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A fun, high energy, interactive, variety music group since 1997.

 When Nicole (Nic) and Kirk (Kid) Tracy met, they had no idea that their  partnership would soon include leading a band together.  Nicole was a  busy actor who performed Shakespeare, Neil Simon, various musicals, and  played a character on the television series Beverly Hills 90210.  Kirk  was a working saxophonist who played live with The Shirelles, The Ink  Spots, Dave Wakeling (The English Beat and General Public), and recorded  the Epic Records debut release of the ska group Save Ferris.  Although,  once they met everything changed.  A fun, high energy, interactive show  was born that features a cool blend of a wide variety of different  music.  Since the formation of this husband and wife led five piece band  in 1997, The Kid and Nic Show has performed regularly from the House of  Blues stages in Hollywood and Anaheim to clubs, casinos, theaters,  festivals and special events across the country.  Past tours have taken  the show to over 16 states.  The Kid and Nic Show has been featured on  The Discovery Channel, The Food Networks "Bobby Flay's Food Nation", as  well as morning news shows in Minnesota, South Dakota, Nevada and  Arizona.  Their story has also been told in periodicals across the  nation.  Songs from Kid and Nic's last release Where You Are There You  Is are enjoying regular rotation on radio stations across the nation and  around the world!  Kid and Nic take their audiences on a trip across  the landscape of American music and comedy for a show that provides a  lot of laughs, great danceable music and a genuine feeling of joy! 

Sadly, we lost Kirk Tracy to cancer this past Mothers Day.

Experience the joy and fun of our live show at....

Chaparral Duo Show 

Bullhead City, AZ 

6 P.M. - 9 P.M.

Kirk Tracy Memorial Walk/5K Run

7:30 A.M. - 11 A.M. 

Bullhead Belle

2 P.M. - 6 P.M.

Spring Fling at Desert Breeze 

Summerlin, NV 

6 P.M. - 8 P.M.

May 3, 2024 

Burro BBQ 

Rotary Park, Bullhead City AZ  

May 4, 2024

Tropicana Hotel and Casino 

Laughlin, NV 

May 17-18 

7 P.M. - Midnight 

The Bullhead Belle 

10 A.M. - 2 P.M.

Pinetop, AZ

Music at the Shrine 

Mirical Mile Event Center 

6 P.M. - 10 P.M. 

Bullhead City, AZ

June 7, 2024

6 P.M. - 9P.M. 

6 P.M. - 9 P.M. 

Duo Show at the Pioneer

Laughlin, NV

August 1, 2024 

The Pioneer

(Full Band)

August 2-3 

Duo at the Pioneer 

Chaparral Duo Show

Buffalo Bodega

Deadwood, South Dakota 

9 P.M. - Close 

Kool Deadwood Nights 

August 23-24  

Lake Havasu Elks Lodge Duo Show

Lake Havasu City, AZ

August 30-31

*you do not have to be a member of the Elks, please contact Nicole before the date if interested

September 6 

Aquarius Resort and Casino 

September 19-21

8 P.M. - 1 A.M. 

The Pioneer 

October 4-5

October 8-12

Lake Havasu City Elks Lodge 

Lake Havasu City, AZ 

October 18-19

 7 P.M. - 10 P.M. 

Bullhead City Elk's Private Party

Riverview RV Resort 

*Private Halloween Party*

*Private Party Wedding*

November 8 

*Private Party*

Maricopa County

Thanksgiving 

November 28

Bullhead City Elks Lodge 

Chaparral Duo Show Christmas Party

December 8 

Lake Havasu Elks Lodge 

January 15, 17, 18, 2025

SWISS DINNER

*PRIVATE PARTY*

January 18, 2025

Bullhead City Elks 

February 15, 2025

St. Patty's Day of Riverview RV Resort 

*Private Party* 

March 17, 2025

*Privare Party*

October 31, 2025

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Nicole Kirk

Dr. Nicole Kirk is the first Rev. Dr. J. Frank and Alice Schulman Chair of Unitarian Universalist History.

Dr. Nicole Kirk is a historian of American religious history. She joined the Meadville Lombard faculty in 2012 after earning her Ph.D. at Princeton Theological Seminary. Her research interests include religion, business, technology, and material culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  

Her courses at Meadville Lombard include, among others, Religion on the Move, Call of the Wild: Nature and American Religion, History of Global Christianity, Leadership Studies, and Vocational Studies. She has traveled extensively and met with many of Meadville Lombard’s international partners in the Czech Republic, Japan, and Romania. Dr. Kirk enjoys advising students and assisting them on their formational path. A popular speaker, she gives lectures and sermons across the United States and internationally.  

Dr. Kirk’s first book, Wanamaker’s Temple: The Business of Religion in an Iconic Department Store (New York University Press, 2018), examines how and why John Wanamaker, the merchant prince, blended business and religion in his Philadelphia store, offering a historical exploration of the relationships between religion, commerce, and urban life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and illuminating how they merged in unexpected and public ways. Wanamaker’s marriage of religion and retail played a pivotal role in how Protestantism was expressed in American life, and it opened a door for intertwining personal moral values with public commerce.  

In addition to her monograph, Dr. Kirk has published a chapter on black humanism for Anthony Pinn’s edited volume Humanism and the Challenge of Difference (Palgrave MacMillan, September 2018). She served on the editorial committee and made multiple contributions for the two-volume collection of primary documents, A Documentary History of Unitarian Universalism (Skinner House Press, 2017). She also contributed a chapter to the Blackwell Companion to American Religious History (expected 2020). She is currently working on a book tentatively titled Railroad Religions: The Religious Lives of Traveling People and focuses on the complex and surprising ways railroads transformed American religion and the people who traveled on the railroads.  

Before Dr. Kirk’s doctoral studies, she served as a parish minister for eight years in a congregation east of Cleveland, Ohio.

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But a funny thing happened as her second year started. “I began to feel stirrings,” recalled Kirk, a native of Tulsa, Okla., who grew up as a UU. “I really enjoyed helping other people, being with them in difficult times and times of celebration.” While she remained certain she didn’t want to minister, at the same time, she said, “I started to feel a call to ministry.”

To sort through her conflict, Kirk decided to devote a summer to clinical pastoral education at a hospital chaplaincy internship in Chicago. “I hoped it would scare the ministry out of me,” she said. Instead, as she worked with dying patients and their families, and baptized infants who would not survive, “in those relational moments of intensity, I felt I was called to God. I was completely blown away. It was the complete opposite of what I intended, wanted, hoped.” And so, to her surprise, she discovered her other calling, one as important to her as her academic interests.

Over the past 20 years, Kirk has shifted between her twin passions for the academy and the ministry, often melding the two at once. After Vanderbilt, she was ordained at and spent eight years as the parish minister at the East Shore UU Church in Kirtland, Ohio, a 225-member congregation. She loved the daily work of ministering, and experienced major life events there, including her ordination and the birth of her son. And yet, over time, Kirk felt drawn back to the academy.

While still at East Shore, she enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS) in New Jersey, where she got her doctor of ministry in 2007. Eager to continue her studies, she reluctantly left her parish position to continue at PTS, where for the past six years she has taught religious history to seminarians and to undergraduates at nearby Princeton University, and where she soon will finish her Ph.D. in American religious history, with a focus on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

And now, Kirk has been named the first professor for the only endowed chair for the study of the history of Unitarian Universalism, the Rev. Dr. Frank J. and Alice Schulman Professor in Unitarian Universalist History at Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago.

The Rev. Daniel Budd, the minister at the First Unitarian Church of Cleveland in Shaker Heights, Ohio, who has known Kirk for about 15 years, said she exudes “an incredible passion for Unitarian Universalism,” which will be invaluable in her teaching position. “What Nicole has is an almost—dare I use the word—evangelical spirit, in the sense she sees Unitarian Universalism as good news that can help and guide people in their lives, and that we are a little more comfortable doing, getting out and trying to change the world through social justice.”

In her first year, Kirk will teach a course on basic church history, from Jesus to the Reformation, as early church history is one of her areas of expertise. But she is particularly excited about a class on American religious studies, in which her students will examine material culture, including buildings, artifacts, movies, and books, not just to understand religion but to become better ministers. “I’m always a minister in the back of my mind, so if we read great novels, I hope [the students] will also find some great fodder for preaching,” she said.

Lee Barker, president and professor of ministry at Meadville Lombard, called Kirk’s appointment to the new chair “a seminal event in Unitarian Universalism, especially in a time when fewer and fewer ministers are drawn to academia following some parish or other ministerial experience.” He added, “Her parish experience allows her to work with students in a way that keeps history out of the silo of the academic and places it into the realm of practical experience.”

Others are equally excited about Kirk’s new position. “Nicole is an incredibly gifted academic, and she has a huge heart for the ministry, too, so different pieces of her are deeply fed in both of those places,” said the Rev. Vanessa Southern, minister of the Unitarian Church in Summit, N.J., where Kirk was summer minister a few years ago. “The Meadville Lombard position is perfect because she gets to be a scholar in a denomination that values scholarship, but also gets to work with ministers in the larger work of the seminary … in some ways, she’ll probably end up being the minister to ministers.”

While at Vanderbilt, Kirk completed an internship with the Rev. Dr. Ruppert Lovely at the Countryside UU Church in Palatine, Ill. “I learned probably more about ministry from Ruppert than I ever did at divinity school,” said Kirk, adding that he included her in everything from his pastoral care ministry to developing the church’s budget. “This is one of the reasons I’m really excited about Meadville compared to a lot of education out there. So much theological education has gone to the academic side at the expense of the practical, and once you leave divinity school, if you haven’t had internships to help you prepare for the demands of ministry, you’ll be in shock.”

The huge attrition rate among young ministers across all denominations is due, Kirk believes, to lack of practical training in seminary. “One of the things that impressed me about Meadville was that they’ve reoriented their program to close that gap, so instead of having field education as something on the side or in between or divorced from the rest of the program, the practical side is integrated fully throughout the program. That’s what we need because ministry is hard, and your training needs to be more than a piece of paper.

“I find it amazing to be able to find a place where I can bring everything I am and have done to the table,” Kirk said.

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Trip to Nashville – Part 1

If you follow me on Instagram, you probably noticed that I recently went on a trip to Nashville.  I follow a wedding photographer who is located in Nashville named Julie Paisley and I decided to go to her workshop.  I love Julie Paisley’s photos and I thought it would be a great excuse to check out Nashville as well.   Nashville seems like a popular vacation destination and I’ve always wanted to go.

My husband was busy with work and wasn’t able to come with me, but that was okay.  I decided to go by myself and I have no regrets.  I’ve travelled alone a few times, and I have to admit that I love it!   I got to do all my favourite things on my own timeline and it ended up being one of my best trips ever.  The trip consisted mostly of shopping, eating and taking photos… three of my favourite things!

When I arrived, I asked the hotel concierge for a recommendation for a restaurant and he suggested Martin’s BBQ.  This place was soooo good!  I wish I could bring it back to Canada.

After the barbecue, I went for a walk and I stumbled upon Broadway and the crazy strip of bars… Wow!  It was unreal! Every place had live music and it was very busy and lively.   It was so unique and unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.  There were lots of groups of ladies there for bachelorette parties.  Apparently Nashville has earned the title of “Bachelorette capital” of America.  It definitely is a fun destination and you would never get bored around here.

The next day, I went on a tour bus and checked out some of the famous sites.  First, we took a trip to the Ryman Auditorium.  It’s a live performance venue and had a major role in the popularization of country music.  It was a really interesting tour!

After that, we went to the country music hall of fame and museum.  There was an exhibit on Loretta Lynn that was really great.  I didn’t know much about her before, but I was amazed at her life story.  She started as a poor coal miner’s daughter and ended up as one of the most famous country stars in the world.  Amazing lady! (pls don’t mind the iPhone photos:))

After my tour finished, I drove the the trendy Gulch area and had lunch at Milk and Honey… which I highly recommend.  The inside was so cool and the food was delicious.

My waiter at Milk and Honey suggested that I go visit the 12 South area of Nashville.  He said there were some nice shops and restaurants there, so I headed that way…

When I got there I saw the Draper James store, which is owned by Reese Witherspoon.  I’m a big fan of Reese Witherspoon.. I love her movies and book recommendations.  I knew that she had this store, and I always wanted to see it so I was so happy that I finally got to check it out.

The sales lady gave me sweet tea when I entered.. how cute is that?

There were some more cool shops in the 12South area and lots of nice restaurants.

I was loving life at this point.. So much shopping, touring and good food. It had been a fun few days alone, and it was time for me to head to the workshop.  Stay tuned for my next blog post and I’ll show you some more highlights!

To see more of my trip to Nashville click here…

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Recent WSU grad's disappearance from Seattle airport tied to missing Idaho man, toddler

Nadia cole was 'on the brink of embarking on a celebratory family vacation trip to italy' before her disappearance from seatac.

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A 21-year-old woman who recently graduated from Washington State University in Pullman disappeared from Seattle International Airport the same day her fiance and his 2-year-old daughter went missing from Moscow, Idaho.

Nadia Erika Cole was reported missing from the airport on May 29, according to the private investigator her family hired. Cole's fiance, 21-year-old Aaron Daniel Aung, and his 2-year-old daughter, Seraya Aung Harmon, also disappeared that day.

The Pullman Police Department (PPD) on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Aung, of Moscow, for first-degree custodial interference for allegedly violating a court-ordered parenting plan.

"It is with deep concern and heavy hearts that we address the public regarding the sudden disappearance of our beloved daughter, Nadia," Beata and Kirk Cole said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital. "Nadia recently graduated from Washington State University with honors, marking a significant achievement in her academic journey."

MISSING NORTH CAROLINA GIRL'S STEPFATHER CONVICTED OF FAILING TO REPORT CHILD'S DISAPPEARANCE

Nadia Erika Cole was reported missing from the airport on May 29, according to the private investigator her family hired.  (Instagram)

The 21-year-old graduate was "on the brink of embarking on a celebratory family vacation trip to Italy, a trip she and her mother had eagerly planned for over a year," her parents added, but their exciting plans "turned into a nightmare when Nadia left her belongings at the gate to use the restroom and never returned."

"Security footage revealed Nadia hastily exiting the airport with a distressed expression, and the last known sighting of her was near the light rail platform north of the parking garage. Since her disappearance on May 29, 2024, there has been no further contact or sighting of her," Kirk and Beata said.

Seraya Aung was supposed to be on a fishing trip with her father, Aaron Aung, in Montana until June 3. (Facebook)

On Tuesday, PPD announced that they are investigating Seraya and Aung's disappearances. The pair apparently went on a fishing trip to Montana but never returned, police said. Seraya was scheduled to be returned to her mother on June 3, police said.

Cole is not Seraya's mother, the family's PI clarified. Seraya's mother, Samara, posted a statement to Facebook following her daughter's disappearance.

Nadia Cole was last seen at Seattle International Airport. (Instagram)

"I know you’ll be home and back to telling me ‘no way’ any day now, and every fiber of my being can’t wait for that moment," she wrote. "…There are a million things I want to say to you and even more things I’m dying to do with you again, I know you’ll be home soon. You’re my everything and more, I love you."

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Cole's Instagram shows her engagement to Aung in November 2023. Police believe they may be traveling together.

Pullman police issued an arrest warrant for Aaron Aung. (Pullman police)

"Nadia is cherished by the hundreds of people who know her, and the circumstances surrounding her disappearance are entirely out of character for her. We are utterly devastated by her disappearance and are fervently praying for her safe return," Beata and Kirk Cole said in their statement. "We implore anyone with information regarding Nadia’s whereabouts or any leads that could aid in her safe return to contact the authorities at 877-220-8129. Any piece of information, no matter how insignificant it may seem, could be crucial in bringing Nadia back to us."

A missing persons poster for Nadia Cole released by her family's PI. (Shepherd Shield)

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Aung is described as 5 ft., 9 in. tall, weighing about 135 lbs. with black hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information about the three disappearances is asked to contact the Pullman Police Department or their local law enforcement agency. Tips and information can be shared by calling (509) 334-0802. Cole's family is asking anyone with information to contact authorities at 877-220-8129.

Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to [email protected] or on Twitter at @audpants.

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