The City Council responded by granting $1,000 for the birth of the Orange City Arts Council. Community members would be cast in the remaining roles and be used for the orchestra. The opera company would perform two operas and hire baritone James Javore from New York to sing the lead, and to perform in local schools. Although they were not formally organized, they had been invited to join with arts councils of Sioux Center, Le Mars, Cherokee, and Storm Lake in forming the Public Opera Company of Northwest Iowa. In 1976, Kay Doornink and Dorothy Dunlop sent a letter to the City Council of Orange City explaining that they were in the process of forming an Orange City Arts Council. Citizens of all ages have had their lives enriched through the Orange City Arts Council. About Us The Orange City Arts Council is proud of its history and wishes to thank those who had the foresight to begin an arts council in our community, those who have served on the Arts Council board in past years, and the City of Orange City for its continued support.
Plus it gets fans involved from the beginning of the process. But Kickstarter provides a great way to produce a quality album without a label. Albums are expensive to make and, traditionally, record labels have fronted that cost. KG: Most of the independent artists we know and work with have been funding their albums this way. How was that process? Is Kickstarter re-engineering the album paradigm? I call it my "kazumpet." The title track on our most recent album is called The Kazoo Song, and Joseph's been know to do some backing kazharmonies.ĬW: You just released Kuhzoo, your first full-length album, on Kickstarter. KG: Yep, and mine's shaped like a trumpet. Will that fly in Salt Lake City or should we play our death metal set? Are your live shows like a big group hug or something? Or, sometimes we like to call it Cute Rock.ĬW: That sounds cuddly. It's almost impossible not to be charmed by singer Kay Gillette's warm, intimate vocals.' -Pete Kearns Bella Ruse's combination of airy folk and crunchy pop transforms rooms into secret gardens and paints pictures of invading bombardiers. They plan a ruse to get Bella quickly in and out of the house without her father knowing whats happening. Bella Ruse Official Page, Facebook 'This duo makes nothing short of stunningly beautiful minimal rock. but Bella insists on going home first, against Edwards better judgement. Edwards plan is to catch a ferry to Vancouver, B.C. KG: Feist plus a little jazz Ella Fitzgerald plus a little folk Yael Naim minus the accent. Get the Tempo of the songs by Bella Ruse, including Black & Flowers(113BPM), The Kazoo Song(164BPM), An Animal A Natural(169BPM), Sea Love(77BPM). Bellas only salvation is, if they can get to James first, rip him apart, and burn the pieces.
Chinese restaurants generally have the best grease, which can be a problem because in addition to them thinking we're crazy there's also usually a language barrier.ĬW: Do you have a personal favorite when it comes to fast food, with all that craving, I'm sure you've got to satisfy it? Restaurants throw their grease away in a separate dumpster behind the building, so we go check it out and, if it's good, we go in and ask if we can take it. And since our van smells like french fries we crave fast food all the time.ĬW: How does that work? Do you just roll into some Chinese restaurant and order some egg rolls and 15 gallons of grease? KG: Sometimes it takes a while to find a restaurant willing to give us their used grease. Or because Joseph likes to wear sweater vests.ĬW: Do you ever get into issues driving a veggie oil powered van around the country? Maybe it's because we shower fairly frequently. We packaged our latest album in post-consumer cardboard and nixed the shrink wrap.ĬW: I bet you get called hippies or neo-hippies or something like that a lot. KG: Our tour van is powered by vegetable oil, which means our travel is carbon neutral. We think being nice to the Earth is a common sense choice not a political one.ĬW: What does it mean to be an "environmentally-friendly band"? We're both control freaks so we do all of our recording and design ourselves. We like kazoos and typewriters and glockenspiels. If you are looking to jewelry dropshipping on your store then Bella Boutique really serves. We met in college: I was studying opera and Joseph was majoring in Philosophy. Kay Gillette: We're an indie-folk-pop duo from Minneapolis. Former opera singer and frontwoman Kay Gillette talks with City Weekly about acquiring veggie oil for their van, sweater vests, their latest release Kuhzo and the powers of the kazoo.-Ĭity Weekly: What are you guys all about? The environmentally-friendly folk-rock duo Bella Ruse will be playing at Piper Down this Monday.