Florida Culture for the Week of August 6, 2017 By Josh Garrick  

Florida Culture for the Week of July 30, 2017 By Josh Garrick 

Florida Culture for the Week of July 23, 2017 By Josh Garrick 
 
FINAL Performance TODAY -- July 23 – ‘Hairspray’ by Encore! Cast Performing Arts 

Florida Culture for the Week of July 16, 2017 By Josh Garrick 
 
FINAL WEEK -- to July 24 – Disney’s ‘High School Musical’ at Breakthrough Theatre 

Florida Culture for the Week of July 9, 2017 By Josh Garrick  

"We are in a unique location, and you have to have a pioneering spirit to make it all the way up to the festival if you don't have ties here," says Caroline MacLennan, festival director of the Hebridean Celtic Festival -- Fèis Cheilteach Innse Gall in Scotttish Gaelic. The place she's speaking of is the Isle of Lewis, the northernmost island of the Western Isles, some forty miles off the north west coast of Scotland.

Music runs deep in Ireland and Scotland, in the landscape, the history, the legends, the stories, and the lives of the people. Though each is a small country, geographically, they both have sent, and continue to send, mighty amounts of music out into the world. Here are three recordings which offer very different gateways into Ireland and Scotland.

Florida Culture for the Week of June 25 and a 3rd & 4th of July Fireworks Preview By Josh Garrick 
 
FINAL WEEK -- NOW to July 2 – ‘Animal Crackers,’ the Marx Brothers Musical

Little House on the Prairie: even if you’ve never been to the American midwest, these words bring up images -- images which seem like memories, really -- of life at the edge of pioneer times in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas a century and a half ago.

Irish music has a way of touching emotions and reaching hearts across time and place and language.