The G.R.P.

Inman Perk Gainesville welcomes:

Nephesh

Tell Me A Story: Finding Your Way Through Abstract Art
“Artwork allowing for inner exploration and to encourage sharing with others to promote community.”
by Rachel Q. Landers

June 2009 @ Inman Perk Gainesville

More about Rachel:

Rachel Q. Landers earned a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, with a concentration in Scientific Illustration from the University of Georgia in 2006. She currently lives in Gainesville, Georgia.
Rachel’s artwork, by moving away from realism, acknowledges that viewers bring a lexicon of experience and concurrent emotion to a painting. She would like her artwork to encourage discourse – facilitating storytelling and a sense of community. This holds a significant place in her art and philosophy.

Tying together aspects of life and nature with spirituality, Rachel creates mystery, in essence – pos sibilities. When creating her art, she feels it is challenging as well as freeing to accept change and adapt to what emerges. By layering perhaps unusual combinations of shapes and colors which contrast and resolve, her work represents life with its undulating tensions– and sometimes surprising beauty. She wishes to broaden her outlook visually as well as in day to day interactions. It is an optimistic process.

Roy Schneider

Roy Schneider plays the Gainesville Inman Perk – June 8th @ 7 PM!

From www.royschneider.com:
“Roy Schneider writes songs that come from the heart, engaging the most diverse of audiences with passion, soul, humor and grit.
From a teenage runaway to an under-age union worker, a traveling Deadhead, a toy designer… Through national comic strip syndication, marriage, divorce, spiritual searches and parenthood (single and non), this guy has stories to tell. And with 25 years’ dedication to fingerstyle and flatpicked guitar, harmonica and vocals, there’s no better way for him to tell them. His sound has been compared to the likes of Willis Alan Ramsey, John Prine, Levon Helm, Guy Clark, Arlo Guthrie, Keller Williams and John Gorka.”

Mandala

Silhouettes – Profile Portrait paintings by Marianne Scott – now showing through May at Inman Perk Gainesville!

Artist Reception:
Come on in to meet Marianne May21st @ 2pm, enjoy the comfortable and chic lounge area, join our group of ARTISTS TOWARD ABSTRACTION;
Have a cup of brew and take home an extra dessert for later. Bistro menu- lite fare & pretty fancy!

More about Silhouettes:
World Unity Mandala
Original Art series by Marianne Scott, Gainesville Georgia,
Teaching Artist & Arts Education Consultant
Traveling Exhibit: World Culture Silhouettes
Portraits in profile express personal diversity within unity.
Integrated Arts program connects all the arts to social studies.
Calligraphy border says hello in many languages,
with the words to a multi-cultural rapp poetry in song.

May 2, 2009 at 6:30 P.M. at the Gainesville Square!

Nate Currin

Take a Listen: www.natecurrin.com!

Nate Currin is a singer/songwriter who uses music to tell stories about life, love, and other emotional circumstances that affect us all. Nate blends contemporary folk, blues, acoustic rock, and radio pop styles into a singer/songwriter feel. Having shared the stage with many big names in the music industry, Nate is familiar with the big-time stage and what it takes to succeed.

Hailing from the north Atlanta area, Nate plays shows all over the southeastern U.S. from Florida, to the Carolinas, and occasionally even ventures to California to play the west coast. His following has grown through MySpace and other online music portals, and Nate has been featured on several music websites, online articles, and newspaper publications.

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To close out the season on May 22, we have invited Havana Son to join us for again, but this time for an evening of dancing and music under the stars on the patio
of the Smithgall Arts Center. With jazz playing in the background, friends dancing to the music, and an intimate atmosphere, what could be better?

Location: Evening of Intimate Jazz Series performances will take place at the Smithgall Arts Center; 331 Spring Street. SW, Gainesville, GA 30501

Doors open at 7:30pm and the show begin at 8:00pm

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If you love the sounds of Chet Baker or Frank Sinatra, then the April 17th performance is right up your alley. Thirty-five year old Joe Gransden will dazzle you with his singing voice and hard bop approach on his trumpet. Joe Gransden’s has done some sideman gigs for Barry White, Aretha Franklin, and the Temptations. Joe has performed world wide, at venues including The Jazz Corner in Hilton Head, SC, The Museum of Art and Design in Manhattan, Spivey Hall in Atlanta, GA, and Tehema Golf Club in Carmel, CA. Joe recently performed with Kenny G at Chastain Park in Atlanta, GA and is currently working on a smooth jazz CD with Kenny G as well.

Location: Evening of Intimate Jazz Series performances will take place at the Smithgall Arts Center; 331 Spring Street. SW, Gainesville, GA 30501

Doors open at 7:30pm and the show begin at 8:00pm

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Inman Perk Gainesville welcomes Mary Jennings! April 15th @ 8 PM!

Mary Jennings

Drawing inspiration from musicians like Imogen Heap, Annie Lennox, Kate Bush and Moby, Jennings’ surge in musical expression started after the loss of her mother. “This tragedy rocked me to the core, but there is so much beauty in what it allowed me to do,” she says. “All of my emotions came pouring out in the form of melody”.

Jennings has built on the lessons of her life and musical journey and courageously perfected the delicate balance between vulnerability, honesty and grit. “I believe that the difference between an artist and the average person is a fearless and relentless willingness to expose their quarks, oddities, secrets, and passions for all of the world to see and hear.”

Check her out:

• www.myspace.com/jenningsmusic
• www.jennings-music.com

Eva!

From Inman Perk Coffee » Events:
Music Lovers Rejoice!  Inman Perk Gainesville is happy to announce The Friday Night Music Gathering!  Come join host Eva Gael and other local performers for an ole’ fashioned community music fest!  Music begins at 7pm every Friday night.

More about our host:

Eva Gael began singing as a toddler and has been singing ever since. She began playing guitar as a young adult in rural Old Church, just outside of Richmond, Virginia. Her early songs came quickly and powerfully, and immediately established Eva as a musical force to be reckoned with. In 1992 Eva moved from her hometown to the “new South” city of Charlotte, North Carolina. Eva soon began hooking up with area musicians for jam sessions and gigs. After a brief stint in a southern rock cover band with sister Etta Lea, Eva returned to performing her original material as a solo act. Eva is a singer-songwriter in the folk-rock tradition. Powerful vocals and acoustic guitar deliver an appealing blend of catchy hooks and intense lyrics. Eva was a finalist in the Charlotte Lilith Fair competition in 1999. She has performanced at Living Art, the Double Door, the Evening Muse, the Tosco Music Party, the NoDa Gallery Crawls and as part of the Women of Folk Rock Showcase, which featured an awesome cast of talented female songwriters. Eva has opened for Michelle Malone, Kristen Hall and Kid Sister. She’s also shared the stage with Christy Snow, Deanna Lynn, John Dungan, and of course the fabulous ladies of the Near Misses!

March 30, 2009 @ The Georgia Mountain Center
From The Arts Council:
Barrage – A high-octane string group that features an international, multi-talented cast performing an eclectic mix of music, song and dance brings its show to Gainesville, Georgia on March 30, 2009.  This public performances is part of the Barrage “HIGH STRUNG” tour and features and international cast that delivers an eclectic show at a feverish pace.

“Barrage is too Wow for Words !”
– Denver Post

“After an evening of performing jigs on rocket fuel, its no wonder that more than a few horsehairs snapped on their bows”
– LA Daily News

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John McAndrew

From the Arts Council:
John McAndrew is a singer, a piano player and a storyteller…the songs he writes tell stories taken from his travels and observations of life.  To McAndrew lyrics are power.  Without taking lesson John taught himself to play the piano, sax, flute, guitar and harmonica and along the way fell in love with lyrics…the words that breathe live onto a song.  McAndrew describes himself as a ‘pops/blues’ artist who when at home listens to a lot of jazz.  Some of the selections that John will perform at Evenings of Intimate Jazz are from his cd “I’ll Play All Night Long.”

From the Gainesville Times:
Some storytellers use a medium of ink and paper to craft their stories. John McAndrew envelops his stories with piano notes and his voice, bringing them to life in movies, on nearly a dozen of his albums and even an upcoming Broadway show.

McAndrew calls himself a songwriter first, but he also plays the piano and sings in a deep, bluesy voice that instantly puts the listener at ease. And it’s this connection, McAndrew said, that’s why he was always drawn to music as a way to tell his stories.

“Music is powerful because it connects the head and the heart, and sometimes we need to touch the heart before people can think about things,” he said in a phone interview with The Times. “Music’s a powerful way to talk about anything, so almost all the songs I write are true stories or things that happen.”

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