Posts Tagged ‘Indiana’

Perkfection Cafe & Bar

Friday, February 27th, 2009
Ahel El Nagam (photo by Karen Bassett)

Ahel El Nagam (photo by Karen Bassett)

This is a prewritten post as I will be performing at the Perkfection Cafe & Bar with Ahel El Nagam, Louisville’s Classical Arabic Band, and the Gypsies of the Nile bellydancer troupe. If any readers are so inclined then please come to the show for live Classical Egyptian and Arabic music as only Ahel El Nagam can present and live bellydancing by the Gypsies of the Nile.

Show info follows:

Ahel El Nagam and Gypsies of the Nile
Perkfection Cafe & Bar
359 Spring Street
Jeffersonville, IN 47130

show begins at 7:00pm and ends at 9:00pm
The event is free and is all-ages appropriate

Ahel El Nagam is:
Denise – oud
Taletha – flute
Jimmy – electric sitar, mandolin
Melina – tabla

and special guest:
Jon Silpayamanant – cello, Arabic percussion

Gypsies of the Nile with Ahel El Nagam @ the Harvest Homecoming in New Albany, IN (2008)

Gypsies of the Nile with Ahel El Nagam @ the Harvest Homecoming in New Albany, IN (2008)

New Albany’s Opera House

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
New Albany Opera House

New Albany Opera House

Yeah, you read the title correctly. While doing some local historical research I came across Ted Fulmore’s Our History in New Albany blog again (I hadn’t thought of it in some time) and immediately remembered his posts about New Albany’s Opera House (see here and here).

In the first link listed above, Ted posts some info about the interior of the Opera House from the New Albany Ledger (November 23, 1866):

The hall is on the second floor and is reached by a broad flight of steps of easy ascent. At the foot of the stairs on the north side is the ticket office, a neat and nicely organized room. Immediately at the head of the stairs is the entrance to the dress circle and parquette: while a flight of broad stairs on the right and left lead respectively to the family circle and gallery.

The dress circle and parquette are most elegantly and elaborately finished. They are supplied with spring cushion seats, covered in red damask, with green damask and stuffed backs. The seats in the dress circle are of the same kind of material. The parquette or orchestra boxes are separated from the dress circle by a beautiful iron railing in semi-circle form. The brackets that ornament the gas burners form a really magnificent ornament to the front and sides of the circle. A larger number of brackets add to the elegance of other parts of the house. The house was lighted by 150 gas burners.

I would love to find some of the old programs from productions at the New Albany Opera House–but what I would love more is to archive all the productions that took place at there.