Shannon Thomason
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More than 200 voices in the UAB Concert Choir and choirs from Helena, Calera, Springville and Indian Springs will join in singing “Carol of the Bells” and “O Holy Night.”
Holiday fun includes Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s Creole Christmas on Dec. 13, affordable events for families and a giftwrap workshop for adults. Plus, concert tickets and art classes are great gifts for all ages.
Reagan Martin, Austin Green and Sierra Frazier all plan to pursue graduate studies in music and music education.
Mercer, 21, of Spanish Fort, Alabama, also won the Miss Congeniality and Talent awards, winning $2,600 in scholarships.
Families can enjoy photos with Blaze, a meet and greet with Santa Claus, games, crafts, hot chocolate bar, snacks, and more for $35, plus Growing Up Green and Gold members can have a VIP experience.
As stage manager for Theatre UAB’s “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” Juliette Sosa Valle is responsible for every part of the show, before the curtain comes up until after it comes down, to ensure everything runs smoothly.
These exceptional students will each receive $2,500 scholarships and serve as an ambassador of UAB and as leaders of the UAB Future Blazers Alumni.
This annual fundraiser supports UAB’s on-campus food pantry, Blazer Kitchen, which helps provide nutritious food, resources and referrals to patients, employees and students in need.
Meet the couples who met in the Marching Blazers, and the students marching this year whose alumni parents are passing along their Blazer spirit.
Theatre UAB is up for the challenge of this big, deceptively complex production, an electropop opera inspired by genres of music.