MUSIC
Duane Betts comes by his Southern-rock heritage actually. He’s the son of Allman Brothers Band co-founder Dickey Betts and was named for the enduring guitarist Duane Allman. Betts performed in his father’s solo band for practically a decade after which teamed up with Devon Allman (son of Gregg Allman) and Berry Oakley Jr. (son of the unique bass participant for the Allman Brothers) to place collectively the Allman Betts Band, which went on hiatus this yr. Betts has launched one solo album and is at work on his second. Betts involves Metropolis Vineyard on Friday at 8 p.m. Anticipate Southern-flavored rock that reveals the heavy affect of his legendary father. Tickets begin at $25.
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Actress (Lawless) and jazz singer Toni Byrd comes the The Velvet Observe in Alpharetta Friday for reveals at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Born in Memphis and the daughter of a musician, Byrd now lives in Atlanta and was a semi-finalist within the 2014 Indaba Music Sarah Vaughan Worldwide Jazz Vocal Competitors. Byrd has launched two albums, one among unique songs and the opposite a tribute to Natalie Cole. Tickets are $34.
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ART+DESIGN
The Sandler Hudson Gallery unexpectedly shuttered its group exhibit An empty Area to fill within the Spring as a result of the gallery flooded. Now Sandler is in a brand new location and this exhibit, with (section two) added to the title, is on show once more. William Downs continues to be curator, however the lineup of artists has modified; some needed to drop out, others are new to the present: Fredrik Brauer, Jane Foley, Eric Kaepplinger, Marc Andre Robinson and Tori Tinsley. Via September 3.
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The just-opened, two-person exhibit at NicholsAtlanta gallery options painter Demetri Burke and photographer José Ibarra Rizo. Burke’s work deal with Black masculinity and the historical past of Black males in America; Rizo’s portraits doc people within the American South who’re migrants or youngsters of migrants, humanizing their experiences. Increasing Narratives runs via August 27. 1080 West Peachtree Road.
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Karen Comer Lowe not too long ago curated Genevieve Gaignard’s exhibit at Atlanta Up to date. Now she’s engaged with the artist on Look At Them Look At Us, a brand new, large-scale art work downtown. Ablaze with neon, the work is situated on the aspect of a parking storage and addresses problems with race, class and gender. It displays Gaignard’s signature mix of glamour, camp and the exaggerated visuals of the social-media age. Above her set up, a rotating digital show courtesy of Orange Barrel Media continues the dialog with photos from native artists, amongst them AD Kaya Clark, Chip Moody, C. Rose Smith, Artemus Jenkins and Natrice Miller. Gaignard’s art work is everlasting; the digital signal might be up via December 31. Each are a part of the Atlanta Arts & Leisure District happenings downtown. 79 Marietta Road, NW.
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THEATER
Co-winner of the Important Theatre Playwriting Award in 2020, The Outrage Machine kicks off the 2022 Important Theatre Play Competition with a preview efficiency tonight earlier than Friday’s opening evening present at West Finish Performing Arts Middle. Daniel Carter Brown’s satiric drama explores web journalism, social media and the tradition of concern. “Briefly, this can be a play about how the web makes us indignant on goal,” he says. “It’s a criticism of journalism and the way in which we eat it. It’s additionally a criticism of the gig financial system, and the listlessness it has imposed on a era.” (See our interview with the playwright and browse extra concerning the full pageant lineup on ArtsATL on Friday.) Via August 27.
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It’s the canine days of summer season, which implies it’s formally too sizzling for theatergoers to assume straight. At the very least two metro troupes are presenting easygoing music as a substitute for brain-demanding drama. Friday via Sunday, Georgia Ensemble Theatre performs its ultimate three nights of Summer season Surf Get together at Chattahoochee Nature Middle’s Ben Brady Pavilion in Roswell. It’s a scripted tribute to the music of the Seaside Boys, the Drifters, Jan and Dean and Chuck Berry. Gates open at 7 p.m., present begins at 8 p.m. In the meantime, Stone Mountain’s ART Station has cued up The Pin-Up Ladies, opening tonight. The present is described as “a cavalcade of hits impressed by letters house from our troops abroad,” spanning a century and together with music that ranges from the Andrew Sisters to hip-hop. Via August 14.
BOOKS
Decatur’s Courageous + Type Bookshop is internet hosting a Summer season Guide Get together on Saturday that celebrates younger grownup writer Serena Kaylor’s debut launch. Her first novel, Lengthy Story Brief, is a younger grownup rom-com a couple of homeschooled math genius who finds herself out of her component at a summer season theater camp. Becoming a member of Kaylor might be authors Kristin Dwyer (Some Errors Have been Made), Julian Winters (Proper The place I Left You) and Kelly Quindlen (She Drives Me Loopy). The occasion, on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. on the Georgia Middle for the Guide’s Decatur Library, additionally embrace the primary in-person YATL Dwell session for the reason that pandemic.
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DANCE
Sue Schroeder of Core Dance has been supporting and commissioning display screen dance for a few years, as evidenced by the sequence enCore: Dance on Movie, which has screened yearly since 2014. Christian Meyer, Jennifer Scully-Thurston, Adam Larsen and Atlanta’s personal Felipe Barral are among the many filmmakers whose work has appeared on the corporate’s studio home windows in Decatur sq.. There’s additionally multidisciplinary artist Anton Ovchinnikov of Ukraine. He not too long ago fled Kyiv to stick with his mom in her small village and, after 4 weeks of feeling paralyzed by the continued struggle, he created a dance movie. It’s titled Monochrome and is likely one of the 20 movies in rotation each evening via August 31, when this yr’s sequence involves an finish. Free. 133 Sycamore Road.
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