Southern culture offers a rich and diverse tapestry of exciting, stimulating arts. And this season, Golden Isles Arts and Humanities Association is proud to shed light on all the South has to offer: a range of styles and genres—from music to dance to film, theater and literature, and visual art—and influences encompassing Celtic, African, Latin and more. We invite you to join us this year for a wealth of programming we’re sure you’ll find inspiring, entertaining, even eye-opening! As the saying goes, “And that’s what I like about the South!” When you experience all we’re bringing the community in our 2008-2009 Season, we know you’ll agree!
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| Click on an image to learn more about each performance. | The Little Foxes |
Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble |
A Christmas Carol |
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Los Cenzontles |
Rob Denty: |
Hot 8 Brass Band |
Heartbreak |
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The Little Foxes The cast includes both local actors and professionals from New York and Atlanta: Robin Bloodworth (GIAHA’s productions of A Christmas Carol and Ah, Wilderness!), Kelly Dobbin (Fahrenheit 451), Derek Manson, Alex Atwood, Ben Dailey, Dorothy Bell, Sara Thompson (Ah, Wilderness!), and Heather Heath (Happy Days, Ah, Wilderness!, Shame the Devil, Private Lives) as Regina Giddens, a role made famous on stage by Tallulah Bankhead and on film by Bette Davis. Together they create a compelling portrait of a complex, fascinating and potentially deadly world. This is live theater the way you love it—sharply written, wonderfully acted, highly entertaining and bracingly relevant to our contemporary lives. |
A Christmas Carol More about Charles Dickens' classic story More about Victorian Christmas traditions |
Los Centzontles (The Mockingbirds) This performance features four distinct styles of regional Mexican music, each with its unique instrumentation: Traditional Mariachi, Son Jarocho of Veracruz, Tex-Mex Conjunto, and Pirecuas and Sones of Michoacan. You can expect to hear some wonderful original songs by the group members as well. Los Cenzontles’ gutsy rhythms and delightful voices reinvigorated Lovely vocal harmonies, understated traditional instrumentation, More about the music and cultural heritage work of this group |
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Rob Denty: Interpreting Mercer Rob's interest in Mercer has been strongly influenced by their shared southern roots and Mercer's iconic status in our region. In Interpreting Mercer, Rob Denty and his ensemble (consisting of saxophone, piano, bass, and drums) interject their own unique peronalities and influences to bring to glorious life the times and the music of this amazingly talented Son of the South. |
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Hot 8 Brass Band Members of the Hot 8 Brass Band have toured in Japan, Italy, France, Spain, Finland, England and Sardinia. The band performs annually at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, world and jazz festivals across the US and Europe, and were featured in the Spike Lee documentary When the Levees Broke. The group has also been part of an important relief project following Hurricane Katrina. SAVE OUR BRASS! is a local grass-roots project that has brought music and instruments to shelters, temporary trailer parks, and communities across the Gulf Coast. More about the Hot 8 Brass Band More about the history of the Second Line |
Heartbreak This is thoroughly contemporary theater, at once comically absurd and movingly real. Rob’s unique writing voice has been seen and heard on stages throughout the U.S., and we’re thrilled to be presenting his work right here on his home turf! |