Category: Community News
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2024 Fiddlers Concert Series Continues with Tina Adair
The 2024 Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Concert Series continues with a concert on Thursday, March 7 at 7:00 pm with a performance by Tina Adair. The concert will be held at Athens State University in McCandless Hall. The name Tina Adair has become synonymous with excellence as far as female vocalists in bluegrass music…
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2024 Festival of the Cranes Exhibit to Open January 12
The Alabama Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the opening of the annual juried Festival of the Cranes Art Exhibit in the Center’s Walking Gallery on Friday, January 12. The show will be held in conjunction with the Friends of Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge Association’s annual Festival of the Cranes, which will take…
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Denise Santos Named New Director of Alumni Affairs
Athens State University is pleased to welcome Denise Santos as the University’s new Director of Alumni Affairs. Santos received her Associate of Arts in Humanities and Social Sciences from Onondaga Community College, her Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communications from State University of New York (SUNY) Potsdam, and her Master of Science in Integrated Marketing…
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“Portraits of Hope” Coming to the Alabama Center for the Arts
The Alabama Center for the Arts is pleased to announce its newest exhibit, “Portraits of Hope: Inspirational Stories from the Lovelady Center,” set to open in the Center’s Main Gallery on Monday, January 8, 2024 and remain on display until Tuesday, February 20, 2024. In 2004, Brenda Lovelady Spahn founded The Lovelady Center, a faith-based…
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2024 Fiddlers Concert Series Continues with Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley
The 2024 Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Concert Series continues with a concert on Thursday, January 25 at 7:00 pm with a performance by Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley. The concert will be held at Athens State University in McCandless Hall. Take a 15-time IBMA Dobro Player of the Year and a Tennessee-born guitar prodigy…
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Inaugural Christmas Column Lighting
Athens State University invites the community to join us as we kick off the holiday season at our inaugural Christmas Column Lighting at Founders Hall on Friday, December 1 at 5:15 pm. This family-friendly event will feature cookies and cider in the Glasgow Parlor at Founders Hall, carols sung by the Community Choir, and photos…
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2024 Fiddlers Concert Series Kicks Off with ‘Tis the Season with Andy Leftwich & Friends
The 2024 Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Concert Series kicks off with a special holiday concert on Tuesday, November 28 at 7:00 pm with a performance by Andy Leftwich & Friends. The concert will be held at Athens State University in McCandless Hall. Andy, his wife Rachel, and a few of their talented friends, will…
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Athens State’s Annual Veterans Day Program to Feature Colonel Eldridge Singleton
Athens State University will host its annual Veterans Day program on Friday, November 10 at 11:00 AM at the Alabama Veterans Museum in Athens, Alabama. This year’s program will feature veteran Colonel Eldridge Singleton. Colonel Eldridge “Raj” Singleton is the Director for EUCOM/AFRICO Regional Operations at the US Army Security Assistance Command on Redstone Arsenal.…
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2024 Fiddlers Concert Series Line Up Announced
The Athens State University Foundation and the Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention Steering Committee are pleased to announce the 2023-2024 Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Concert Series line up. This six-part series, leading up to the 2024 Fiddlers Convention next October, will allow music enthusiasts to enjoy the sounds of old-time music throughout the…
