Please join us on Friday, June 3rd for the next in this year’s series of Hickory Arts house concerts featuring Grace Bollinger & Lucy Weaver. Tickets (“donations,” if you prefer) are $20 and can be purchased online. Only 40 seats are available. Tickets will not be sold at the door. Doors open at 7:30 pm for an eat & greet with the artists. The performance begins at 8 pm. Hickory Arts House Concerts are very intimate. Volunteers to provide food (“potluck,” if you prefer) for the performer(s) and guests is strongly encouraged. All proceeds always go directly to the artist(s). No membership or personal invitation is required. *Additional donations to the artists are encouraged. Grace is a Senior at Hickory High. For the past seven years, Grace has been involved with community theater beginning with “Prince Caspian” at CAST and ending most recently with “The Addams Family” at The Green Room; her favorite roles being Cosette in “Les Misérables” at Hickory Theatre (alongside Carol Anne and Jeff), Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz” at Hickory High and Olive Ostrovsky in Hickory High’s most recent production of “The 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” Grace will be attending UNC-Greensboro, majoring in theater, as well as being a part of the Lloyd International Honors College, there. This past year, she has been trained by Corey Lovelace, here, at Hickory Arts and was trained for the preceding two years by Jeff Hartman.

I would like to thank Jeff Hartman, Carol Anne Hartman, and Corey Lovelace. My time at Hickory Arts has been pivotal to my development as both a human and an artist. Everyone should take advantage of this incredible place and soak up everything they can from it! All my love to Mama and Paps!

Lucy Weaver is a senior at St. Stephens High School where she has performed with the Tractor Shed Theatre in Antigone, the musical theatre revue, and their Guardian Ad Litem project. She first began her musical journey when she performed in the North Carolina Honors Chorus in 2008. She has been performing in musical productions since the fifth grade in her first starring role as the Grinch. She later went on to perform in several school plays and Hickory Theater. She has taken 10 years of ballet, tap, and modern dance and vocal lessons with Hickory Arts for 3 years. When she isn’t in school or her lessons, she plays bass with her friends in an Alternative/Indie rock band. After high school, she plans to continue her love education in music by attending the University of North Carolina Asheville in Vocal Performance and closely study psychology to later become a music therapist. She dedicates all of her performances to her dad, Mark Weaver, who passed away in 2012 and inspired her to venture into the music world. Lucy would like to thank anyone who has influenced her in years in the arts. Hickory Arts is the “un-studio”—a simple, custom, specialized, non-event-driven teaching & production studio dedicated to coaching performance artists from point A to point B. The studio is located at 720 Second Avenue SW, Hickory 28602 behind ITP and across from Hickory Optimist Park (where you’ll also find additional parking). For more information about tickets and Hickory Arts, please explore the website or call 828-270-9801. “Home is where the art is.” — hickoryarts.com | Follow us on Twitter! @hickoryarts