Bonnie Rideout may have received a formal education on the violin, but ever since she picked the instrument up at the age of eight, she has been a fiddler at heart. On Sunday, April 18, she will demonstrate her musical gift at The Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street.
In 1985, Rideout earned two degrees-one in violin performance and another in fine arts. "I'm indebted to the teachers who taught me the value of reading music and the discipline of learning the 'masters,'" she said. "But the more I played 'serious' music, the more I missed my fiddling."
Rideout charms her audiences with a unique style of fiddling and a vast knowledge of traditional Scottish dance tunes, Highland bagpipe music and ancient Gaelic melodies, each reflecting the rich musical tradition of her heritage.
She is the only American to hold the honor of representing Scottish fiddle music at the prestigious Edinburgh International Festival. She is the first woman to hold a national...
DELAND, Fla. - The Mercer baseball season ended on a sour note as the Bears dropped a heartbreaker to regular-season champion and host Stetson, 2-1, in 11 innings on Friday at Melching Field.
Teams of first-year students from the School of Engineering competed against each other on Feb. 6 and 7 to see which team could build the strongest bridge out of toothpicks as part of a class project teaching them the fundamentals of engineering design, management, and documentation.In all, more than 100 students in five sections of EGR 107 participated in a series of competitions to test the toothpick bridges, which are weighted down until they break, often after being loaded with as much as 50 pounds.Six Middle Georgia media outlets covered the events, for links to coverage see the bottom of the page. The students are enrolled in EGR 107 - Introduction to Engineering Design - have been designing and building their toothpick bridges over the past several weeks. The exercise is meant to prepare them for their final project, a competition in which students team to build vehicles out of kits and household goods that will compete against each other in a variety of events. That...
David Ratcliffe, chairman, president and CEO of Southern Company, will be the featured speaker at Mercer University's Executive Forum Presented by BB&T on Tuesday, March 3. Ratcliffe will give a lunch presentation at 12 p.m. at the Capital City Club in Atlanta and a dinner presentation at 6:30 p.m. in the University Center on Mercer's Macon campus.
MACON - "Defending the Caveman," the longest running solo play in Broadway history, is set to perform at The Grand Opera House on March 25-26 at 7:30 p.m. and on March 27 at 3p.m. Tickets are $39.50 and can be purchased through Mercer Ticket Sales at (478) 301-5470 or online at www.TheGrandMacon.com.
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Ashley Harper, associate director, Financial Planning
Emmilee McGuire, senior associate director, Financial Planning
Nader Moniri, associate dean/associate professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Louis Robinson Jr., center coordinator, Regional Academic Center
For nearly four years, Dr. Behnam Kamali, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been conducting research on a technology called Aeronautical Mobile Airport Communications System, or AeroMACS.
This aeronautical communication standard, which facilitates communication between air traffic control...
Mercer University will continue its “Identity in America” series with a discussion of “The Color Barrier: Opening the Conversation on Inequality in America,” Feb. 7 at 6 p.m. in Willingham Auditorium.
ATLANTA – Mercer University’s Center for the Study of Narrative (CSN) will host a lecture by Dr. William “Bill” Randall on Wednesday, April 17, at 5 p.m., in Room 190 of the Administration and Conference Center on the Cecil...
