saginaw on Sunday with Saving Abel, My Darkest Days and Kopek. This is the band that rocked the boat in Chesaning in 2007, the same year it was inducted in the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. Bringing its multi-format hit “Lips of an Angel” to Chesaning, they drew a sold-out audience to the Showboat Park amphitheater and hundreds more to a lawn-chair brigade on
What: Hinder When: 6:30 p.m. Sunday Where: The Dow Event Center, 303 Johnson, Saginaw Tickets: $22.50 in advance, $27.50 day of show Info: Ticketmaster the surrounding grounds. Yet, even as Winkler and fellow bandmates Cody Hanson, Joe Garvey, Mark King and Mike Rodden build on the Hinder Army, critics are still poised to rip the Oklahoma City rockers to shreds, he said. “The latest album, we’re hearing ‘Sure, there’s some great songs, but regardless of that, it sucks, ’ ” Winkler said. “They go out of their way to hate us but I’m fine with that. Led Zeppelin never had a good review, so we’re in good company. “We just keep building, one show at a time, one fan at a time. I’ll look out and you can
see it on their faces, ‘Oh, I get it.’ ” With five years of touring behind them, Hinder is in it for the long haul, Winkler said, and Saginaw will find out that the best is yet to come. The band’s first album, “Extreme Behavior,” went platinum around the world, while the second, “Take It to the Limit,” left them hungry for more. “When we started on the new album, ‘All American Nightmare,’ we wrote 70 songs instead of 15 and we came up with the best 12 possible,” he said. “We put in a lot of effort, we really pushed, and it shows. I’m really happy with the way it turned out.” And being the kind of guy who always wishes he was back on the road when he’s in the studio, and back in the studio when he’s on tour, “I hope we can ride this one out for the next two years,” he said. “We went back to what we do best, and we didn’t think about
Danzell Calhoun is the first to admit Nathaniel Turner’s story is a controversial one: A man born into slavery in 1800 who felt chosen by God to lead a bloody revolt against slavery. The battle didn’t last long, leaving nearly 200 men and women dead within 48 hours, and Turner tried and executed for his part in it. “It was a horrendous event, but it shook the fabric of the day’s society and inspired others to rebel against slavery,” Calhoun said. “He truly believed God led him to do this. Many labeled him a fanatic, but almost everyone who made a dent in society was first considered a fanatic.” Turner’s story is one told by his lawyer in 1831’s “The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southhampton, Virginia,” and again in 1967 in William Styron’s novel “The Confessions of Nat Turner,” and now in Calhoun’s one-man play, See PLAY, C2
Preview What: “Call of the Spirit: The Confession of Nat Turner” When: 2:30 p.m. Saturday Where: Hoyt Library, 505 Janes, Saginaw Admission: Free
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Saginaw resident Danzell Calhoun is preparing himself for the role of Nat Turner in his one-man performance of “Call of the Spirit: The Confessions of Nat Turner.”
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