Archive for the 'Music Concerts' Category

October 11th 2008
Pioneer Days, an Autumn Festival in Douglas County, Georgia

Posted under Douglasville Celebrations & Music Concerts

 

Sponsored by the Cultural Arts Council of Douglasville/Douglas County and the Douglas County Department of Parks and Recreation, Pioneer Days is a very charming autumn highlight in West Georgia.

Pioneer Days  is a two day family festival which takes place each fall just west of Douglasville, Georgia in celebration of the early history of Douglas County. The bucolic pastures in scenic Clinton Nature Preserve serve as the backdrop for an assortment of "back to your roots" experiences including a Cowboy Campfire, Cowboy Poets, local artisans showing off their quilting, quilling, pottery making, wood turning and other traditional crafts. This is just the beginning . . . 

Reptile Man enthralls the audiences with his dangerous over-the-top performances with exotic snakes, alligators, lizards and turtles. His combination of showmanship and scientific information proves to be quite memorable. He often meanders through the crowds wearing a huge snake or encouraging people to pet one of his alligators.

The Cultural Arts Council has partnered with the Southeastern Blue Grass Association to present its 3 hour Annual Bluegrass Concert. Last year the very polished and talented bluegrass band Peachtree Station appeared and gave a top notch performance. The video embedded above lasts for about 17 minutes and serves as a small sampling of their music.

According to Peachtree Station’s MySpace page:

Peachtree Station is one of the most exciting bluegrass bands in Georgia. This band performs regularly at The RedLight CafĂ© in Atlanta, as well as regional festivals. Peachtree Station is a band whose music offers traditional and contemporary bluegrass with influences of newgrass, folk and rock . . .   

Peachtree Station also has an AOL Hometown website.

This year’s Pioneer Days takes place on Friday, October 17th from 6 to 9 p.m. and on Saturday, October 18th from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. For more information, read the .pdf document located here

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October 4th 2008
Pianist Ilja Moston plays for Sweetwater Camera Club Reception at the Douglasville GA Cultural Arts Center

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On Wednesday and Thursday, October 1st and 2nd, 2008, pianist Ilja (ALIEN) Moston performed his original music on the newly restored Chickering grand piano at the Cultural Arts Center in Douglasville, Georgia. Many of those in attendance paused to enjoy Ilja’s complex undulating meandering rhythms which provided an excellent mood for those enjoying the photographs of Sweetwater Camera Club members. The current exhibit is entitled "Harper Lee’s South." For more information on this exhibit, please visit the CAC and Sweetwater Camera Club websites. 

You may listen to 4 of Ilja’s original songs on his My Space page. Mr. Moston also plays 5 more of his extraterrestrial compositions on his "Alien" My Space page where his byline is "Music not from this world." He lists his services as: "Piano performance, classic and jazz harmony, jazz arrangements, and jazz improvisation." 

Ilja mentions that he is "a non-singing piano/keyboardist, arranger and composer from Lithuania, currently residing in Hiram, GA." Ilja Moston is available to play for weddings, receptions and other important events in the Atlanta Metro Area and beyond. He also teaches the piano to aspiring musicians! Ilja can be reached at 770-845-5834.

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September 25th 2008
Swami Gone Bananas plays Douglasville GA concert

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On Saturday, September 20th, 2008, the Cultural Arts Council of Douglasville/Douglas County, in their "Concerts on the Plaza" series presented Tommy Dean and Swami Gone Bananas in concert at O’Neal Plaza. For almost two and a half hours, SGB played a great psychedelic concert of music from the late ’60s and early ’70s.

The band describes its music as "retro-hip psychedelic rock influenced by an encyclopedic esoteric assortment of musicians." There are many highlights but the music and the band speak for themselves. I have broken the concert up into flash video segments, some with more than one song. You will need a fast connection to the Internet for certain, and hopefully you will find the quality much better than YouTube. Unfortunately we don’t have time or skills to edit the raw video, and we don’t own a fluid head video tripod yet . . . More songs will be processed and uploaded as time and permissions allow.

Turn up the volume and Enjoy!

Song 1: Going To California

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