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Cirque Dreams creates magic to get audience into 'Holidaze'

...Every year presents a different challenge."The tour that we're bringing to Augusta is the show that we had at the Kennedy Center two years ago," Goldberg said."We have a template for it, but it changes a little bit every year based on the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2012-12-04/cirque-dreams-creates
New leader wants symphony to be bigger part of Augusta's arts scene

...managing a festival orchestra in Aspen, Colo., before becoming a DeVos Institute of Arts Management fellow at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. ? one of the nation's premier artistic and cultural institutions...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2013-01-09/new-leader-wants-symp
Ramblin' Rhodes: Willie Nelson has been setting music standards for decades

...Maui, Hawaii, where the homes only use solar power.? He has been married four times and has seven children.? He was inducted into the Country Music Association's Hall of Fame in 1993 and was honored by the Kennedy Center in 1998.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2012-11-28/ramblin-rhodes-willie
Pioneering jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck dies

...In 1996, he won a lifetime achievement award from the Grammys and in 2009 he was a Kennedy Center Honors recipient.Brubeck told the AP the Kennedy Center award would have delighted his late mother, Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck, a classical pianist...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/national/2012-12-05/pioneering-jazz-composer-a
Ramblin' Rhodes: Take a look at music, more from 2012

...time; sang Happy Birthday to Tom Cruise at his Friar's Club roast in New York; performed with John Legend in The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., with First Lady Michele Obama coming backstage to congratulate her afterward...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2012-12-31/ramblin-rhodes-take-l
Ramblin' Rhodes: Southern Soul & Song to bring back bluegrass favorites

...Still Water Taproom on Broad Street just a few years ago to performing in Carnegie Hall, Ryman Auditorium and the Kennedy Center.Steep Canyon Rangers and Martin collaborated on the album Rare Bird Alert, which was released in 2011 and earned...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2012-06-05/ramblin-rhodes-southe
Ramblin' Rhodes: Augustans Jones, Murdock take music across globe

...Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles.On her 56th birthday on May 4, she joined Grammy Award winner John Legend at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., for a tribute to the late Marvin Gaye.She and Legend sang many of the classic hits made...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2012-06-12/ramblin-rhodes-august
New director picked for Symphony Orchestra Augusta Board

...release.Di Sano recently completed a year as a fellow with the DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. The program is designed to prepare mid-career professionals for executive...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/arts/2012-07-30/new-director-picked-symph
Haggard's honest music still appeals to many fans

...Learning to Live with Myself for the PBS American Masters series.Last December, he was part of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors and recognized in a special ceremony along with Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney, composer Bill T. Jones and...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/2011-07-27/merle-haggards-honest-music-st
Remembering 9/11: 'You will always be my hero'

...lower Manhattan. Obama planned to attend events at the sites and was to speak at a Sunday evening service at the Kennedy Center.Among the names being read in New York were those of 37 of Lt. Patrick Lim's fellow officers from the police...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-09-11/names-911-attack-victims-ech