Editor’s note: We’re resharing stories that were the year’s most-read from each of the disciplines we cover. The following articles were exceptionally popular with our readers. Thank you for a wonderful 2025, and we look forward to bringing you more of the best arts coverage in Atlanta in 2026. Art + Design: Remembrance: Marquetta Johnson…
For two decades, Yi nurtured local talent at Churchill Grounds, then at Ten ATL and pop-up concerts around the city. Wherever he went, the fans followed. :: Editor’s note: We’re resharing stories that were the year’s most-read from each of the disciplines we cover. The following article was exceptionally popular with our readers. Thank you…
For two decades, Yi nurtured local talent at Churchill Grounds, then at TenATL and pop-up concerts around the city. Wherever he went, the fans followed. :: Sam Yi, the guiding light of jazz in Atlanta, who ran the Churchill Grounds jazz club in Midtown for two decades and later curated jam sessions and pop-up concerts…
Looking back on 2017, the richness and continued potential of Atlanta’s diverse musical offerings shone well throughout the year. For the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, 2017 was marked by growing optimism about the orchestra’s future among musicians, patrons and audience. The orchestra added significantly to its roster in 2017, allowing the orchestra’s ranks to begin a…
For the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the first half of 2016 was most distinctively marked by the culmination of its Robert Shaw Centennial, celebrating the late long-time music director who was responsible for turning the ASO into a full-time professional orchestra and recording multiple Grammy Award-winning albums with the orchestra and its chorus
Churchill Grounds, the venerated Atlanta jazz club next to the Fox Theatre that closed its doors in July, has found a new home and plans to re-open next fall in Grant Park.
Three years ago this weekend, Churchill Grounds, the jazz venue nestled next to the Fox Theatre, closed its performance room adjacent to the bar. The venue found a second life in the cozier confines of the bar, but now after running the show for nearly 20 years, owner Sam Yi is closing the doors. As…
Churchill Grounds, which has served as a nurturing ground and showcase for Atlanta jazz for nearly two decades, will close at its Peachtree Street space next to the Fox Theatre on July 31. Owner Sam Yi said in a Facebook post that he hopes to open a new Churchill in the near future. “It’s been almost…
Two and a half years ago, amateur trumpeter, professional Web developer and jazz blogger Rick Gutierrez started going to Atlanta-area jazz shows armed with a small video camera. The result is a digital concert diary that at this writing has grown to 65 entries, each accompanied by detailed personnel notes. Gutierrez is expanding it every…
Marcus Printup, a trumpeter best known for his 17-year tenure with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, knows all the right things to say about his hometown crowd. Just as generations of performers before him have used variations of the line “I love you [insert city here],” the Conyers, Georgia, native can compliment an audience like…
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