New Lease on Art

Conover Couple Creates Home For Art Teachers BY KELLI STRAKA onenews@observernewsonline.com Some people would look at the building on 1717 Highland Ave NE in Hickory and just see an old building, but Jeff and Carol Anne Hartman see much more. “It’s an old house, so it’s not super fancy,” Carol Anne said. “It doesn’t have …

Hickory Arts

Fundraising Efforts Continue for Creative & Performing Arts Studio HICKORY – The studio on Highland Avenue, next to Johnson Piano & Organ Exchange, is currently and will hopefully continue to be home to Hickory, NC’s first professional commercial recording and film post-production facility, photography, teaching & production studio, and Hickory’s official house concert & master …

Veteran Touring Artist Coaches Idol Finalists

Veteran Touring Artist Coaches Idol Finalists Hartman Sponsors Coaching Sessions HICKORY – Veteran touring and recording artist, Jeff Hartman, will be sponsoring coaching sessions for this year’s “Rotarian Idol” finalists at Down to Hear Studios (now Hickory Arts) in Hickory on Thursday, March 3rd and Saturday, March 5, 2011. Hartman’s teaching and production studio is …

One-Stop Shop

Studio is a ‘one-stop shop’ for musicians BY LADONNA BEEKER onenews@charter.net Combine a California business and a husband and wife, along with artistic talent by the truckloads and you have Down to Hear Studios (now Hickory Arts). Michael French moved to Hickory in 2008 from Burbank, Calif. and the heart of of “studio city” where …