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Article: Clay Center learns from: up-and-down debut season
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- June 6, 2004
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THE Baptist Temple sanctuary offered a fine hall for a choral
concert. But once the Clay Center opened, Selina Cosby Midkiff took
her Appalachian Children's Chorus there.
Her chorus performed three times this opening season at the Clay
Center, where her spring concert sold nearly 800 tickets on a recent
Saturday night. The night before, WomanSong, performing a benefit
along with Ethel Caffie-Austin, Julie Adams and other guests, sold
more than 800 tickets.
Midkiff paid more in rent than she paid elsewhere, but found three
corporate sponsors and an individual to help defray costs. She raised
her ticket prices from $6 and $8 at the Baptist Temple to $10, $15
and $20 at the Clay Center.
Her ...