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WEBARTS ATL offers comprehensive coverage of Atlanta's arts scene, including music, film and TV, books, theater, dance and the visual arts. Our events calendar includes every concert, gallery opening, festival and more. As a nonprofit, ARTS ATL supports the arts in Atlanta through independent journalism and programs.
Aurora co-founder looks back and forward as Lawrenceville Arts …
WEBNov 23, 2021 · As president, CEO and co-founder (alongside associate producer Ann-Carol Pence) of Aurora Theatre, Rodriguez has just opened the company’s new $35 million Lawrenceville Arts Center. Aurora’s first production in the 500-seat Grand Theatre will be the annual audience favorite Christmas Canteen musical, opening Friday …
ASO announces 2021-22 season, plans for return of audiences
WEBMay 6, 2021. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra plans to host audiences at Symphony Hall for the 2021–22 season and will also continue to provide virtual broadcasts of subscription concerts. The season was announced as the ASO searches for a permanent music director to replace Robert Spano, who will retire at the end of this season after 20 years ...
Joe Alterman takes his seat alongside the jazz greats with
WEBAug 11, 2021 · On The Upside of Down, his sixth album, Alterman has found that voice.His music is vibrant and fresh, instantly as modern as it is retro. Most of the jazz masters emphasize the importance of leaving space between notes to allow the music to breathe and build drama, a part of the art form that is often lost in an era where emphasis is placed on technique and speed intended to dazzle.
Today in street art: Angela Faustina’s mouthwatering ... - ARTS ATL
WEBApril 23, 2020. Atlanta artist Angela Faustina’s bright still-life paintings burst from the canvas and may very well have you craving the detailed, larger-than-life pomegranates, peaches, limes and oranges you see. She’s captivated by the vibrancy and viscosity of her sweet subjects, a common theme whether she’s painting indoors or out.
The legacy of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo - ARTS ATL
WEBOct 3, 2019 · The legacy of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo -- brown, queer, disabled and revolutionary - ARTS ATL. "I never paint dreams or nightmares," Frida Kahlo once said. "I paint my own reality." The turbulent life and love of the Mexican painter (1907–54) are the subject of The Atlanta Opera's "Frida," with performances October 5, 9, 11 and 13.
An in-depth conversation with “The Color Purple” author Alice …
WEBJul 17, 2019 · Walker, whose actual birthday is February 9, was born in Eatonton to parents who worked as sharecroppers. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel The Color Purple and close to 40 other books. Over the course of her 50-year career, she has worked as an artist, activist and educator, and she was a contributor to the feminist ...
Q&A: Atlanta composer Joel Thompson on “Seven Last Words
WEBJun 19, 2020 · Composer Joel Thompson grew up in Gwinnett County and went to Emory University intending to become a doctor. Instead, he began piano and music composition studies, graduated with a B.A. in music in 2010, then a master’s degree in choral conducting in 2013, and took a job teaching at Andrew College in southwest Georgia.
Mike Geier and the origins of Puddles Pity Party - ARTS ATL
WEBOct 25, 2019 · Editor’s note: In the summer of 2013, when ArtsATL’s Jeff Stafford sat down to chat with singer Mike Geier, he was preparing for a club performance with the Kingsized Jazz Trio and had just developed the alternate character of a clown named Puddles who had a cabaret act called Puddles Pity Party.By 2017, Puddles was being cheered in living rooms across America due to Geier’s performances ...
Bill Sheffield digs into his blues music to find his own redemption ...
WEBOct 17, 2023 · Bill Sheffield has been a fixture on the Atlanta music scene for over 50 years. With ties to such blues regality as Muddy Waters, B.B. King and Big Mama Thornton — and a solid reputation as a performer and songwriter in his own right — he is regarded as one of Atlanta’s premier blues musicians.. He’s released eight albums so far and Stomp and Stammer critic Tony Paris once wrote that ...