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MARTIN PRIDE DAYS CONCERT
sponsored by Tycon Excavating Contractors, Inc.
Sixwire
Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008
6:30 p.m., Grissom Gazebo
This group from Nashville wowed the nation (and the judges) during the fall of 2007 when Sixwire finished second in the Fox TV talent show, "The Next Great American Band," by the producers of "American Idol." With soaring harmonies and the singular guitar sounds of the '70s and '80s (the group's name is from the six strings of a guitar), this country rock group brings high energy and remarkable musicianship to any venue. What a way to welcome students to campus on the night before classes begin!
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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6th annual Jazz On The Green
featuring singer-songwriter Rebecca Sayre
Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008
7 p.m., Grissom Gazebo
Whether she's singing a sultry standard from the great American songbook or an upbeat Nashville-tinged original that she herself has penned, Rebecca Sayre brings one of the best voices in Nashville to any jazz venue. Her influences range from James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, and Rickie Lee Jones to Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie -- and the critics agree that such an eclectic blend of styles really works in her favor. She'll take the stage with three top Nashville musicians behind her.
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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8th annual Shakespeare on the Green
"A Midsummer Night's Dream," featuring The Martin Players
Friday, Sept. 19, 2008 / Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008 / Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008 / Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008 / Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008
7:30 p.m., Grissom Gazebo
Do you like dreams? Do you like fantasy creatures? Do you like love and lovers? Do you like arguments and debate? Do you like to laugh? If you said “yes” to any of these, this year's production by The Martin Players will be the perfect choice for an autumn evening under the stars. Bring a lawn chair, blanket, and picnic basket and enjoy this annual event. In the event of rain, the production will be staged in Martin Hall Auditorium.
Admission is free of charge.
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6th annual Martin Methodist College Literary Festival
featuring Malcolm Glass
Tuesday, Sept. 30
7 p.m., Colonial Hall Gallery
A Florida native now living in Clarksville, Tenn., Malcolm Glass is the retired director of the writing program at Austin Peay State University's Center for the Creative Arts. He has published six books of his poetry and two publications focusing on poetry and lyric-writing. He has also been honored as a fiction writer, playwright and photographer. He has earned numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship in Creative Writing, and the Distinguished Professor Award and the Richard M. Hawkins Award for Creative Achievement at APSU.
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3rd annual South By Southeast Classic Film Series
"The Thrilling Genuis of Hitchcock"
7 p.m., Martin Hall Auditorium, home of The Martin movie theater.
This fall, the South By Southeast Classic Film Series will screen two films by the legendary director who set the standard for the thrilling mystery genre, Alfred Hitchcock. The first film to be shown will be "Rear Window," starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, in which a photographer confined to his high-rise apartment with a broken leg finds himself caught up in his neighbors' lives -- and one of their murders. The second night viewers will watch one of Hollywood's classic thrillers, "Psycho," starring Anthony Perkins, in which Janet Leigh takes that fateful shower in her room at Bates Motel.
Discussion will follow each of the films. The festival is sponsored by the W. Garie Taylor Honors Program and the college's four academic honor societies.
Admission is free of charge.
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"All The Way From Magnolia Springs," performed by Springer Theater of Columbus, Ga.
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008
7 p.m., Martin Hall Auditorium
Come meet snaggle-toothed Daisy Fay Harper in the summer of 1958 where she's packing for her trip to the Miss Mississippi Pageant in Tupelo. Despite being a motherless, dirt-poor country girl, Daisy Fay is sassy, resourceful and determined to make something of her life. She takes us on an astonishing journey through her formative years in rural Mississippi where she rises from awkward tomboy to a star at the local community theatre and an aspiring Miss America. The character, created by best-selling humorist Fannie Flagg, has emerged as one of the most hilarious, appealing, and prized characters in modern fiction! . . . and the talented troupe from Springer Theater brings the story to life.
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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"MMC 360 Film Series: A Global Perspective"
7 p.m., Martin Hall Auditorium, home of The Martin movie theater.
Using the wonderful venue of The Martin movie theater, MMC hosts its second foreign film series, this year looking at three more films that earned a variety of Academy Awards: "Pan's Labyrinth" is award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro's unique, richly imagined gothic fairy tale set against the postwar repression of Franco’s Spain; "The Motorcycle Diaries" is a biographical film about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist revolutionary "Che" Guevara; and "The Lives of Others," a political thriller and human drama set in East Berlin, five years before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Discussion will follow each screening.
Admission is free of charge.
Robin and Linda Williams and Their Fine Group
Friday, Feb. 13, 2009
7 p.m., Martin Hall Auditorium
They have been fixtures on Garrison Keillor's legendary public radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion," for 30 years, but Robin and Linda Williams perform their brand of Americana folk music all over the country. The husband-wife duo have recorded 19 albums and have just put the finishing touches on their 20th, which will be released in the fall of 2008. This concert, part of Martin Methodist College's 2009 Homecoming weekend, will mark a return visit following a highly acclaimed performance on campus in 2002.
Tickets are $7 at the door. All MMC faculty, staff, and students -- as well as all students K-college -- admitted free of charge.
5th annual Richard Leigh and Friends Singer-Songwriter Concert
7 p.m., Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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 fifth annual concert, this year bringing with him Gary Nicholson ("Squeeze Me In," "Walk On Water," "One More Last Chance") and Rob Crosby ("Concrete Angel," "She's More," "Holding A Good Hand"). They will share the Martin Hall Auditorium stage 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.
"Mark Twain At Large," a one-man show starring Ron Jewell
7 p.m., Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Martin Hall Auditorium
The second annual "Big Read" project, co-sponsored by the Giles County Public Library and Martin Methodist College, will focus on the classic novel, "Tom Sawyer," and, as part of that two-month series of events, the Della Clayton Lee Cultural Arts Series brings actor Ron Jewell to the Martin Hall Auditorium stage in his one-man performance of author Mark Twain.
There will be no cost for this event. All persons will be admitted free of charge.
Daniel and Amy Carwile
7 p.m., Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Martin Hall Auditorium
Champion fiddlers, multi-instrumentalists, composers, and educators, Daniel and Amy Carwile are a dynamic husband and wife musical duo whose personal connection lends poignancy to their music and spark to their performances. Showcasing their versatility on fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki, guitar, piano, and vocals, their eclectic repertoire of acoustic music includes traditional tunes as well as original compositions stylistically ranging from bluegrass and Celtic to old-time and swing.
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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