Two Columbia County seventh-graders will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the annual music revue for Georgia 4-H. Eric Carter and Stephanie Mundy will be in Turn Up the Music in Talmadge Auditorium at the Rock Eagle 4-H camp south of Interstate 20 on U.S. Highway 129 near Eatonton.
Eric attends Stallings Island Middle School. Stephanie is home-schooled through Georgia Virtual Academy.
Call (706) 542-4444 to order tickets ($15-$25). See georgia4h.org/public/edops/cloversandcompany for details and directions.
The 42 members of the cast and crew are 4-H'ers ages 11-19 from across Georgia.
Country, rock and patriotic musical numbers in the 45-minute show will include Whitney Houston's I Want to Dance With Somebody , Ben E. King's Stand By Me , Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke and a tribute to Elvis Presley.
The revue also will feature country songwriter Hillary Lindsey, a former Washington, Ga., 4-H member and a production veteran. She will sing her compositions This One's for the Girls, Jesus Take the Wheel, (I Am) Blessed and The Clown .
She will autograph copies of the 2008 CD Clover Country , which features Ms. Lindsey singing The Clown and other former 4-H'ers, including Jennifer Nettles, Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Martina McBride, Faith Hill, Vince Gill and Luke Bryan.
DEATH OF A PROPHET: Augusta and the music world suffered a loss March 3 with the death of Barbara Jean Goudy Pendleton, a member of The Georgia Prophets. The group, one of the first multiracial bands in the South, had six national and regional hits between 1966 and 1975, including I Got the Fever . The band was inducted into beach music's the Cammy Awards Hall of Fame in 1997.
The other original Prophets are Walter Stanley, the late Tommy Witcher and the late Roy Smith, of Augusta; Janet Helm (Dearstone), of Thomson; Jimmy Campbell, of Atlanta; Fred Williamson, of Nashville, Tenn.; and Mrs. Pendleton's husband at the time, Billy Scott.
Mr. Campbell recently posted on heybabydays.blogspot.com: "I played with Barbara (Billy and Barbara Scott) in the original Georgia Proph-ets. During those early years with the group life was beautiful, and she was an inspiration to us all and much fun to travel with and perform together."
Mrs. Pendleton, who attended Laney High School and was a member of The Church of the Most Holy Trinity, is survived by a daughter, Sonia D'Antignac; two brothers, John and Jerome Goudy; a sister, Portrice Rucker; and several grandchildren.
Don Rhodes has written about country music for 38 years. He can be reached at (706) 823-3214 or at don.rhodes@morris.com.
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