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Music news from around these parts At first glance 12-year-old Isaac Ferrell looks just like any other middle school-aged kid hanging out at a summer music camp; then he starts picking out “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” on his banjo and realization dawns that Isaac is something special.

The riffs are smooth and the picking clear and the thought strikes that Isaac could be center stage in Nashville one day. He’s already placed first in a regional music competition for his age group after only a year with the Young Appalachian Musicians group.

Odds are against a Nashville career, but the odds also seem stacked against the idea that 50 kids would trade their Nintendo machines and couch potato status for the heat and humidity of Table Rock State Park and the chance to learn classic folk-art style bluegrass music for a week in July.

Mickey Corbett, recently retired from the state Department of Health and Environmental Control, isn’t surprised at all.

In just two years he said the growth of the Young Appalachian Musician (YAM) group in Pickens County has been phenomenal. Starting with one group at Holly Springs Elementary the all-volunteer organization is now up to five schools, a summer camp and a seStory by Charles Sowell / Staff

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ries of working groups scattered around the county.

At Pickens High School kids can sign up to learn bluegrass as a for credit elective course.

It seems light years separated from the popular notion of kids and rap music, kids and delinquency, kids and crime.

“When we started up we were told that if we didn’t reach the kids early on that the odds were we would not,” said Betty McDaniel who helped found the organization with the aid of her husband Ed. It was Ed who came up with YAM as a moniker for the organization as a

take-off on the North Carolina Junior Appalachian Musicians ( JAM) group.

Betty said the group offers its services to schools free of charge.

“When we first started out we had to finance ourselves through donations and tuition fees,” she said.

Since then they’ve added corporate sponsorships and grants to the funding recipe, she said.

One of the strongest sponsors has been Chick-Fil-A in Easley.

“They’ve been a tremendous help to us,” said Corbett. “They provided all the t-shirts for this year’s camp and provided lunches for the kids.”

It used to be that kids who didn’t have family members who played bluegrass music never took up the folk art lifestyle, said Corbett. Through the efforts of YAM that is changing.

At the camp this week oriental and black children mixed in with the expected group of blue-eyed blonds and red headed descendants of mountaineers.

“We’re competing with soccer and with rock music,” Corbett said. “Many of our kids will take up those things, too, along the way but we hope they will keep coming back to bluegrass.”

Contact Charles Sowell at 679-1208 or csowell@communityjournals.com.

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Penn National seeks a declaratory judgment saying it is not responsible for paying for $3.6 million in damages and legal fees awarded to toy giant Mattel in a legal dispute with Super Duper Publications, a Greenville publisher of educational materials for special needs children. A jury found Super Duper infringed on Mattel’s trademarks by using “say” and “and say” in the name of some of its products. The 4th District Court of Appeals upheld the verdict in June. Penn insured Super Duper under a commercial general liability policy from Aug. 26, 2001 to Aug. 26, 2006. The policy covered damages because of “personal and advertising injury.” In court

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He said he was forced to defecate in a trash bag in the shower because all of the bathroom stalls were full. He claims part of the problem is the 56-bed jail unit typically holds twice that many inmates or more. In his lawsuit, Miller said since the incident, he’s had trouble keeping the jail’s food down. He said he’s lost weight and that he won’t eat anything with ground turkey because he fears getting food poisoning again.

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WORTH THE TRIP BLACK B AL S AM MO U N TAIN

This year conditions have conspired to produce a bumper crop of wild blueberries all over the Balsam Range in North Carolina.

The thousands of acres of highland bounty isn’t the kind of thing that gets much ink, but is the talk of the town at country stores and groceries as locals come back home lugging brimming jugs and bags.

Black Balsam Mountain is something of an epicenter for this year’s phenomenon. The berries are at least two weeks early and Upstate residents who plan to trek up to the 6,100-foot mountain for the traditional Labor Day orgy of berry picking are going to be disappointed.

By then all that will be left are the dregs.

Of course, berry picking isn’t the only reason to visit Black Balsam. The drive up can be spectacular for those willing to get up in the wee hours of the morning and hit the Blue Ridge Parkway as the sun rises.

This time of year low fog often hugs the valley floors and dawn is the one time of day when haze doesn’t obscure the miles-long vistas. It can make for spectacular pictures.

And berry picking gets visitors off the highly used Art Loeb trail over the summit of Black Balsam, which is the most popular gateway to the Shining Rock Wilderness.

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into Ivestor Gap. In places the trail has been worn into a gully and hikers are forced to step up and onto the edges to get through.

Sound of Music views are a sure draw, even when the blueberries are not in season.

The six-mile loop trail formed by Art Loeb to Ivestor Gap and then the Ivestor Gap trial back to the parking areas has become so popular that parking can be an issue, especially at Labor Day when bus loads of bag-toting would-be berry pickers arrive.

The blueberry bushes lining these trails have been picked back to the nubs already.

Bushwhack a little though and you land in a world little dreamed of by through hikers. Wildlife has learned to avoid the trail areas and lurk in the dense low laurel that cloak the

mountain. That musty smell one often encounters is usually bear drawn to the highlands to fatten up at a natural smorgasbord.

Push on a bit and tiny meadows start to appear and the numbers and size of the blueberries is in direct proportion to the distance from a trail. This year the berries rival anything you can find at a chain grocery store in Greenville.

Pay attention to what is at your feet.

This is a climatic zone most closely akin to places like Maine. Lichens have started to bloom and bright orange pods on gangly grey stalks cover many of the stones. Clusters of brilliantly orange mushrooms litter the shady spots.

If you look carefully sights like a daddy long legs toting its young on its back will often greet you.

Contact Charles Sowell at 679-1208 or csowell@communityjournals.com.

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Green economy could flourish here.

Our current energy economy, based primarily on fossil fuels, is fundamentally flawed and unsustainable.

As the current disaster in the Gulf of Mexico makes clear, the real costs of our addiction to oil are staggering. Thomas Friedman is correct: “Fossil fuels are exhaustible, increasingly expensive, and politically, ecologically and climatically toxic.”

But finally and thankfully, we are beginning to change our economic system and practice a new form of capitalism, described as Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins in their groundbreaking book, “Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution.” Their title doesn’t overstate what is happening. A new industrial revolution is underway – a revolution that is both good for the planet and good for business.

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Third, we need help and support from Columbia. While the General Assembly has recently passed some good laws and incentives in the clean energy area, it must do more. Most urgently needed is a renewable portfolio standard for South Carolina in order to jump-start and expand the renewable energy industry in our state. I don’t think it’s possible to have the hub of the green economy in a state that doesn’t have a renewable portfolio standard.

Fourth, we must protect our region’s outstanding quality of life, which is essential to continue attracting clean energy companies to the Upstate.

The Natural Capitalism revolution has begun. It’s time for the Upstate to lead once again.

Brad Wyche is the executive director of Upstate Forever and can be reached at bwyche@upstateforever.org. This is a highly condensed version of his keynote speech at the Business in Action conference in Greenville on May 24, 2010. The entire speech is posted on the Upstate Forever website, www.upstateforever.org.

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S p o t l i g h t: Dancing kings

Watch it tonight

Watch it tonight

David Holly is not a dancer.

Never claimed to be.

Doesn’t even know how to shag.

“I don’t like to dance,” said Holly, who is the head tennis professional at the Greenville Country Club. “I like to listen to good music. But I don’t dance.”

If that’s the case, how did he allow himself to get talked into donning a pair of tights and dancing – complete with ballet slippers with a shiny ribbon to tie above his ankles – and dancing with some of the dancers from the Carolina Ballet Theatre? In public?

Holly said it was the promise of a big, fat raise and the unfortunate circumstance of having an empty Aug. 26 on his calendar.

Carolina Ballet’s executive director Laura Hobbs just happens to be the wife of Greenville Country Club general manager – and Holly’s boss – Greg Hobbs.

“I told him if I got a big raise, I’d do it for his wife,” Holly said last week before one of the rehearsals for “Men in Tights.”

“I’m still waiting for the big raise.”

Holly is one of seven local men participating in “Men in Tights,” a skit which weaves together excerpts from classic ballet pieces such as Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” and “Dance of the Little Swans” and is inspired, in part, by Monty Python.

“Men in Tights,” the idea for which the Carolina Ballet borrowed from the Springfield Ballet in Illinois.

“Men in Tights,” which is choreographed by Carolina Ballet artistic director Hernan Justo, will be performed during the ballet’s season-opening fundraiser on Aug. 26 at 6 p.m. at the Greenville Country Club.

Other men from the community who will participate in “Men in Tights” are William Herlong, a Greenville attorney who served on the Greenville County School Board from 1998 through 2006; Beau Welling, a golf course design consultant who has worked with Tiger Woods and who founded the Palmetto Curling Club; Jack Bacot, editor-in-chief of “G – The Magazine of Greenville;” Bubba Britton, former reality television Story by Cindy Landrum / Staff

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star and former host of the Tiger Tailgate Show; Eric Miller, business development director of the Upstate Alliance; and Patrick Britt, owner of After School Plus in Mauldin.

Bacot said he burst out laughing when he read the email asking him to participate. So did his staff.

“You can’t say no to helping the arts,” said Bacot, who said the only time he dances in public is when his wife drags him out on the dance floor during wedding receptions. “I’m Baryshnikov at home.”

For Britt, who said he doesn’t even dance at weddings any more, dancing in “Men in Tights” could be considered payback for a joke he pulled on officials at Christ Church Episcopal School.

A few years after his graduation from Christ Church, he received a letter from the school asking what he was doing for a living. Britt, who was working in banking at the time, wrote back and said he finally made it to New York and Broadway – as a dancer.

He had to ‘fess up when somebody from the school wrote back and said they had a New York trip planned and asked if they could come see his show.

The men will wear tights, but not tight tights, Justo said.

“That’s good because I don’t have a European body. I don’t think any of us do,” Holly said.

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Men In Tights performer Jack Bacot says he has to be forced to dance at weddings.

The ballet had to order tights for the men. “I ordered extra, extra large so they fit like blue jeans,” Holly said.

In case that doesn’t do the trick, the men will be wearing Robin Hood-like tunics as well. Holly ordered an extra large in that, too.

After the first week of practice, the men had learned five basic foot moves and five basic arm moves, Holly said.

The trick is to be able to put them together.

“Putting them together is the hard part,” said Holly, who began practicing the moves at a very deliberate pace.

During the first practice, the ballet’s principal dancer, Anita Pacylowski-Justo, was working with Holly. She leaped.

“I forgot to catch her,” he said.

And before last week’s practice when Holly was told they’d be practicing with different dancers from the company, Holly said, “Oh, great. I get to drop another one.”

Britton, who participated in ESPN’s first reality TV show, “Beg, Borrow and Deal,” said when he accepted the invitation for “Men in Tights,” he thought it would just be a bunch of guys clowning around.

“But we’re actually being taught real dance moves,” he said. “I’m wondering if there will be pressure to actually do things right. I think there might.”

Contact Cindy Landrum at 679-1237 or clandrum@communityjournals.com.

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A woman went jogging near the Greenville Zoo and returned to find someone had made off with her license plate.

Don’t mess with a lady and her truck. One would-be criminal found this out when he attempted to break into a Ford truck at Haywood Road Animal Hospital. The lady confronted the guy and he ran. He left in a red truck and is described as a black male in his late 20s, early 30s, short black hair, 5’9”, 160 pounds. He was last seen wearing a white collared shirt and blue shorts.

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Sunday Family Funday — Kids 12 and under get to run the bases after the game.

GRAFFITI'S

Mon, Aug 23

RiverDogs

Reading All-Stars

Tue, Aug 24

RiverDogs

KRAFT Singles Tuesday Night Tickets — Buy one ticket, get one free when you bring a Kraft Singles wrapper to the game.

Tasty Tuesday — Kids eat free Anderson Night — Celebrating all things Anderson

www.safehavenanimals.org

It’s not your usual animal rescue but one for exotic animals, more than 160 including a macaw and a cockatoo. The Greenville shelter also has a kinkajou, a rainforest animal related to raccoons.

1004-B West Georgia Road, Simpsonville

Thu, Aug 26

Tourists

Dollar Drink Night — $1 Pepsi Products and $1 draft specials at the 500 Club

Fri, Aug 27

Tourists

Fireworks Friday — Fireworks show following the game Music Mania — Country music night

Sat, Aug 28

Tourists

Spectacular Saturday — NFL Night

Sun, Aug 29

Tourists

Sunday Family Funday — Kids 12 and under get to run the bases after the game.

Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m. until 8 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sunday, noon to 8 p.m.

It’s the kind of place where you should expect to leave with at least a small stain on your shirt.

Graffiti’s hamburgers serves up what are arguably some of the thickest and most juicy burgers around. All half-pound of them.

And they taste like someone with a whole lot of know-how grilled them up on a backyard grill.

You can get them piled high, choosing from a list of goodies that won’t disappoint.

Lettuce, cheese, pineapple, onions.

There are fries of course, piping hot and tri-colored.

And order the onion rings. If you see someone with an order you’ll be tempted to ask for a few.

There are daily specials, and buckets of really cold beer.

It’s a casual spot on West Georgia Road in Simpsonville, which is a good thing, since you may be tempted to avoid the stain and swath yourself with white napkins.

But don’t worry, no one will stare. They’ll be busy with their own napkins.

SEPTEMBER

www.greenvillehumane.com

Greenville Humane Society’s nifty web site allows you to search for a pet. Sort by type, age, gender and see cute pictures.

DATE

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Fri, Sep 3

Crawdads

Fireworks Friday — Fireworks show following the game Music Mania — 90's music night

Sat, Sep 4

Crawdads

Spectacular Saturday — Harry Potter Night

Sun, Sep 5

Crawdads

Sunday Family Funday — Kids 12 and under get to run the bases after the game.

Mon, Sep 6

Crawdads

FANDEMONIUM

All giveaways and event dates are subject to change.

— Melissa Blanton ate a big ‘ole burger here and used a heap of napkins in the process.

— Lyn Riddle Sally Boman / Staff

The Gamecocks’ baseball championship team has been invited to the White House. No date has been set for their visit.

South Carolina’s albino alligator finally has a name – Alabaster. The gator, which lives at the South Carolina Aquarium, is said to be one of about 50 in the world.

The state’s Senate Finance Committee Chairman Hugh Leatherman is fussing at state schools for raising tuition.

He’s warned them via a letter.

Not so fast with that bankruptcy filing. The state’s department of transportation has challenged the Southern Connector’s efforts to file for Chapter 9.

South Carolina remains one of the worst in the nation when it comes to drunken driving deaths.

— Melissa Blanton — Melissa Blanton 10 JOURNAL NEWS NOW | AUGUST 18-24, 2010

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All about animals

Tag, you’re so in trouble.

A woman went jogging near the Greenville Zoo and returned to find someone had made off with her license plate.

Don’t mess with a lady and her truck. One would-be criminal found this out when he attempted to break into a Ford truck at Haywood Road Animal Hospital. The lady confronted the guy and he ran. He left in a red truck and is described as a black male in his late 20s, early 30s, short black hair, 5’9”, 160 pounds. He was last seen wearing a white collared shirt and blue shorts.

What were they thinking?

Oh, wait, they weren’t.

SOMEONE DAMAGED THE ROOF (IT WAS CAVED IN) ON A 2010 TOYOTA TACOMA PARKED AT TOYOTA OF GREENVILLE NEAR THE SERVICE SHOP. THE UNKNOWN SUSPECT LEF T TWO ONE DOLLAR BILLS UNDER THE WINDSHIELD WIPER. THE ESTIMATED COST TO REPAIR THE VEHICLE IS $6000.

s p e a k i n g

The boys are back in town, but not for too much longer.

The Greenville Drive will take on the Charleston Riverdogs during their next home stand, which begins Saturday. The regular season ends Sept. 6.

AUGUST

Note to self. A sheet is no substitute for actual glass in a window. A Greenville resident found this out recently when their “sheet” was removed and their refrigerator was stolen.

There they go again, stealing from God. This time someone risked lightning strikes by climbing on to the roof of Kingdom Vision Church and stealing an air conditioning unit. The church’s alarm was set off.

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Sat, Aug 21

RiverDogs

Spectacular Saturday — Red Sox Nation

Places we like to eat

Sun, Aug 22

RiverDogs

Sunday Family Funday — Kids 12 and under get to run the bases after the game.

GRAFFITI'S

Mon, Aug 23

RiverDogs

Reading All-Stars

Tue, Aug 24

RiverDogs

KRAFT Singles Tuesday Night Tickets — Buy one ticket, get one free when you bring a Kraft Singles wrapper to the game.

Tasty Tuesday — Kids eat free Anderson Night — Celebrating all things Anderson

www.safehavenanimals.org

It’s not your usual animal rescue but one for exotic animals, more than 160 including a macaw and a cockatoo. The Greenville shelter also has a kinkajou, a rainforest animal related to raccoons.

1004-B West Georgia Road, Simpsonville

Thu, Aug 26

Tourists

Dollar Drink Night — $1 Pepsi Products and $1 draft specials at the 500 Club

Fri, Aug 27

Tourists

Fireworks Friday — Fireworks show following the game Music Mania — Country music night

Sat, Aug 28

Tourists

Spectacular Saturday — NFL Night

Sun, Aug 29

Tourists

Sunday Family Funday — Kids 12 and under get to run the bases after the game.

Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m. until 8 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sunday, noon to 8 p.m.

It’s the kind of place where you should expect to leave with at least a small stain on your shirt.

Graffiti’s hamburgers serves up what are arguably some of the thickest and most juicy burgers around. All half-pound of them.

And they taste like someone with a whole lot of know-how grilled them up on a backyard grill.

You can get them piled high, choosing from a list of goodies that won’t disappoint.

Lettuce, cheese, pineapple, onions.

There are fries of course, piping hot and tri-colored.

And order the onion rings. If you see someone with an order you’ll be tempted to ask for a few.

There are daily specials, and buckets of really cold beer.

It’s a casual spot on West Georgia Road in Simpsonville, which is a good thing, since you may be tempted to avoid the stain and swath yourself with white napkins.

But don’t worry, no one will stare. They’ll be busy with their own napkins.

SEPTEMBER

www.greenvillehumane.com

Greenville Humane Society’s nifty web site allows you to search for a pet. Sort by type, age, gender and see cute pictures.

DATE

OPPONENT

SPECIAL E VENTS

Fri, Sep 3

Crawdads

Fireworks Friday — Fireworks show following the game Music Mania — 90's music night

Sat, Sep 4

Crawdads

Spectacular Saturday — Harry Potter Night

Sun, Sep 5

Crawdads

Sunday Family Funday — Kids 12 and under get to run the bases after the game.

Mon, Sep 6

Crawdads

FANDEMONIUM

All giveaways and event dates are subject to change.

— Melissa Blanton ate a big ‘ole burger here and used a heap of napkins in the process.

— Lyn Riddle Sally Boman / Staff

The Gamecocks’ baseball championship team has been invited to the White House. No date has been set for their visit.

South Carolina’s albino alligator finally has a name – Alabaster. The gator, which lives at the South Carolina Aquarium, is said to be one of about 50 in the world.

The state’s Senate Finance Committee Chairman Hugh Leatherman is fussing at state schools for raising tuition.

He’s warned them via a letter.

Not so fast with that bankruptcy filing. The state’s department of transportation has challenged the Southern Connector’s efforts to file for Chapter 9.

South Carolina remains one of the worst in the nation when it comes to drunken driving deaths.

— Melissa Blanton — Melissa Blanton 10 JOURNAL NEWS NOW | AUGUST 18-24, 2010

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The Who, Why, When, Where and mostly What!? that's in the news.

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ODD Nope. Not. Giving. Up.

Forget the fact he’s been indicted on a felony obscenity charge, Alvin Greene will remain in the race for the senate.

The bizarre saga made it onto “Fox News Sunday” when National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (R-Tex) used Greene during a discussion about “voter’s rights.”

Terry Thomas just wanted to run for school board in Beaufort County.

He did his homework, too, gathering almost 200 signatures and filling out the paperwork.

He went to check his mailbox last week and while he was gone, his dog, Spencer, a lab and bull mastiff mix, had a snack. And it included Thomas’ paperwork for filing.

And you guessed it, he won’t

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be able to run this year. Apparently the dog was worried he’d be left home along too often.

And you thought video games were good for nothing.

Not any more.

Doctors at Medical University of South Carolina this week used a first-in-the-state technique that allowed them to perform endoscopic back surgery on a 21-year-old by watching their instrument’s maneuvers on television screens.

The surgery is aptly named Nintendo surgery.

So wireless is supposed to be the wave of the future.

And carmakers are increasingly using the technology to help control certain mechanical processes. Like tire pressure

BY MELISSA BLANTON

monitoring.

Sounds great.

Not so fast says a group of University of South Carolina researchers.

They released a paper last week detailing just how easy it is to tamper with a car’s wireless mechanisms. The researchers demonstrated how easy it was to get a car’s dashboard warning lights to indicate a tire pressure problem.

The research was presented this week at the USENIX security Symposium.

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The construction of Sirrine Stadium, which began in 1935, was a cooperative effort on the part of the city of Greenville and Furman University. The first game played on the new field on Oc. 31, 1936, saw Furman defeat Davidson College. In this photo from the groundbreaking Cleveland Street can be seen in the background.

From the book “Remembering Greenville Photographs From the Coxe Collection”

Photos available from Greenville County Historical Society - 233-4103

When the shower’s running, he’s singing. And singing.

And singing. Next thing you know, it’s a 20-minute shower. He’s just one of many aquamaniacs that are addicted to wasting water.

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Your lawn might look thirsty, but that doesn’t mean you have to water it everyday. If you absolutely need to water your lawn, do it before 8 a.m. Any later and you’ll lose up to 30% to evaporation. And don’t water more than 3 times a week, so there’s plenty of water to go around.

You can also save up to 50 gallons of water a week just by turning off the tap while you shampoo and condition your hair.

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After Furman moved to its new campus in 1958, Sirrine Stadium gradually fell into disrepair. In 1981 Sam Francis spearheaded a campaign to raise $650,000 to buy the property from Furman and transfer ownership to the Greenville County School District. Almost 20 years later, a group calling itself Sirrine 2000 coordinated the raising of funds to completely renovate the historic sports facility. Today Sirrine Stadium is home to the Greenville High School Red Raiders.

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Cast members from "Dreamgirls," which is running at the Peace Center, met with fans gathered at the Phillis Wheatley Community Center. The cast sang songs from the show, took questions from the audience, signed autographs and judged local performers from the Phillis Wheatley Center and YMCA in a singing competition with winners receiving tickets to the show.

1) "Dreamgirls" castmember Margaret Hoffman. 2) James Williams, left, and Terah Gamble sing a song from "Dreamgirls" during the singing competition. The pair won tickets to see the show at the Peace Center for the performing Arts. 3) Jackson Bates, 6, dances during a break in the action. 4) Donna Coleman, executive director of the Phillis Wheatley Community Center, welcomes everyone to the center. 5) Cast members from the musical production "Dreamgirls" from left to right, Nikki Kimbrough, Margaret Hoffman and Talitha Farrow. 6) Dancing and singing from left to right, Imawi Isles, Deborah Stevenson and Olivia Oliver. 7) Castmembers perform for the crowd in the gym.

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