Museum News

September 21, 2007—Southern Soul and Song Day

Augusta, Georgia Mayor Deke Copenhaver proclaimed September 21, 2007, Southern Soul and Song Day in Augusta at the historic Imperial Theatre on September 18. The Southern Soul and Song concert series—an innovative partnership between the Morris Museum of Art, the nation’s premier museum of Southern art, and Augusta’s historic Imperial Theatre—is launching its fifth and most powerful season of bluegrass and americana music.

The series commences on Friday, September 21, with Mountain Heart, the 2002 Bluegrass Band of the Year, and continues with Blue Highway and special guests The Lovell Sisters on Friday, October 5.  International Bluegrass Music Association 2006 Entertainers of the Year The Grascals appear in Augusta for the first time on Friday, October 19, and Charlottesville, Virginia–based hipsters, King Wilkie, also make their series debut on Friday, November 2. Bluegrass king Ricky Skaggs with his band Kentucky Thunder returns after a two-year hiatus on Friday, November 16, and the new all-star band Grasstowne makes its Augusta debut with special guests the Kenny & Amanda Smith Band, on Friday, November 30. The series concludes with bluegrass’s favorite family band, Cherryholmes, also making its first series appearance, on Friday, December 14. More information about the series is available on our Southern Soul and Song calendar page.