Ms. Cheap: As weather cools, art, music scenes heat up
Fall fun includes music, art and outdoors
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-->-->The Ms. Cheap Guide to Fall continues today with my best bets for free music, outdoor activities and art between now and Thanksgiving. Enjoy!
Music
• The Lightning 100 Live on the Green free outdoor concert series on Nashville's Public Square Plaza is at 6 p.m. Thursdays through Oct. 14. Tonic and Five for Fighting open the series this week. Other highlights include Dr. Dog on Sept. 16 and Band of Horses Oct. 7. Details: www.liveonthe green.net.
• Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music is always a destination for music lovers. Here are some of the fall's best offerings:
The monthly Blair Nightcap Series (Sept. 14 and Oct. 21) is a standout for those who want to listen and learn. A pre-concert talk at 8 p.m. is followed by a
50-minute music program at
8:30 p.m., all in the Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall at Blair. There's even free valet parking.Related
The Blair Presents series has two great offerings on the calendar. On Oct. 3 at 4 p.m. it's "A very special conversation with Jim Foglesong,"with singer-songwriter, Tennessean music columnist and Blair lecturer Peter Cooper interviewing Music City music business legend Foglesong. And on Oct. 4, at 8 p.m. it's "An Extraordinary Evening with The Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet" in Ingram Hall at Blair.
On Oct. 10 and 11, Blair presents a Celebration of Robert Schumann, honoring the 200th year since the composer's birth. The concerts are at 3 p.m. Oct. 10 and 8 p.m. Oct. 11 in Ingram Hall.
On Sept. 16, the Vanderbilt Orchestra and Vanderbilt Wind Symphony present From Bach to Birdland, four centuries of innovative composers in Ingram Hall.
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A Dulcimer Afternoon,featuring Karen Mueller and others,is set for2 p.m. Sept. 26 at Blair.
See The Merry Wives of Windsorpresented by Vanderbilt Opera Theater and Vanderbilt Orchestra at 8 p.m. Nov. 12 and 2 p.m. Nov. 14 in Ingram Hall at Blair. This production is fully staged and costumed, and sung in English.
Details about these concerts and other Blair events: 322-7651 or http://blair.vanderbilt.edu
• Belmont University's fall music calendar is also impressive.
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The Belmont Camerata Musicale chamber music ensemble has two fall concerts in the Belmont Mansion — one at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27 and one at 7:30 p.m. Oct 25.
Belmont will present the Woods Piano Concert Series, an all-Steinway school celebration and performance by Cliburn silver medalist Yeol Eum Son, at
7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Belmont Heights Baptist Church.On Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. there's the 2010 Fall Choral Institute Concert with the Oratorio Chorus, Belmont Chorale and regional high school choirs performing Schubert's Mass in G and Make Our Garden by Leonard Bernstein in Massey Concert Hall.
On top of all that, there's a Faculty Jazz Group concert at
7:30 Sept. 20 in Massey Concert Hall; a Concert Band Concert at noon on Oct. 1 in Massey Atrium; and a 3 p.m. carillon concert on Oct. 3, featuring Richard Shadinger, at the Bell Tower in the center of campus. For details on all these concerts: 460-6408.• Trevecca Nazarene University's Symphony Orchestra Concert is at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 in the Boone Building on campus, and Trevecca's Master Chorale Fall Concert is at 4 p.m. Nov. 7 at Bellevue Presbyterian Church. In addition, the Trevecca's Madrigalians and Trevecca Symphony Orchestra concert is at 7:30 Nov. 11 at the Cathedral of the Incarnation. Details on these concerts: 248-1288.
• Lipscomb University has a Jazz Concert Series concert at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 14 featuring the University Jazz Band and Jazz Vocal Ensemble. On Nov. 15, Lipscomb hosts the Christian High School Choral Festival at 7 p.m., featuring choral ensembles from several Christian high schools. All are in Collins Auditorium.
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Lipscomb also has a Faculty and Friends Concert Series with concerts at 8 p.m. Sept. 13 and 21 in Ward Hall and at 7 p.m. Sept. 30 in Collins Auditorium. Details on the Lipscomb concerts: 966-5929.
• The Fisk Jubilee Singers will perform at 10 a.m. Oct. 6 as part of the Jubilee Day Convocation in Fisk Memorial Chapel on the Fisk University campus. Details: 329-8744.
• Middle Tennessee State University's department of music has a good fall concert lineup that includes the MTSU Wind Ensemble at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 24; the MTSU Women's Chorale at 3 p.m. Oct. 10; MTSU Symphony Orchestra at 4 p.m. Oct. 24 and the Stones River Chamber Playersat 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15. All concerts in Hinton Hall, Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus. Details: 898-2493
• Metro Parks' Victor Chatman's Brown Bag Lunch Special concert seriesis at the Centennial Park event shelter from 11:30 a.m.-
1:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Thursdays through mid-November. Dates include: Lakewood Blues and Jazz Band on Thursday; Rock Williams Band on Sept. 23; Diane Marino Band on Oct. 14; The Higher Ground Band on Oct. 28; and an All-Star Finale Tribute to Veterans on Nov. 11. Details: 578-7525.Related
• The Metro Library Summer Lunchtime Concert series runs 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesdays through Oct. 5 in the courtyard at the Main Library, 615 Church St. Dates include: Jonell Mosser on Tuesday; Three Tenors of Take 6 on Sept. 14; Serenatta on Sept. 21; Chris Casello Trio on Sept. 28; and Radio Daze on Oct. 5. Validated parking available in the Seventh Avenue garage. Details: 862-5755 or www.library.nashville.org.
• The Williamson County Community Bandhas five fall concerts. The community band plays marches, concert pieces and jazz. Dates include 5 p.m. Sunday at the Franklin Recreation Complex at 1120 Hillsboro Road in Franklin;
5 p.m. Sept. 25 at Thompson's Station Park; 3 p.m. Oct. 10 at the Brentwood Public Library, on Concord Road in Brentwood; and
3 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Franklin Rec complex at 1120 Hillsboro Road in Franklin. Details 790-5719, ext. 30 or www.wcparksandrec.com-->(4 of 5)
• Several Middle Tennessee wineriesoffer a chance totake a picnic, taste some wine (or not) and enjoy live music. Beachaven Winery in Clarksville has a Jazz on the Lawn concert series on scattered Saturday nights through Oct. 23. Details: www.beachavenwinery.com or 931-645-8867; The Sumner Crest Winery in Portland has concerts about once a month through October; www.sumnercrestwinery.com or 325-4086. Arrington Vineyards in Arrington also has outdoor music most Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Details: www.arringtonvineyards.com or 395-0102.
Art
• There's a monthlyFirst Saturday Art Crawl, when downtown art galleries host receptions and art openings. Most galleries serve free wine and snacks. There are even free shuttles to take you between the galleries. Details: www.
nashvilledowntown.com or call 254-2040.• The Nashville Association of Art Dealers continues its citywide First Thursday Art After Hours event from 5-8 p.m. at area galleries, including Local Color, Zeitgeist, Cumberland Gallery, The Parthenon and others. Most are free. Details: 321-3141
• The Centennial Art Center Staff & Students' Holiday Season Art Exhibition & Sale has an opening reception 5-7 p.m. Nov. 5. The show will be up through mid-December in Centennial Park's Art Activity Center. Details: 862-8442.
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• The Tennessee Association of Craft Artists' TACA Biennial: The Best of Tennessee Craft exhibition is Sept. 27-Oct. 15 at MTSU. The event, which shows off art from across the state, will include trompe l'oeil artist Sylvia Hyman, furniture maker Craig Nutt and mixed-media artist Sherri Warner Hunter. There's an opening reception, hosted by MTSU, with First Lady Andrea Conte, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at Todd Gallery on Oct. 4. Details: www.tennesseecrafts.org or mtsu.edu/art.
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Outdoors
• Check out Metro Parks' four nature centers for everything from free tree programs (including "Tree Day" on Oct. 16) at Warner Nature Center and bird and bat programs at Shelby Park to a family camp night and a Farm Day at Bells Bend Outdoor Center, and a night hike at Beaman Park. All four centers have interesting programs, walks and hikes for every level — even cart tours for people with limited mobility. Details: www.
nashville.gov/parks/nature or 352-6299.• Walk, run, skate or bike the greenways. Nashville, Murfreesboro and other communities have extensive greenway routes. Go to www.nashville.gov/green
ways or www.
murfreesborotn.gov/parks.• Murfreesboro Parks and Rec's Wilderness Stationhas a series ofsenior fall hikes that start at 9 a.m. on Oct. 26, Nov. 2 and Nov. 9. Wilderness Station also has anAnimal Encounter program most Saturdays for children of all ages from 1:30 to 2 p.m., where you get to meet a different animal each week. Call for specific dates. Kids 8 and older can also become turtle researchers (from 9 to
11 a.m. on Sept. 28, Oct. 5 and 12) to help collect data on turtles, which are being listed as a "species of concern" in our state. Details on these Wilderness Station programs: 217-3017.• South Cumberland State Park, which includes Stone Door, Savage Gulf and Grundy Lake, has a calendar that is full of ranger-led nature hikes, canoeing, scavenger hunts and children's nature programs. Details: 931-924-2980.
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Hope all of this helps you stay cheap this fall!
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