Roberta Flack will celebrate 72nd birthday on Feb. 10

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   Michael Muller February 4, 2009

   I fell in love once a long time ago to "Killing Me Softly." it still makes me smile (and cry a little, too).

   Thanks for the neat post.

   MM

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   Ash February 2, 2009

   Thanks for the Roberta remembrances!

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   BB February 2, 2009

   She has played here before. I remember her performing at the 1992 Apple Festival in Hendersonville (the same one that then-President George H. W. Bush spoke at). I remember, because I was there and it was pouring rain by the time Bush started speaking.I found one remembrance of it here:

   http://www.boldlife.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A2137

   "But back to Becky at Sherman Sports, who was reminiscing about past festivals and agreed with Rex that its original purpose was to promote downtown businesses. "All the store owners used to serve breakfast out on the sidewalk, like the Kiwanis Club does now," Becky remembered. "We set up the tables along the 400 block before the sun came up, and I remember once Roberta Flack was rehearsing. She happened to be performing at Black Mountain that year and came down to sing at the festival. She began singing and playing the piano that morning right at sunrise. It was magical." Past festivals have presented some less musically sensitive features, like the firing of muzzle-loaded antique guns and a beauty pageant to name Miss Apple Festival."

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   time 2 part t February 2, 2009

   I think I remember Roberta Flack participating in a concert (maybe with the Asheville Symphony?) at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium — just one song. It was since I’ve lived here, which was the early 1980s. I think it may have been at Christmas as part of Light Up Your Holidays.

   Or either I’m dreaming.

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   Jennifer S. February 1, 2009

   I’m with Don–I’m from Black Mountain and remember a sign we had in town that said she was born there.

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   don talley February 1, 2009

   Robert Flack was born in Black Mountain in the Brookside community. Brookside was in the Flat Creek Road vicinity which is where the old Roseland Gardens jukejoint/roadhouse stood. I’m told some of her kin still live in the area.

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