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Mountain Music Museum and Pickin' Porch coming to State Street

State Street will be the new home of the Mountain Music Museum and Pickin' Porch.

In This Issue

• Our Far Flug Artists Many artists have followed a path that led them away from home, but the paths of Craig Combs, Lisa Wade and Sandra Wilkins led them out of the country.
• Far Flung Artists: Craig Combs Combs says there is one major difference between the American and European approach to musical training.
• Far Flung Artists: Lisa Wade Lisa Wade grew up in Abingdon and attended Sullins Academy in Bristol, Va.
• Far Flung Artists: Sandra Wilkins Sandra Wilkins never planned to live abroad, but her grandmother, Elizabeth Bell, once told her that she would see and do things far from her imagination.
• Backcountry Makers A weasel, or sometimes called a popping jenny, is a winder, one of many pieces of equipment used in early home textile production.
• Arts for Youth Spotlight Taylor Moorefield's father jokes that Taylor was reading music before words.
• Construction on Birthplace of Country Music Museum to begin The Birthplace of Country Music announced that fundraising for the Birthplace of Country Music Museum is complete. Construction will begin in downtown Bristol, Va., the beginning of November.
• Artist's grants from TAC available Individual Artist Fellowships are available from the Tennessee Arts Commission for Fiscal Year 2014.
• Paper Windows sixth session winners announced The Paper Windows project's sixth session, "Bristol's Streets," announces its sixth session winners.
• William King Museum nominated for national medal The William King Museum has been nominated for the 2012 National Medal for Museum Service from the Institute of Museum and Library Services by Sen. Mark Warner.
• Check your mail Why art? Is it because we can? No. It's because we must.

A! Extra

• Look for DECEMBER A! Magazine on Wednesday, NOV. 28 Expect your December A! Magazine on Wednesday, NOV. 28, 2012. And plan now to submit press releases and to advertise in the JANUARY 2012 print edition of A! Magazine for the Arts.
• Northeast State Theater Students earn Kennedy Center nominations for Living Dead Northeast State Theater's Night of the Living Dead won over the critics earning several students and the play's director nominations for their work from the Region IV Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival judging body.
• Book features Local Tales of Tennessee In the world of J.S. Moore, we are treated to tales of Tennessee — mostly around the Kingsport area, where he was born, but also stretching to Greeneville, where Moore now lives.
• 'Earth Mama' celebrating New CD Stepping over the highest mountains of Virginia, Joyce Rouse — the self-styled "Earth Mama" — is heading from the hills of Independence, Va., to Abingdon's Heartwood, to play a show celebrating the release of her latest CD, "Blessings of the Universe" ($1
• Martin achieves $5 million in support with additional $1 million gift When an author writes a bestselling book or a producer markets a movie that is a box office smash, a sequel is often in order.
• The Jungle Comes Alive-But Only For a Limited Time A broad tree rises from a bed of roots into a green canopy. All about the trunk flowers of red and blue sprout and hang amongst ferns and vines. A large branch forms an arch and from atop it something stirs.
• Barter Theatre Young Playwrights Festival Winners Announced The 10th Anniversary of Barter Theatre's Young Playwrights Festival broke records in number of students participating and plays submitted.
• Review: Barter's Tarzan would make Disney proud If there's ever been a company that is as jealous — and litigious — about its trademarks and intellectual properties as the Disney conglomerate I haven't heard of it. All of which makes it all the more significant that our own Barter Theatre has won the r
• Barter Theatre 2013 Season PassBooks On Sale Now Next year marks Barter Theatre's 80th year. In anticipation of this historic milestone, Barter Theatre's 2013 Barter PassBooks are on sale now.
• Mumford Event Generates $5 million Impact This summer's Mumford & Sons event generated a $5 million impact for businesses in the city of Bristol, Va., a new survey shows.
• Review: 'October Before I Was Born' On October 4, 1960, at 4:45 p.m.., a building in which the chemical Aniline was being manufactured blew up at the Eastman Chemical plant in Kingsport, Tenn.