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Those looking for some great live theater will soon have just that thanks to Community Concerts of Liberal.
Erinn Dearth and Dan Beckmann will be bringing “It Takes Two – A Legendary Duo Revue” to Liberal Sunday, Oct. 25, with the show taking place at 3 p.m. in Maskus Auditorium at Liberal High School. The show will celebrate many famous historical duos, and the pair said bringing the show together was rather a long journey.
“We've both been performing our whole lives, and Erinn started in the official capacity before I did. I was a class clown, if that counts, and that started when I was around 2 years old or so,” Beckmann said with a chuckle. “We both were in theater growing up our whole lives. And speaking for myself, I ended up going to college to study acting, and then worked in Minneapolis and New York City and cruise ships and all over the country and things like that.”
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A local band could soon be making its way to bigger stages thanks to some recent work.
Tuesday, it was announced Joey Dean & The Dry River Band had been named as finalists for this year’s Heartland Music Awards. The band’s members are finalists in three separate categories: Band of the Year (Joey Dean & The Dry River Band), Lead Guitarist of the Year (Shane Berggren) and Drummer of the Year (Stevie Stixx).
Read more: Joey Dean and The Dry River Band nominated for Heartland Awards
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The inaugural Heartland Awards have two Southwest Kansas bands nominated in multiple categories, with one of them being Dodge City-based Thunderbird Hotel.
The group was formed in 2021 after brothers Hugo Hernandez and Alonso Carranza discussed creating a blend of their biggest musical influences. Local singer Orlando Galvan was later invited to do the band’s lead vocals, and Dwight Imel eventually took on the percussion role. As Hernandez tells it, it took a lot of work for everyone to come together.
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This coming fall and winter movie season is looking to be one of the biggest in history, and area movie theaters are preparing for the influx of moviegoers.
Mitchell Theaters owner Brian Mitchell said this past summer season was very strong for the industry.
“The summer season started out pretty pretty decent when with ‘Toy Story 5,’ and then the end of the summer was just an absolute blockbuster smash with a combination of ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ both of which were HUGE for us,” Mitchell said. “Things started off you know started off actually in the early spring with ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,’ and ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ also did really well. There was also ‘Minions & Monsters’ and the ‘Moana’ live-action remake, both of which also did pretty strong. We really had a good summer stacked with family movies, which is always good for our markets.”
Read more: Fall and winter 2026 looks to be big for moviegoers
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Miley Cyrus became a household name in the mid-2000s as the star of Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana” and throughout her career, she has also successfully released a fair share of her own music away from the Mouse House.
The most recent of those efforts came in the form of her newest album, “Bass Persuades,” which was released Sept. 18 as her first with Atlantic Records. While Cyrus isn’t an artist I typically jump on YouTube to search for, I heard about this album’s release and decided to go ahead and give it a listen to see what the buzz was about.
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