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Gina Gallucci-White

Gina Gallucci-White is an award winning journalist based in the Washington, D.C. Metro region. Her work has been featured in national, regional and local publications including USA Today's 10Best website, Northern Virginia Magazine, Baltimore STYLE, The Maryland Daily Record and Frederick Magazine. Before her nearly decade career in freelance writing, she served as the police reporter for The Frederick News-Post. When she isn't writing, GIna is quoting lines from Star Wars movies, reading Harry Potter books and decoding Game of Thrones episodes.

Every summer when Sarah Corey was a child, her family would go to Alger Farm in Massachusetts to pick blueberries. She, along with her two brothers, would create little pails out of empty two-liter soda bottles by cutting off their tops, punching holes and adding rope to make handles. Wearing the pails around their necks, the three would fill them with View more

After being cast as legendary country singer in the musical play “Always...Patsy Cline,” Shelly Lynn Walsh had two weeks to learn 27 songs. Every evening, she would learn two to three songs -- pouring over lyrics, watching black-and-white videos of the singer who died at age 30 in a 1963 plane crash and reading “Sweet Dreams: The World of Patsy View more

This year marks the seventh annual Youth Chamber Music Festival running through July 30. Held every Monday for six weeks, students are placed into ensembles such as flute, brass or clarinet. At the end of the festival, the groups perform a concert, which is followed by an ice cream social. "We wanted to have some meaningful outreach that connected with View more

Actor Rick DuPuy has been in many Gilbert & Sullivan productions through the years -- including “Patience,” the 1881 two-part comic opera that satirizes the 1870s English aesthetic movement and focuses on two rival poets. The previous times he was a “Patience” cast member, he was in the chorus of Victorian Lyric Opera Company (VLOC) and Washington View more

This year marks 15 years since Ruben Studdard made his debut on the television show “American Idol.” Singing Stevie Wonder's "Ribbon in the Sky" for his audition, Studdard wowed all three judges -- yes, even Simon Cowell -- getting a unanimous vote to send him to the next round in Hollywood and ultimately, the show's top prize for the second season. View more

Many who grew up in the late 1980s and early 1990s were swept up in the Seattle grunge movement; they listened to Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Soundgarden. But musician Shaun Hague stuck to classic rock. He first heard a song by English rock and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Eric Clapton on his father’s “Best of Cream” album, a compilation View more

Folk singer-songwriter Greg Greenway was born in a hospital right beside Jefferson Davis Highway in Richmond, Virginia. The former capital of the Confederacy also has statues on Monument Avenue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, Jefferson Davis, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and Matthew Fontaine Maury. "I grew up and was raised in that world and that View more

Karen Montgomery didn't have a relationship with the arts until the evening she took her daughter to a violin lesson in a church. She heard clinking and clanking coming from the building’s lower level and went to investigate. The noise, she learned, came from a sculpting class. "I took a tool and other tools and proceeded to work on a rock," she recalled. View more

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