Mobile Symphony String Academy: Upper Elementary, Middle and High School String Students in the Mobile Area                                                                                             JOIN the Mobile Symphony String Academy in Downtown Mobile, AL                            Learn to play new repertoire, polish your string techniques and learn new ones, perform exciting music and make new friends that also LOVE playing violin, viola,  cello or bass!                                                                                                                        When:Mondays, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM (90 minutes for 25 weeks starting Monday, August 19, 2019)                                                                                                                     Where: Larkins Center, 257 Dauphin St. Mobile, AL 36602                             Conductor: Daniela Pardo                                                                                           Minimum Enrollment: 8 students                                                                                         Fee: $390.                                                                                                                              Register at: mobilesymphony.org or call (251)432-2010

NEW! Mobile Symphony Eastern Shore String Academy.                            Middle and High School String Students in Fairhope, Daphne,                       and Spanish Fort Areas                                                                                                   JOIN the Mobile Symphony Eastern Shore String Academy in Fairhope, AL                Learn to play new repertoire, polish your string techniques and learn new ones, perform exciting music and make new friends that also LOVE playing violin, viola,  cello or bass!                                                                                                                               When: Thursdays, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

(75 minutes for 30 weeks starting Thursday, August 22, 2019)

Where: St. Lawrence Catholic Parish 370 S Section St. Fairhope, AL 36532

Conductor:Jose Sunderland     

Fee: $390

Minimum Enrollment:8 students

Register at: mobilesymphony.org or call (251)432-2010

Mobile Symphony Youth Orchestra.                                                                       Mobile Symphony Youth Orchestra is a highly skilled honors youth orchestra. If you are selected for this ensemble, you will have the opportunity to rehearse and perform the very best of the orchestral repertoire with other young artists from across the Gulf Coast. You will experience music making at a very high level under the expert baton of Maestro Iván del Prado.

Auditions include two major scales, a solo of your choice from the standard repertory of your instrument, and orchestral excerpts. More information can be found online at www.mobilesymphony.org/mysoauditioninformationor by calling 251-432-2010

Wales West’s Cottontail Express features the Easter Bunny from March 14 through April 11, 2020 on Saturdays and Sundays, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Enjoy a steam train ride on Dame Ann to meet the Easter Bunny this holiday season! Guests will travel by train to the “Bunny Hutch” and enjoy an egg hunt, crafts, refreshments, a miniature train ride, hay-less hay ride, playground and bounce house. Grab a snack or sit down for lunch at the café, and grab a few Easter goodies from the gift shop.

This special event is only open until for a limited time with exclusive photos with the Easter Bunny, a petting zoo, pony rides, peep cannon and more! Guests may preorder tickets online or purchase at the railroad for $15; ages 2 and under enter free. http://www.waleswest.com/cottontail 

The Mobile County Master Gardeners Association hosts gardeners and horticulturists from across the state and nation as they meet to look into the future of gardening with the Alabama Master Gardeners Association. The conference featured speaker is Jim Martin, a veteran horticulturist who is the director of programs for the Charleston Parks Conservancy in South Carolina and creator of Compost in My Shoe, his blog and gardening enterprise. Twenty-one sessions will offer nineteen different speakers who will share their insights on topics as diverse as longleaf pine forests, the red hills of Alabama, and how to garden as we age. All activities take place at the Mobile Renaissance Riverview Plaza Hotel. The costhttps://alabamamg.org/ is $165 for all sessions. The public is invited.