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SouthEastern Young Artists

The Arts Council is proud to host the SouthEastern Young Artists on our outdoor pavilion FREE on Sunday, June 11! This Pop Up Concert will begin at 1:00 PM, with seating on the stage for an up close, intimate concert feel.
This performance is sponsored by Dr. Charles and Mary Nash.
The mission of the SouthEastern Young Artists (SEYA) is to grow the cultural arts community in North Georgia through accessible chamber music performances and education workshops.
Focused on accessibility, SEYA presents free and ticketed concerts performing in venues, churches and private homes. As a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, they accept tax-deductible donations.

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WILLIE, WAYLON AND JOHNNY CASH AS…THE HIGHWAYMEN “A MUSICAL TRIBUTE”

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This performance is one strong, assured and resounding tribute trademarked with the inimitable talents and emotional integrity of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash. Experience ferocious vocalists who will bring to life muscular Southern and folk rock, choosing interior depth over frivolity. Prepare to encounter the gamut of wistfully tender and confiding subtle songs, the rhythmic sorcery of Nelson’s genius, crisp honky-tonk ballads, the moral complexity and grim humor of Cash…summing up the careers and pop movements that will put this musical history in perspective – an ageless and radiant account still impacting today. This is bright, expressive self, a beam shining into the thoughtful summing up of three musical legends!

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Northwinds Symphonic Band – Patriotic Pops Concert

Northwinds at Smithgall Arts Center

This annual event presented by The Arts Council is in honor of our country and the people dedicated to preserving our freedom! Northwinds Symphonic Band’s lead conductor Mercer Crook and others will lead the orchestra through dynamic valleys and scales, to new peaks with masterful control in a spirit of freedom, vigor and all things red, white and blue! Bring the entire family and kick-start your fourth of July holiday with The Arts Council.

 

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ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra – JUNE 18 – The Arts Council Smithgall Arts Center Lawn8pm. This orchestra is a force, a globally championed and cheered symphony! The orchestra burns with focused fire from its very first, lurid notes. The strings are always lush, the woodwinds play beautifully chiseled, and the brasses have the kind of spectacular power and precision that make them legendary. In Gainesville, the symphony will celebrate its 40th Anniversary with The Arts Council. Grab your lawn chairs and cozy blankets, picnic baskets, beverages of choice and candles or reserve tables and ENJOY the Orchestra’s many layers, under the stars.

This performance is part of The Arts Council Pearce Series. Series tickets available (include Katie Deal with Chris Wright & Friends AND Jeanne Robertson) $80.

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Jon Regen Trio – Evenings of Intimate Jazz

Regen has a remarkable voice and the original songs are superb. Marc Myers, JAZZWAX

Jon Regen is a Steinway Artist and will be performing in Gainesville as part of The Arts Council’s Evenings of Intimate Jazz Series 2016 on May 14, 2016

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Remarkable. Infectious. Soulful. Just some of the words critics have used to describe Stop Time, the new album by singer, songwriter and pianist Jon Regen, out April 28, 2015 on Motéma Music.

A protégé of the legendary pianist Kenny Barron, Jon Regen began his career as a sympathetic sideman to renowned jazz artists like Kyle Eastwood and Little Jimmy Scott. After releasing a series of critically acclaimed instrumental jazz recordings, Regen made an abrupt left turn in 2004 and released the singer/songwriter EP Almost Home. Recorded in a single day, the album won immediate acclaim and formally announced Regen’s arrival onto the worldwide concert stage. Regen followed the EP with his full-length 2008 release Let It Go, which featured Andy Summers of the Police and Martha Wainwright.

For more information visit The Arts Council’s website

Tickets: 770.534.2787 or website

 

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Carter Calvert & The Roger Cohen Trio – Evenings of Intimate Jazz

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“The electric sizzle and animal heat of her performance threatens to set off the building’s sprinkler system.” — New Jersey Weekly

“Her voice truly is a siren and she has a range like no other.” — JazzTimes

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This will be Carter’s third performance in Gainesville, GA. Many will recognize her for her impressive set of pipes in Neil Berg’s 101 and 102 Years of Broadway, presented by The Arts Council in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Carter will make her Gainesville Jazz debut, April 23, 2016 with The Arts Council’s Evenings of Intimate Jazz floating effortlessly between Jazz standards, American Songbook classics, Broadway selections and Pop hits, making each song her own with a rich soulful sound. Without violence to the originals, Carter is capable of retelling the stories and speaks anew the meaningfulness of the music. Carter possesses a voice so well focused, a powerhouse capable of raising goose bumps, combined with a come-hither vixen sensuality that keeps her listeners in a spell. Her capability goes well beyond the stage, where Calvert displays a certain facility for rubbing some old songs in just the right way, making them catch fire.

She has the talent and skill to move effortlessly from the delicate to the determined, from poetry to power. More than a frontal assault, this will be victory through allurement.

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Joined by her husband’s trio (The Roger Cohen Trio) they have together embarked on a truly personal journey of arrangements and songs that showcase Carter’s immense talent and abilities paying homage to her well-developed chops. Carter exemplifies an instinctive ability to swing, her solid phrasing and intriguing tone is contagious and the Roger Cohen trio responds in kind with responsive underpinning and interactive support. Drummer, Roger Cohen of whom Modern Drummer Magazine stated, “Roger’s playing reveals an admirable combination of power, musical creativity and restraint.”

The trio will support Calvert with maturity and originality and through masterful arrangements brings this exquisite vocalist’s full bodied range and unique articulation of jazz styles to light. Their superb musicianship is captivating and memorable. Rarely does music making happen on this level. Carter Calvert and The Roger Cohen Trio become a singular collaboration of exciting rhythms and sounds in support of the diversity that is JAZZ.

For more information visit The Arts Council’s website

Tickets: 770.534.2787 or website

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Annie Sellick & The Hot Club of Nashville – Evenings of Intimate Jazz

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Presented by The Arts Council, Inc., a Gainesville favorite returns to town by popular demand March 19, 2016!  Annie can turn any song into an oxygen rush of bouncing melody that reaches the listener’s ears as pure, untroubled joy. She has a buoyant inner core, in the form of crystalline musicianship but with a deeper dynamic tension and a greater range for expressive effect.

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Featured Vocalist: Annie Sellick: Annie Sellick may be compared to the greats – “Ella’s playfulness, Carmen’s attitude, Betty’s instincts and Anita’s flair…” (Greg Lee, WMOT jazz radio).But, she is unequivocally and undeniably an original. Don’t let her southern drawl, as sweet as biscuits n’ honey, cause you to make assumptions, because there is nothing shy or demure about Ms. Sellick’s control – of the stage, the music, her sound, and her audience.

It’s quite obvious she is totally at home as a live performer, immediately engaging her audiences with an innate ability to make everyone in the room feel like she is performing just for them. But these special gifts aside, it’s Annie’s pure talent as a musician that is earning her rave reviews and a growing fan base around the world.

Annie lives in Nashville, Tennessee; however, she is quick to tell you “growing up in ‘Music City’ I hated country music. “But Nashville is home base for some of the finest musicians in the world playing every genre of music. “I have had the opportunity to play with a very talented pool of Nashville-based jazz players, and it has been a great place to cut my teeth and learn.  These days I am learning from Nashville musicians of all styles. There is such a high level of musicianship here, and the support of the community is unparalleled.”

The Hot Club of Nashville was formed by British-born guitarist Richard Smith, who plays finger-style acoustic guitar. The term means that he plays the guitar with his fingers instead of using a flat-pick. Chet Atkins, Tommy Emmanuel, Jerry Reed and Merle Travis were some of the greats in the field. Smith also uses a thumb picking style, which he jokingly explained as playing a rhythm with the right thumb, practicing for 16 years and then adding a melody with the left hand. In his case, however, Smith was so good he even harmonized with the melody.

For more information visit The Arts Council’s website

Tickets: 770.534.2787 or website

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Annie Sellick at My house outside

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Dara Tucker Quartet – Evenings of Intimate Jazz

Presented by The Arts Council, Inc., the Dara Tucker Quartet is the second performance in the 2016 season of Evenings of Intimate Jazz.

Dara Tucker is a vocalist who blends the soulful creaminess of Nancy Wilson with the sass ’n’ grit of Dinah Washington.” – Christopher Loudon – JazzTimes

Dara has an unpretentious ebullience that comes naturally and is a central facet of her music. She exerts an absolute authority with dynamics and tempo, has a whimsical flair for harmony, and a fondness for florid romanticism. She had a unique way of feathering a steady pulse that will keep you listening and pleading for more!

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During her brief career, Dara Tucker has already managed to catch the ear of some of the most significant figures in jazz such as vocalist Cassandra Wilson, organist Dr. Lonnie Smith and saxophonist Benny Golson. Within the last two years, Tucker has won audiences on such stages as The Blue Note (NYC), The San Jose Jazz Festival, Smoke Jazz Club (NYC), Snug Harbor (New Orleans, LA), Yale University’s International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Sculler’s in Boston, MA, Nighttown in Cleveland, OH and the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.

Peeling away the layers of her diverse background sheds ample light on her unorthodox path to becoming a significant contemporary voice on the vocal jazz scene.

For more information visit The Arts Council’s website

For tickets: 770.534.2787 or website

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Jennifer Hanson Quartet – Evenings of Intimate Jazz

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Presented by The Arts Council, Inc., the Jennifer Hanson Quartet will kick-off the 2016 season of Evenings of Intimate Jazz on January 16, 2016.

The youngest of seven children, Jennifer learned to love 30’s and 40’s era standards at her father Bill’s knee. In order to get just a little attention …in the midst of all those kids, she began singing them for anyone who would listen around 1972, and then after her short, but throat blistering career in rock ’n’ roll, actually got paid to sing the really good stuff around 1993.

Jennifer’s reputation for great vocal chops and notoriety for countless public appearances singing national anthems at NHL games, and touring the country with her band, began to attract the attention of a new audience among jazz fans.

Her torchy, seductive vocal style is among the finest in the current generation of jazz singers, while her stage presence is that of the classic generation of singers like Rosemary Clooney, Julie London and Vera Lynn. She’s definitely not just another voice in the crowd.

Jennifer’s repertoire runs the gamut from the jazz standard songbook and torchy heartbreakers, to a large selection of well loved World War II songs. Jennifer is one of the few singers in the Southeast who sings extensively in French and also in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. She also knows the anthems of at least 10 countries, just in case. Jennifer can also light the place up with Motown, Blues, Country and Pop tunes.

Her first CD, “Something Cool”, won a 1999 Prairie Music Award (Canada) for best jazz recording.

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12th Annual Art in the Square Music and Art Festival

12th Annual Art In The Square Music and Art Festival, Gainesville GA

Saturday and Sunday, September 19-20, 2015

(Gainesville) The 12th Anniversary of the Art in the Square Festival Saturday, September 19th and Sunday September 20th from 10 AM to 5 PM.
Art In The Square will be in Gainesville’s Historic Downtown Square. Over 100 artists and artisans from all over the southeast will be displaying fine art and fine craft including original oil paintings, unique pottery, hand-made jewelry, wood carvings, photography and more. This event has been made popular with both artists and collectors, a juried art show with only the finest submissions accepted, the winning artist will take home a $1000 prize! Spend your day with working artists; enjoy live demonstrations, plein air painting, raku pottery firings, and the Youth Artist Market hosted by INK (Interactive Neighborhood for Kids).

Live entertainment to include drumming and belly dancing (Alchemy Drumming and Dance), and Lupita Mexican folk dances, chalk art competition and food trucks.

The Art In The Square Association presents this FREE family-friendly event each year for the Northeast Georgia Community through an interdisciplinary partnership between area non-profits including: the Quinlan Visual Arts Center and Interactive Neighborhood for Kids (INK).

For more information go to www.artinthesquarega.com or email the festival director at artinthesquarega@gmail.com.

 

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