On Saturday May 8, and Sunday May 9, the Arts Evening will feature Jazz and Broadway vocalist Natalie Renee Perkins & Jazz Pianist and vocalist Jeremy Randall. The May 8 program begins at 7:00 p.m., and the May 9 program begins at 3:00 p.m., both at Hope United Methodist Church, 2202 South 3rd Ave., Marshalltown, Iowa. Refreshments will be served following the program. Any freewill offerings received will be applied to the installation of a pipe organ. The Hope Arts Festival is sponsored by Hope UM Church. Admission is free.
I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but more importantly music, for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys to learning.”
- Plato
John Devlin obtained an MA in piano performance from the University of Iowa in 1967. He came to Le Grand, a bedroom community six miles east of Marshalltown, where he taught instrumental music and maintained a piano studio at home playing and teaching on two Steinways, a model B and a restored model R. He has played organ at several area churches and is currently pianist/organist at Hope United Methodist Church where he produces a monthly Arts Evening showcasing the amazing talents of area and national musicians. Since retirement from school teaching (he still teaches piano at home) he has been marketing pottery he makes in a large studio he maintains at his home. The unique pottery utilizes botanics in a process creating fossil-type impressions in the finished ware. John Devlin Pottery is displayed in juried art fairs throughout the Midwest during the summers and has work available for purchase at the Perfect Setting Gallery in Marshalltown and the Octagon Center for the Arts in Ames.
John Devlin | PO Box 31 | Le Grand, IA, 50142 | 641-479-2211
