Women in Jazz:
Saluting Black Women Jazz Artists of Earlier Times

Charlottesville Vocalist
Stephanie Nakasian
and Richmond Pianist
​Lucy Kilkpatrick

7:30 pm February 3, 2024
​Second Stage | Amherst
194 2nd Street
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This duo, along with bass and drums, will perform a tribute to black blues and jazz singers of the 1920s, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey, Josephine Baker, Ethel Waters and Ella Fitzgerald going forward through the big bands era and even a little “Bop.”
Tickets: $20 adults/ $10 students
  • Pay at the door, cash or checks only; doors open
    at 7 pm.    ​
  • Advance tickets available at Eventbrite. Click on button below. ​​
*AGAR has been asked to be a part of the VCA Passport Program in its inaugural year. Tickets are half-price for those in the WIC Program. Our performances are suitable for Women and Children over 12; not for infants or small children. For more information, call 434-989-3215 or  click on this link below.
https://www.amherstglebeartsresponse.org/passport.html
Vibraphonist Cecilia Smith and
Jazz Pianist Lafayette Harris Jr.

7:30 pm February 10, 2024
Sydnor Performance Hall
in Schewel Hall
at the University of Lynchburg
College St., Lynchburg, VA 24501

The duo, with Ed Mikenas, bass, and Nick Moore, drums, will perform a concert built around Smith’s Mary Lou Williams Resurgence Project. Williams (1910-1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer who wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and recorded more than one hundred records.
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Presented with the
​University of Lynchburg Music Department.
Tickets: $20 adults/ $10 students
  • Pay at the door, cash or checks only; doors open
    at 7 pm.    ​
  • Advance tickets available at Eventbrite. Click on button below. ​​
*AGAR has been asked to be a part of the VCA Passport Program in its inaugural year. Tickets are half-price for those in the WIC Program. Our performances are suitable for Women and Children over 12; not for infants or small children. For more information, call 434-989-3215 or  click on this link below.
https://www.amherstglebeartsresponse.org/passport.html
The Baltimore Consort
“The Food of Love - Songs, Dances, and
​Fancies for Shakespeare”
​
7:30 pm February 24, 2024
Second Stage | Amherst
194 2nd Street
The Baltimore Consort’s core repertory for this concert consists of music of the Elizabethan era — songs from Shakespeare plays, with the band’s colorful array of instruments. Mary Anne Ballard, treble and bass viols; Mark Cudek, cittern, bass viol; Larry Lipkis, bass viol, recorder, krummhorn, gemshorn; Grammy nominated Ronn McFarlane, lute; and Mindy Rosenfeld, flutes, fifes, bagpipes, and krummhorn. Ethereal soprano Danielle Svonavec performs some of the greatest hits from the Bard’s songbook.
Tickets: $20 adults/ $10 students
  • Pay at the door, cash or checks only; doors open at 7 pm.​
  • Advance tickets available at Eventbrite. Click on button below. 
The Belle of Amherst
A Play byWilliam Luce

April 11-21, 2024
(7 pm April 11,12,13, 18, 19, 20
and at 3 pm April 14 & 21)
The Amherst Glebe,
156 Patrick Henry Highway, Amherst, VA 24521
(Seating is limited to 25)

A one-woman show based on the life and work of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson. Actress Sally Parish Southall portrays Dickinson, sharing poems, diary entries, and letters showing snippets of joy and creation while describing Dickinson’s isolated Life.
Directed by William Kershner.
Tickets: $25 adults/ $10 students
  • Pay at the door, cash or checks only; doors open
    30 minutes before show    ​
  • Advance tickets available at Eventbrite. Click on button below. 
Sheila Arnold,
Storyteller of History
and Folk Tales

7 pm April 26, 2024
Court Street Baptist Church,
517 Court St.,
Lynchburg, VA 24504
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Nationally known Storyteller
​Sheila Arnold will do a first-person portrayal of Civil Rights and Voting Activist Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer who rose from humble beginnings in the Mississippi Delta to become one of the most important and powerful voices of the civil and voting rights movements.
Tickets: $20 adults/ $10 students
  • Pay at the door, cash or checks only; doors open
    at 7 pm.    ​
  • Advance tickets available at Eventbrite. Click on button below. ​​
*AGAR has been asked to be a part of the VCA Passport Program in its inaugural year. Tickets are half-price for those in the WIC Program. Our performances are suitable for Women and Children over 12; not for infants or small children. For more information, call 434-989-3215 or  click on this link below.
https://www.amherstglebeartsresponse.org/passport.html