Today is the release day for Martha’s Trouble‘s latest album “A Little Heart Like You“! We we so excited to have them back last week for our monthly Food For Thought performance chat which aired today on Troy Public Radio’s Community Focus. If you missed the broadcast you can download or stream the show [...]
Brahms set the standard with his lullaby. Gershwin picked up the thread with “Summertime”. Even Billy Joel got in on the act with “Goodnight My Angel.” Now Martha’s Trouble adds their unique touch to the genre with a new album of soulful lullabies “A Little Heart Like You”– a collection guaranteed to send you off [...]
A new edition of a beloved classic is being published by East Alabama Arts in celebration of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Performance Series. Originally compiled in 1978 as a cooking how-to for her newly married daughter, Polly Jernigan’s book quickly became a runaway hit in kitchens across the country with over 7,000 copies sold [...]
When you’re touring around the country with a group of guys in a show like “South Pacific“, sometimes in the close quarters of a bus or plane, it can feel like you’re stationed with them on a remote island during World War II. And just like the platoon of seabees from the show all of [...]
This Wednesday April 11th at noon at The Community Cultural & Conference Center in Opelika we invite you to a performance of the Auburn Piano Trio featuring Howard Goldstein on violin, Lisa Caravan on cello, and Jeremy Samolesky on piano. The concert will include works by Brahms, Piazolla, and more and as usual [...]
This year’s April showers will bring along something in addition to the usual floral scenes of May–the musical “South Pacific” On April 26th, we’ll transport you to the beautiful tropical island that serves as the dramatic backdrop for one of the most popular musicals of all time. And there’s no better way to experience “South [...]
We have a sneaky suspicion that even though you may not know it, you’ve seen the dance troupe Pilobolus before. You may have seen the video for the song “All is Not Lost” where they joined up with the band OK Go for a stunning visual piece that garnered a Grammy nomination. If you [...]
On March 7th – just in time for St. Patrick’s Day – East Alabama Arts’ Kyle Gassiott interviewed cast members of the “Irish Voices” a show which will be performed Saturday March 17th at The Cloverdale Playhouse in Montgomery. Actors Fiona MacCloud, Sarah Adkins, Greg Thornton and singer Katie Crews read poetry and prose and [...]
It’s Irish American History Month and we would like to invite you to join us this Wednesday for Irish Music & Poetry presented by The Cloverdale Playhouse and free lunch of course! On March 17th – St. Patrick’s Day – Cloverdale Playhouse will be presenting “Irish Voices” and we’ll be getting a sneak preview of the [...]
It’s always an adventure trying to define the dance troupe Pilobolus. Here are some of the words that spring to mind: dance, shape, story, sculpture, art, technology, music, familiar, and new – and that’s just the starting point. As they like to say about themselves, they “started thinking outside the box before it was [...]