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Art Nights/City Lights Concert Schedule

The Cultural Arts Division of the City of Kingsport in conjunction with the Arts Council of Greater Kingsport always has a great line-up of concerts for the Art Nights/City Lights performing arts series at the Kingsport Renaissance Center, 1200 East Center Street in Kingsport, TN.  Tickets for concerts are on sell now and can be purchased on-line at www.KingsportARTS.org or by calling 423-392-8417.  The concerts are sponsored in part by the Tennessee Arts Commission’s Touring Arts program.

Upcoming performances:

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QuinTango - Thursday, September 16, 2010 @ 7:30 PM

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QuinTango

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The Cultural Arts Division of the City of Kingsport is pleased to present QuinTango at 7:30PM on Thursday, September 16 at the Kingsport Renaissance Theater.  Tickets for this event will be $18 and $16 and can be purchased by calling the Central Box Office at 423-392-8417 or on-line at www.KingsportARTS.org.

QuinTango, a touring quintet of two violins, cello, bass and piano, brings a century's worth of tango repertoire to the concert stage with sizzling musicality and captivating narrative style. Winner of two consecutive WAMMIES, QuinTango is the only tango music group to have given a Command Performance at The White House. QuinTango has been heard on NPR's Morning Edition, CNN, and network television in both the USA and Costa Rica.

QuinTango has played to sell-out crowds both at home and abroad. They performed at both the 9th and 12th International Music Festivals in Costa Rica and made their European debut in 2002 with five performances in Normandy, France. A highlight of QuinTango's domestic schedule is their annual performances at Charleston's Piccolo Spoleto Festival. Their 2003 residency marked the fourth year that, according to Spoleto critic Robert Jones, "....their concerts packed the place and sent the customers home tango crazy." Other festival performances in this country include the Kennedy Center Open House Festival, Wolf Trap's Theatre-in-the-Woods Children's Festival and the Virginia Highlands Festival.

Last year QuinTango joined Maestro Donald Portnoy and the Augusta Symphony as soloists for the Valentine -Pops- at -the -Bell concert. They were featured soloists with the Ars Nova Orchestra under the baton of Lynn Luce at Miniaci Hall in Davies, FL. In 2001, QuinTango joined Maestro David Stahl and the Charleston Symphony as soloists for the opening concert of their pops season. Extending their tango reach to Kansas, the group will make three appearances next season with the Wichita Symphony.

With sizzling energy and contagious passion, QuinTango gave sixty concerts last year in venues ranging from an elementary school in eastern North Carolina to the 1000-seat 19th century Teatro Nacional in San Jose, Costa Rica. It is this devotion to bringing the music of tango to new audiences that prompted the Washington Post to proclaim QuinTango"one of Washington's musical treasures."

Tickets for this event will be $18 and $16.  There will also be a student outreach program that morning.  Tickets can be purchased by calling the Central Box Office at 423-392-8417 or on-line at www.KingsportARTS.org.  This performance is made possible by a grant of the Tennessee Arts Commission Touring Artist program.

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The Renaissance Center is a center for arts and senior citizen’s activities, and as a facility for business meetings, parties, receptions, classes, showers and day long seminars with breakout rooms.  The facility includes a 350 seat theatre, three story skylit atrium, art gallery, gymnasium, meeting rooms and offices.  The Renaissance Center is located 3 miles off of Interstate 26, 1200 East Center Street.   For tickets or more information call 423-392-8414.

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