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Live at the Library with Ordinary Elephant

2023-09-21 18:30:00 2023-09-21 20:00:00 America/New_York Live at the Library with Ordinary Elephant Toledo Lucas County Public Library welcomes all to, Live at the Library, a concert series featuring musical talent as they tour the country. This month, we welcome folk duo, Ordinary Elephant. Main Library - Atrium

Thursday, September 21
6:30pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-09-21 18:30:00 2023-09-21 20:00:00 America/New_York Live at the Library with Ordinary Elephant Toledo Lucas County Public Library welcomes all to, Live at the Library, a concert series featuring musical talent as they tour the country. This month, we welcome folk duo, Ordinary Elephant. Main Library - Atrium

Main Library

Atrium

Toledo Lucas County Public Library welcomes all to, Live at the Library, a concert series featuring musical talent as they tour the country. This month, we welcome folk duo, Ordinary Elephant.

Toledo Lucas County Public Library welcomes all to our new series, Live at the Library, a concert series featuring musical talent as they tour the country. 

We are excited to welcome folk duo, Ordinary Elephant!

"Keep kind all that rises from your chest to your tongue.  Don't ever let your words undo the work you've done," sings Crystal Damore on "Worth the Weight," a song that beats at the heart of Ordinary Elephant's potent new album, Honest.  In the song, it's a two-line enjoinder from an adult to a kid. In life, though, it's a mission statement for ourselves as much as for others. And the work that Crystal, along with her husband Pete, has done on Honest is both filled with kindness and worthy of praise. 

Interestingly, if not ironically, in order to accomplish this new work, Crystal and Pete had to set aside the work they'd done previously, as a veterinary cardiologist and a computer programmer, respectively.  The two met at an open mic in College Station, Texas, in 2009 and soon moved to Houston together. With her on acoustic guitar/lead vocals and him on clawhammer banjo/harmony vocals, the work of music continued on the side as both had full-time jobs, until they threw all caution to the wind and hit the road in an RV. 

Leaving the stability of a day job and the security of a career didn't come easily for Crystal.  "It took a lot of time -- and help from Pete -- for me to get to the point that I was okay with leaving the career I spent my whole life in school working toward, to the degree that I was leaving it," she admits, adding, to be okay with the fact that it may not be what other people want, but it was what I needed, and that was the important part."

Bitten by the creative bug at an early age, Crystal had set most of that aside to focus on school and work; "Living on the road, before doing music full-time, gave my creative side the breathing room it needed to come back out."

And, boy, has it ever come out now that they've both committed fully to Ordinary Elephant. In song, after Honest song, the Damores take on what it means to follow your heart and eschew all the expectations, assumptions, and limitations, projected upon you by others.

Food and refreshments will be available for purchase or donations made to SAME café.

AGE GROUP: | All Ages |

EVENT TYPE: | Performances/Special Events |

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Main Library

Phone: 419.259.5200

Hours
Mon, Sep 16 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Tue, Sep 17 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Wed, Sep 18 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Thu, Sep 19 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Fri, Sep 20 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Sat, Sep 21 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Sun, Sep 22 Closed

About the branch
  • 69 Windows PCs
  • 36 Windows laptops
  • 16 MACs
  • 20 children’s PCs
  • 6 children's early learning stations
  • 2 book scan stations
  • Making equipment
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • 100 person Community Room
  • 214 person Large Glass Room
  • 312 person McMaster Center
  • 200 person McMaster Lobby
  • Faxing, copying, scanning
  • ToleGo Public Bikes
  • 300 parking spots (includes 9 handicapped accessible spots)
  • 2 electric vehicle charging stations
  • 10 bicycle spots

Upcoming events

Fri, Sep 20, 10:00am - 11:00am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Fri, Sep 20, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
McMaster Center and Lobby

Sat, Sep 21, 9:00am - 3:30pm
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)
Registration is now closed

Sat, Sep 21, 10:00am - 10:45am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Sep 21, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Teen Space

Sat, Sep 21, 2:00pm - 2:45pm
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)

Mon, Sep 23, 10:00am - 10:45am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Mon, Sep 23, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Mon, Sep 23, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)

Tue, Sep 24, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Teen Space

Tue, Sep 24, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Atrium

Wed, Sep 25, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)
This event is full

Thu, Sep 26, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)
This event is full

Thu, Sep 26, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Fri, Sep 27, 10:00am - 11:00am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Sep 28, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Teen Space

Sat, Sep 28, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)

Mon, Sep 30, 10:00am - 10:45am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Tue, Oct 01, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
McMaster Center and Lobby

Wed, Oct 02, 10:30am - 11:30am
Teaching Lab (Computers and Media)
This event is full

Wed, Oct 02, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Teen Space

Wed, Oct 02, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Local History Space

Thu, Oct 03, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)

Fri, Oct 04, 10:00am - 11:00am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Oct 05, 9:30am - 1:00pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)
This event is full

Sat, Oct 05, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Teen Space

Sat, Oct 05, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)

Mon, Oct 07, 10:00am - 10:45am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Wed, Oct 09, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
McMaster Center and Lobby

Thu, Oct 10, 10:00am - 12:00pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)

Thu, Oct 10, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Teen Space

Thu, Oct 10, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)
This event is full

Fri, Oct 11, 10:00am - 11:00am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Oct 12, 9:30am - 4:45pm
Atrium

Sat, Oct 12, 10:00am - 11:00am
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Sat, Oct 12, 10:00am - 11:00am
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)

Sat, Oct 12, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Teen Space

Sat, Oct 12, 11:15am - 12:15pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Sat, Oct 12, 11:15am - 12:15pm
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)

Sat, Oct 12, 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Annex

Sat, Oct 12, 12:30pm - 2:15pm

Sat, Oct 12, 12:40pm - 1:40pm
Local History Space

Sat, Oct 12, 2:00pm - 3:45pm
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)

Sat, Oct 12, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Sat, Oct 12, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)

Sat, Oct 12, 3:45pm - 4:45pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Sat, Oct 12, 3:45pm - 4:45pm
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)

Mon, Oct 14, 10:00am - 10:45am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Mon, Oct 14, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Tue, Oct 15, 10:00am - 11:30am
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)

Tue, Oct 15, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Teen Space

Tue, Oct 15, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Studio Editing room 2

Wed, Oct 16, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Small Business and Nonprofit Workspace

Wed, Oct 16, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Teaching Lab (Computers and Media)

Thu, Oct 17, 5:15pm - 7:15pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)

Thu, Oct 17, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Gallery

Fri, Oct 18, 10:00am - 11:00am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Oct 19, 10:00am - 10:45am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Oct 19, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Teen Space

Sat, Oct 19, 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)

Sat, Oct 19, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)