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The West Florida Genealogical Society, a 501(c)(3) organization located in historic Pensacola, Florida, is the largest genealogical society in Northwest Florida. WFGS was founded in 1982 to promote knowledge of and stimulate interest in the study of genealogy. All meetings are open to the general public and include a presentation on genealogical research or relevant history. The February General Mtg will start 1030 am and will be followed by library personal providing details of the new layout of the Genealogical section.

Come out and help us clean the trees of leftover Mardi Gras beads from the downtown Pensacola parade!

♻After the cleanup, all beads are brought to a recycling center that specializes in cleaning and repackaging beads for future use.
Swag giveaways for volunteers who weigh in with the heaviest bag of beads!

We will meet at the fountain at Plaza Ferdinand VII, East Government St. and Palafox St.

Gloves, mesh collection bags, and grabbers will be provided. If you have extra long grabbers, a telescoping boat hook or similar tool (no pruning tools), please bring one to help reach extra high areas!

*If you are a minor (younger than 18) you will need to be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Please RSVP to mtross@ppbep.org

The University of West Florida Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will Craig Hultgren, cello on Sunday, January 29 at 2:30 p.m. The performance will be held in the Rolfs Music Hall at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Building 82, on the Pensacola campus.
 
Cellist Craig Hultgren has been active in new music for decades. He now resides outside of Decorah, Iowa as the farmer-cellist. The New York Classical Review commented that he, "…played with impressive poise and sensitivity…" for Dorothy Hindman's 2016 chamber music retrospective at Carnegie Hall.

A recipient of two Artist Fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, he was a member for many years of Thámyris, a contemporary chamber music ensemble in Atlanta. He is a founding member of Luna Nova, a new music ensemble with a large repertoire of performances available on iTunes. Hultgren is featured in four solo CD recordings including UK composer Craig Vear’s hyper-media concerto Black Cats and Blues on Métier Recordings.

Recently, Hultgren entered the realm of digital online releases with four works Songs for Cello and Piano by Ben Hippen available on Spotify. For ten years, he produced the Hultgren Solo Cello Works Biennial, an international competition that highlighted the best new compositions for the instrument. He is a founding member and former President of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance and was on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Youth Orchestras of Birmingham and their Scrollworks program.

Currently, he is President of the Oneota Valley Community Orchestra Board of Directors in Decorah and recently served three years as Chair for the Iowa Composers Forum.

This event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. For tickets or more information, visit uwf.edu/cfpa or call the CFPA box office at 850.857.6285.

The University of West Florida Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will present our Music Hall Artist Series with School of Music alumna Lee Harrelson, euphonium on Monday, February 6 at 7:30 p.m. The performance will be held in the Rolfs Music Hall at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Building 82, on the Pensacola campus.
 
Lee Harrelson is a Professor of Music at Missouri Western State University. At Missouri Western, he serves as the Director of Instrumental Studies and Bands. Dr. Harrelson attended the University of Southern Mississippi, where he studied music education and music performance before completing his masters and doctorate at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Conservatory of Music and Dance.

Dr. Harrelson is the founder of the Fountain City Brass Band and currently serves as its artistic director, executive director and principal euphoniumist. The Fountain City Brass Band (FCBB) is one of America’s premiere brass and percussion ensembles and has been featured throughout the U.S. and Europe in concerts and competitions. The FCBB is currently the top ranked brass band in the United States. Under Dr. Harrelson’s artistic leadership, the band has won eight North American Brass Band Association Championships, nine U.S. Open Brass Band Championships and one Scottish Open Brass Band Championship, since it began competing in 2004. At the 2011 All England International Brass Band Competition, as a member of the FCBB, Lee was named Best Instrumentalist; a first for an American at an English brass band competition. During his tenure, the FCBB has produced four commercial recordings, performed with countless world-class soloists and developed a youth brass program, the Fountain City Youth Brass Academy, that serves over 120 students per year.

Dedicated to furthering the brass band movement in America, Dr. Harrelson regular serves on the faculty of the North American Brass Band Summer School and in 2019, along with his wife Helen, founded the National Youth Brass Band of America.

In the fall of 2019 Dr. Harrelson was awarded the first ever Visiting International Professor position with the world famous Brighouse & Rastrick Band (England). In addition to collaborating with and conducting the band, Dr. Harrelson was able to work closely with Professor David King, during preparations for the band’s appearances at the British Open Brass Band Championships (Symphony Hall, Birmingham) and the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain (Royal Albert Hall, London).

Dr. Harrelson can be heard on numerous commercially released recordings and has appeared throughout North America and Europe as a clinician, soloist and chamber musician.

Lee Harrelson is a Buffet Group/Besson Performing Artist.

The program will include such works as Café 1930 by Astor Piazzolla, Harlequin by Philip Sparke, Ducati SPS 916 by Roland Szentpali, and more.

Ticket prices are $20 for adults, $16 for seniors and military, $14 for UWF faculty and staff and non-UWF students and $7 for high school students. UWF students get in free with a valid Nautilus card. For more information or to reserve tickets, please contact the CFPA Box Office at 850.857.6285 or online at uwf.edu/tickets.

Join the Krewe du YaYas at our 10th Annual I Pink I Can Run 4 miler run/walk for breast cancer ! In keeping with the times... we are planning a hybrid event: Participate live and in person at The Flora-Bama, or for our friends near and far...virtually on February 25th, 2023!!

How will this work?? Participate live and in person at The Flora-Bama or virtually in your own neighborhood, at a local park, or even a treadmill. For those that choose the virtual option.. Sign up now, and then gather some friends, decide on a route, and, of course, plan how you'll celebrate after you rock your 4 miler!! **** Virtual participants: MUST complete their event between February 18th and February 25th, 2023. Virtual Race participants are not eligible for prizes.

Family Promise of Escambia County and Pensacola State College Culinary Arts Program presents Serving The Promise. Enjoy a five-course dinner and wine pairing to support local families. Presented by Team Bruce Baker, M.B.A, Remax Infinity, Thursday, March 9 at 5:30 p.m.

Pensacola State College Room 534 - Molly McGuire Dining Room

Tickets available at https://www.familypromiseofescambia.org/events

The University of West Florida’s Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will present the UWF Singers in their “Collaborations Concert.” The performance will be held on Thursday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rolfs Music Hall at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Building 82, on the UWF Pensacola campus.


The UWF Singers, Concert Choir, and Tate High School Vocal Ensemble present their annual “Collaborations Concert.” This tradition began eight years ago as a way to showcase material being prepared by multiple choirs. The Tate High School Vocal Ensemble will present works from their upcoming competition season, including works by Handel, Mozart and The Beatles. UWF choirs will perform Les Chansons des Roses, a greatest-hit song-cycle from American composer Morten Lauridsen. Set to French poems of the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, the five-song cycle for a cappella mixed chorus is a unified study in elegance, as are its poems and the roses they describe.

A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007), Lauridsen was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale (1994–2001) and has been a professor of composition at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music for more than 40 years. In 2006, Lauridsen was named an 'American Choral Master' by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2007, he received the National Medal of Arts from the President in a White House ceremony, "for his composition of radiant choral works combining musical beauty, power and spiritual depth that have thrilled audiences worldwide."

Additional works in the performance will span from medieval works to contemporary pieces.


This event is free and open to the public but tickets are required. For tickets or more information, visit uwf.edu/cfpa or call the CFPA box office at 850.857.6285.

The University of West Florida Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will present the UWF Williams School of Music Opera Workshop in concert on Wednesday, March 1 at noon. The concert will be held at Old Christ Church in historic downtown Pensacola.


The UWF Chamber Music Series at Old Christ Church continues celebrating its 16th season. The concert will feature performances by members of the Williams School of Music Opera Workshop program. Vocalists will perform selections of the some of the most beloved scenes in opera and Broadway history by legendary composers including Claudio Monteverdi, W.A. Mozart, Richard Rogers and Leonard Bernstein.

This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required for this event. For more information, call the Dr. Grier Williams School of Music office at 850.474.2147.

Celebrate one of Northwest Florida's greatest traditions at Eglin's 36th Gate To Gate Memorial Run/Walk, taking place at 7 a.m. on Saturday, May 27. This 4.4-mile competitive race will start and finish near Unity Park on Eglin Air Force Base, and is open to members of the general public of all ages.

Following the race, all participants and spectators are welcome to enjoy the after-party at Unity Park, featuring FREE refreshments, entertainment, and an awards presentation for top finishers in a variety of age categories.

REGISTRATION Dates & Fees are as follows:
Early Registration: February 1-28 | $35
Regular Registration: March 1 - April 15 | $45
Late Registration: April 16 - May 22 | $55

In-person registration will NOT be available on race day. Cash or check will NOT be accepted for registration at any time. Online registration is highly recommended.

RACE PACKETS — which include a racer's bib number, FREE event t-shirt*, complimentary beverage voucher, plus other goodies — will be available for pick-up at the following times and locations:

Wed-Thu, May 24-25 — Air Force Armament Museum | 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Photo ID is required for packet pick-up. In-person registration will also be available at the above times and locations, EXCEPT FOR RACE DAY. *T-shirts cannot be guaranteed for participants who register later than May 10.

On race day, non-DoD participants must enter through the West Gate on Highway 189 near the Air Force Armament Museum. All participants must be in place at the start line by 6:30 a.m. at the corner of Chinquapin Drive and Eglin Boulevard.

Join us for another special night in Old East Hill at the second installation of Night on the Tracks, Saturday, March 4, beginning at 5pm. Local venues are inviting folks to come out, mingle, and move throughout the neighborhood for art, music, food and drinks, and skating. Each of the seven participating venues is offering something unique.

Moving from east to west along the Wright Street corridor in Old East Hill, participating venues are Doc’s Hop Shop, Waterboyz, End of the Line Café, the 309 Punk Project, Pensacola MESS Hall, From the Ground Up, and The Handlebar. The event is presented in partnership with the Old East Hill Preservation District. Admission is free to all venues except The Handlebar, which is offering half off the cover charge with proof of attendance at one of the other participating venues.

Doc’s Hop Shop is hosting live music by The East Hillbillies, and you can get a free beer or rootbeer with proof of visiting all of the Night on the Tracks venues. Waterboyz is offering a free skate plus 40% off shoes with proof of visiting another participating Night on the Tracks venue. End of the Line Cafe is featuring the folk art exhibition Reclaiming the Beautifully Lost by Doug Switalski. 309 Punk Project is holding the Closing Exhibition for Artist in Residence painter and chef Roscoe Hall. The MESS Hall is inviting everyone to Exercise Your Scientific Mind with games and more. From the Ground Up is hosting live music by Light Travelers along with s’mores, a fire pit, and garden games. Finally, the Handlebar is closing out the event with live music by Jive Talk, Deadly Fists of Kung Fu, and Snow Halo. Half-off cover charge with proof of visiting another participating Night on the Tracks venue. See attached flyer for specific times and addresses.

The Night on the Tracks multi-venue arts and music event debuted in December 2022, and the organizing committee plans to host the event quarterly with upcoming events planned in June, September, and December 2023.

DETAILS
Who: 309 Punk Project in partnership with Old East Preservation District and local venues of Old East Hill
What: Night on the Tracks event
When: Saturday, March 4, 5pm until midnight (specific times for each venue on attached flyer)
Where: Old East Hill neighborhood along the Wright Street corridor, 32501 ZIP code. Specific addresses for each venue on attached flyer and at this Google map: https://www.google.com/maps/@/data=!3m1!4b1!4m3!11m2!2sw-7emaWkQj2ereGgztDW4Q!3e3?shorturl=1
Why: Enjoy art, music, food and drinks, and movement in and around an eclectic Pensacola community

Contact: Lauren Anzaldo, laurenanzaldo@gmail.com, 850-292-7380