SJCA Performing Arts Series

Performing Arts

PERFORMING ARTS SERIES

    The Performing Arts Series offers a variety of different style shows to satisfy everyone. Classics, jazz, drama, and contemporary music are available for your entertainment. Sponsors for the series are: The Southern Arts Federation, Lakeway Publishers, Inc., Jacobs Sverdrup, Mike Thompson Ford-Mercury-Mazda, Ray of Hope Center, Woodard's Diamond Showroom, Joe Orr Realtors, Harton Realty, The Marvel Clinic, and Jameson Inn.

    Season tickets for the Series can be purchased for $75 for adults, $55 for students. Tickets for individual shows may also be purchased. For more information, call 455-5321 or email sjcc@southjackson.org.

    For reservations, click here: Reservations.

This years events are listed below.

The Performing Arts Series for 2005-2006

Saturday
September 24, 2005
7:30 pm

Tickets:
Adults $17
Students $11

Southern Heritage Concert
featuring the
Southern Fly-By-Night Singers
and
Jim & Inge Wood

The Southern Fly-by-Night Singers are an assemblage of gifted vocalists performing a cappella with sparsely accompanied arrangements of chain gang songs, spirituals, blues, folk ballads and original material. Their spirited harmonies and irresistible rhythms revisit American front-porch singing traditions and plunks them down into today’s music.

Jim and Inge present an eclectic mixture of folk and fiddle music which reflects their diverse backgrounds. Jim performs on fiddle, mandolin, banjo, and guitar with the highlight being virtuoso fiddling in the contest, old-time, Celtic, and swing styles. Inge performs on guitar, bouzouki, and fiddle, and sings a wide range of both original and traditional folk songs in English and Spanish.

Click here to visit Southern Fly-By-Night Singers's website
Click here to visit Jim & Inge Wood's website

Saturday
January 28, 2006
8 pm

Tickets:
Adults $28
Students $17

Jazz On Jackson:
Freddy Cole
A Glorious Tribute to the Songbooks of Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Gladys Shelly, and, of course, Nat “King” Cole
Freddy doesn’t apologize for sounding so much like his brother. There are certain unmistakable similarities. He plays piano and sings, yet his voice has that unmistakable raspy, smoky, jazz sound. His phrasing is close to that of Frank Sinatra and Billie Holliday. He has a musical sophistication that is uniquely his own.
“Freddy Cole is, overall, the most maturely expressive male jazz singer of his generation, if not the best alive.” The New York Times

Click here to visit Freddy Cole's website

Friday
February 3, 2006
7:30 pm

Tickets:
Adults $17
Students $11

Bach, Beatles, & Bluegrass
NASHVILLE MANDOLIN
ENSEMBLE
With its scintillating contemporary qualities, the Nashville Mandolin Ensemble has been hailed for revitalizing and reshaping a type of ensemble music that enjoyed nationwide popularity at the turn of the 20th century. Through its array of mandolins, mandola, mandocello, violin, guitar and bass, NME commands expressive string colors of kaleidoscopic range and variety. This group redefines the Three B's of music as it wraps its unique sound around works from a wide array of composers, including Hoagy Carmichael, Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, Dickey Betts and, as noted in the CD title, J.S. Bach and Lennon & McCartney.

Click here for more information on the Nashville Mandolin Ensemble

Friday
March 31, 2006
7:30 pm

Tickets:
Adults $17
Students $11

Stand-up: When Comedy Was Funny
BILL OBERST
Remember when comedy was funny? All those guys with great one liners!

Bill Oberst can imitate them all. Come see the best of the best all in one show. "Moms" Mabley, Rodney Dangerfield, and many others. All appearing on one stage and performed by one man.

Let us tickle your funny bone for April Fool's Day. Join us for good times and good laughs.

Who do you remember as the best? Come and see for yourself.

Friday
April 14, 2006
7:30 pm

Tickets:
Adults $28
Students $17

Nnenna Freelon
Blueprint of a Lady:
The Once and Future Life of Billie Holliday
Blueprint explores the myth and majesty of Holiday, an actress, composer, social activist, and vocalist dispelling the victim-only portrayal of a vibrant woman in turbulent times. Billie was sensual, powerful, and above all, real.. Nnenna uses song and spoken word to tell a compelling story of the woman and opens windows into Holiday’s soul.

Blueprint of a Lady is ultimately about inventing oneself through art, to house the present and build tomorrow.

“Freelon makes each song such a personal statement that they all seem fresh and new.” USA Today

Click here to visit Nnenna Freelon's website