Join Baby Grand Music, LLC, in celebrating their 18th annual music recital, "You are not forgotten," at 4pm on Saturday, June 8, 2024, at the Averitt Center for the Arts, 33 East Main Street, in downtown Statesboro.
The event is free and open to the public and will include performances by Baby Grand music students in grades K-12 whose experience ranges from beginning piano to advanced piano, drums, guitar, and voice. The event will include current student performances from the genres of classical, pop, jazz, and gospel, in addition to multiple special guest performances.
Guest performances by former students
Guest performers will contribute to the celebration and include many former students of Baby Grand, LLC. Performers include The Backseat Drivers Band, which is made up of former Baby Grand students Ty Daniels (Drummer), Ja’Corey Lee (Guitarist), and Malik Parrish (Guitarist).
There will also be a special vocal performance by Josalin Joseph of Atlanta, Georgia (a former Baby Grand Student). Other Guest performers will be Vivian Summers, Mellisa Bennett, Evangeline Huff, Angeline Huff, and Robin Lanier.
Awards
Current Baby Grand students will be recognized for all of their hard work over the past year with an award ceremony following the recital. Awards will include categories like best hand placement, most improved student, student of the year, best posture and participation, and humanitarian honors.
This 18-year celebration represents a very exciting time for parents and students, and it is open to the public free of charge. All proceeds collected through sponsorships go directly to the students to purchase materials provided to them by Baby Grand to aid in their lessons.
About the founder, Robin Holmes-Lanier
Born and raised in Brooklet, Georgia, Robin Holmes-Lanier was educated in the Bulloch County school system and graduated from Southeast Bulloch High. She went on to attend Albany State University, majoring in Early Childhood Education.
In 2006, because of her lifelong love of music and children, she founded Baby Grand Music, LLC. She fondly remembers the importance of music in her childhood, "Taking piano at Mrs. Carolyn Lee's home and in the broom closets of the elementary, middle and high schools in Brooklet, Georgia," she shares. She later studied under the tutelage of Mrs. Annette Holloway, her mentor.
Her musical studies were a sacrifice for her mother, another reason that Holmes-Lanier believes in offering musical opportunities to children in the community.
Holmes-Lanier is a musician, singer, and songwriter. She has played the piano/keyboard for church choirs and sung in churches, educational institutions, and venues all over the state of Georgia, and she has toured the Southeast as a guest soloist and a member of several gospel groups.
For more information, contact:
Baby Grand Music, LLC
Robin Holmes-Lanier
[email protected]
912-687-6178
