Pop Up Performance Series
Dive into a world of incredible musical talent at the Pop-up Performance Series, a partnership program between Roswell Arts Fund and Friends of Mimosa Hall and Gardens.
On the 3rd Sunday of the month at 3:30 pm, music partner Roswell Music Club unveils a monthly series highlighting classical musical artists, showcasing the timeless beauty of classical compositions
And on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 7:00 pm, music partner Steve’s Live Music will curate a lineup of eclectic, mesmerizing, and innovative artists starting with series of Jazz Around the World.
Beginning June 2024, the Pop-Up Concert series will be held at The Roswell River Landing (245 Azalea Drive, Roswell GA 30075).
We anticipate the series will return to Mimosa Hall in January 2025 after some much needed and exciting construction projects.
Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 7:00 pm
BONAVENTURE QUARTET
Music partner: Steve’s Live Music
The Bonaventure Quartet ‘All Strings’ faithfully recreates the sound and ambience of a French nightclub in Montmarte in the 1930s. Those were the years when the music of Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France was at the forefront of European/Continental jazz and the notion of an ‘all string’ swing group was revolutionary. Django was an illiterate, gypsy guitar virtuoso who combined his mastery of European classical and the romantic, passionate music of the Roma with the American swing style as exemplified by Louis Armstrong. The result is a unique acoustic music known as gypsy jazz and is today popular in Europe and increasingly so around the world.
The BVQ ‘All Strings’ formed in Atlanta in 2000 and has been playing concerts, clubs, festivals, and private events around Atlanta and the Southeast ever since. The players are Marla Feeney on violin/clarinet, Charles Williams and Rodrigo Suarez on guitars, and Mike Beshara on upright bass.
Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 3:30 pm
JACKIE COLLISON
Music partner: Roswell Music Club
Jackie Collison is honored to be making her debut with Roswell Music Club. While she attended Elon University, Jackie performed with several musical groups, including Elán, Camerata, and Pastyme, among others. Some of her favorite roles include Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd at Mauldin Theatre, Woman 2 in Songs for a New World at Centre Stage, Annie in Annie Get Your Gun and Chanel in Bark! The Musical at Asheville Community Theatre.
Growing up in Tennessee in a family of professional actors, Jackie’s passion for performance began early, making her stage debut as The Turkey Boy in A Christmas Carol alongside her family. Today, Jackie is a proud mother who enjoys sharing her love of music with her child and husband.
Highlights from Past Performances
- In October 2021, we welcomed Jake Xerxes Fussell and band to our first concert under the stars at the Chattahoochee Nature Center. This Pop Up also marked our first performance that was funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
- The inaugural season of the RAF Pop Up Performance Series began with a standing room-only concert at the intimate Roswell Historic Cottage.
- Due to COVID-19, our plans changed but the show must go on and we quickly reimagined our events and transformed parking lots into safe, physically distant yet social spaces for artists and audiences.
- 1400 concert-goers joined us for in-person concerts coming from Roswell, Johns Creek, Alpharetta, Marietta, Smyrna, Decatur, and Atlanta.
- Another 2100 households tuned in for our first-ever live stream concert early in 2020.
- Headliners in 2020 included: Ed Roland (of Collective Soul), John Driskell Hopkins (of Zac Brown), Randall Bramblett Band, Acoustic Syndicate, Ruby Velle and Enrique Che (of Making Movies)
