Music Midtown 2015

Lenny Kravitz at 2015 Music Midtown.

Produced by Live Nation, Music Midtown is Atlanta's premier outdoor music festival.  The 2-day event is held at Piedmont Park in the heart of Midtown.  This year's sponsors included: Coors Light, Jack Daniels, Belk,  Honda,  AT&T,  Coca Cola Zero,  Coca Cola,  El Jimador, Rex Goliath, Citi, Piedmont Healthcare, Southwest Airlines, American Family Insurance, Uber, W Midtown Hotel.

Highlights below:

Rodrigo y Gabriela's '9 Dead Alive' Tour at Tabernacle Atlanta on Sept. 9th

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Internationally acclaimed Mexican acoustic rock guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela are on the road, bringing their unique instrumental blend of metal, jazz and world music to audiences all over the U.S.

Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero have been playing together for more than fifteen years. Known for exhilarating live shows, they have won the hearts of music lovers from haciendas to the Hollywood Bowl to festival fields across Europe, as they weave their unique six-string magic.  The extraordinary interplay between Sanchez's fiery lead lines and Quintero's phenomenal rhythmic battery is truly universal.

The duo is touring with the worldwide release of “9 Dead Alive,” their first studio album in five years. The new songs are intimate, the playing intuitive and the results are spectacular, bursting with melodic energy and rhythmic invention.

Rodrigo y Gabriela's performance at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, Ga. on Wednesday captured the warmth and spontaneity of two great musicians riffing and jamming together, perfectly, with desire, elegance and mucho gusto.

Atlanta Ballet: From the Solitude of Serenbe to a Block Party in the City

Kiara Felder and Alexandre Barros in Two and a Half Songs, choreography by Nathan Griswold.

 

On August 23, Atlanta Ballet’s Wabi Sabi ventured south of the city for its first engagement at Serenbe, the progressive community connected to nature on the edge of Atlanta. In WHIM, the troupe performed works by Atlanta Ballet‘s Tara Lee, Heath Gill, and Sarah Hillmer. 

The next weekend the public had a rare opportunity to check out one of the metro area’s most happening arts HQs at the first Atlanta Ballet Block Party.  The suggested donation of $20 was for a worthy cause, The Dancers' Resource Fund, which supports dancers as they prepare for second careers after dance. Upon retirement from the stage, dancers have used the funds for everything from college tuition to videography equipment for their career transitions. 

 

The family-friendly event featured mini dance classes, a rehearsal viewing (for February’s performance of “Moulin Rouge — The Ballet”), scenery-wardrobe tours, a costume sale, stage makeup demos, a DJ spinning tunes, a Top Golf Midtown demo station, a photo booth, food trucks and door prizes. 

 

In addition, Wabi Sabi, Atlanta Ballet’s contemporary summer offshoot ensemble, shared the spotlight with the Alliance Theatre's performance of an excerpt from its season-opening One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the Atlanta Opera's soloist Elizabeth Claxton, who performed an aria.

 

 

Highlights below:

Sandy Spring Restaurant Council's Kickoff Cookout Tailgate at 5 Seasons Brewing



After the ribbon cutting ceremony Mayor Rusty Paul throws the ball to kickoff the event.

The Sandy Springs Community celebrated its first Kickoff Cookout Tailgate! Attendees celebrated their favorite college football teams while tasting some of Sandy Springs’ top restaurants ranging from Southern-style cooking to exotic flavors and recipes from around the globe. The fun-filled afternoon included live music, tailgate games and craft beers. 

Participating restaurants included:  5 Seasons Brewing, Brickery Grill and Bar, Cibo e beve, Dantanna's Tavern, Food 101, Hudson Grille, Marlow's Tavern, Nancy G's, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Parkside Grille, Seven Hens, Taziki's Mediterranean Café, Teela Taqueria and Under the Cork Tree.

First Annual Kosher Food & Wine Atlanta Festival

Catering at VIP dinner provided by A Kosher Touch.

An avant-garde feast for the senses featuring aerial acrobatics, electronic music and a dazzling array of gourmet cuisine comprised the first annual Kosher Food & Wine Atlanta festival on Thursday, a celebration of the richness and range of kosher food available for local consumers. Royal Wine, one of the largest wine importers in the U.S. supplied more than hundred varieties of international wines for the inaugural event.

Presented by Chabad of Georgia as it marks 30 years of Jewish outreach in the area, the cocktail and dinner party was held at the Historic Georgia Railroad Freight Depot, which was transformed by Track Seven Events into an edgy, trendy atmosphere, presenting multiple floors of food, an elevated D.J. spinning electronic beats and a Cirque-du-Soleil style performance of aerialists twirling through the air.

Some 600 people attended Kosher Food & Wine Atlanta, which featured 30 caterers, restaurateurs and grocery chains to beckon tasters into the sensory feast. In addition, the festival honored Chef Sandra Bank, whose catering business has served Atlantans the promise and power of exquisite kosher dining for nearly 20 years. Bank was feted with a hand-blown glass award signaling her creativity in elevating kosher cuisine and, as her slogan puts it, “making the ordinary extraordinary.”