A! Magazine for the Arts Archive

About the Cover Stories

This issue of A! Magazine profiles the winners of the AAME Arts Achievement Awards.

In This Issue

• Burrisses have supported the arts for 50 years For more than 50 years, Bill and Rose Marie Burriss have supported the arts first as ticket holders and later as patrons, board members and volunteers.
• Anita Coulthard provides arts to community Anita Coulthard has made a career of providing opportunities for people to connect with the arts.
• Samantha Gray leads the Theatre Bristol family Samantha Gray’s relationship with the arts revolves around family, her family and her theater family.
• Morison believes music can change lives Jane DeLoach Morison grew up in a small farming community near Jonesborough, Tennessee.
• Folk Arts and Music helped Olson confront chaos Ted Olson began studying Appalachian folk arts and playing folk music when he was a teenager and started writing poetry and prose at an even younger age.
• Eugene Wolf’s passions are music and theater Greeneville, Tennessee, native Eugene Wolf can trace his life onstage back to a local commercial and his grandmother.
• Thursday Night Jams begin in Abingdon Abingdon Music Experience announces the seventh annual Thursday Jams concert series, featuring Americana and roots music.
• Arts for Youth: Emily Cai Emily Cai has a list of recent awards to encourage her to continue playing the piano.
• Rhythm & Roots changes festival dates for 2020 Located in Historic Downtown Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia, the Birthplace of Country Music, parent organization of the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, the annual Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion music festival, and Radio Bristol, has announced a date
• Seymour headlines Barter fundraiser Barter Theatre, Abingdon, Virginia, presents Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress Jane Seymour on the Gilliam Stage May 8 at 7:30 p.m.
• Catte speaks in Abingdon The final speaker in this year’s “Sunday with Friends” literary series is public historian Elizabeth Catte who has written the most talked-about book in Appalachian studies this year, “What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia.”
• Paramount Chamber Players present chamber music concert In their final performance of the 2018-19 season, the Paramount Chamber Players present a program featuring compositions of historical importance.
• Richard Leigh Songwriters Festival held in Abingdon Songwriters from the region will be competing for a $300 cash prize and an opportunity to perform with Nashville’s songwriting greats as part of the seventh annual Richard Leigh Songwriters Festival at Virginia Highlands Community College, Abingdon.

A! Extra

• Chen earns American Prize honors, performs with U.K. symphony Yi-Yang Chen of East Tennessee State University recently received national honors in The American Prize competition.
• "Church Basement Ladies" serve a casserole of laughter and memories Step into Barter’s Stage II and you can almost smell the coffee brewing and pies baking.
• Mountain Makins Festival wins another Kaleidoscope Award The best and brightest were spotlighted at the Southeast Festivals and Events Association’s Kaleidoscope Awards in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
• Appalachian Adventures: A laugh-out-loud comedy of musical proportions hits Barter ABINGDON, Va. — Rarely would cornpone country humor meet the sophistication of an opera.
• Charles Vess: Still fantasizing after all these years ABINGDON, Va. — Charles Vess has pulled out the posters and the prints.
• Hometown Stories: VHS senior wins statewide art contest BRISTOL, Va. — Alyssa Heath has been drawing since she was a child.
• Appalachian Adventures: A laugh-out-loud comedy of musical proportions hits Barter ABINGDON, Va. — Rarely would cornpone country humor meet the sophistication of an opera.
• Country group Alabama will play new venue at BMS this summer BRISTOL, Tenn. — Legendary country act Alabama will kick off performances at the new Thunder Valley Amphitheatre.