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MARTIN PRIDE DAYS CONCERT
The WannaBeatles
Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009
6:30 p.m., Grissom Gazebo
These talented musicians from Nashville bring Beatlemania of the 1960s back to life as they recreate the life-changeing sounds of the Fab Four. As The WannaBeatles, Dennis Scott, Bryan Cumming, Jim Hayden and David Toldeo will have audiences hearing the unmistakeable music of John, Paul, George and Ringo! Bring your picnic basket, lawn chairs and blankets as we celebrate the start of a new school year!
Tickets are $7 at the gate. All MMC faculty, staff, and students -- as well as all students K-college -- admitted free of charge.
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SEVENTH ANNUAL JAZZ ON THE GREEN
presented by Shawn Promotions
Karen Johns and Company
Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009
7 p.m., Grissom Gazebo
Heralded as a star on the rise, vocalist-composer Karen Johns and her band have been performing together since 2004. As one writer puts it: "She combines her ability to swoon the listener with sultry, jazz vocals and swinging original compositions that further highlight her abilities to create a stellar offering of her own jazz standards, which stand on their own next to the classic and timeless American Songbook selections." Under music under the stars.
Tickets are $7 at the gate. All MMC faculty, staff, and students -- as well as all students K-college -- admitted free of charge.
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7th annual Martin Methodist College Literary Festival
featuring poet Ted Olson
Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009
7 p.m., Colonial Hall Gallery
Ted Olson, who serves as professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University, is a critically acclaimed poet who has authored or edited more than a dozen books as well as produced and compiled two documentary CDs of traditional Appalachian music. He holds degrees from the University of Mississippi, the University of Kentucky and the University of Minnesota. He has served as director of ETSU's Appalachian, Scottish and Irish Studies program and as interim director of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services. In 2008, he served as Fulbright Senior Scholar in American Studies at the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain.
Admission is free of charge.
9th annual Shakespeare on the Green
"The Tempest," featuring The Martin Players
Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 / Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009 / Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009 / Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2009 / Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2009
7 p.m., Grissom Gazebo
Admission is free of charge.
Fingerstyle guitarist Doyle Dykes
presented by Hillside Hospital
Tuesday, Nov. 10
7 p.m., Martin Hall Auditorium
A guitar legend in the making, Doyle Dykes may have been influenced by a variety of styles and musicians such as Chet Atkins, Duane Eddy and the Beatles, but he has developed a distinct, recognizable sound that amazes audiences with skill while capturing hearts with sincerity and soul. He returns for a second performance at Martin Methodist College after wowing audiences three years ago.
Tickets are $7 at the door. All MMC faculty, staff, and students -- as well as all students K-college -- admitted free of charge.
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The American Spiritual Ensemble
presented by First National Bank
Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010
7 p.m., Martin Hall Auditorium
This remarkable 29-voice group features singers from across the country who come together under the direction of Dr. Everett McCorvey, professor of voice and director of opera at the University of Kentucky, to celebrate the Negro Spiritual as one of America's true musical genres.The American Spiritual Ensemble has thrilled audiences around the world with its dynamic renditions of classic spirituals and Broadway numbers.
Tickets are $7 at the door. All MMC faculty, staff, and students -- as well as all students K-college -- admitted free of charge.
The 2010 HOMECOMING CONCERT
featuring Williams and Clark Expedition
with special guests Us Two & Him
Friday, Feb. 13, 2010
7 p.m., Martin Hall Auditorium
This Homecoming weekend will kick off with a special treat -- a concert where the featured group, Williams and Clark Expedition, includes the father of an MMC senior and the opening act, Us Two and Him, includes a 1967 alumnus of the college. The bluegrass quartet known as Williams and Clark Expedition blends tight vocal harmonies, white-hot picking and side-splitting humor into a fast-paced, crowd-pleasing show. The folk trio, Us Two and Him, has been performing its unique brand of music for nearly 40 years with brothers John and Jim Rickman ("us two") and lifelong friend Phil Cornstock ("him"), melding harmonies and humor in equal satisfying parts.
Tickets are $7 at the door. All MMC faculty, staff, and students -- as well as all students K-college -- admitted free of charge.
6th annual Richard Leigh and Friends Singer-Songwriter Concert
7 p.m., Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Martin Hall Auditorium
One of Nashville’s finest songwriters ("Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue," "The Greatest Man I Never Knew," "Somewhere In My Broken Heart") and a member of that city’s Songwriting Hall of Fame, Richard Leigh returns for his sixth annual concert. Each year he brings a friend or two from the Nashville songwriting community for an evening of songs and stories about the craft of creating music.
Tickets are $7 at the door. All MMC faculty, staff, and students -- as well as all students K-college -- admitted free of charge.
Harpist Elzbieta Szmyt
7 p.m., Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Gault Center Recital Hall
Director of the Pre-College Harp Program at Indiana University, Elzbieta Szmyt has student with Alina Baranowska-Liese, Susann McDonald and Pierre Jamet. She is a regular performer of solo and chamber recitals and has taught master classes in Europe and the U.S. She has been a featured soloist with the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Krakow Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Orchestra in St. Louis.
Tickets are $7 at the door. All MMC faculty, staff, and students -- as well as all students K-college -- admitted free of charge.
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