Performing Arts News

TJC plans 3nd annual Arts Festival throughout April
Tyler Junior College has announced its 3rd annual Arts Festival, to be held throughout the month of April on the TJC main campus.

Apache Belles spring show set March 30-April 1
All aboard for the Tyler Junior College Apache Belles’ spring show, “Love Train.”

TJC Academy of Dance featured in ETSO’s ‘Invitation to the Dance’
Music and dance will take center stage as students from the Tyler Junior College Academy of Dance join the East Texas Symphony Orchestra for “Invitation to the Dance.”

A very busy week in the life of TJC band student Nick Wilkerson
There’s busy, and then there’s Nick Wilkerson’s brand of busy.

TJC Jazz Festival set March 2 and 3 at Liberty Hall
Ronald Carter, a saxophonist who has performed with musical greats including Lou Rawls, Lena Horne and The Temptations, will be the guest artist for the annual TJC Jazz Festival.

TJC drama club, ‘Las Mascaras,’ celebrates 90th anniversary
In addition to Tyler Junior College’s 90th anniversary, this also marks the 90th year of the college’s oldest active student organization – the speech and drama club, Las Mascaras.

TJC band director inducted into bandmaster fraternity
TJC Director of Bands Jeremy Strickland has been elected to membership in Phi Beta Mu, an international school bandmaster fraternity.

Tickets on sale Feb. 15 for TJC spring musical, ‘Mary Poppins’
Chimney sweeps who step in time. Those precocious, kite-flying Banks children. The bird woman on the cathedral steps. A spoonful of sugar. That mysterious nanny who’s practically perfect in every way.

TJC music professor/composer to premiere two new works
Music isn’t just Micah Bell’s job – it’s his life. Bell spends his days teaching music at TJC and much of his off time composing and arranging musical scores.

TJC Pops Concert set Nov. 17 and 18
TJC music groups Harmony & Understanding and Jazz Ensemble II present this year’s Pops Concert, themed “Old Time Rock ’n’ Roll,” in celebration of TJC’s 90th anniversary.