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Summer concerts

Noon concert series has grown in popularity during past eight years
Published: Saturday, July 4, 2009

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Over the past eight years the Logan Tabernacle has housed a Noon Music Series that has grown in popularity, and the talent pool has grown too. This year the talent search has extended across the border into Franklin County, Idaho. And the selection chairman wants more people from the northern area boundaries to get involved in the coming years.

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The Noon Music Series, a summer concert series held in the Logan Tabernacle, has proven popular during the past eight years. Artists come from a pool of local talent, as well as performers from outside the area.

The noon concert series happens every day but Sunday at 12 noon, and there is no break for the holidays.

"There are no auditions necessary. We have so much talent in this Valley [that] we have no trouble filling the slots. We have some great, great entertainers around here," program director Lucille Hansen said.

The summer noon-time concerts are part of the larger Tabernacle Concert and Lecture Series, a once-a-month program that goes all year formed by the Cache Community Connection that goes all year.

The organization was formed following an interfaith and community gathering after September 11, 2001.

Dean Quayle, the chairman of the group, sees the concerts and as a way to show off the tabernacle, the people, the downtown and the area.

"What makes this unique is that it is an interfaith effort," Quayle said. "Faith affiliation is not a factor in an invitation to perform.