Teaching Piano Lessons for 80 years. At 95-years old, Elba Ruilova still teaches piano lessons four afternoons a week from her west Tampa home. She began teaching when she was 15.
NEW PORT RICHEY — Chasco Fiesta gets lost in the '50s tonight with the True Oldies Doo-Wop show from 6 to 11 p.m. in the Sims Park amphitheater.
Admission is $5 for five hours of close harmonies and reminiscing. Headliners are The Cleftones, whose hits Heart and Soul and For Sentimental Reasons made Billboard magazine's "Hot 100" chart in the early 1960s.
Opening acts are The Elegants (Little Star) and the Reynolds Brothers, the five sons of Dell-Vikings founder James Reynolds. They have sung with the Temptations, the Drifters, the Platters, Little Richard and, of course, the Dell-Vikings.
The Chasco Fiesta carnival and the West Pasco Sertoma Chicken Barbecue will start at 5 p.m., as does the Native American Festival by the Cotee River on the northwest corner of the fiesta grounds.
The dramatic Aztec Dancers, with their glittering costumes and long feathers, will be featured at 9 p.m. in the Native American Festival performance arena by the Cotee River.
At 5 p.m., Steve Hottie is scheduled to offer a birds of prey demonstration. At 6 p.m., flutist Tommy Wildcat will perform, and at 6:30 p.m., Robin Jumper will lead an informative discussion on Cherokee history.
At 7 p.m., folk singer Okeefenokee Joe performs; Mike Gilbert demonstrates primitive skills at 7:30 p.m. Women's history and tepee history and demonstrations will be at 8 p.m. Dancers from several American Indian tribes perform at 8:30 p.m.
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For a complete daily schedule, see the special Chasco Fiesta guidebook in the March 26 edition of the Pasco Times, visit chascofiesta.com or call 1-877-424-2726.
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