Saturday Events from Paul Klipsch Birthday Bash

Saturday (3-8) held a very busy day for the Paul Klipsch Birthday Bash. Roy Delgado held a class speaking about current innovations with speaker design inspiring participants. In the late afternoon, people gathered at the visitor’s center to chat, listen to music, and eat Roy Delgado’s famous fajitas. After people had eaten, they moved over to the Paul Klipsch City Hall Auditorium to listen to music.

Mayor Don Still talked about the first time he had listened to Klipsch speakers and people coming and supporting the Klipsch Museum.

Mark Ross talked about Klipsch being one of the steadiest and longest businesses of Hope.  One of these is Jim Hunter who has worked for the company for 38 years. Although he retired, he continues to work preserving the Klipsch legacy.

Denise Cooper introduced the groups performing.  The included Peepaw Collective and LB (Lee Brooks) and the Riffraff. Cooper talked about the preservation of history connected to Paul Klipsch and his encouragement of arts, math, and science.  Paul Klipsch was a great collector and the museum even has Mr. Klipsch’s notes. The museum is a member run organization. It’s open 10am until 2pm during weekdays with Ginny Sanders running it. Extensive renovation of the visitor’s center has been undertaken.  Cooper said they were so proud to be part of the downtown. Hope has been a great city to the people of Klipsch.

The first group to perform sang such songs as “What I Am” by Eddie Bricknell, “Ain’t No Sunshine”, “No Consolation” (written by the performer), and “For What It’s Worth” made famous by Buffalo Springfield.

The next band performed such songs as “Rock and Roll Fantasy”, “Two Tickets to Paradise”, “Come Together”), “Heaven” (Brian Adams), “Born to be Wild”, “It Cuts like a Knife (but it feels so right”), “Keep Your Hands to Yourself”, “Keep on Loving You”, and “Rock and Roll All Night”.

These songs were performed well and the tunes brought back memories in the reporter and other listeners.