Live at Chattanooga River Market 4/28, 3:00m - Chattanooga Symphony & Opera String Quartet Members of the CSO String Quartet, including Lisa Dempsey (Violin 1), Sheri Peck (Violin 2), Robert Elder (Viola), and Eric Reed (Cello), are all principal players in the CSO Orchestra.  They often are seen about town performing at schools, libraries, hospitals, and community centers.

Live at Chattanooga River Market 4/28, 3:00m - Chattanooga Symphony & Opera String Quartet

Members of the CSO String Quartet, including Lisa Dempsey (Violin 1), Sheri Peck (Violin 2), Robert Elder (Viola), and Eric Reed (Cello), are all principal players in the CSO Orchestra.  They often are seen about town performing at schools, libraries, hospitals, and community centers.

Live at Chattanooga Market on the EPB Stage 4/29, 2pm: Lydia Walker LYDIA WALKER is an alternative folk singer/songwriter from Cunningham, TN. Since the age of 12, she has been writing and performing her own songs, accompanied by her acoustic guitar. She has performed at coffee shops, colleges, churches, and festivals. Lydia has just released her 7th independent album, “Beloved”, co-written and produced with Nashville hit songwriter Curt Ryle. Her goal is to inspire people with a message of hope.

Live at Chattanooga Market on the EPB Stage 4/29, 2pm: Lydia Walker

LYDIA WALKER is an alternative folk singer/songwriter from Cunningham, TN. Since the age of 12, she has been writing and performing her own songs, accompanied by her acoustic guitar. She has performed at coffee shops, colleges, churches, and festivals. Lydia has just released her 7th independent album, “Beloved”, co-written and produced with Nashville hit songwriter Curt Ryle. Her goal is to inspire people with a message of hope.

Live at Chattanooga Market on the EPB Stage 4/29, 12:30pm: Megan Light Originally from the northern wilds of Winter Harbor, Maine, Megan Light relocated to Nashville in 2005. Her first studio LP was produced by Robert Reynolds (The Mavericks), released in 2007. Her latest effort, Black & White, is a five song vignette of indie-pop, with Megan’s delicate vocal, acoustic guitar and piano the framework for the overall sound. The songs are direct, honest and simple. “Coming from such a remote corner of the country, I didn’t bring a premeditated self-image to Nashville. I just do what I like. It’s simple and kind’a naive, really. I hope to keep it that way,” Megan says. Produced by Eliot Houser (Shack Shakers, Old Crow Medicine Show), the new EP includes collaboration with drummer Fred Eltringham (The Wallflowers, Dixie Chicks) bassist Dean Tomasek (Bare Jr., Will Hoge) guitarist-producer Nathan Spears (Stack Magic, Red Letters Project) and cellist Claire Indie (Landon Pigg, Taylor Swift). “There was a considerable amount of pre-production that went into it. We didn’t want it to sound like an over-tracked, overdubbed-to-death recording, so we did some live shows and rehearsals beforehand. I feel we achieved something special, something very listenable for the everyday person,” Megan says.

Live at Chattanooga Market on the EPB Stage 4/29, 12:30pm: Megan Light

Originally from the northern wilds of Winter Harbor, Maine, Megan Light relocated to Nashville in 2005. Her first studio LP was produced by Robert Reynolds (The Mavericks), released in 2007. Her latest effort, Black & White, is a five song vignette of indie-pop, with Megan’s delicate vocal, acoustic guitar and piano the framework for the overall sound. The songs are direct, honest and simple. “Coming from such a remote corner of the country, I didn’t bring a premeditated self-image to Nashville. I just do what I like. It’s simple and kind’a naive, really. I hope to keep it that way,” Megan says. Produced by Eliot Houser (Shack Shakers, Old Crow Medicine Show), the new EP includes collaboration with drummer Fred Eltringham (The Wallflowers, Dixie Chicks) bassist Dean Tomasek (Bare Jr., Will Hoge) guitarist-producer Nathan Spears (Stack Magic, Red Letters Project) and cellist Claire Indie (Landon Pigg, Taylor Swift). “There was a considerable amount of pre-production that went into it. We didn’t want it to sound like an over-tracked, overdubbed-to-death recording, so we did some live shows and rehearsals beforehand. I feel we achieved something special, something very listenable for the everyday person,” Megan says.

Live at Chattanooga RIver Market 4/28, 7pm: Ogya World Music Band Ogya World Music Band brings hot,sultry rhythms of West Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas to the masses.  Their high-energy original compositions and exceptional styling of cover tunes in various genres make this band enjoyable to all ages and all cultures.  Based in Chattanooga, Tennessee since 2006, Ogya’s big band sound is gaining major recognition around eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, the Florida panhandle, New Orleans and Atlanta, giving credence to the meaning of the word Ogya – FIRE!   www.worldmusic4you.com

Live at Chattanooga RIver Market 4/28, 7pm: Ogya World Music Band

Ogya World Music Band brings hot,sultry rhythms of West Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas to the masses.  Their high-energy original compositions and exceptional styling of cover tunes in various genres make this band enjoyable to all ages and all cultures.  Based in Chattanooga, Tennessee since 2006, Ogya’s big band sound is gaining major recognition around eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, the Florida panhandle, New Orleans and Atlanta, giving credence to the meaning of the word Ogya – FIRE!  

www.worldmusic4you.com

Live at River Market 4/21: Paul Vogler Paul Vogler, now teaches music at the University of Tennessee (Chattanooga) and Georgia Perimeter College. Since 1995, his Lake Productions has offered educational programming and interactive exhibits. Most recently Paul presented a workshop for the Atlanta History Center’s Black World Music Series, produced music and exhibits for Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon and Creative Discovery Museum in Chattanooga. His “Bessie Bus,” a mobile jazz and blues program, won the 1997 Dorothy Mullen National Arts Award. Paul also maintains an active performance schedule playing steel drum, vibraphone and percussion. In the mid 1990′s the islands called to Paul and he began playing steel pan, appearing on the bill with such greats as Ziggy Marley. Paul currently resides in Atlanta, GA with his wife, daughter, and dog Hank.

Live at River Market 4/21: Paul Vogler

Paul Vogler, now teaches music at the University of Tennessee (Chattanooga) and Georgia Perimeter College. Since 1995, his Lake Productions has offered educational programming and interactive exhibits. Most recently Paul presented a workshop for the Atlanta History Center’s Black World Music Series, produced music and exhibits for Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon and Creative Discovery Museum in Chattanooga. His “Bessie Bus,” a mobile jazz and blues program, won the 1997 Dorothy Mullen National Arts Award. Paul also maintains an active performance schedule playing steel drum, vibraphone and percussion.

In the mid 1990′s the islands called to Paul and he began playing steel pan, appearing on the bill with such greats as Ziggy Marley. Paul currently resides in Atlanta, GA with his wife, daughter, and dog Hank.

Live at Chattanooga Market 4/22, 2pm: Charles Butler & Associates Charles Butler & Associates are one of Nashville’s finest instrumental acts. Weaving together bluegrass and jazz instrumentation into a singular tapestry of new acoustic music, this intrepid quintet redefines what can be done in the world of ‘grass’.   “Interstellar bluegrass voyagers” -Nashville Scene

Live at Chattanooga Market 4/22, 2pm: Charles Butler & Associates

Charles Butler & Associates are one of Nashville’s finest instrumental acts. Weaving together bluegrass and jazz instrumentation into a singular tapestry of new acoustic music, this intrepid quintet redefines what can be done in the world of ‘grass’.

  “Interstellar bluegrass voyagers”

-Nashville Scene

Live at Chattanooga Market 4/22, 12:30pm - Chattanooga Symphony & Opera String Quartet Members of the CSO String Quartet, including Lisa Dempsey (Violin 1), Sheri Peck (Violin 2), Robert Elder (Viola), and Eric Reed (Cello), are all principal players in the CSO Orchestra.  They often are seen about town performing at schools, libraries, hospitals, and community centers.

Live at Chattanooga Market 4/22, 12:30pm - Chattanooga Symphony & Opera String Quartet

Members of the CSO String Quartet, including Lisa Dempsey (Violin 1), Sheri Peck (Violin 2), Robert Elder (Viola), and Eric Reed (Cello), are all principal players in the CSO Orchestra.  They often are seen about town performing at schools, libraries, hospitals, and community centers.