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Marilyn Monroe, 1926: American stage goddess and musician

Alanis Morissette, 1974: popular alternative Canadian musician

Sir Edward Elgar, 1857: English composer of student favourite “Pomp & Circumstance”

Thomas Hardy, 1840: well-known English poet and author

Brown Bag Concerts
Noon
Carbondale Town Square

Allen Ginsberg, 1926: American poet of the beat generation

Richard Whorf, 1906: American actor, director, painter and designer

Geoffrey Palmer, 1927: well-known English television and film actor

Robert Fulghum, 1937: author of All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Kenny G, 1956: Grammy-winning saxophonist, played in elevators worldwide

Richard Scarry, 1919: American children’s book author

Jason Issacs, 1963: English actor best known for role of Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter series

Alexandr Puskin, 1799: Russian poet and author

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Prince, 1958: multiple-monikered Purple Rain musician

Liam Neeson, 1952: English actor well-known for Schindler’s List and Star Wars I

Dean Martin, 1917: Italian-American crooner, member of the Rat Pack

 

 

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867: American architect, leader of the Prairie School of “organic” architecture

Robert Preston, 1918: The Music Man in The Music Man (1962)

 

 

Johnny Depp, 1963: offbeat heartthrob known for Pirates of the Caribbean and Edward Scissorhands

Cole Porter, 1891: American composer of popular musicals, including Anything Goes

Brown Bag Concerts
Noon
Carbondale Town Square

Tom Kane Exhibit Reception
6 PM - 8 PM            Corridor Gallery          Carbondale Civic Center

Maurice Sendak, 1928: American children’s author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are

Judy Garland, 1922: American songstress best known as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz

 

 

Hugh Laurie, 1959: English comic and dramatic actor and novelist

Gene Wilder, 1935: Milwaukee native played Willy Wonka in the original Charlie & the Chocolate Factory

 

 

Anne Frank, 1929: German Jewish girl whose diaries of life during the Holocaust were published after her death

Cosmos de Medici, 1519: wealthy 16th century patron of the arts


Jim Nabors, 1930: American actor best known for portraying Gomer Pyle

WSIU Fantasy Auction
6:00 PM
SIUC Student Center wsiu.org for tickets

William Butler Yeats, 1865: Irish poet and politician

Carlos Chavez, 1899: Mexican composer and conductor

 

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SIMF Chamber Music
2:00 PM
Melange

Piano/Oboe Recital     7:30 PM
First United Methodist Church

Harriett Beecher Stowe, 1811: American abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Boy George, 1961: English musician, perhaps best known for his ‘80s music and style

 

Waylon Jennings, 1937: American country musician and bassist for Buddy Holly

Neil Patrick Harris, 1973: American theatre, film, internet and television actor and magician

Edvard Grieg, 1843: Norwegian Romantic composer of Peer Gynt (Hall of the Mountain King)

 

Joyce Carol Oates, 1938: 20th century American novelist
David Popper, 1843: Czech-born cellist, composer and professor

Laurie Metcalf, 1955:  Carbondale native, best known for her performance on television show Rosanne

 

 

SIMF Klassics, Jazz & Chamber           DuQuoin, Herrin, Murphysboro

Brown Bag Concerts
Noon
Carbondale Town Square

Barry Manilow, 1946: American singer musician, writes the songs

M.C. Escher, 1898: Dutch artist best known for his woodcuts inspired by mathematics, architecture and infinity

Igor Stravinsky, 1882: Russian composer who’s Rite of Spring caused a riot at its debue

 

SIMF Klassics
Marion & Carterville

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
7:30 PM
McLeod Theater   
     

Paul McCartney, 1942: English musician and member of the Beatles

Maggie McNamara, 1928: Irish-American theatre, film and television actress

Carol Kane, 1952: Cleveland-native theatre, film and television actress of Wicked and The Princess Bride

 

 

 

SIMF Ballet
Marion
                                   
Mid-Life Crisis the Musical
McLeod Theater 
       

Salman Rushdie, 1947: controversial British novelist of The Satanic Verses, wrote of India and Islam

Guy Lombardo, 1902: Canadian Easter Parade musician

 

SIMF Ballet               Shryock          
                                   
Southern Illinois Symphony Soiree    7:30 PM
Varsity Center for the Arts
                                   
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
McLeod Theater
        

Brian Wilson, 1942: founder and bassist of the Beach Boys

Errol Flynn, 1909: Australian Captain Blood actor

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SIMF Chamber         2:00 PM       Melange         
                                   
Mid-Life Crisis the Musical
2:00 PM
McLeod Theater      
  
                                    Al Hirschfeld, 1903: St. Louis-native, Jewish American artist of unique caricatures

Alexander Pope, 1688: 18th century satirical English poet

Johann Christoph Frederic Bach, 1732: musician and composer

 

 

Meryl Streep, 1949: award-winning American theatre, film and television actress

Katherine Dunham, 1909: African-American choreographer and dancer

SIMF  
Multiple Locations

Bob Fosse, 1927: Chicago-native musical choreographer and director

Joss Whedon, 1964: American writer and television director known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly

Mieczyslaw Horszowski,  1892: well-known Polish pianist

SIMF    
Multiple Locations

Brown Bag Concerts
Noon
Carbondale Town Square

Mick Fleetwood, 1942: British Fleetwood Mac drummer

Astro, 1957: English UB40 singer and musician

 

Snoopy!!!      
7:00 PM      
VCA  
                                   
Mid-Life Crisis the Musical   
7:30 PM      
McLeod Theater
        

George Orwell, 1903: English dystopian writer of 1984

Anthony Bourdain, 1956: popular American author and chef

 

 

SIMF Band, Eroica Trio/Orchestra     7:30 PM       Shryock          
                                   
Snoopy!!!      
7:00 PM      
VCA  
                                   
Picasso at the Lapin Agile     
7:30 PM      
McLeod Theater
        
                                    Pearl S. Buck, 1892: Pulitzer-winning American author of accurate descriptions of life in China

Mark McKinney, 1959: Canadian comic actor

SIMF Klassics   Carbondale     
                                   
Trio/Orchestra      Cape Girardeau          
                                   
Snoopy!!!       
VCA  
                                    Mid-Life Crisis the Musical   
McLeod Theater
        

Vera Wang, 1949: Chinese-American fashion designer

Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872: Ohio native African-American poet, novelist and musician

Peter Bayliss, 1927: English theatre actor

 

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SIMF Chamber
Carbondale, Lebannon, Mt. Vernon  
                                   
Snoopy!!!
VCA  
                                   
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
McLeod Theater
7:30pm

John Cusack, 1966: moody Illinois native film actor from High Fidelity and Say Anything

Mel Brooks, 1926: American director, writer and composer of comic films including The Producers and Blazing Saddles

Richard Rodgers, 1902: well-known composer of musical theatre songs for dozens of Broadway productions

 

 

 

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900: French writer well-known for his novel The Little Prince

Slim Pickens, 1919: American film and television actor of comic cowboy roles, as in Blazing Saddles

Gary Busey, 1944: American film and theatre actor of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Lethal Weapon

 

SIMF Klassics, Chamber              Carbondale, Cairo      
                                   
La Traviata     
7:30 PM       Shryock
          

Lena Horne, 1917: American jazz singer and actress

John Gay, 1685: English composer of the Beggar’s Opera

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SIMF Klassics, Chamber, Jazz
Sesser, Herrin, Carbondale 

Brown Bag Concerts
Noon
Carbondale Town Square
   

Liv Tyler, 1977

Jamie Farr, 1934

Dan Aykroyd, 1952

Twyla Tharp, 1941

 

 

SIMF Klassics
La Traviata   
Lebannon   
 
   

Hermann Hesse, 1877

Gene McFadden, 1948

 

Tom Cruise, 1962

Tom Stoppard, 1937

Franz Kafka, 1883

 

 

Neil Simon, 1927

George Murphy, 1902

 

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Huey Lewis, 1951

Jean Cocteau, 1889

 

 

Geoffrey Rush, 1951

Bill Haley, 1925

Frida Kahlo, 1907

 

 

Ringo Starr, 1940

Doc Severinsen, 1927

Marc Chagall, 1887

 

 

Brown Bag Concerts
Noon
Carbondale Town Square

Billy Eckstine, 1914

Percy Grainger, 1882

Raffi, 1948

 

Tom Hanks, 1956

Ann Ward Radcliffe, 1764

Richard Hageman, 1882

 

 

All Shook Up
7:30 PM
McLeod

Nifty Fifties
7:00 PM
Herrin Performing Arts Center

Arlo Guthrie, 1947

Fred Gywnne, 1926

Marcel Proust, 1871

 

All Shook Up
7:30 PM
McLeod

Nifty Fifties
7:00 PM
Herrin Performing Arts Center

Suzanne Vega, 1959

Yul Brynner, 1920

E.B. White, 1899

 

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All Shook Up
2:00 PM
McLeod

Nifty Fifties
7:00 PM
Herrin Performing Arts Center

Bill Cosby, 1937

Andrew Wyeth, 1917

Pablo Neruda, 1904

R. Buckminster Fuller, 1895

Oscar Hammerstein II, 1895

 

Harrison Ford, 1942

Deborah Cox, 1974

 

 

Ingmar Bergman, 1918

Woody Guthrie, 1912

 

 

Brown Bag Concerts
Noon
Carbondale Town Square

Forest Whitaker, 1961

Linda Ronstadt, 1946

Rembrandt, 1606

All Shook Up
7:30 PM
McLeod

Will Ferrell, 1967

Michael Flatley, 1958

Ginger Rogers, 1911

 

 

All Shook Up
7:30 PM
McLeod

An Evening of Entertainment
Hickory Lodge

Phoebe Snow, 1952

James Cagney, 1899

Erle Stanley Gardner, 1889

 

All Shook Up
7:30 PM
McLeod

Martha Reeves, 1941

Hunter S. Thompson, 1937

 

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All Shook Up
2:00 PM
McLeod

Brian May, 1947

Edgar Degas, 1834

 

Carlos Santana, 1947

Simon Ives, 1600

Ken Ogata, 1937

 

Robin Williams, 1951

Cat Stevens, 1948

Ernest Hemingway, 1899

 

Brown Bag Concerts
Noon
Carbondale Town Square

Don Henley, 1947

Emma Lazarus, 1849

Tom Robbins, 1936

 

Ben Weber, 1916

Guy Fournier, 1931

Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967

 

Zelda Fitzgerald, 1900

Ambrose Bierce, 1942

Cootie Williams, 1908

 

Creative Expressions Art Fair
9 AM - 3 PM
Carbondale Civic Center 

Estelle Getty, 1923

Keter Betts, 1928

 

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Gracie Allen, 1902

Kevin Spacey, 1959

George B Shaw, 1856

Mick Jagger, 1943

Stanley Kubrick, 1928

 

Maureen McGovern, 1949

Bobbie Gentry, 1944

 

Jim Davis, 1945

Beatrix Potter, 1866

 

Brown Bag Concerts
Noon
Carbondale Town Square

Paul Taylor, 1930

Stanley Kunitz, 1905

 

ASHMTP Scholarship Dinner
5:00 PM
SIUC Student Center
$30 per person
call 457-5100 for tickets

Into the Woods
7:30 PM
McLeod Theater

Jean Reno, 1948

Buddy Guy, 1936

Emily Bronte, 1818

 

Into the Woods
7:30 PM
McLeod Theater

J.K. Rowling, 1965

Bill Berry, 1958

 

 

 

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Into the Woods
7:30 PM
McLeod Theater

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Into the Woods
2:00 PM
McLeod Theater

Into the Woods
7:30 PM
McLeod Theater

Southern Illinois Mayor's Summit
August 3

 

 

Brown Bag Concerts
Noon
Carbondale Town Square

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Noon
Carbondale Town Square

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Brown Bag Concerts
Noon
Carbondale Town Square

 

 

 

 

 

Evening of Elegance
August 22 / 6:30 PM
Carbondale Civic Center
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Brown Bag Concerts
Noon
Carbondale Town Square

 

CCA Teaching Artist Boot Camp
August 27 / 4 PM - 9 PM
GreenRetreat

 

 

 

 

 

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