ABAC at the Tift
This series presents original artists and tribute bands performing music by some of the greatest rock, soul, and rhythm and blues artists.
Valdosta Smyphony Orchestra with Rachel Cheung, piano
Sunday, September 29, 2019, 3 p.m.
TCHS Performing Arts Center
The Valdosta Symphony Orchestra, winner of The American Prize in Orchestral Performance, returns to the Tifton stage. This program features GRAMMY® Award-winning composer Anna Clyne’s Masquerade and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 4 which is dedicated to the patroness he never met, Nadezhda von Meck. The program also includes Rachmaninov’s sublime Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, featuring 2017 Cliburn Competition Audience Award-winning pianist, Rachel Cheung as soloist.
This performance is supported, in part, by Hilton Garden Inn of Tifton.
I AM KING: The Michael Jackson Experience
Thursday, September 26, 2019, 7:30 p.m. Tift Theatre
LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS!!! I AM KING – The Michael Jackson Experience is as close as you will get to seeing the King of Pop live in concert. Featuring Michael Jackson tribute artists singing live while mastering the intense dancing that Jackson was so famous for. I AM KING takes the audience on a musical and visual journey into the world of Jackson’s music. The creators of I AM KING have put together an incredible cast of talented musicians and dancers from Broadway and Las Vegas to bring Jackson to life in an explosion of unmatched energetic perfection.
TRIBUTE: a celebration of the Allman Brothers Band​
Thursday, November 7, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
• Tift Theatre
TRIBUTE – a celebration of The Allman Brothers Band is a powerful group that faithfully recreates the music of one of the finest rock bands of all time. Since the group’s founding in 2013, the Atlanta-based tribute has earned a reputation as the source for the authentic Allman Brothers Band sound around Atlanta and throughout the Southeast. Rigged with vintage equipment, they interpret the catalog in such a way that these songs written in the ‘60s and ‘70s come alive again.
Valdosta Smyphony Orchestra with Rachel Cheung, piano
Sunday, September 29, 2019, 3 p.m.
TCHS Performing Arts Center
The Valdosta Symphony Orchestra, winner of The American Prize in Orchestral Performance, returns to the Tifton stage. This program features GRAMMY® Award-winning composer Anna Clyne’s Masquerade and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 4 which is dedicated to the patroness he never met, Nadezhda von Meck. The program also includes Rachmaninov’s sublime Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, featuring 2017 Cliburn Competition Audience Award-winning pianist, Rachel Cheung as soloist.
This performance is supported, in part, by Hilton Garden Inn of Tifton.
Southern Accents:
The Ultimate Tom Petty Experience
Thursday, February 13, 2020, 7:30 p.m. Tift Theatre
The depth of the care and effort that Southern Accents put into their stage presence matches Tom Petty’s moves and music, separating them from any other tribute band out there. They play like it is their very own music while showing respect to its original creator. Southern Accents bring the timeless melodies, sweet rhythms, and wild rock-music of Petty to the stage for everyone to experience and fall in love with all over again, recreating some of the most important rock songs ever written.
Chanticleer
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
TCHS Performing Arts Center
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TRIBUTE: a celebration of the Allman Brothers Band
Thursday, November 7, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Tift Theatre
Cornell Gunter’s Coasters
Thursday, April 30, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Tift Theatre
The Coasters are an American rhythm and blues and rock ‘n’ roll vocal group that had a string of hits in the late 1950s. Beginning with “Searchin” and “Young Blood,” their most memorable songs were written by the songwriting and producing team Leiber and Stoller. Although the Coasters originated outside of mainstream doo-wop, their records were so frequently imitated that they became an important part of the doo-wop legacy through the 1960s. The Coasters’ hits also comprised a major portion of the song score for the 1994 musical revue Smokey Joe’s Café, a retrospective of Leiber and Stoller songs that received one GRAMMY® Award and seven Tony Award® nominations following its 1995 Broadway debut. From “Yakkety Yak” to “Charlie Brown” to “Poison Ivy,” these monumental songs helped induct the Coasters into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.