Pine Lake's 10th Annual LakeFest Coming October 2-3, 2010

Come enjoy two days of festival fun at the beautiful lakefront at Pine Lake. Arts and crafts will be on display for sale including painting, felting, photography, jewelry and more.

Live musical performances will include rock, European gypsy jazz, electo-pop, international folk and acoustic Americana genres. There will also be a sand sculpture contest, children’s art activities and a Saturday night beach party. A variety of food and beverages will be available for purchase.

Pine Lake, the smallest city located in DeKalb County, was designed as a planned resort city. Pine Lake is one of the most eclectic cities in the state, including among its residents a number of locally, regionally and nationally known artists in the fields of music (Elise Witt), fine art, sculpture, poetry (Alice Teeter) and prose and other disciplines.

Location: The City of Pine Lake
Address: Lakeshore Drive Pine Lake, Georgia 30072
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3301
For more info, visit LakeFest.

Elise Witt in Concert At Callanwolde on November 1st

Callanwolde showcases popular Atlanta singer/songwriter Elise Witt as she premieres her new CD Valise, a suitcase full of "Global, Local & Homemade Songs"™ on November 1st at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center.

The concert will feature Elise with Mick Kinney, Ken Gregory, Bill Burke, Don Erdman, and a host of other guest musicians from the CD.

Known for her eclectic taste in music, her community activism, and her travels around the world, Elise introduces her new songs, as well as favorites from older recordings. The audience can expect to join in the production, finding themselves part of the glorious impromptu chorus.

For more info, visit Callanwolde Fine Arts Center.

Elise Witt CD Release Concert on November 1st at Callanwolde FIne Arts Center

Popular Atlanta singer/songwriter Elise Witt will premiere her new CD Valise at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, 980 Briarcliff Rd NE, Atlanta GA 30306, on Sunday November 1, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.

Recorded with ace engineer Ken Gregory at 800 East Studio in Atlanta, and co-produced by Gregory, Witt, and Mick Kinney for EMWorld Records, Elise Witt's new CD Valise is a suitcase full of surprises. Known for her eclectic taste in music, her community activism, and her travels around the world, Elise's original songs include Ma Roulotte (My Caravan, a French gypsy jazz waltz, co-written with partner Mick Kinney), Clothes Swap (a funky ode to the virtues of re-cycling and girl gatherings), Set Us Free (inspired by the words of Reverend Timothy MacDonald at Martin Luther King Jr.'s 80th birthday celebration at the National Historic Site), Venus Between Us (a Motown tribute), Butterfly's Mysteries (a scientific boogie, written at the Callaway Garden Butterfly House), Dunkel War Es (Light in the Dark, a German paradox poem à la Oh Suzanna), and Blessed Be (original music by Elise Witt to a poem by folk icon Pete Seeger, featuring John McCutcheon and Frank Hamilton).

For more info, visit Callanwolde Fine Arts Center.