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AUDITIONS

Illinois Talent Competition
Statewide talent search open to men
and women of all ages and talents
including individual and group acts for
two-night competition at the Hoogland
Center for the Arts on May 23-24. Prizes.
For more info, call 815-207-3759 or go
to www.missillinois.org/talent.htm.

BOOKS & AUTHORS

Call for Submissions
Through Mar 6, Accepting teen poetry
and artwork for annual anthology, The
Maze. Send work to P.O. Box 202,
Chatham, IL 62629 or email to [email protected].
For more info
go to www.adonisdesignspress.com.
Poetry Reading
Mar 10, 7:30pm, David Clewell, poet and
Webster University’s Creative Writing
Program Director, will read from his
works at a convocation. Free. Kirby
Learning Center, Illinois College.
Jacksonville.

THEATER & COMEDY

The Spirit of Lincoln
Mar 6-7, 8pm, Musical commissioned
for the Bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln
follows the lives of a slave, a former civil
rights activist, a 14-year-old drummer
boy and the last man to shake Lincoln’s
hand before he left for Washington, and
more. $16, $15 seniors and children 12
and under. Hoogland Center for the Arts,
420 S. Sixth St. For more info, call 523-
2787.
Comedian Clinton Jackson
Mar 6-7, 7:30 and 9:30pm. $13 general
admission, $15 VIP. Funnybone Comedy
Club.
Comedian Sonya White
Mar 6, 8pm and Mar 7, 7:15 and
9:30pm, Featured on CMT’s Southern
Fried Chicks. $15 cash, $15.50 cc and
$2 VIP. Mason City Limits Comedy Club,
114 E. Chestnut St. Mason City. For info,
call 482-5233 or go to
www.mclimits.com.

MUSIC: GENERAL EVENTS

Acoustic Lunch
Mon-Fri, 12-1pm, Hear the sounds of
local musicians Jaigh Lowder, Kathyrn
Raistrick, Bill Laymon, Ben Bedford and
Lucas Westcott. Trout Lily Cafe, 218 S.
Sixth St. For more info, call 391-0101.
Afternoon’s Delight!
Simon Tedeschi - Piano
Mar 5, 2pm, Australian pianist Simon
Tedeschi performs some of his favorite
music, including Gershwin, in this special
afternoon concert at Bothwell
Conservatory on the Blackburn campus.
$7. Carlinville. For more info, call 800-
233-3550, ext. 5550 or go to
www.blackburn.edu.
Candy Coburn Live
Mar 13, 7:30pm, National performing
artist brings her show to town with Zac
Brown Band and Gloriana. $15-$25.
Prairie Capital Convention Center. For
info, call 788-8800.

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