Music

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Music

From LA To 30A

Martha J. LaGuardia-Kotite,

Kuk Harrell and his wife Stevie sat on the couch in front of a box that was delivered to their Atlanta home. Unsure what it could be, he carefully cut the seal, pulled open the carton’s lid, and reached inside.…

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Music, Photography

Weezer in Chronology

Paige Aigret,

Sean Murphy spent much of his photography career in the thick of alternative and punk rock action. Throughout the late ’90s and early 2000s, he shot an innumerable number of bands, many of them big names—Jimmy Eat World, Everclear, Tenacious…

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Making Music

Mike Fender,

The new palm tree planted in Sergey Bogza’s front yard is symbolic to the 39-year-old Panama City Symphony maestro. Bogza was born in Russia but came to the United States when he was 9 years old. He’s lived, studied, and…
Music

Music as Salvation

Alivia Campbell,

I have lived in this flourishing beach town for eight years, and I have never had the opportunity to attend the 30A Songwriters Festival—until this year.   I attended in hopes of being a part of something unique and discovering a…

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Pulling the Strings

Hannah Burke,

At just 8 years old, Jessica Murphy saw something on television that would ignite a lifelong passion.  “There was a child on TV, I want to say Oprah, who performed violin for the audience,” Murphy recalls. “I remember wanting to be…