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The Random Acts of Culture™ continue to roll along in Charlotte! We had performances in two more venues this month. On Monday, October 18, we took a string quartet from the Charlotte Symphony and two very talented tango artists to concourses D and E at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Using... -
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Are you ready to rock for a great cause? Then set your calendar for Saturday, Nov. 20. That's when Bayfront Park hosts the inaugural Bayside Rocks Music And Arts Festival celebrating multicultural unity and hope with an eclectic line up of international music featuring Grammy Winning reggae band Steel Pulse,... -
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Tonight and tomorrow (Oct. 27 and 28) mark the first two concerts in Miami to be sponsored by the new Florida International University chapter of the American Liszt Society, which is dedicated to advancing knowledge about Franz Liszt, the great Hungarian pianist and composer. The bicentenary of Liszt’s birth in... -
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Writing about the visual arts can be a suspect exercise -- how can you convey in words what is being said with image? When trying to describe abstract painting, the ground gets even shakier. But here's an attempt, about the exhibit up at the Center for Visual Communication, "Abstract Miami."... -
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Miami-based visual artist Jillian Mayer has hit it big. Her short film Scenic Jogging is being showcased in YouTube Play: A Creative Video Biennial, a special exhibit at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, which will also be seen at the Guggenheim museums in Bilbao, Berlin, and Venice.... -
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Knight Foundation donated $77,000 to six Macon organizations last week as part of its national Arts grants. Today Macon.com reports on the mission & impact of the donation at large as well as one specific grant project, From Macon.com: “In Macon, Knight Foundation works to help create a sense of... -
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By Susan Patterson, Knight Charlotte Program Director The Charlotte Symphony hit a home run with its first Knight Sounds concert. You could tell as soon as the audience started pouring out of Knight Theater. I'd waited too late to get tickets to the sold-out concert, so decided to go downtown... -
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Nicolas Espinosa and Sean Wouters are the binary stars who power the Deaf Poets, a two man garage blues and rock band from Miami Beach that formed about a year ago. The duo met in elementary school but their music is anything but elementary. It's passionate, raw, complex and soulful.... -