Wyoming Arts Council

Vocalist & writer featured at Music & Poetry Series July 30 in Casper


Alicia Danielle Roberts and Charlotte Babcock will be featured in ARTCORE”S Music & Poetry Series on  Monday, July 30, 7:30 p.m. at Metro Coffee Company in downtown Casper.


Background info on Roberts and Babcock:


 Alicia Danielle Roberts, a Casper native, holds a Bachelors of Music from the University of Wyoming and a Master’s of Music from DU’s Lamont School of Music, both in Vocal Performance. Previous performances include: Soprano soloist for Beethoven’s Mass in C Major at Park Hill United Methodist Church in Denver, Alto soloist for Haydn’s Harmonie Mass with the Lamont Symphony Orchestra directed by Dr. Howard Skinner, and several performances as a soloist with the University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra. Alicia has participated in summer programs throughout Europe and Italy, including the role of Cherubino from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with Oberlin in Italy summer program. She was the recipient of UW’s Arts & Sciences Summer Research Grant which funded her trip to Italy in 2005. Alicia has also had the unique opportunity to participate in master classes in Brazil. She is currently teaching private lessons and performing locally in Casper. 

Charlotte Babcock is the author of The St. Patrick’s Story and Shot Down: Capital Crimes of Casper, which won the Wyoming State Historical Society’s history book of the year award. She was recognized in 2001 by the City of Casper and the American Association of University Women as a renowned author, freelance writer and editor.

 She has also been published in various anthologies including Woven on the Wind, Crazy Woman Creek and Wyoming Writing.

 A longtime member of Wyo Poets and past president of Wyoming Writers, Inc. she received of that organization’s prestigious Emmie award in 1983. She is a founding member of the literary advisory committee at Casper College, and she writes for Footprints, the college’s alumni magazine. 

Charlotte convinced the County Commissioners to save the Hotel Townsend ghost sign, when the building was remodeled as the Townsend Justice Center. Out of that experience, the Commissioners asked Charlotte to do the research for the large historic panels which hang in the entrance. Recently, Charlotte was a lecturer for the Casper College Humanities Festival, and she had three poems published in Distant Horizons.

Beverages will be served from 7:00 to 7:30 p.m. and at intermission

Partial funding is from the Wyoming Arts Council through the National Endowment for the Arts and Wyoming State Legislature


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