Music

Girls Who Conduct Co-founder Chaowen Ting (Chaowen-Ting-image 6483441.JPG)

Music July 15, 2021

Georgia Symphony Orchestra partners with Girls Who Conduct

Marietta-based Georgia Symphony Orchestra (GSO) has entered a partnership with Girls Who Conduct to launch a fellowship program for women conductors. “The women’s conductor fellowship program is a tribute to…

Music May 12, 2021

Georgia Symphony Orchestra to receive NEA grant for sixth annual Sensory Friendly Concert

Marietta-based Georgia Symphony Orchestra announced that it will receive a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for its sixth annual Sensory Friendly Concert. Details about the…

Music November 2, 2020

Susan Stensland retires as Executive Director of Georgia Symphony Orchestra

The Marietta-based Georgia Symphony Orchestra announced that Executive Director Susan Stensland is retiring, and will be appointed to the organization’s Board of Directors. The GSO distributed the following press release…

Symphony in the City Lana Teko-Ahatefou on viola

Music September 21, 2020

Symphony in the City from GSO

The Marietta-based Georgia Symphony Orchestra submitted the following press release announcing their Symphony in the City concert series: For 70 years, audiences have come to Marietta to see and hear…

young people in Georgia Youth Smyphony Orchestra

Music April 10, 2020

Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra auditions will be held virtually this year

The Marietta-based Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra (GYSO) will, for the first time, hold its auditions virtually. The online auditions are a safeguard against the spread of COVID-19. Registration is open…

Liz and Randy Snyder at the Full Throttle Roadhouse (photo by Larry Felton Johnson)

Food, Music April 28, 2019

Bikes, Burgers and Blues at the Full Throttle Roadhouse

Full Throttle Roadhouse is a bar and grill on Veteran’s Memorial Highway opened in December of 2018 by Randy and Liz Snyder. Randy Snyder also publishes Full Throttle Magazine, a…

photo courtesy of the Georgia Symphony Orchestra

Music January 4, 2019

Georgia Symphony Orchestra presents Schubert, Arvo Part

The Georgia Symphony Orchestra (GSO) will present a mixed program of old and new sacred music, by 19th Century composer Franz Schubert, and living composer Arvo Part, on Saturday January…

Music July 13, 2017

Local Band Delphinium Branches Out

A motley tribe of misfit artsy-types and countercultural youth crowds the minimalist living room of an East Atlanta home, shaking the hardwood floor under their feet and bobbing long hair…

Mableton, Music January 19, 2017

How The Shams rocked South Cobb in the 60s

If you were a teenager in Cobb County in the 1960s, you wanted to see The Shams. That’s all there was to it. An unmatched cover band at the time,…

Music, Whittier Mill Village October 11, 2015

Whiskey Shivers — Blue grass music with a whole lot of punk rock fun

Blue grass music with a whole lot of punk rock fun, best seen at a live show, is how I’d describe this year’s headliner for Parktoberfest. Whiskey Shivers is a…

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