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On the Arts Scene, July 9, 2003

There's good news for anyone who loves nightlife with a local flavour. Indefatigable promoter Choy Aming has put together a `Bermuda Island Review' featuring the All Star Steel Band performing classical, modern and calypso music, as well as the Fiery Limbo Dancers, whose routine includes the flaming limbo, and the legendary Bermuda Strollers.

Beginning tonight, the show will be performed each Wednesday and Thursday night throughout the season in the Harbour Room (which will have a nightclub setting) above No. 1 passenger terminal on Front Street. Showtime is 10.15 p.m. with tickets sold at the door. For reservations/further information ( 236-5827.

The late Vogue photographer, Lee Miller, is the subject of Julia Dolan's lunchtime lecture at the Bermuda National Gallery today.

Entitled `Lee Miller's Second World War Work for Vogue Magazine', it begins at 12.30 p.m. and lasts an hour. Topics of discussion will include editorial choices which shaped the articles Miss Miller Miller produced for Vogue, the inter-relationship between photographs and text, and the many challenges she faced during her tenure as a war correspondent.

Miss Dolan is a Ph.D candidate at Boston University who is also an art historian and expert on Lee Miller.

Admission is free.

The fund-raising concert for music student Aaron Daniels, which was postponed last Sunday out of respect for the late trumpeter Winston DeGraff, will go ahead this Sunday at the Treble Clef Lounge (formerly Mount Area) in St. David's. The event will feature Dennis Fox & Friends and a host of other top musicians in a jam session. Showtime is 4 p.m., and a $20 donation will be taken at the door.

The former Warwick Academy student is travelling to Cuba in September to further his music and academic studies at the National School of the Arts in Havana, and proceeds from the event will assist with his expenses as the gifted child of a single parent. For further information ( Rosemary Daniels at 292-0366.