Escape to Create and Seaside Repertory Theatre present FILM + MUSIC + VIDEO featuring artists Julia Othmer and Jena Serbu on January 25 at 7:30pm at Seaside Meeting Hall Theatre in Seaside, Florida.
Escape To Create is honored to present Florida historian and awarded author Jack E. Davis on Wednesday, January 23rd at 4:00pm in a lecture and reception at Bud and Alley's Restaurant in Seaside.
Paving the way for digital art over the past six years, Alys Beach and its groundbreaking event, Digital Graffiti (DG), will bring another event series to the South Walton community and Scenic Highway 30A. Digital Graffiti provides a venue and reason for digital artists to showcase their one of a kind works.
For music lovers, January in SoWal is the best month of the year. It's when the 30A Songwriters Festival fills intimate venues and beautiful outdoor settings with writers who perform their own music, and performers who write their own songs. Join us January 18-20, 2013 for a weekend of soulful melodies, powerful vocals and compelling lyrics throughout South Walton during the festival, sponsored by SoWal.com.
Grammy Award-nominee Caroline Goulding returns to the Sinfonia stage to perform Sibelius’ epic violin concerto at 7:30pm on January 25, 2013. The concert concludes with Beethoven’s rhythmically whimsical and inspiring seventh symphony.
Beethoven: Symphony no 7 in A major, Op. 92
Ensemble: Sinfonia Gulf Coast
Conductor: Demetrius Fuller
Sibelius: Concerto for Violin in D minor, Op. 47
Artist: Caroline Goulding (Violin)
Ensemble: Sinfonia Gulf Coast
Andy Saczynski, South Walton Artist of the Year, will be making a special contribution to the 30A Songwriters Festival this year. Not only will he be working on a unique backdrop painting for the festival, but you can watch him complete the project live.
The 30A Songwriters Festival is right around the corner, which means Sowal will be packed to the brim with more than a hundred amazing and talented musicians. But is that really all that different from a normal weekend here? Locals know excellent musicians jam at the joint down the street every weekend in SoWal.
The Seaside Prize is an award given to individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to the quality and character of communities. The Seaside Institute's founding board members came up with the idea of this award to acknowledge those who had made great strides in moving the new urban movement forward. Each year, the recipient of the award is recognized at a ceremony held in Seaside.
Start making art now! Entries for the Cultural Arts Alliance A+ Art Committee’s annual juried show, “Top of the Class” must be submitted by February 5, 2013. The show, presented by the Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) in partnership with Northwest Florida State College, awards monetary prizes for the winning pieces of art. Artists may submit up to two entries of original art.
January 9, 2013 by SoWal Staff
Local favorites on the rise recorded live at one of our favorite venues. The Owsley Brothers ripped it up at Williams Backyard Boogie in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.
Hailing from the Gulf Coast of Florida The Owsley Brothers Began as the Bedroom Recording project of multi-instrumentalist J.E. Reynolds. Armed with a cheap guitar, half a drum kit and an 8-track recorder, Reynolds crafted Last Years Acclaimed EP Pure Lust.
