Southwest Florida Events Highlights

Young Artist Awards Auditions 

The Young Artists Awards is a performing arts education, audition, performance, and scholarship program for students ages eight to twenty-one from throughout Southwest Florida. The project recognizes the area's top talented students in the performing arts. www.youngartistsawards.org

Dates: Saturday - January 14, 2012
Venue: Alliance for the Arts

Address: 10091 McGregor Blvd.
Location: Fort Myers                                                                                            Website: www.artinlee.org

Organization: Germain Arena

Come and join us for the Zac Brown Band. They will be playing Country music. Tickets: $72.50, $65.50, $48.50. Parking is also $10. For more information please call 239-948-7825.

Dates: January 20, 2012

Venue: Germain Arena 

Address: 11000 Everblades Parkway

Location:  Estero 

Website: www.germainarena.com

Bernstein’s sparkling and witty Overture to Candide, one of the most popular curtain-raisers in the symphonic repertory, opens this wide-ranging program. Next is Brahms’ final composition for orchestra, the innovative Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, a sweeping work known for its dramatic beginning, lyrical and mysterious middle section and gypsy-flavored final movement. The second half of the program will feature Prokofiev’s epic Fifth Symphony, conceived as “a symphony to the greatness of the human spirit,” which the composer considered his finest work.  For more information please call (239) 597-1900

Organization: Broadway Palm Dinner Theater  

It's 1937 and the Earl of Hareford has died leaving no apparent heir. The family has gathered, eagerly awaiting to hear how the estate will be split. The unlikely heir is commoner, Bill Snibson, a pugnacious Cockney ne'er do-well from Lambeth. Hilarity ensues as the Duchess tries to turn Bill into a proper gentleman. The British blue-bloods eventually warm to his charm and so will you as you dance in the aisles to the "Lambeth Walk". For more infomation please call 239-278-4422. 

Elvis Rockin' Birthday Bash 
Organization: Barbara B Mann Performing Arts Hall

In a celebration of what would have been Elvis' 77th Birthday, for one night only, Chris MacDonald will pay tribute to an All-American Legend in a truly dynamic performance complete with costumes, dancers and high-energy concert band. Come and join us for this birthday celebration of the life and music of one of the greatest entertainers and pop culture icons of our time. For more information please call 239-481-4849.