Rescheduled to November 16. Grab your boots and join in the fun. Boot Scootin’ BBQ Fundraiser takes place on October 17, 6-8pm at the Greenlife Inn at the Mimosa. Tickets are $40 per person and $75 per couple. Tickets are available by emailing: jessicat@bbbswnc.org. ♦...
Native Plant Sale at Harmon Field, Tryon, NC on September 20, 3-7pm. Support pollinators and wildlife with native plants. Shop for ground covers to trees and everything in between. ♦ Additional information may be found at: https://www.gardeningforlifeproject.org/news/gflp-native-plant-sale-fall-2024...
Free event. The program, entitled “More Habitat, Less Lawn: Getting Started with Rewilding Your Yard,” will feature guest speaker Sharon Mammoser. The talk will take place from 6-8pm at the Tryon Depot, 22 Depot St., Tryon, NC. The program will explore ways to make yards more wildlife-friendly, starting with the creation of habitat islands. ♦ Advance reservations are required. Email Corrie Woods at corriewds@gmail.com for reservations. This is a free event, but donations are welcome to help cover...
Thursday, November 12, 7:30pm. Tickets are $150/adults & $50/students. Individual concert tickets are available two weeks prior to the event if available. Tickets are available at: https://tryonconcerts.org/concert-series Winner of First Prize and Best Concerto Prize at the 2020 National Chopin Piano Competition, pianist Avery Gagliano was the only American semifinalist at the 18th International Chopin Competition in 2021. Other awards include the Audience Prize at the 2019 Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition, and the Aspen Music Festival Concerto Competition. In 2023, Ms. Gagliano was invited by Sir András Schiff to participate in his Building Bridges concert series in Europe. She made her Carnegie Hall debut at age 20 and has since appeared in distinguished venues such as Luxembourg Philharmonie, Ehrbar Saal in Vienna, La Grange au Lac in Évian, and Miami International Piano Festival. More venues include the Verbier, Gilmore, Bravo!Vail!, Ravinia, and Aspen music festivals. Solo performances with orchestras have taken her to Louisville, Maryland, Aspen, New York, and Warsaw. This young pianist brings emotional depth, sincerity, and exquisite voicing to her playing. Her thoughtful and intriguing spirit on the stage has made her a favorite of audiences. “Her ability to inhabit every room in the immense imagination of Frédéric Chopin came as a revelation,” wrote the New York Classical...
Friday, November 8, 7:30pm. Tickets are $40 per person. Beverages will be for sale. Tickets are available at: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?actions=10&p=61 “Jamie Laval and Amber Rose take an exciting musical journey through Scotland, Ireland, and Brittany, evocatively reimagining Gaelic love songs, rustic peasant dances, and recounting mythic tales from the ancient Celtic world. Jamie is acclaimed throughout the U.S. and Great Britain as a premier performer of traditional instrumental Celtic music and original compositions inspired by ancient Highland bagpiping. Jamie won the U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Championship, performed for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and presented a TEDx Talk on the value of music and arts in our communities. Amber is a rising star on the vocal horizon. Her soaring, angelic voice brings to mind a fairytale-like quality in ancient airs and ballads. Amber’s musical versatility sees her performing folk music regularly with Jamie Laval, while also becoming increasingly in demand in the world of opera. She was first place winner of the District Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and recently made her first international appearance performing in the magnificent Teatro Comunale in...
September 13, 7pm, Tryon Fine Arts Center Pavilion. Tickets are $15 per person. Beverages will be for sale. Shakespeare & Friends will present a dramatic reading of “The Laramie Project.” The Laramie Project is a powerful and incredibly moving play based on the hate crime murder of a young man, Matthew Shepard, in...
Four Old Broads at Tryon Little Theater Workshop, May 1-4 & 8-11. Tryon Little Theater’s last show of the season if “Four Old Broad”. Written by Leslie Kimball, and directed by Linda Killon, the play will open May 1, at the Tryon Little Theater Workshop Theater, and run for two weekends: May 1-4 and May 8-11. “A comedy, packed with well-developed characters, “Four Old Broads” tackles age-related issues with humor, and highlights four women in an assisted living facility who band together to solve the mystery of the evil nurse and why so many residents have been moved to the ward known as “the dark side”. ♦ Tickets for the show are available online at: https://tltinfo.org/ or by calling 828-859-2466. Ticket prices are...
Gypsy: A Musical Fable at Tryon Fine Arts Center, Feb 28 – Mar 2 & Mar 7-9. Tickets $30/adult & $15/student. “A Stephen Sondheim musical, loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, focuses on her mother, Rose, whose name has become synonymous with “the ultimate show business mother.” It follows the dreams and efforts of Rose to raise two daughters to perform onstage and casts an affectionate eye on the hardships of show business life. Musical numbers include “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” and “Let Me Entertain You.”♦ Tickets are available at:...
