Brian Gordy & Wyatt LeGrand will be the featured artists at the Brown County Art Guild during the month of October.

Located in the heart of Nashville, the Brown County Art Guild is open during the month of October Monday-Saturday from 11-5 and Sunday 12-4. Wyatt LeGrand will hold a painting demonstration from 2-4 p.m. prior to a reception during the Second Saturday Village Art Walk on October 8, from 4-8 p.m. at the Brown County Art Guild at 48 S. Van Buren Street in Nashville, IN. Brian Gordy will hold a watercolor demonstration on the following Saturday on October 15, from 2-4 p.m. with a piano and violin concert following from 4-6 p.m. For more information, call 812.988.6185 or visit http://www.browncountyartguild.org

Tickets are on sale now for the 40th Annual Tour of Historic Homes organized by Bloomington Restorations, Inc. The tour will be Saturday, Oct. 22 from noon to 5 p.m.
The tour, IU On the Move, features houses saved and rehabilitated by Indiana University, including ones moved in 2015 to enable the construction of the new FIJI House.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children under the age of 12. Tickets are available at Bloomingfoods and the Bloomington Visitors Center. On the day of the tour, tickets can be purchased at the tour headquarters, the Legg House, 324 S. Henderson. Free parking is available in the nearby Henderson Parking Garage, located on Fess Avenue north of Atwater Avenue.
At least seven and possibly as many as 11 structures will be on the tour for people to walk through. Because the five moved houses are used for short term faculty and administrative housing, the exact number of houses open for touring will not be known until the week of the tour.
For more information, contact BRI at 812-336-0909 or [email protected].

Please join us on our patio for live music from Josiah Whitley. Put an old soul in a young man, give him a guitar, and you have Josiah Whitley. A guitarist singer-songwriter from Wheelersburg, Ohio whose sound is a combination of rock, blues, country and folk, he is a distinctive blend with a sound uniquely himself.

Meet in the Thomas T. Solley Atrium on the first floor for a free, docent-led tour every Saturday from 2 to 3 p.m. Additional tours can be arranged upon request. The museum also offers audio description and touch tours for people with low vision. Walk-ins and kids are welcome. Please contact tour manager Patsy Rahn at [email protected] or (812) 855-7719 for more information.

Food Day Celebration Saturday October 22nd 2pm-5pm at the Hub: Join us for a Pie Potluck, a fruit tree demonstration with the Bloomington Community Orchard and a cheese making demo with The Hub. Bring the kids for food stories and hot cider with the Monroe County Youth Council, while the adults tackle food and poverty policy with Building a Thriving Compassionate Community (BTCC). Join us for pie, learning, fun and Food Justice.

Kade Puckett, AKA Pickin’ Puckett, is a songwriter and a fingerstyle guitarist with 30 years of experience playing music. A third-generation picker with a dedicated love of music, his musical mastery allows for the innovative meeting of sound and emotion. Spontaneous, magical, laughable, and honest, his live performance is both engaging and entertaining. Puckett also holds the 2013 Indiana Fingerstyle Contest title. His musical repertoire includes jazz, rock, country, blues, and funk.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
By Christopher Durang

Directed by Jonathan Michaelsen

The tranquility of siblings Vanya and Sonia’s uneventful home life is comically disrupted by the return of their movie star sister Masha, who owns the house. She brings with her unwelcome drama, a preening (and usually shirtless) young lover named Spike, and the devastating news of her plans to sell the house. Now all they need to reconcile is Snow White, a voodoo doll, and a play about the destruction of the earth.

Performance dates include October 21, 22, 25 – 28, 2016 at 7:30 pm and October 29 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Thank you Associate Producers and Theatre Circle Members Anne and Jim Bright for supporting this production.

Thanks to Indiana Masterpiece Grant for the Bicentennial, grant from Duke Energy and Brown County Art Guild sponsorship, the staged musical that premiered at the Playhouse in 2012 is back with Krista Detor directing and starring along with co-writer Arbutus Cunningham, Amanda Biggs, Kate Braun and Lara Lynn Weaver. This musical is a captivating window into the lives, choices and varied artwork of early 20th century Indiana women artists – Marie Goth, Janet Payne Bowles, the Overbeck Sisters, and Selma Steele. Beer & wine sold in the auditorium. 6 performances only.

Serenades on a Clear Night: Music of Schubert, Brahms, and Mendelssohn

Greg Geehern, Conductor

Several nineteenth-century composers presented their vocal and chamber works not in expansive concert halls, but in private salons and parlors. The Schubertiades, a series of intimate house concerts featuring the evocative music of Franz Schubert, were the forerunners of today’s cherished song recitals.

A young Felix Mendelssohn regularly entertained a host of fashionable guests in his family’s Berlin salon through his elegant chamber compositions and his prodigious performance skills.

Johannes Brahms, in a letter to his publisher, indicated that both his Liebeslieder and Neue Liebeslieder were suitable for Schubertiade-like house concerts.

These intimate spaces, and the fellowship that they engendered, prompted the composers to explore the similarly intimate themes of love, loss and the human being’s relationship to nature and the divine. Join the Bloomington Chamber Singers as we explore these themes through the vocal chamber music of Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms.

Powerhouse singer Lauren Robert joins forces with Israeli- born guitar virtuoso Rami Halperin, Drummer Jamey Reid and Bass Player Ron Kadish to bring to the stage the music of guitar legend Gary Moore, in their stunning show, BLUES FOR MOORE. Treat yourself, and check out the links of these incredible performers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfpY_q0nYtw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrjSVlDKPdI