MITS mixes music acts

Published 12:21 am Tuesday, May 17, 2011

By Mike Voss

Music in the Streets returns to Washington on Friday evening with a mixture of veteran Music in the Streets performers and newcomers to the street festival.

Running from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., the musical performers scheduled to entertain during those three hours include Men of Faith, a progressive gospel group; Unshackled, a traditional bluegrass-gospel group; Logan Bargelt and Trey Moore, performing as a duo in their first Music in the Street appearance; My Three Kilts, a three-piece Celtic group from Elroy that plays traditional and modern Celtic songs; Donnie Harris, a Stokes resident and veteran with a story shared through his music; the Morning Star and Native American Band from D.H. Conley High School in Pitt County; Band of Leftovers, a musical group made up of musicians from eastern North Carolina who had been playing separately but came together about 30 months ago; Kara Karlson, plays her songs she’s written and covers songs by others; Suns of Vacation, a band that includes ECU student Dustin Dixon and plays pop and beach music.

The Music in the Streets Shaggers and the Down East Rods & Classics return to Music in the Streets.

Literacy Volunteers of Beaufort County is scheduled to conduct a cake walk during Music in the Streets.

The Washington Evening Lions Club will have a presence during the festival, promoting its efforts aimed at early detection of sight and hearing problems. The Pinetown Ruritans will sell barbecue sandwiches ($3 each) during Music in the Streets.

The East Carolina Corn Hole League has issued a challenge for visitors to Music in the Streets on Friday. The challenge: can challengers beat the champs?

Find out by stopping by the corn-hole challenge in front of Main Street Scoops on Friday night. Prizes will be awarded to the top players.

Music in the Streets is organized by the Washington Harbor District Alliance.

MITS is held the third Friday of each month from April through October. After Friday’s event, the remainder of this year’s MITS events are scheduled for June 17, July 15, Aug. 19, Sept. 16 and Oct. 21.

About Mike Voss

Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.

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