Coastal Companion

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Highlights of 2008 Savannah Music Festival – Savannah, Georgia

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Stewart Copeland, Blind Boys of Alabama, Audra McDonald, Wycliffe Gordon, Porter Wagoner & Marty Stuart, Angelique Kidjo, Emerson String Quartet, Cherryholmes, Derek Trucks Band, Beaux Arts Trio, Béla Fleck, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with Garrick Ohlsson, Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby and others contribute to Georgia’s largest musical arts event

Savannah, Georgia – The Savannah Music Festival (SMF) unveiled its ambitious 2008 program, a 17-day musical arts marathon featuring nearly 100 events that comprise Georgia’s largest music festival. The not-for-profit organization announced that between March 20 and April 5, 2008, its expansion will continue with an array of premieres, one-time-only productions, singular U.S. appearances by international artists and a wealth of educational initiatives. The 19th annual festival will be spread throughout theatres, auditoriums, clubs, open-air thoroughfares and historic places of worship in the old seaport city at the start of its 275th anniversary year.

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Secrets of the Amazon – Charleston, SC

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Time is running out to discover the Amazon at the Aquarium’s changing exhibit, Secrets of the Amazon! The exhibit, honoring the mysterious countries of the Amazon, features a piranha, an anteater, four-eye fish, an anaconda, poison dart frogs and a variety of other exotic South American animals. All of the excitement of the foreign lands of South America will only be at the Aquarium until December 31. Don’t miss your last opportunity to discover the Secrets of the Amazon! To learn more about Secrets of the Amazon visit scaquarium.org

Gibbes Museum of Art Announces Southern Art Prize – Charleston, SC

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Elizabeth and Mallory Factor Prize for Southern Art
to be Awarded Annually
(Charleston, SC) – The Gibbes Museum of Art is pleased to announce the establishment of the Elizabeth and Mallory Factor Prize for Southern Art. The Factor Prize, to be given annually with a cash prize of $10,000, will acknowledge an artist whose work contributes to a new understanding of the South. The Factor Prize will represent the most generous prize of its type in the region.

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Space Shuttle Atlantis for Saturday?

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The launch of NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis will take place no earlier than Saturday, Dec. 8, at 3:43 p.m. EST. Thursday’s scheduled liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., was postponed because of a problem with a fuel cutoff sensor system inside the shuttle’s external fuel tank.
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