As part of the traveling exhibition New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra musicians will perform a free concert in Waycross in mid-September. The music begins at 7 p.m. on Sept. 14 at the Ware County High School Performing Arts Center, with the Okefenokee Heritage Center as co-presenter.
The lineup includes Dvorák’s “American String Quartet” and “Appalachian Waltz” by Mark O’Connor. Participating ASO musicians include violinists Jay Christy and Kenn Wagner, violist Jessica Oudin and cellist Joel Dallow.
The traveling exhibit explores early traditions in American music and comes from the Smithsonian Institution as part of a 12-city tour that includes visual displays, lectures and performances. Georgia is the only state partnering with an orchestra. The exhibit itself is at the Okefenokee Heritage Center in Waycross through Oct. 4. It will then visit LaGrange (Oct. 12-Nov. 26) and, eventually, the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta. It has already stopped in Calhoun, Madison, Darien, Perry, Moultrie, Toccoa, Bremen, Thomson and Americus.
