The new CD Our Journey featuring Ann, Regina, Deborah, and Alfreda McCrary, spotlights a Nashville family singing group with an amazing background and astonishing set of accomplishments. Their experiences, especially those of Ann and Regina, are extremely rich and diverse, yet they would…
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A Musical Production Celebrating Black Women in Church Hats
A gospel musical by regina taylor, CROWNS is a tribute to church hats and the african american women for whom they are both symbolic crowns and a means to express themselves—their pride, their beauty, their…
Ben Stroud had the good fortune to be born at the baptist hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, which is the same hospital the legendary Elvis Presley died in. Imbued with the same independence and irreverence that inspired other Blues City greats such…
Success, it seems, has not gone to Wayne brezinka’s head. he is humble, thoughtful, and one of the most talented artists i’ve had the pleasure of interviewing. His collaged illustrations literally bring to life the old saying “a picture is worth…
The year was 1999 and the world was poised on the precipice of a new millennium. There was no iPod or Twitter. The Internet was still brand new. When people wanted to hang out with friends, they actually met in…
Giancarlo Guerrero stared at his computer with growing alarm. It was 5:30 in the morning on December 1, and Guerrero, an early riser despite the nocturnal nature of his job as music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, was going…
It was designed to be a classic modernist white box, the Rymer Gallery. The idea was to create a white-on-white-on-white space for showcasing contemporary art, but the results are anything but cold and sterile. An exposed brick wall, deep russet metal beams, and wooden flooring…
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio shook up the art world of his day (Counter-reformation italy) with his masterful use of chiaroscuro and dramatic staging of biblical scenes in settings familiar to his audience. Though he relied on the patronage of church officials, he painted to reach ordinary…
The delightful blond girl from Byrdstown, Tennessee, dubbed “Most likely to Succeed” by her classmates at Pickett County high school, has lived up to that senior superlative. Robin Rains, now a Nashvillian, is a nationally known interior designer with clients stretching from the…
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Danielle Duer’s paintings surround and engulf her. Her world is changing, she says, her life refining itself. She is more focused, directed, tighter, stronger, the painted faces more numerous now than ever. She regards them, and they her. They are the spirits she was,…
This January, Nashville Arts Magazine rings in the New year with words of wisdom from the gifted students of Southern Word, formerly known as Youth Speaks.
The young poets completed the theme ”In one year . . .” the best way they know how, through…
“To master the placement of flora and enhance the integrity of horticulture.” An eloquent business motto, also a poetic mission statement, one that Perri Crutcher, owner of Oshi International Floral Décor Studio, believes in. He comes by his soulfulness naturally as the son of Stax songwriter…
