Thanks to the Nathifa Dance Company and Outreach, Inc.  A wonderful performance, by dancers and drummers.

Everyone Dances African

Sistah LaVondia Bryant-Square,
Artistic Director/Founder
Nathifa Dance Company and Outreach, Inc.
Sunday January 13, 2008
Performance begins at 4:00 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham
4300 Hampton Heights Drive Birmingham, AL
Donations will be accepted, $8.00/adult recommended.

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A Concert of Recent Works for Solo Cello

with cellist Craig Hultgren

Here is Michael Huebner’s review:  Huebner

Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 7 pm

On Sunday, March 30th at 7 pm, Craig Hultgren will play a solo program of recent compositions for the cello at Artburst at the Unitarian Universalist Church. This concert of solo pieces will feature amplification, digital sound effects, audio soundfile playback, a computer score-reading tablet and a world premiere.  Nearly all of the pieces were written for Hultgren. 

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It is definite now!  The Legendary Pineapple Skinners will perform on April 20, 2008. 
Show starts at 6:30 pm.

Some wonderful Dixieland Jazz.

Karen Bentley Pollick, Violin
Grant Dalton, Percussion
In recital
Sunday, May 4
3:00 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham
Tickets at the door:  $8.00/$4.00 students and seniors

See the Program

Here is a link to Michael Huebner’s preview of this concert

And here is a link to Richard LeComte’s review,

An Evening of Kurt Weill

... a journey through the life and times of legendary Berlin/American theatre composer Kurt Weill, with soprano Diane McNaron and pianist Thomas Bagwell ...

Sunday, May 18, 2008, 7:30 PM
An Artburst Concert at the Unitarian Universalist Church,
4300 Hampton Heights Drive, Homewood, AL 35209









Guest Artist: Bayan accordionist Alla Melnyk Mulvehill

Here is Michael Huebner’s Preview of this performance.

Ticketing: table seating, by reservation only, $15.00, BYOB
Table seats are now SOLD OUT. 
There are still plenty of row seats available. $8.00 and $4.00 student/senior
To purchase tickets online:  http://dianemcnaron.com/training.html
Or email or phone 205.838.1391
Row Seating, unreserved, $8
Directions to performance site: http://uucbham.org/location.shtml

You can read Michael Huebner’s review here.

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A Unitarian Universalist Coffee House night.
We gather with some friends to play some music, tell stories, jokes, and enjoy some beverages and perhaps a snack or two.

If you play or sing, or write or read, you can join in.  You are welcome to stop by just to listen as well. 
We would love to meet you.

We will probably get started at about 7:00 pm. 
We’ll collect some donations (suggested $3.00) to help pay for the lights

The Cahaba Saxophone Quartet (or perhaps something else)

September 27, 1008
7:00 pm

Indian classical-folk fusion dance was born in the 1920s, in Bengal, India, under the patronage of India’s Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore.

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STACEY EARLE and MARK STUART
more at Small Stages Site

This will be a performance by students at the Alabama School of Fine Arts.
Organized by
Kimberly Scott, Chair
Department of Music
Alabama School of Fine Arts

“ROSAS DE PULPA, ROSAS DE CAL”

Sunday, Dec 7, 2008, 7:30 PM, release of CD and mini-performance from “ROSAS DE PULPA, ROSAS DE CAL—The Music of Valdo Sciammarella”

Argentine Art Songs and Piano Solos with:
Diane McNaron, Soprano
Heather Coltman, Piano

Artburst at the Unitarian Universalist Church
4300 Hampton Heights, Homewood, AL 35209
$8 Walk-in
$20 Table seating and autographed CD

http://dianemcnaron.com/training.html

http://dianemcnaron.com/SCIAMMARELLA_-_BACKGROUND_to_CD.doc

The Seasoned Salon presents a concert reading of Shaw’s Don Juan in Hell
(please note that this date is tentative, though it will probably be some day in February 2009)