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It seems like yesterday when Tinsley Ellis was a young baby-faced blues hipster in snakeskin slippers who ripped out guitar riffs on his Fender Stratocaster, Atlanta’s answer to Stevie Ray Vaughn. Today, Ellis is 60 years old and a…
Looking back on 2017, the richness and continued potential of Atlanta’s diverse musical offerings shone well throughout the year. For the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, 2017 was marked by growing optimism about the orchestra’s future among musicians, patrons and audience….
Widespread Panic, the jam band icons, return to the Fox Theatre Friday, Saturday and Sunday to renew an old tradition of performing in Atlanta on New Year’s Eve. Widespread’s Jimmy Herring, who lives in north Atlanta, has reached the…
Performers for ArtsATL’s second annual Luminary Awards ceremony will include comedian Mark Kendall, Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, DJ Ree de la Vega and tributes to two Atlanta musical icons who died this year: Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Atlanta…
Colonel Bruce Hampton was a close and cherished friend. He changed my life, and brought immense goodness and richness into my world, and he did that same thing for far more people than he could ever count. I’ve never…
If Colonel Bruce Hampton didn’t invent Atlanta’s rock scene, he certainly helped create it with the seminal Hampton Grease Band that played for free on Sunday afternoons at Piedmont Park along with a new and upcoming band from Macon, The…
Colonel Bruce Hampton is probably best described without a description. Know this — he’s been making music for over half a century, painting outside the lines and creating a style unto its own. That style has, in turn, had…
The 36th annual Atlanta Film Festival will kick off Friday, March 23, with a screening of “Life Happens,” a dramedy starring Kate Bosworth about two BFF’s whose friendship undergoes strain when one gets pregnant. It will wind down March 31…