[UPDATED] Week 3, April 2018 Music Events

Here are the events from my top-25 list for the third Monday-to-Sunday week of April, 2018. Events for the rest of the current week, as of post time, are at this link. As usual, my involvement is indicated by a blue highlight. I coordinate A Little Lunch Music, the noontime series this week featuring eight AU student pianists of Jeremy Samolesky.

My top pick is the Old 280 Boogie in Waverly, but it has some stiff competition. There's Verdi's Requiem in Columbus featuring Auburn, Columbus and LaGrange singers with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra; violinist Nicola Benedetti with the Atlanta Symphony; and Emma Beth Fisher's junior recital at Goodwin Hall (seriously). -PMc

Local

• Apr. 15-22 :: student recitals presented by the Auburn University Department of Music http://www.cla.auburn.edu/music/events/

• Apr. 18 :: Auburn University Jazz Band at Telfair Peet Theatre http://www.cla.auburn.edu/events/calendar/jazz-band1/

• Apr. 19 :: Auburn University Piano Studio feat. Jordan Barnett, Jinjin Chen, Yongyu Chen, Emma Beth Fisher, Brittany Lee, Sarah Niedzwiecki, and Caroline Smith at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art http://jcsm.auburn.edu/event/a-little-lunch-music-spring-2018/2018-04-19/

• Apr. 20 :: John Bull Band at Eighth & Rail (Facebook only) https://www.facebook.com/events/420985961683536/

• Apr. 20 :: Student Recital: Emma Beth Fisher, piano http://www.cla.auburn.edu/events/calendar/student-recital-emma-beth-fisher-piano/

• [UPDATE] Apr. 20 :: Nick Johnson at Piccolo https://www.auhcc.com/about/auburn-event-calendar

• Apr. 21 :: Muscogee Road at Eighth & Rail (Facebook only) https://www.facebook.com/events/167583050611629/

• [UPDATE] Apr. 21 :: Taylor Pierce at Piccolo https://www.auhcc.com/about/auburn-event-calendar

• [Click here for our FEATURE POST] Apr. 21 :: Old 280 Boogie feat. Shinyribs, Marshall Ruffin, the Pine Hill Haints, Chris Stalcup & the Grange, Rev. Sekou, and Revel in Dimes. http://standarddeluxe.com/shop/boogie18
  

Columbus

• Apr. 16 :: Symphony U: Orchestra 101 http://csoga.org/season/

• Apt. 16 :: World Voice Day presented by Schwob School of Music at the Studio Theatre, RiverCenter https://events.columbusstate.edu/calendar/world-voice-day-celebration/ or http://2017.world-voice-day.org/events2018/world-voice-day-celebration-recital/

• Apr. 16-22 :: student recitals presented by the Schwob School of Music https://events.columbusstate.edu/calendar/category/college-of-the-arts/music/

• Apr. 17, 18 :: The Sound of Music http://www.rivercenter.org/event/rodgers-hammersteins-the-sound-of-music-2/

• Apr. 20 :: Jazz@TheLoft with Greg Robins featuring Kevin Bales https://www.theloft.com/new-events/2017/11/3/jazztheloft-with-csu-jazz-quartets-l6b4e-mehtn-y32c4-prsng-f268x-8kmjw-gmx6w-r3har

• Apr. 21 :: Verdi's Requiem http://csoga.org/season/

Montgomery

• Apr. 17 :: Shen Yun http://www.mpaconline.org/events/

• Apr. 21 :: 3 Faces of the King http://www.mpaconline.org/events/

Atlanta

• Apr. 19 :: Chamber Recital presented by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Atlanta Symphony Hall http://www.atlantasymphony.org/ConcertsAndTickets/Calendar/2017-2018/Chamber-Recital-4

• Apr. 19, 21 :: Violin Sensation Nicola Benedetti Plays the Beethoven Concerto with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Atlanta Symphony Hall http://www.atlantasymphony.org/ConcertsAndTickets/Calendar/2017-2018/CS19-Pintscher-Beethoven-Brahms

Birmingham

• Apr. 19, 20, 21 :: Ronald K. Brown's EVIDENCE https://www.alysstephens.org/events/ronald-k-browns-evidence/