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Experience Miles Davis tonight at UGA
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The UGA Performing Arts Center will present "The Miles Davis Experience: 1949 to 1959" at 8 p.m. Nov. 17 in Hodgson Concert Hall.

Featuring live music, period photos and film clips, "The Miles Davis Experience" is designed to give audience members a genuine feeling of what it was like to live in America during this important period.

A beat poet-style narrator, Donald Lacy, weaves together the various elements of the production. Lacy is a talented writer, director, actor, comedian, and radio talk show host whose television and film credits include the new film, Cherry, with James Franco; Jack, directed by Francis Ford Coppola; Blood In, Blood Out, directed by Taylor Hackford; and L.A. Heat and Hangin' with Mr. Cooper on ABC.

Tickets are $20-$39 with special discounts for UGA students and can be purchased online at www.uga.edu/pac or by calling the Performing Arts Center box office at 706-542-4400 or 888-289-8497.

Local celebrities face off in dance contest to raise money for 3 charities
Dancing for a Cause set for Aug. 26
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Anjana Freeman and dance instructor Jonathan Bryant practice at the North Geogia School of Music and Dance for the 2017 Dancing for a Cause. The event raises funds for three local charities.
Some call it the “best fundraiser in town.” The fourth annual Dancing for a Cause will bring dinner, dancing and competition to the Chattahoochee Country Club on Aug. 26 as 10 local “celebrities” vie for the coveted Mirror Ball . The event, which begins with dinner at 7 p.m. and the show following at 8 p.m., is a fundraiser for three local charities: Gainesville-Hall County Alliance for Literacy, Center Point and Rape Response Inc.
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