'ARTbeat' this Saturday at Local Coffee

The second in a series of summer events at Local Coffee of East Ridge is this Saturday night.

ARTbeat, is scheduled from 5 to 9 p.m. and will feature music from a jazz group from Ringgold, Georgia, and some vintage 70s and 80s rock and roll, said Danny Lance, who along with his wife, Debbie, own Local Coffee.

Music starts at 6 p.m. and admission is free.

The work of local painter Marguerite Anderson will be on display, as will the fine art photographs of Adam Massey. In addition, pottery thrown by Jane Galay will be on display. All these works of art will be available for purchase.

Lance said that last month’s ARTbeat event, featuring jazz from East Ridge’s own Kevin Roberts, drew about 200 people. “And that was with the air-conditioning not working,” Lance said. “It was 87 degrees in here.

Lance is optimistic that Saturday’s event – with a climate-controlled environment – will draw even more people to get a taste of the coffee shop, music and exposure to the arts.

Lance said the ARTbeat events will continue through the end of September. Events will be held the last Saturday of each month.

Danny and Debbie Lance, owners of Local Coffee and organizers of ARTbeat, look over painting of Marguerite Anderson that will be available for purchase at Saturday night’s event.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.