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Bel Canto’s 27th Year
On Sunday, September 8, Bel Canto will once again treat the Highlands/Cashiers/North Georgia area to an exceptional program by four performers from the world of opera. This series has always included not only opera, but Broadway favorites as well as a few surprises. This year’s concert will continue in that tradition. The concert will be followed by a sumptuous dinner …
Lyrical Brushwork Vibrant Color
When Jo Ann Walker was a child, she used to lie in the grass with her mother looking up at the treetops and sky. “I didn’t realize my mother was training my eye and my future painting style by emphasizing the beautiful simplicity of Nature’s colors, shapes, and forms,” Jo Ann says. Today, this self-proclaimed American Impressionist has been recognized …
Mark Edge Returns to Smitten
People of the Plateau, get ready to rejoice! Mark Edge returns with his inimitable treasure chest of jewels, coins, chains, cabochons, unusual finds, and utter magic. Catch him at Smitten’s Third Thursday, July 18, through the weekend. Mark’s followers (and if you’re not yet one of them, you soon will be) know the drill. Start gathering your family jewelry, coins, …
Festival Favorites & Premier Performers
The world’s greatest music meets world-class musicians on the cool and vibrant Plateau for the 38th season of the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival. The splendor begins on July 5th and 6th with Opening Gala concerts and receptions featuring the chamber music of George Gershwin. Concerts throughout the season are held in Highlands on Friday and Sunday evenings at the Performing …
Summer Colors Fine Art Show
July is a busy month for the Highlands-Cashiers Art League. In July it will sponsor the first of two annual fine art shows. The Summer Colors Fine Art Show will be held in the Sapphire Valley Community Center, just off of U.S. 64, about three miles east of the Cashiers Crossroads. The dates of the event are Saturday …
Change is in the Air at PAC
The Martin-Lipscomb Performing Arts Center is in the process of implementing a new expanded facility for the performing arts community. Our new facility will bring the performing arts in Highlands to a higher level by providing a larger theater for the big shows, a small black box theater for movies and more intimate events plus renovations to the …
Painting with Yarn
Keith Parmer was born and raised in LaGrange, Georgia, and his father was one of the brothers of Parmer Brothers’ Grocery, a well-known family owned and operated grocery store, in business for over 65 years. Keith began helping out at the family business when he was eight years old and worked every other day until he graduated from high …
For the Love of the Lathe
Mother Nature is Fred Bulgin’s partner in art. She buries a tree’s beauty in its ripples, knots, and burls. Fred mines those hidden treasures, unearthing their splendor with every turn of his lathe. Together, Nature and Fred produce award-winning vessels, exquisite enough to make him a Heritage Member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. That’s a recognition few fine craftspersons …
Living Out Loud
If you asked Norma Jean Zahner what she came into this world to do, she might borrow the words of Emile Zola and say, “I, an artist … came to live out loud.” Norma Jean’s volume is a lovely kind of loud. She lives on a sweet patch of heaven. Her family is close-by. She is immersed in a thousand …
Pawsitively Purrfect Party
For nearly two decades, Pawsitively Purrfect Party at the Country Club of Sapphire Valley has always been a magical evening and the single-largest fundraiser of the year for the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society shelter pets. In fact, at last year’s event at the newly rebuilt and more-beautiful-than-ever CCSV clubhouse, a record number of donations were made that allowed us to open …
Music in the Parks
Summit Charter School, a tuition-free K-10 public charter school on the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau, traveled to Charlotte on May 18 to compete against 15 schools in the nationwide “Music in the Parks” competition. Summit’s Middle School Chorus received a Superior rating, took First Place in Middle School Choral, and earned Highest Choral Group Overall. Music in the Parks is a …
Twilight 5k
It’s not too late to participate in this year’s Twilight 5K, presented by the Rotary Club of Highlands, August 17. There are lots of things that make this race special: live music, brand new awards, the chance for a free registration for next year’s race, and the icing on the cake is that it all takes place at Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders …
