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The Outreach Cast for Hamlet is working together to share one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays with even more members of the community! Making stops at the Hastings Senior Center, Regina Medical Center, and Villa Parks Senior Living (Roseville, MN), the Outreach Cast will tackle the entire play in under 30 minutes. The tragedy of Hamlet turned comical, quick, and campy. Community theater for the community. Big shows and little shows. Dynamic engaging events bringing community together. Theater creating connections, creativity, and community. Join Black Dirt Theater on its first foray into the rich tragedy of Shakespeare. His father poisoned, Hamlet seeks revenge against his malicious uncle, Claudius, who has seized the throne. “To be or not to be,” a lush choreographed sword fight, and a cast of talented community members punctuate this classic tale of lies, love and murder.Complicating this history is his ambiguous background: Some researchers have credibly argued that Audubon was born to a woman of mixed race, which would mean that the most famous American bird artist was a man of color. Others insist that Audubon’s mother was white. Audubon himself lied about the circumstances of his birth, claiming to have been born in Louisiana. Whatever his circumstances of his birth, his beliefs and actions speak for themselves.

The last print was issued in 1838, by which time Audubon had achieved fame and a modest degree of comfort, traveled the country several more times in search of birds, and settled in New York City. He made one more trip out West in 1843, the basis for his final work of mammals, the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, which was largely completed by his sons and the text of which was written by his long-time friend, the Lutheran pastor John Bachman (another anti-abolitionist whose daughters married Audubon’s sons).In 1803, at the age of 18, he was sent to America, in part to escape conscription into Emperor Napoleon’s army. He lived on the family-owned estate at Mill Grove, near Philadelphia, where he hunted, studied and drew birds, and met his wife, Lucy Bakewell. While there, he conducted the first known bird-banding experiment in North America, tying strings around the legs of Eastern Phoebes; he learned that the birds returned to the very same nesting sites each year. John James Audubon was born in Saint Domingue (now Haiti) in 1785, the illegitimate son of a French sea captain and sugar plantation owner. The identity of his mother is in dispute; she could have been a French chambermaid named Jeanne Rabine, but there is compelling evidence that she was a mixed-race housekeeper named Catherine “Sanitte” Bouffard. At the age of 5—which coincided with the beginnings of the Haitian Revolution—Audubon was sent to Nantes, France and was raised by his father’s wife, Anne. There, John James Audubon took an interest in birds, nature, drawing, and music. The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation.With no other prospects, in the early 1820s Audubon set off to depict America’s avifauna, with nothing but his gun, artist’s materials, and a young assistant. In 1826, he sailed with his partly finished collection to England, where his life-size, highly dramatic bird portraits, along with his embellished descriptions of wilderness life, hit just the right note at the height of the Continent’s Romantic era. Audubon found a printer for The Birds of America, first in Edinburgh, then London, and later collaborated with the Scottish ornithologist William MacGillivray on the ornithological biographies—life histories of each of the species in the work.

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John James Audubon (1785-1851) was not the first person to attempt to paint and describe all the birds of America (Alexander Wilson has that distinction), but for half a century he was the young country’s dominant wildlife artist. His seminal The Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, quickly eclipsed Wilson’s work and is still a standard against which 20th and 21st century bird artists, such as Roger Tory Peterson and David Sibley, are measured.Audubon died decades before the first Audubon societies were founded, so how did National Audubon Society come to bear his name? George Bird Grinnell, one of the founders of the early Audubon Society in the late 1800s, was tutored by Lucy Audubon, John James’s widow, and chose the name because of Audubon’s stature in the world of wildlife art and natural history.

Audubon spent more than a decade as a businessman, traveling down the Ohio River to western Kentucky—then the frontier—and setting up a dry-goods store in Henderson. He continued to draw birds as a hobby, amassing an impressive portfolio. He also bought and sold enslaved people during this time to support his venture. Audubon was successful in business for a while, but hard times hit, and in 1819 he was briefly jailed for bankruptcy.On October 30, 2020, Bird released Hark!, his first full-length Christmas-themed album. Six songs from the album initially appeared on an EP, also titled Hark!, which was released digitally in November 2019.Bird does not have a regular band that he plays with, and personnel changes with each album. Throughout his career, he has performed with a rotating cast of musicians. However, some musicians have appeared on several different albums, and performed with Andrew Bird on multiple tours.

In 2001, the Bowl of Fire released their third album, The Swimming Hour, a dramatic departure from their previous recordings. It featured a mixture of styles, from the zydeco-influenced “Core and Rind” to more straightforward rock songs such as “11:11”. Due to this eclectic nature, Bird has often referred to it as his “jukebox album”. Although gaining critical praise (The Swimming Hour received a 9.0 from indie music website Pitchfork), the band failed to attain commercial success or recognition, playing to audiences as small as 40 people. In 2002, Bird was asked to open for a band in his hometown of Chicago, but fellow Bowl of Fire members were unavailable for the date. The reluctant Bird performed the gig alone, and the surprising success of this solo show suggested potential new directions for his music.

In late 2011 Bird signed to the record label Mom + Pop Music. Andrew Bird’s first release for the label was the soundtrack to the film Norman, which included his original score as well as songs by other artists. Bird sequenced the soundtrack to flow as a stand-alone album rather than a compilation of music from the film. Its music supervisor, Peymon Maskan, told HitQuarters: “The best compliment I’ve heard is that without having seen the film, you can imagine it by listening to the soundtrack. The sequence is a big part of that effect.”

On March 22, 2019, Bird released My Finest Work Yet via Loma Vista Recordings. Produced by Paul Butler and Bird, the album was recorded live to tape at Barefoot Studios in Los Angeles, CA, emulating the production and sound of mid-20th century jazz recordings engineered by Rudy Van Gelder. Featured singles included “Bloodless”, “Sisyphus” and “Manifest”. My Finest Work Yet was nominated for “Best Folk Album” at the 2019 Grammy Awards. Originally “supposed to be a lark, kind of a between records thing”, the Hands of Glory was an old-time band started by Andrew Bird. The group toured and recorded one eponymous album under the name in 2012, and Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of…the album of covers of The Handsome Family in 2014. The album’s liner notes contain a response from Rennie Sparks, the band’s lyricist and singer: “Hearing Andrew’s version of our songs feels like suddenly spotting a new and shining doorway in the midst of a room I have spent my life in. It’s like finding a stairway in the forest leading upward to the sky. His recasting of our work gives me the strange and wonderful pleasure of understanding my own songs better by hearing him perform them.”In November 2008, he appeared in the second series of Nigel Godrich’s From the Basement alongside Radiohead and Fleet Foxes. His performance included a preview of new song “Section 8 City,” a ten-minute re-imagining of “Sectionate City,” which originally appeared on the Soldier on EP.

In 2005, collaborator Martin Dosh joined Bird’s line-up, adding percussion and keyboards to his sound. Jeremy Ylvisaker was later added to the group on bass and backup vocals.In 2010, Bird recorded with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, contributing vocals and violin on a cover of “Shake It and Break It” on “Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program.” In August 2010, Bird contributed a charity T-shirt to the Yellow Bird Project to raise money for the Pegasus Special Riders Fund, which provides therapeutic horse riding activities for adults and children with special needs.

Bird is noted for improvising and reworking his songs during live performance, as can be seen in his series of self-released live compilations entitled Fingerlings, Fingerlings 2, Fingerlings 3, and Fingerlings 4, the first of which was released in 2002. Each Fingerlings EP was released prior to a studio album, and presented a mixture of live performances from different shows, including old tracks, covers, and previously unreleased songs, some of which have since appeared on studio albums. Fingerlings 3, released in October 2006, also featured studio outtakes. Fingerlings 2 provided Bird with an unexpected boost in recognition in 2004 when it was named album of the month by Mojo.

Taking on the role of bandleader, Bird released Thrills on Rykodisc in 1998 with his group Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire, shortly followed by a second album Oh! The Grandeur in 1999. Both albums were heavily influenced by traditional folk, pre-war jazz, and swing, with Bird relying on the violin as his primary musical instrument, as well as providing vocals along with his trademark verbose lyrics. The Bowl of Fire featured musicians from Bird’s hometown of Chicago, including Kevin O’Donnell, Joshua Hirsch, Jon Williams, Nora O’Connor, Andy Hopkins, Jimmy Sutton, Colin Bunn, and Ryan Hembrey. During this period, Andrew Bird was a member of the jazz group Kevin O’Donnell’s Quality Six, for which he was the lead singer and violinist and contributed to arrangements and songwriting for the albums Heretic Blues (Delmark 1999) and Control Freak (Delmark 2000) (both Delmark albums were produced by Raymond Salvatore Harmon).Trained in the Suzuki method from the age of four, Bird graduated from Lake Forest High School in 1991 and Northwestern University with a bachelor’s degree in violin performance in 1996. That same year he self-released his first solo album, Music of Hair. Vastly different from his later work, this album showcased his violin skills and paid tribute to his fascination with both American and European folk traditions, as well as jazz and blues. Following this, his initial commercial exposure came through collaborative work with the band Squirrel Nut Zippers, appearing on three of their albums (Hot, Sold Out, and Perennial Favorites) between 1996 and 1998.

One of Bird’s primary instruments is a violin which he acquired when he was 16. His “first serious violin,” was custom made by a Polish luthier in Chicago, and Bird had to audition to prove he was worthy of playing it. In 2017, following the release of Are You Serious, he commissioned Peter Seman to build a 5-string violin. The custom instrument features a lower C string (giving it the range of a viola), a unique scroll which bends backwards, and has no corners.

Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American indie rock multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. Since 1996, he has released 16 studio albums, as well as several live albums and EPs, spanning various genres including swing music, indie rock, and folk music. He is primarily known for his unique style of violin playing, accompanied by loop and effect pedals, whistling, and voice. In the 1990s, he sang and played violin in several jazz ensembles, including Squirrel Nut Zippers and Kevin O’Donnell’s Quality Six. He went on to start his own swing ensemble, Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire, which released three albums between 1998 and 2001. Weather Systems (2003) was his first solo album after Bowl of Fire disbandment, and it marked a departure from jazz music into indie music. Bird’s 2019 album My Finest Work Yet was nominated for “Best Folk Album” at the 2020 Grammy Awards.On June 10, 2014, Andrew Bird released his album Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of…, an album of covers of The Handsome Family and Bird’s first record that does not contain any of his own compositions.

Five of his songs – “Banking on a Myth” from “The Mysterious Production of Eggs,” a medley of “I” from Weather Systems and “Imitosis” from “Armchair Apocrypha,” and “Skin” and “Weather Systems” from Weather Systems – have been licensed for use by Marriott Residence Inn.In 2020 he was featured in an episode of Meditative Story about the musical turning point in his life that led up to making Weather Systems, scored with original music.

In September 2006, Bird signed to Fat Possum Records, and in March 2007 he released his third post-Bowl of Fire album, Armchair Apocrypha. The album was recorded in collaboration with electronic musician Martin Dosh, and includes a track composed by Dosh (with lyrics by Bird) entitled “Simple X”. This song first appeared without Bird’s lyrics as “Simple Exercises” on Dosh’s 2004 release Pure Trash. The album was produced by Ben Durrant (who had worked on Dosh’s The Lost Take), and also featured Haley Bonar and Chris Morrissey. In advance of the March release date, Armchair Apocrypha was leaked to the Internet in January 2007. The album went on to sell over 100,000 copies.In 2011 “Andrew Bird: Fever Year”, a feature-length concert documentary on Bird’s year-long tour, had its World Premiere at Lincoln Center with the prestigious New York Film Festival. The film’s festival-only run closed in 2013 after screening in over ninety international festivals and winning nine awards. “Fever Year” depicts Bird and his band during the final months of a tour during which he reportedly suffered from constant fever. When asked on her website if the film will be released on DVD, director Xan Aranda stated that the film was commissioned by and belongs to Bird, thus the release is up to him to decide. Andrew Bird: Fever Year also features Martin Dosh, Michael Lewis, Jeremy Ylvisaker, and St. Vincent (Annie Clark). Growing up, Bird was surrounded by classical music. As a child, he was interested in Irish tunes and bluegrass. He also cites English and Scottish folk music as an early influence. His early jazz influences were Johnny Hodges, Lester Young, and Fats Waller. He has also had a number of classical influences such as Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Béla Bartók. Other influences included jazz, swing, calypso, and folk. Bird has stated that, at 22, he found a lot of indie rock and pop music repetitive and boring, but now understands it better. Bird’s fifth solo album, “Noble Beast,” was released on January 20, 2009, and contained fourteen new songs, with bonus tracks available for download from iTunes and eMusic. “The Privateers” is a re-imagining of a very early song entitled “The Confession” from 1999’s “Oh! The Grandeur.” A limited deluxe edition of the album included alternate packaging and artwork, as well as an all-instrumental companion disc entitled “Useless Creatures.” The entirety of “Useless Creatures” was made available via Bird’s website during the run-up to the release. “Noble Beast” has been met with generally favourable reviews, receiving a score of 79 out of 100 from review collation site Metacritic.

For looping, Andrew Bird uses two Line 6 DL4 delay pedals: one for rhythmic pizzicato, and the other, “is dedicated to the ambient bowed strings.” The DL4, on top of being able to loop, can also slow down and speed up loops, lowering or raising the pitch of a recording by an octave in the process. This feature occurs in many of Bird’s songs, as well as live performances. He also uses an octave pedal to give the violin the range of a bass. In January 2007, Bird made an appearance on the Noggin television network’s Jack’s Big Music Show, playing the part of Dr. Stringz and appearing in order to mend Mary’s broken dulcimer. Bird sang a brief song called “Dr. Stringz”, written specially for the show. He now often plays it live as an introduction to the song “Fake Palindromes”. Andrew Bird appears to have a close relationship with The Handsome Family, an Americana band from Illinois. Covers of their songs have appeared in several of his albums, including “When The Helicopter Comes,” on Hands of Glory, “Tin Foiled,” on Fingerlings 3, and “Don’t Be Scared,” from Weather Systems. His album, Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of… is a ten-song cover album, with a strong country feeling.

In 2009, he contributed a cover of the song “The Giant of Illinois” to the HIV and AIDS benefit album Dark Was the Night produced by the Red Hot Organization. On May 11, 2009, Bird released the EP “Fitz and the Dizzy Spells.” It contains “Fitz and the Dizzyspells” from “Noble Beast,” as well as other songs from that album’s recording sessions. Some of the songs on the EP were previously available for download from iTunes and eMusic as bonus tracks to “Noble Beast.”

On June 3, 2022, Bird released Inside Problems via Loma Vista Recordings. The album was produced by Mike Viola and recorded live by Bird with his four-piece band. Additional vocal overdubs were provided by Madison Cunningham. The same month, Bird kicked off the co-headlining Outside Problems tour with Iron & Wine, performed at outdoor venues across the United States.

As publicity for Armchair Apocrypha, Bird made his network television debut on April 10, 2007, performing “Plasticities” (from the new album) on the Late Show with David Letterman. He also appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien on June 14, 2007, performing “Imitosis” from the same album. In April 2007, he did a Take-Away Show acoustic video session shot by Vincent Moon. These appearances were accompanied by an extensive tour, which ended with sell-out performances at the Beacon Theatre, New York and the Orpheum Theater, Los Angeles.Stillwater sent 10 men to bat and plated six runs in the bottom of the first inning as the Ponies came charging out of the box to gave starting pitcher Will Frisch a comfortable lead. The junior righthander earned the win on the mound, throwing five innings and striking out seven. He allowed four runs (all earned), six hits and five walks as Roseville began chipping away at the lead, beginning in the third inning. Junior right-hander Will Frisch earned the win on the mound, throwing five innings and striking out seven. He allowed four runs (all earned), six hits and five walks.“We’ve been second the past few years and it’s been tough,” Stillwater coach Mike Parker said. “I think the difference this year is that we’ve got the pitching to get throug
h a tournament like this. Every guy stepped up and did their job.”“Find a way to chip away, that’s what we do,” said Roseville coach Mike Ponsolle, who saw his group improve its record of 2-20 two years ago to 16-9 this year.Favored as the top seed with an eight-run cushion could have been poison for a team but it was important for for the Ponies to keep their wits about it, Parker said. Keep recording the outs.Stillwater’s Cody Venske bunted a runner to second in the sixth inning. Venske went 2-for-3 with a double and two stolen bases and pitched the final two innings. Photo by Mark Hvidsten, SportsEngine

Stillwater’s Tuanson DuFresne-To, right, popped to his feet after beating the tag at home plate and scoring one of the Ponies’ six first-inning runs. Photo by Mark Hvidsten, SportsEngine

“In the early innings of a game like this, you never know how many it’s going to take. Are four enough ….are six runs enough?” he said. “Every run matters because you never know which one is going to determine the game.”

“I was super tense in the first inning, but once we got that lead, it was fantastic,” Frisch said. “Yea, Roseville battled back really hard, but it’s always good to get an early lead in a game like this.” This had been the third straight year Stillwater (21-3) reached the section final, with the Ponies losing to Woodbury the previous two years. Now, the Ponies are headed back to the state tournament for the eighth time in school history and for the first time since 2011. For Stillwater, seizing the section title after a string of section final losses has made the breakthrough all the more to savor. This had been the third straight year Stillwater (21-3) reached the section final, with the Ponies losing to Woodbury the previous two years.Roseville’s Nick Kulseth is consoled by a teammate after making the game’s final out. Stillwater players celebrate their Class 4A, Section 4 championship in the background. Photo by Mark Hvidsten, SportsEngineStillwater sent 10 men to bat and plated six runs in the bottom of the first inning to take command early. The early deficit proved to be an insurmountable wedge that Roseville chipped away at but could not overcome once the Ponies added two more runs in the second. Roseville’s pitchers righted the ship by the third inning, but by then too much damage was done. Top-seeded Stillwater finished its impressive run though the Class 4A, Section 4 tournament at CHS Field in St. Paul on Tuesday evening with an 8-6 win over Roseville that gave the school its eighth section title, and its first since 2011. A monstrous six-run first inning for Stillwater proved crucial as the Ponies worked their way to an 8-6 victory over Roseville Tuesday in the Class 4A, Section 4 final at CHS Field in St. Paul.

Senior captain Cody Venske went 2-for-3 with a double, walk, a run scored and a pair of stolen bases. He also threw the final two innings for Stillwater, where he allowed two runs on three hits, one walk and struck out two. Roseville (16-9) got solid relief pitching from Luke Schmaedeke, who threw two scoreless innings with three hits allowed and no walks. Andy Troung knocked a double and finished with three RBI, and Avery Nelson went 2-for-4 with a run scored and a RBI. Bird was immersed in music from early childhood. He began taking Suzuki-method violin lessons at age four and later earned a degree (1996) in violin performance from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He chafed at the rigid expectations of the classical music world, however, and after graduation supported himself by playing his instrument everywhere from weddings to Renaissance fairs. Having developed an interest in vintage jazz, he soon fell in with the popular swing-revival band the Squirrel Nut Zippers, appearing on three of their albums in the late 1990s. In the meantime, he landed a recording contract of his own.Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire, as his new Chicago-based band became known, won critical notice for its impressive command and fusion of early 20th-century musical idioms, drawing on traditions as varied as swing-era jazz, calypso, German cabaret, and Central European folk songs over the course of three full-length albums, Thrills (1998), Oh! The Grandeur (1999), and The Swimming Hour (2001). The band failed to catch on among audiences, though, and Bird consequently decided to strike out on his own.

After testing the waters with a series of solo gigs, Bird recorded Weather Systems (2003) at his family’s rural Illinois farm. The album marked a turning point in his songwriting; the idiosyncratic pre-rock-and-roll touches were now filtered through a sound that owed more to contemporary folk and pop-rock music than his previous pastiche-driven work had. (He also, notably, revealed a knack for whistling.) Bird expanded his fan base by frequently opening for more famous musicians (he called the 30-minute performances “guerrilla attacks”), and widespread praise for his next record, The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005), brought him further attention. The success continued with the sprawling Armchair Apocrypha (2007), which sold more than 100,000 copies—a considerable number for an independent release. In 2009 Bird released Noble Beast, and its debut at number 12 on the Billboard album chart marked a career high. He returned with Break It Yourself (2012), which found him partially abandoning the oblique wordplay that distinguished his previous work in favour of greater emotional directness.

Bird later released the studio albums Are You Serious (2016) and My Finest Work Yet (2019). He also made a series of instrumental records, Echolocations: Canyons (2015) and Echolocations: River (2017), which feature site-specific compositions and accompanying short films.Andrew Bird, (born July 11, 1973, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American pop songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known for his virtuosic skill on the violin, which he often sampled and looped onstage, and for his meticulously crafted songs that combine wistful melodies with hyperliterate lyrics.

While a teenager, he performed in rhythm and blues bands and with touring jazz musicians, including Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. Hill recalls some of his experience as a youngster, during a 1964 interview with Leonard Feather: “I started out in music as a boy soprano, singing and playing the accordion, and tap dancing. I had a little act and made quite a few of the talent shows around town from 1943 until 1947. I won turkeys at two Thanksgiving parties at the Regal Theatre,” parties sponsored by the newspaper Chicago Defender, which Hill coincidentally used to sell on the streets.

In 1950, Hill learned his first blues changes on the piano from the saxophonist Pat Patrick and in 1953, he played his first professional job as a musician, with Paul Williams’ band. “At that time”, he recalls, “I was playing baritone sax as well as piano.” During the next few years, the piano gigs brought him into contact with many musicians, some of whom became relevant influences: Joe Segal and Barry Harris, among others. In 1961, after travelling as an accompanist for Dinah Washington, the young pianist settled in New York City in 1961, where he worked for Johnny Hartman and Al Hibbler, then briefly moved to Los Angeles County, where he worked with Roland Kirk’s quartet and at the jazz club Lighthouse Café, in Hermosa Beach.Hill’s album Dusk was selected best album of 2001 by both DownBeat and JazzTimes; and in 2003, Hill received the Jazzpar Prize. Hill’s earlier work also received renewed attention as a result of the belated release of several unissued sessions recorded in the 1960s for Blue Note, notably the ambitious large-group date Passing Ships. In 2004, he appeared on SOLOS: The Jazz Sessions. As a consequence of his renewed prominence, a new Blue Note album titled Time Lines was released on February 21, 2006. Hill first recorded as a sideman in 1954, but his reputation was made by his Blue Note recordings as leader from 1963 to 1970, which featured several other important post-bop musicians including Joe Chambers, Richard Davis, Eric Dolphy, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, Woody Shaw, Tony Williams, and John Gilmore. Hill also played on albums by Henderson, Hutcherson, and Hank Mobley. His compositions accounted for three of the five pieces on Bobby Hutcherson’s Dialogue album. Laverne died following a long illness in California, where the couple had settled, in 1989. He married dancer/educator Joanne Robinson Hill in Portland in 1992. They moved to New York City in 1995. From 2000, Hill and his wife lived in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Andrew Hill was born in Chicago, Illinois, to William and Hattie Hill. He had a brother, Robert, who was a singer and classical violin player. Hill took up the piano at the age of thirteen, and was encouraged by Earl Hines. As a child, he attended the University of Chicago Experimental School. He was referred by jazz composer Bill Russo to Paul Hindemith, with whom he studied informally until 1952.Jazz critic John Fordham described Hill as a “uniquely gifted composer, pianist and educator” although “his status remained largely inside knowledge in the jazz world for most of his career.”Hill’s main influences were pianists Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell and Art Tatum. “Monk’s like Ravel and Debussy to me, in that he put a lot of personality into his playing […] it’s the personality of music which makes it, finally,” he said in a 1963 interview with A. B. Spellman. Powell was an even greater influence, but Hill thought that his music was a dead end: “If you stay with Bud too much, you’ll always sound like him, even if you’re doing something he never did.” Hill referred to Tatum as the epitome of “all modern piano playing”.

During her last 2 ½ years Shirley lived at EagleCrest Assisted Living. She participated in many activities including Bingo her favorite. A true MN Vikings and Twins fan. Enjoyed jigsaw puzzles and loved those scratch-offs. When asked what she wanted to drink with her supper she would always say “Bring me a beer” jokingly. That’s mom.Shirley graduated from Greenway Coleraine HS and moved to Minneapolis. She was married to Everett for 47 years before he passed away. She lived in Columbia Heights for years while also enjoying the cabin on Big Boy Lake and was employed with NW Bell/US West/Quest for 24 years.

Everett and Shirley moved to Golden Pond where she lived for 24 years.  She enjoyed the nightly card games, the Red Hat Society, and of course joking around.

Age 96 of Roseville MN, passed away on Monday, September 5, 2022. She is survived by her children, Leslie Sunder, and Bill (Denise) Hill; grandchildren, Kelly (Nick) Anderson, and Andrew (Ashley) Hill; great grandchildren, Ashley Anderson, Emily Anderson, and Axton Hill; sister, Rita (Ron) Bubany; sister in law, Barb Blanchard; and many nieces, nephews, family and friends. Shirley is preceded in death by her husband, Everett; siblings, Joseph (Del) Blanchard, Bernice (Bob) Berlin, and Frank Blanchard.Age 96 of Roseville MN, passed away on Monday, September 5, 2022.  She is survived by her children, Leslie Sunder, and Bill (Denise) Hill; grandchildren, Kelly (Nick) Anderson, and Andrew (Ashley) Hill; great grandchildren, Ashley Anderson, Emily Anderson, and Axton Hill; sister, Rita (Ron) Bubany; sister in law, Barb Blanchard; and many nieces, nephews, family and friends. Shirley is preceded in death by her husband, Everett; siblings, Joseph (Del) Blanchard, Bernice (Bob) Berlin, and Frank Blanchard.

Funeral Service will be held on Monday, September 12, 2022 at 11:00 AM with visitation starting at 10:00 AM at Miller Funeral Home, 6210 HWY 65 NE Fridley, MN 55432. Interment at Gethsemane Cemetery in New Hope at 1:30 PM.Funeral Service will be held on Monday, September 12, 2022 at 11:00 AM with visitation starting at 10:00 AM at Miller Funeral Home, 6210 HWY 65 NE Fridley, MN 55432. Interment at Gethsemane Cemetery in New Hope at 1:30 PM.

Shirley graduated from Greenway Coleraine HS and moved to Minneapolis. She was married to Everett for 47 years before he passed away. She lived in Columbia Heights for years while also enjoying the cabin on Big Boy Lake and was employed with NW Bell/US West/Quest for 24 years.John Lennon’s lead guitar work on Yoko Ono’s “Walking On Thin Ice” proved to be his final creative act. It was upon their return home after completing laying down the track that Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman.

The chorus in “September” by Earth, Wind & Fire is “Bada-Ya, dancing in September.” Maurice White left it “Bada-Ya” instead of a real word because he never let a lyric get in the way of a groove.

Dan Tyminski, the singer on Avicii’s “Hey Brother” is the same guy who sang lead vocal on “A Man Of Constant Sorrow” in the movie O’ Brother, Where Art Thou.

That was our list of the 25 most influential bird photographers in the world. Hopefully, you will also enjoy their work and may get inspired to pick up the camera yourself!Chris Kaula is a young photographer from Germany. His work has started to make an impact on the wildlife photography scene. So much so that he was crowned European Nature Photographer of the Year 2020.

His photos are alive with the tropical colors of the rainforest. If you look through his work, you can feel the energy and almost hear the birdsong. He uses a tight composition so you can study the details of every bird. The portfolio is beautiful and fascinating.His work gives a detailed view of birds from the rainforest. He allows you to see the intricate plumage of birds you might not otherwise see. His photography is an ornithologist’s dream. Tim is a renowned animal photographer based in London. His influence is well established. He’s a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. And he has an honorary doctorate from the University of Arts, London. He is native to British Colombia. And North America’s rich biodiversity features heavily in his photography. His relationship to his native land is apparent in his photography. There’s knowledge and respect in every shot. If his work continues like this, the awards will keep coming.Jess is a young photographer from Canada. But despite his age, he is already making waves in the wildlife photography world. He has already won several awards, including the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

Alexis has a distinctive style. His shots are dark and atmospheric. He creates a haunting atmosphere, and the animals appear as if they are from a dream.His work does feature other animals, but birds are his speciality. Much of his photography is about the beauty of birds. But some of his work aims to raise awareness for environmental issues, which can make for upsetting images.

That’s where bird photographers come in. They allow us to see and study birds in detail. We get a chance to examine their plumage and character while sitting at home.

His osprey shots are worth seeking out. And there are some great seabird photos as well. Ray also demonstrates his skills with a macro lens. Finally, some great insect shots add additional interest to his portfolio.As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product. Emin isn’t just a photographer. He’s also a writer, naturalist, and birdwatching guide. And he’s not just a master of the camera—he knows and cares about his subject. Rathika is one of India’s leading animal photographers. Her work features animals from across the Indian subcontinent. But she’s a bird photography specialist.Thomas was born and raised in the wilds of Nebraska, USA. He has a love and respect for the natural world. It runs through his work as a conservationist and wildlife photographer.

The best bird photographers give a glimpse of something we can’t see with the naked eye. Their work allows us to see birds with a level of detail we could only otherwise imagine. It’s our chance to see birds in all their glory.Supreet is an Indian-born artist now residing in Austin, Texas. He’s an avid bird watcher and an expert photographer. He specialises in the tropical birds of central and South America.Her work is moody and atmospheric. But, it’s not just about the animal—the environment is just as important to her. The photos display the birds wonderfully, but you also get a sense of climate.

Chris Montano is an American photographer. He captures the wildlife of America’s North-West states. Chris’ relationship to the nature of that region is displayed in his work. You can sense an intimate understanding of the local fauna.

Chris Bryan-Smith is a travel and documentary photographer based in Europe. Originally from the beautiful green hills of North Wales, he is currently located in Barcelona, Spain. He studied photography in college and has been documenting his explorations ever since. You can see a selection of his work on Instagram; @kbs.photographs.He is a wildlife photographer in the wider sense. He captures animals of all kinds. But his bird photography is spectacular. He has a particular penchant for peacocks, the national bird of Varun’s native India.

Wami has no ulterior motive other than capturing birds in their natural environment. Working throughout the seasons, Wami documents all the species that live in Finland. That includes permanent residents and migratory birds.Georgina is a photographer and conservationist from Australia. Her photography is a celebration of birds. The images are alive with color and movement. She expresses vitality and a sense of playfulness.Varun Aditya has a stunning portfolio featuring animals from all over Asia and Africa. His work is highly prized, and he has over one million followers on Instagram.

If you love birds of prey, you’ll enjoy the photography of Ray Gilbert. His collection is studded with superb actions shots of raptors on the wing. He knows these birds well, and this knowledge allows him to get some fabulous photos.

John Crawley is a specialist bird photographer. Much of his work has a tight composition. The photos feature birds perched or in their nest. And he uses bokeh to emphasise the subjects in the center of the picture.

Aparupa is a wildlife photographer from Kolkata. She specialises in capturing the rich birdlife of her native India. Other animals do appear in her work, but birds are her primary focus.