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WHEATLEY TO WRITE SONGS WITH STUDENTS Canadian singer songwriter Katherine Wheatley will be on Nantucket for one week, March 10-14, conducting song-writing workshops with Nantucket New School students. In addition, NNS will host a concert by Wheatley on Friday, March 14 at 6 p.m.

"We are thrilled to have Katherine back with us for her second visit to Nantucket," said Head of School David Provost. "She is an incredibly warm and generous performer and her work with the students is one of the highlights of our year."

Wheatley works with each grade-level at the school. In one short week they write a melody, lyrics and record a song. The songs the students wrote last year with Wheatley are available on the NNS Web site and are labeled "NNS Songbook." A copy of the CD is also available upon request.

During Wheatley's concert on March 14, the students will perform the songs they have written with her this year. "The students are enormously proud of their work and delighted to be able to perform their songs with Katherine," said Provost. "It's inspiring for them to be on the same stage as her."

Wheatley is a well-known Canadian singer/songwriter. In addition to touring across Canada and Europe, she is a member of the band Betty and The Bobs and plays the guitar in Wendell Ferguson's popular band, The Smoking Section. Wheatley has also written music for film and television documentaries and has been a musical guest on many television shows, including CTV's Canada AM and CBC Radio's Vinyl Café.

For more information call 508-680-1022 or visit her website at www.katherinewheatley.com. For ticket information for the concert, call 508-228-8569. For

more information about the Nantucket New School,

visit www.nantucketnewschool.org.

"QUAKERISM ON NANTUCKET" Nat Philbrick will discuss "Quakerism on Nantucket" at the Nantucket Historical Association's Food for Thought Series on Thursday, Feb. 21 in the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street, at noon. Free admission; bring your lunch.

Philbrick will examine the ideology of the religion that was the driving force of Nantucket's culture and community in the 18th & 19th centuries. Philbrick has written extensively about Nantucket and its various historic endeavors, including whaling and other seafaring escapades. He is perhaps best known for "In the Heart of the Sea," about the sinking of the whale ship Essex. His most recent bestseller is "Mayflower." For additional information about the Food for Thought series, call 228-1894, ext. 0, or visit www.nha.org to view the full schedule.

HOWARTH WINS GRAMMYAWARD

Nantucketer Jamie Howarth (second from left) poses with his fellow Grammy Award winners in Los Angles after being recognized for their restoration work on "The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949."

Howarth has worked on many restoration projects and was part of a team, which took the only known recording of a live performance by the American folk artist who penned hundreds of songs, including "This Land is Your Land." The recording was made on an archaic wirerecording device and sat in the closet of Paul Braverman, who recorded Guthrie at Rutgers University in 1949.

Braverman sent the wire recording to the Woody Guthrie Institute in 2001 after cleaning out his closet and finding the wires spool recording. Howarth, owner and creator of his company Plangent Processes, was brought on board in 2003. Howarth developed software that restores recordings of performances to sound more like the actual performance, rather than the distortions

that are caused by the original equipment. I