Experience the Impact of Live Music

The Holland Chorale celebrates the vast gifts from the earth: Blooms, Birds and Beasts! This performance includes selections from Dvorak’s “Songs of Nature” and Morten Lauridsen’s “Chansons Des Roses,” along with folk favorites “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.”

The Holland Chorale has served the communities of West Michigan for over fifty years and draws singers from Holland, Zeeland, Hamilton, South Haven, Hudsonville, Jenison Grandville, Grand Rapids, and Grand Haven.The Chorale is under the artistic direction of Dr. Patrick Coyle. Dr. Coyle received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, focusing on both orchestral and choral conducting. He also holds degrees from Furman University, Converse College and Emory University. Following his doctoral studies in Cincinnati, he conducted at Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Men’s Chorus and Northern Kentucky University, among others, and conducted performance tours in Rome, Florence, Cannes, Budapest, Vienna, Salzburg and Munich. He has eight commercially-available recordings to his credit, and has published music for choir, chamber orchestra, children, piano and handbells.

Tulip Time and the Saugatuck Center for the Arts partner to bring you this performance.

On May 26, Chicago’s legendary sketch and improv comedy theater head to The Saugatuck Center for the Arts, with “The Best of The Second City.” This must-see show features the best sketches and songs from The Second City’s history made famous by superstars like Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray and more, as well as their trademark improvisation. Come see where it all began during this special one-night-only engagement.

Fresh, fast and always spectacularly funny, The Second City is celebrating nearly sixty years of producing cutting-edge satirical revues and launching the careers of generation after generation of comedy’s best and brightest.

Fresh, fast and always spectacularly funny, The Second City is celebrating nearly sixty years of producing cutting-edge satirical revues and launching the careers of generation after generation of comedy’s best and brightest.

The Second City is home to a world-class entertainment company, continuing to produce premier talent in all three of its locations–Chicago, Toronto, and Hollywood–and entertaining more than one million audience members a year. From John Belushi to Keegan-Michael Key, Chris Farley to Mike Myers, and the three newest members of Saturday Night Live’s crew, Eli Mandel, Alan Linic and Alison Gates, Second City’s imprint is all over film, television, and beyond.

In addition to its stages, Second City Touring Companies perform electrifying revues and original productions across North America and abroad. Our creative collaborations have produced thrilling and critically acclaimed work in partnership with organizations like the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the New York Comedy Festival, and the Chicago Bulls.

An evening of celebrating creativity with The Accidentals
Friday, June 7 | 5PM – 9PM | Free & Open to the public

Start your summer story — boat rides, beach walks, cookouts and sunsets — at the SCA! We’re jumping into summer vacation with an outdoor concert featuring one of Michigan’s hottest indie-folk bands, The Accidentals. Indulge in delicious food truck fare, craft drinks, hands-on art-making activities, exclusive art for purchase, and community conversations.

Breeze into the lobby to grab a colorful cocktail then visit the gallery to see our brand new exhibition Storied Drawings: Works by Rebecca Green, Ginnie Hsu, Hillery Sproatt and Libby Vanderploeg.

The exhibition brings together four talented young artists and visual story-tellers whose drawing-based works range from GIF’s, interactive illustration (featuring conductive ink!) and animation to painting and ceramics. The exhibit offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into each of their diverse practices, as well as their unique cross-disciplinary applications that include children’s books, advertising, textiles, and fabrics.

Don’t miss our related summer children’s programs including storytelling, painting with conductive ink and illustrating comic books, taught by Libby Vanderploeg and Ginnie Hsu.
Your summer story starts here!

The Hummingbirds, S.G. and Rachel Wood, were born and raised in Detroit, and now reside in Tampa. Their music is both northern and southern Americana, blending both grit, and self-reliance with hospitality, and charm. They play old guitars through old amps, bang drums, and even pluck banjos at times. Their live stage chemistry and organic duo harmonies immediately captivate and charm audience members. What comes out in their songwriting is a hybrid sound all their own: genuine & playful, earnest & soulful. Their songs twist through tales of loss & heartache, while others whisper sounds of hope, love, and journeys from the road.

Violinist, vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and actor, Claire Wellin, returns to the SCA for a special solo performance. (Claire appeared in Mason Street Warehouse’s 2018 production of Once, as well as on Broadway and the Once national tour.) Stylistic intersectionality incorporating folk, jazz, and classical influences informs her take on singer-songwriter vulnerability with a type of understated theatricality. Multi-talented, she also leads the ghost folk band Youth in a Roman Field. She has worked as an arranger, writer, and performer on records and short films, is also a member of the Brooklyn-based rock band San Fermin and has contributed to the bands Glad Fanny, 2/3 Goat, The Jamie Elman Trio, and Delta Rae.

Following her sold-out concerts in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, Jeff-Award-nominated actor Marya Grandy (Les Miserable, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Closer Than Ever) returns to Saugatuck with Marya Grandy: Live from the SCA. Grandy performs an evening of musical theatre songs, with an emphasis on new and undiscovered gems – and even a premiere or two. With music direction by Jeff Award Winner and Mason Street Warehouse/SCA favorite, Tom Vendafreddo (Murder For Two, Hempy Keyboard Series), Marya Grandy: Live from the SCA marks Grandy’s solo concert return to Saugatuck. SPOILER ALERT: There will be belting. There may be crying. There will be no drink maximum.

In Partnership with Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck. Free Admission with RSVP.

Enjoy an intimate morning Young Listeners Concert in the SCA’s Lobby. The Vega Quartet, based in Atlanta, GA will be in Saugatuck August 1 & 2 playing in the Chamber Music Festival. The quartet performs nationally and internationally and The New York Times raved that “[the Quartet’s] playing has a kind of clean intoxication to it, pulling the listener along…the musicians took real risks in their music making.”

Thursday morning families have an exclusive educational opportunity to meet the string quartet and listen in an up close and personal setting. Children and adults are invited to ask questions and after the concert create an art project inspired by the melodies they hear. Light refreshments provided.

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