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X-WR-CALDESC:****This Event is Canceled. Hope is not able to travel back fr
 om New Jersey! Hopefully we'll be able to get her back soon! See you in Ja
 nuary.***\n\n\nIn partnership with BeNt Shadows House Conterts & Cindy McC
 lellan\, we are hosting a house concert at The Leadership Center featuring
  the ever talented Hope Dunbar & Emily Dunbar.\n\nA meal will be served fr
 om 6:30-7:30 p.m. and the house concert will take place from 7:30-9:30 p.m
 . Everything will take place in the Lakeside room\, fire side. We will off
 er spaced out seating\, both soft seating as well as tables & chairs. As w
 ith Cindy's House Concerts\, it is BYOB if you'd like and a suggested dona
 tion of $20.00 p/p. All funds collected at the door\, will go to the artis
 t.\n\nStarting at 6/6:30-ish\, we'll be offering homemade dinner prepared 
 by The Leadership Center team of $10. We are having a baked potato bar. We
 'll have both baked potatoes & sweet potatoes and all kinds of toppings fo
 r meat & plant eaters...along with gluten free! You will also get a bevera
 ges. So if you are so inclined\, please come enjoy a meal along with the b
 eautiful musical stylings of Hope Dunbar & Emily Dunbar.\n\nAt the intermi
 ssion\, we'll offer a selection of tasty baked goods (including a few glut
 en free ones) and coffee for all to enjoy. \n\nHere are Hope & Emily's Bio
 s: \nHope Dunbar:  Not much has changed at Hope Dunbar’s house out on the 
 Nebraska plain. If you look out her window\, you see the same thing you sa
 w three years ago: the same infinite prairie and tantalizing horizon. Her 
 husband still pastors at a nearby church\; their teenage sons still live a
 t home. But all of that is just one dimension in this singular artist’s wo
 rld. Another one lives in her imagination\, where through song she transfo
 rms the mundane into the magical.\n\nWe witnessed this alchemy four years 
 ago\, when Dunbar released Three Black Crows. She conceived its music duri
 ng the hours when her husband and kids were at work and school\, without a
 ny nearby singer/songwriter rounds or club dates or supportive community. 
 When released in 2017\, Three Black Crows inspired positive comparisons to
  Springsteen’s Nebraska. One critic cited her references to “dusty roads\,
  endless fields and massive starry skies\,” to which she adds layers of me
 aning through her “visceral authenticity and raw honesty.” American Roots 
 host Craig Havighurst extolled her “incredible language and truth-telling.
 ”\n\nDunbar’s emergence led to what she remembers now as “a frenzy of acti
 vity.” Her homebound days gave way to touring\, interviews\, radio appeara
 nces. Yet as this door opened\, another one closed\, much to her alarm. “I
  didn’t skyrocket to fame\,” she says. “But I did rocket right into hittin
 g a wall. Things got so overwhelming because the hustle became more import
 ant than the artistry. By the summer of 2018 I was thinking\, ‘I’m not in 
 love with music the way I was prior to my last record.’ I wasn’t expecting
  that and it was a little jarring.” Something had to change. So once the h
 oopla passed and she was able to come back home\, Dunbar began looking har
 d at where she was and what had to be done. With help from a life coach\, 
 she found the right questions to ask and then looked for answers.\n\n“I wo
 und up on a new path of taking ownership of my musical journey\,” she says
 . “I’d been saying yes to every voice giving me advice on what I should do
 . So I learned not to listen to those voices. Now I’m not going to do anyt
 hing anybody tells me to do … unless I know I really want to.” With this s
 he kindled the dormant spark that had inspired her to write in the first p
 lace.\n\nSo Dunbar began to compose again. New songs poured forth\, which 
 she brought to Nashville for her second album\, Sweetheartland. With Zack 
 Smith\, one-half of the celebrated duo Smooth Hound Smith\, and Jesse Thom
 pson sharing production with her\, she led a carefully selected group of N
 ashville musicians on a journey through stories lifted from everyday routi
 ne and secret dreams.\n\nBrilliant lyrical snippets abound. “A gift card t
 o a gasoline station is not a valentine\,” she admonishes some dim bulb on
  “What Were You Thinking?”\n“I don’t need a cage\; I’ve forgotten how to r
 un\,” she mourns on “Dust.” Daring to hope for something beyond farmland\,
  she sees the highway as “where the wife with a black eye places all of he
 r chips” on “The Road Is” and insists “‘more’ ain’t a four-letter word” on
  the last track\, “More.” Even her homage “John Prine” illuminates both hi
 s genius and her restless introspection: “I’m flipping through the pages o
 f a waiting room magazine while the clock keeps on ticking like a pickaxe 
 steadily chipping away at the vision of who I thought I could be.”\n\nIn i
 ts hope and resignation\, its candor\, craft and vast Midwestern Americana
  resonance\, certainly in its insight and poetry\, Sweetheartland echoes i
 ts predecessor. Yet Dunbar sees two crucial differences between the two al
 bums. “On this record I wanted to bring all the raw material\, the songs I
 ’d written on my own\, to Zack and Jesse and then riff on what they could 
 be. Also\, as a small-town preacher’s wife\, I had been kind of tentative 
 with my identity. It just felt unbecoming for me to express feminine\, sex
 ual power on a record. But I’ve always had a sense of rebellion\, so this 
 time I just decided to put that out there along with everything else.”\n\n
 Even more important in something more ephemeral\, hard to pin down but abs
 olutely real. “I’m really proud of Three Black Crows\,” she continues. “Bu
 t it has the spirit of asking for permission\, a feeling of tentativeness.
  My intention with Sweetheartland was to walk in and say\, ‘I’m not asking
  your permission. I’m doing what I want to do. I am fully empowered and I’
 m choosing to make this record.’”\n\nIt would be wise for us to hear it to
 o. Maybe we don’t live as remotely as Hope Dunbar — but all of us can draw
  from the wisdom and empathy honesty of Sweetheartland. Its message is bot
 h regional and\, metaphorically at least\, universal. In her words\, “It’s
  important for me as a songwriter to express that small towns are great — 
 provided there’s a road to take you away.”\n\nEmily's Bio:\nEmily Dunbar i
 s an optimist.  Through song she both questions and celebrates her place i
 n the world\, tells slice of life stories\, and extols simple pleasures. S
 ome stories are hers.  Some are borrowed\, but they are all personal and r
 elatable.  However\, Dunbar’s optimism is not syrupy.  Her songs depict de
 ep struggles and hard choices\, but ultimately profess that though we may 
 not always get the life we think want\, we can love\, love\, love the life
  we have.\n\nNew Reformation Press says of Emily’s debut album Catch It Wh
 en You Can (produced by Tom Prasada Rao)\, “A little bit folk\, a little b
 it country\, all Americana\, Dunbar’s songs are wonderful (in the many mea
 nings of that term) evocations—and celebrations—of the everyday graces tha
 t inhere\, for example\, in the rootedness of place and family.”\n\nYou ma
 y know Emily from her solo work\, contributing to the RealWomenRealSongs p
 roject writing and uploading a song per week in 2014 or playing in the ban
 d Star Belle Ukulele Trio.  Emily has opened for nationally touring artist
 s like Darrell Scott\, Mark Erelli\, Sweet Talk Radio\, and Amy Speace in 
 listening rooms and concert venues across Nebraska.\n\n​Having grown up in
  suburban St. Louis\, Dunbar now hails from Hastings\, Nebraska (birthplac
 e of Kool Aid\, thankyouverymuch) where she makes music with her friends\,
  hangs with her family\, ponders the meaning of life\, and frequently vent
 ures out into the wide world.\n'Emily Dunbar is a little bit country\; she
 ’s a little bit folk ‘n’ roll. She sings of married life and motherhood an
 d the whimsical\, poignant fantasies one has while perhaps contemplating d
 oing the dishes piled up in the sink...Dunbar invites you into these refle
 ctions with her charming voice. And you might not realize it at first\, bu
 t she’s singing your life.' -- Ben Squires\, Music Spectrum.\n'A little bi
 t folk\, a little bit country\, all Americana\, Dunbar’s songs are wonderf
 ul (in the many meanings of that term) evocations—and celebrations—of the 
 everyday graces that inhere\, for example\, in the rootedness of place and
  family.' -- Korey Maas\, New Reformation Press\nIn a world of snarkiness 
 and cynicism\, what if music were sweet and sincere?  What if it actually 
 made you smile?  'Catch It When You Can' has that kind of low.  Don't get 
 me wrong\, it's not shallow or sugary\, it's just the sound of an artist w
 ho loves her life and knows her voice.  Emily Dunbar has crafted an except
 ionally strong debut here.  The stories and characters she weaves into her
  songs are romantic but real.  The lives they live are simple\, and defina
 tely not easy\, but there's a thread of hope througout...  For fans of: Di
 xie Chicks\, Nanci Griffith\, Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott.' -- iTunes Re
 view\n\nAgain\, suggested donation at the door for Hope & Emily. is $20.00
 . All funds collected will go to the artist.\n
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DESCRIPTION:****This Event is Canceled. Hope is not able to travel back fro
 m New Jersey! Hopefully we'll be able to get her back soon! See you in Jan
 uary.***\n\n\nIn partnership with BeNt Shadows House Conterts & Cindy McCl
 ellan\, we are hosting a house concert at The Leadership Center featuring 
 the ever talented Hope Dunbar & Emily Dunbar.\n\nA meal will be served fro
 m 6:30-7:30 p.m. and the house concert will take place from 7:30-9:30 p.m.
  Everything will take place in the Lakeside room\, fire side. We will offe
 r spaced out seating\, both soft seating as well as tables & chairs. As wi
 th Cindy's House Concerts\, it is BYOB if you'd like and a suggested donat
 ion of $20.00 p/p. All funds collected at the door\, will go to the artist
 .\n\nStarting at 6/6:30-ish\, we'll be offering homemade dinner prepared b
 y The Leadership Center team of $10. We are having a baked potato bar. We'
 ll have both baked potatoes & sweet potatoes and all kinds of toppings for
  meat & plant eaters...along with gluten free! You will also get a beverag
 es. So if you are so inclined\, please come enjoy a meal along with the be
 autiful musical stylings of Hope Dunbar & Emily Dunbar.\n\nAt the intermis
 sion\, we'll offer a selection of tasty baked goods (including a few glute
 n free ones) and coffee for all to enjoy. \n\nHere are Hope & Emily's Bios
 : \nHope Dunbar:  Not much has changed at Hope Dunbar’s house out on the N
 ebraska plain. If you look out her window\, you see the same thing you saw
  three years ago: the same infinite prairie and tantalizing horizon. Her h
 usband still pastors at a nearby church\; their teenage sons still live at
  home. But all of that is just one dimension in this singular artist’s wor
 ld. Another one lives in her imagination\, where through song she transfor
 ms the mundane into the magical.\n\nWe witnessed this alchemy four years a
 go\, when Dunbar released Three Black Crows. She conceived its music durin
 g the hours when her husband and kids were at work and school\, without an
 y nearby singer/songwriter rounds or club dates or supportive community. W
 hen released in 2017\, Three Black Crows inspired positive comparisons to 
 Springsteen’s Nebraska. One critic cited her references to “dusty roads\, 
 endless fields and massive starry skies\,” to which she adds layers of mea
 ning through her “visceral authenticity and raw honesty.” American Roots h
 ost Craig Havighurst extolled her “incredible language and truth-telling.”
 \n\nDunbar’s emergence led to what she remembers now as “a frenzy of activ
 ity.” Her homebound days gave way to touring\, interviews\, radio appearan
 ces. Yet as this door opened\, another one closed\, much to her alarm. “I 
 didn’t skyrocket to fame\,” she says. “But I did rocket right into hitting
  a wall. Things got so overwhelming because the hustle became more importa
 nt than the artistry. By the summer of 2018 I was thinking\, ‘I’m not in l
 ove with music the way I was prior to my last record.’ I wasn’t expecting 
 that and it was a little jarring.” Something had to change. So once the ho
 opla passed and she was able to come back home\, Dunbar began looking hard
  at where she was and what had to be done. With help from a life coach\, s
 he found the right questions to ask and then looked for answers.\n\n“I wou
 nd up on a new path of taking ownership of my musical journey\,” she says.
  “I’d been saying yes to every voice giving me advice on what I should do.
  So I learned not to listen to those voices. Now I’m not going to do anyth
 ing anybody tells me to do … unless I know I really want to.” With this sh
 e kindled the dormant spark that had inspired her to write in the first pl
 ace.\n\nSo Dunbar began to compose again. New songs poured forth\, which s
 he brought to Nashville for her second album\, Sweetheartland. With Zack S
 mith\, one-half of the celebrated duo Smooth Hound Smith\, and Jesse Thomp
 son sharing production with her\, she led a carefully selected group of Na
 shville musicians on a journey through stories lifted from everyday routin
 e and secret dreams.\n\nBrilliant lyrical snippets abound. “A gift card to
  a gasoline station is not a valentine\,” she admonishes some dim bulb on 
 “What Were You Thinking?”\n“I don’t need a cage\; I’ve forgotten how to ru
 n\,” she mourns on “Dust.” Daring to hope for something beyond farmland\, 
 she sees the highway as “where the wife with a black eye places all of her
  chips” on “The Road Is” and insists “‘more’ ain’t a four-letter word” on 
 the last track\, “More.” Even her homage “John Prine” illuminates both his
  genius and her restless introspection: “I’m flipping through the pages of
  a waiting room magazine while the clock keeps on ticking like a pickaxe s
 teadily chipping away at the vision of who I thought I could be.”\n\nIn it
 s hope and resignation\, its candor\, craft and vast Midwestern Americana 
 resonance\, certainly in its insight and poetry\, Sweetheartland echoes it
 s predecessor. Yet Dunbar sees two crucial differences between the two alb
 ums. “On this record I wanted to bring all the raw material\, the songs I’
 d written on my own\, to Zack and Jesse and then riff on what they could b
 e. Also\, as a small-town preacher’s wife\, I had been kind of tentative w
 ith my identity. It just felt unbecoming for me to express feminine\, sexu
 al power on a record. But I’ve always had a sense of rebellion\, so this t
 ime I just decided to put that out there along with everything else.”\n\nE
 ven more important in something more ephemeral\, hard to pin down but abso
 lutely real. “I’m really proud of Three Black Crows\,” she continues. “But
  it has the spirit of asking for permission\, a feeling of tentativeness. 
 My intention with Sweetheartland was to walk in and say\, ‘I’m not asking 
 your permission. I’m doing what I want to do. I am fully empowered and I’m
  choosing to make this record.’”\n\nIt would be wise for us to hear it too
 . Maybe we don’t live as remotely as Hope Dunbar — but all of us can draw 
 from the wisdom and empathy honesty of Sweetheartland. Its message is both
  regional and\, metaphorically at least\, universal. In her words\, “It’s 
 important for me as a songwriter to express that small towns are great — p
 rovided there’s a road to take you away.”\n\nEmily's Bio:\nEmily Dunbar is
  an optimist.  Through song she both questions and celebrates her place in
  the world\, tells slice of life stories\, and extols simple pleasures. So
 me stories are hers.  Some are borrowed\, but they are all personal and re
 latable.  However\, Dunbar’s optimism is not syrupy.  Her songs depict dee
 p struggles and hard choices\, but ultimately profess that though we may n
 ot always get the life we think want\, we can love\, love\, love the life 
 we have.\n\nNew Reformation Press says of Emily’s debut album Catch It Whe
 n You Can (produced by Tom Prasada Rao)\, “A little bit folk\, a little bi
 t country\, all Americana\, Dunbar’s songs are wonderful (in the many mean
 ings of that term) evocations—and celebrations—of the everyday graces that
  inhere\, for example\, in the rootedness of place and family.”\n\nYou may
  know Emily from her solo work\, contributing to the RealWomenRealSongs pr
 oject writing and uploading a song per week in 2014 or playing in the band
  Star Belle Ukulele Trio.  Emily has opened for nationally touring artists
  like Darrell Scott\, Mark Erelli\, Sweet Talk Radio\, and Amy Speace in l
 istening rooms and concert venues across Nebraska.\n\n​Having grown up in 
 suburban St. Louis\, Dunbar now hails from Hastings\, Nebraska (birthplace
  of Kool Aid\, thankyouverymuch) where she makes music with her friends\, 
 hangs with her family\, ponders the meaning of life\, and frequently ventu
 res out into the wide world.\n'Emily Dunbar is a little bit country\; she’
 s a little bit folk ‘n’ roll. She sings of married life and motherhood and
  the whimsical\, poignant fantasies one has while perhaps contemplating do
 ing the dishes piled up in the sink...Dunbar invites you into these reflec
 tions with her charming voice. And you might not realize it at first\, but
  she’s singing your life.' -- Ben Squires\, Music Spectrum.\n'A little bit
  folk\, a little bit country\, all Americana\, Dunbar’s songs are wonderfu
 l (in the many meanings of that term) evocations—and celebrations—of the e
 veryday graces that inhere\, for example\, in the rootedness of place and 
 family.' -- Korey Maas\, New Reformation Press\nIn a world of snarkiness a
 nd cynicism\, what if music were sweet and sincere?  What if it actually m
 ade you smile?  'Catch It When You Can' has that kind of low.  Don't get m
 e wrong\, it's not shallow or sugary\, it's just the sound of an artist wh
 o loves her life and knows her voice.  Emily Dunbar has crafted an excepti
 onally strong debut here.  The stories and characters she weaves into her 
 songs are romantic but real.  The lives they live are simple\, and definat
 ely not easy\, but there's a thread of hope througout...  For fans of: Dix
 ie Chicks\, Nanci Griffith\, Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott.' -- iTunes Rev
 iew\n\nAgain\, suggested donation at the door for Hope & Emily. is $20.00.
  All funds collected will go to the artist.\n
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221210T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221210T213000
LOCATION:The Leadership Center in the Lakeside Room\, 2211 Q Street\, Auror
 a\, NE 68818
SUMMARY:CANCELED: TLC House Concert featuring Hope Dunbar & Emily Dunbar
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