Smyrna
Smyrna Artist Business Association

Events

Storytellers 

Betty Ann Wylie

Betty Ann Wylie is acclaimed for performances filled with stories, poetry, songs, and audience participation. She has performed extensively at festivals, schools, universities, in corporate settings, for civic and religious groups and in libraries and museums. She mesmerizes audiences with tales beguilingly related, but with the dramatic gestures and voice changes of a born actress. 

Tersi Bendiburg

Tersi Bendiburg was born in Cuba and grew up in a family where storytelling was a natural way of communicating. She gathers her stories both from her native Cuba and through research and travels to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. She weaves Spanish phrases and songs throughout her stories and accompanies each tale with musical instruments such as maracas, castanets, kalimba, and guiro. 

Sherry Norfolk  

Sherry Norfolk is an acclaimed performer, appearing at festivals all over the country. She has been featured at: the Atlanta Storytelling Festival; Cherokee Rose Storytelling Festival, Carrollton, GA; Corn Island Storytelling Festival, Louisville, KY; Freeport (Bahamas) Storytelling Festival; the Hawaii State Library System; Anchorage Municipal Library System; Live Oak Storytelling Festival, Charleston, SC; Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff; National Storytelling Festival, Jonesborough, TN (Exchange Place Teller); St. Louis (MO) Storytelling Festival -- she's even been featured at the Verbal Arts Centre in Derry, North Ireland, and at the Hong Kong International School.

  Live Music

Larry Griffith

Larry Griffith is a blues singer/songwriter/performer and multi-instrumentalist originally from Cincinnati, Ohio and currently based out of Atlanta, GA. Griffith performed as a drummer for Sean Costello, Taj Mahal and Grammy Award winning best new artist Susan Tedeschi and many, many others before strapping on an electric guitar a few short years ago and forging his own path as lead singer of the wildly entertaining Larry Griffith Band.

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Wine Tasting

Wine tasting will be provided by the Wine Cellar from 6 to 8 pm. You may purchase tickets in advance for $15 (click here) or at the event for $20.