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Arts & Life Performance Series

Arts and Sciences Music
Music

Bringing world-class performers to our Searcy audience

Individual event tickets may be purchased at www.hardingtickets.com for less than the price at the door.  Except for the December 5 concert with the ASO and Emmet Cahill, children 12 and under are admitted free of charge.  No ticket is required for Arts and Life events with a valid Harding I.D., excluding the December 5 concert with the ASO and Emmet Cahill.  Valentine's Dinner tickets are sold separately and include free admission to the concert.

Harding Music is most grateful for Centennial Bank's generous sponsorship of the Arts & Life Performance Series.

                                                                          

Casey Penn Band.

A collaboration with Beats and Eats

Sept. 27, 7:00 p.m. with pre-show entertainment and food vendors starting at 6:00 p.m.

Heritage Park (across Grand St. from Midnight Oil)

Free admission to all

 In the case of inclement weather, the event will be moved to the Hammon Student Center

THE CASEY PENN BAND

Since this event is outdoors, we recommend bringing lawn chairs or blankets to sit on!

Hear The Casey Penn Band

Tuba Skinny.

 

Oct. 21, 7:00 p.m., Administration Auditorium

TUBA SKINNY, Music of the 1920s

In collaboration with the Clifton L. Ganus Jr. Distinguished Chair of History and Political Science

For over a decade TUBA SKINNY has grown steadily in popularity, releasing twelve albums and touring the world.  Just this year they were selected to receive the coveted Arhoolie Award for the promotion of traditional American music.  Specialists in traditional jazz, the band will join us in Searcy to help us celebrate the music of the decade in which Harding was founded a century ago.

Watch Tuba Skinny

emmettcahill

Dec. 5, 7:00 p.m., Benson Auditorium

EMMET CAHILL, with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Harding University's Grand Chorus

Lead singer of the PBS phenomenon "Celtic Thunder," Emmet Cahill, who hails from Mullingar, Ireland, will share an evening of Christmas favorites with the Arts and Life audience.  He recently sold out at his Carnegie Hall debut, and wherever he performs, from Atlanta Symphony Hall to the Today Show, his following grows exponentially.  Emmet will be joined on stage by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Harding's Grand Chorus.  The concert will feature Christmas classics, such as "O Holy Night" and "Angels We Have Heard on High," as well as more contemporary works, such as Mel Torme's "The Christmas Song" and a suite from "The Polar Express."  What better way could there be to get into the Christmas spirit?

Watch Emmet Cahill

  • Meroë Khalia Adeeb, soprano
  • Christopher Adkins, cello
  • Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers
  • American Boychoir
  • Anam, Celtic ensemble
  • Andrea Anderson, harpsichord and clavichord
  • Rosario Andino, piano
  • Aquila Theater
  • Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem
  • Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
  • Artie Shaw Orchestra
  • Annie Moses Band
  • Aubrey Logan jazz trio
  • Maria Bachmann, violin
  • Bachmann-Klibonoff-Fridman Trio
  • Baltimore Consort
  • Barron Ryan, piano
  • Marvin Blickenstaff, piano
  • Bonnie Rideout Scottish Trio
  • Stephen Mark Brown, tenor
  • Brubeck Brothers Quartet
  • David Burgess, guitar
  • Emmet Cahill; tenor
  • Cambridge Buskers
  • Cantus
  • Capitol City Opera
  • Tony Caramia, piano
  • Carion Wind Quintet
  • Bill Carrothers, jazz piano
  • Cedar Hill with Tim Crouch
  • Chestnut Brass Quintet
  • Chinese Golden Dragon Circus
  • Ron Chioldi, piano
  • Chris Brubeck Trio
  • Clara Campbell Christian, piano
  • Chinese Golden Dragon Circus
  • Colorado Quartet
  • Commodores - U.S. Navy Jazz Band
  • Andrew Cooperstock, piano
  • Carmen Cusack, Broadway leading lady
  • Alice Downs, piano
  • Rosana Eckert, vocal jazz
  • Ethos Percussion Ensemble
  • Tom Gallant, oboe, with the Tesla String Quartet
  • Gravel Yard Bluegrass Band
  • Andrew Harnsberger, marimba
  • Carla Helmbrecht
  • Joel Fan, piano
  • Mac Frampton, piano
  • Ryan Fogg, piano
  • Julie Fowlis, Celtic music
  • GrooveLily
  • Pete Huttlinger, guitar
  • Intersection Trio, violin, cello and piano
  • Eugene Istomen, piano
  • Petar Jankovic, guitar
  • Janoska Ensemble
  • Janus Trio
  • Katona Twins, guitar
  • La Vera Constanza, basset horn trio
  • Layali El Andalus
  • Brad Leali, saxophone
  • Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
  • Colleen Mallett, soprano
  • Mantovani Orchestra
  • Jura Margulis, piano
  • Michael Mauldin, "An Evening with Mark Twain"
  • Maynard Ferguson Band
  • Megan McCorkle, soprano
  • Memphis Chamber Opera
  • Merling Trio
  • John McEuen & John Cable of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
  • Raul Midón, guitar and singer/songwriter
  • National Shakespeare Company
  • Natural State Brass Band
  • Nebraska Theater Caravan
  • New York Classical Players, chamber orchestra
  • Newpoli, Italian folk music
  • Douglas Niedt, guitar
  • Octarium, vocal ensemble
  • Opera a la Carte
  • Orchid Ensemble, Chinese fusion
  • Jaimee Paul and Leif Shires
  • David Payne, "An Evening with C.S. Lewis"
  • Frank Pitts, baritone
  • Beth Porter, soprano
  • Quink, vocal ensemble
  • Ronald Radford, flamenco guitar
  • Jerome Reed, piano
  • Tatiana Roitman Mann and Cindy Wu, piano and violin
  • Gustavo Romero, piano
  • Rosa Inciaca, Argentine folk duo
  • Don Ross, guitar
  • Roman Rudnytsky, piano
  • Russian Renaissance
  • Russian String Orchestra
  • Neil Rutman, piano
  • Saint Louis Brass
  • Kathleen Scheide, harpsichord
  • Sinta Saxophone Quartet
  • Crispian Steele Perkins, natural trumpet
  • Stephanie Samarias, soprano
  • Sea Chanters
  • Ted Ludwig Trio
  • Tim and Kristin Smith, piano and cello
  • Swingle Singers
  • Dana and Sue Talley, tenor and piano
  • Dan Tepfer, piano
  • The Altinos, cello and piano
  • The Flying Karamazov Brothers
  • The Merling Trio
  • The Queen's Cartoonists
  • The Rhodes Show
  • The United States Army Band
  • The United States Marine Band
  • Gustavo and Maria Tolosa, piano
  • Priscilla Tsai and Oksana Poesbook, violin and piano
  • David Walton, tenor
  • Carmen Walker, soprano
  • Rosilee Walker, piano
  • Teresa Walters, piano
  • Washington Saxophone Quartet
  • Women of the World, a cappella group
  • Di Wu, piano
  • Kelly Yoakum, harp

Contact Information


Music Department
501-279-4343
music@harding.edu

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