Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Nashville June Events JUNE 7GONE COUNTRYNashville Shores615-889-7050www.nashvilleshores.com$21.95 for people 48 inches or taller; $16.95 for peolple 47 inchesor shorter, military and seniors.Nashville Shores celebrates the music so identified with the city-countrymusic. GONE COUNTRY runs for several weeks in June (coinciding with the CMAMusic Festival) and features a Country Carnival and other events.JUNE 7POWER SOURCE MUSIC SHOWCASEAT B.B. KING'SBB. King's lower lovel club on historic Second Avenue615-742-9210 ext 26www.ccma.cc10am-6pm. Free admission. Join some of today's hottest inspirational countrymusic artists singing songs of Faith, Family, and Country.JUNE 7-10CMA MUSIC FESTIVALDowntown Music City800-CMA-FESTwww.cmafest.comCall for tickets or visit our website to download an order form to fax or mail;visit www.ticketmaster.com to buy online or charge-by-phone at 615-255-9600. The annual CMA Music Festival is unlike any other, taking place over four daysand featuring more than 70 hours of musical performances, and other events with more than 400 artists and celebrates particpating. The 2006 CMA Music Festival was the biggest in history with more than 161,000 attendees representing every state and 27 foreign countries.JUNE 12-17HCA/TRISTAR BROADWAY ACROSS AMERICA'S SWEET CHARITYTennessee Performing Arts Center615-255-ARTSwww.tpac.orgThe star of Broadway's Cabaret and such memorable films as The Breakfast Club,Pretty in Pink, and Sixteen Candles, Molly Ringwald takes center stage as Charity Hope Valentine, who's a true original,eternal optimist...and the unluckiest romanticin New York City. Sweet Charity's tuneful score(by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields) features such hits as "Hey Big Spender," "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This" and "If MY Freinds Could See Me Now."JUNE 18TRAVELLERS REST MUSIC FESTIVALTravellers Rest Plantation & Museum615-832-8197www.travellersrestplantation.orgAdults $12.00 Children(6-12)$5. 5 & under free.Bring a picnic to Travellers Rest and join us on the lawn for a variety of musicalgenres, from Celtic, to Bluegrass, to New Age at this annual festival at one ofNashville's oldest historic hones. There's something for the whole family to enjoy.JUNE 22SUMMER SOLSTICENashville Shores615-889-7050www.nashvilleshores.com6:30-11pm. Free; suggested $10 donation. Fire on the water. Party on the Beach.Middle Tennessee's young professionals come together to celebrate the longest dayand shortest night of the year."Midsummer Night's Eve" - with a huge beach party, bonfire on the lake, and greatmusic...all to help local charitable organizations.JUNE 22-23NASHVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA'S GYPSY NIGHTSSchermerhorn Symphoney Center615-687-6400www.schermerhornsymphonycenter.org8-11pm $19.-$69.00. Gypsy Nights features famed violinist Gilles Apap in NCO Composer-in-residence David Balakrishnan's new Violin Concerto, drawing inspiration from the origins of Gypsy-inspired work for cimbalom, the national instrument of Hungary.JUNE 22-OCOTOBER 7LYRICAL TRADITIONS: FOUR CENTURIES OF CHINESE PAINTINGS FROM THE PAPP COLLECTIONFrist Center for the Visual Arts615-244-3340www.fristcenter.orgComprising 60 hand-painted scrolls, hanging scrolls, fans, screens and albums,Lyrical Traditions is drawn from the collection of Phoenix residents Marilyn and Roy Papp. The exhibition aslo feature magnificent paintings produced in the Ming(1368-1644) and Quing (1644-1911) dynasties. Works in the exhibition show how artistsfollowed stylistic conventions and perpetuated anciet social values related to Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, while exploring the wide range of expressive approaches possible within the framework.JUNE 22-OCTOBER 7SYLVIA HYMAN: FICTIONAL CLAYFRIST CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS615-244-3340www.fristcenter.orgSylvia Hyman: Fictional Clay presents 24 meticulously crafted trompe l' oill sculptures created over the last eight years by Nashville's renowned clay artists.Hyman translates everyday items that reflect her own interest and personal history-letters, maps, scrolls of sheet music, and books-into stoneware and porcelain, thenscreenprints them with text, symbols, or images. She places fascinating juxtapositions of these clay objects in a variety of cermaic containers, from berrybaskets and wooden boxes to a faux alligator violin case.JUNE 22-OCTOBER 7WHISPERING WIND:RECENT CHINESEPHOTOGRAPHYFrist Center for the Visual Arts615-244-3340www.fristcenter.orgThis exhibition includes works by 14 contemporary artists from China, several of whomlive in the West.The photographers are internationally celebrated for images that examine contrasts between traditionalism and globalism, the real and the unreal, nature and urban life,and the personal and social that have come into sharp focus since the end of the Cultural Revolution.
