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Second Street Live is the outgrowth of the successful 801 Concert Series. The 801 series was a small private concert series that presented National and International artists for five years. Growing demand for tickets to this series led to the formation of Second Street Live, a 501c(3) non profit organization. Bringing together an outstanding group of city leaders that make up the SSL board has expedited our progress. This support, along with our generous Founding Contributors, patrons and season sponsors, places us on the verge of realizing a Performing and Visual Arts Center with an intimate 250 seat theater and 1500 square foot Art Gallery. Our research and planning for this project have brought together an experienced and motivated team to transform the recently purchased building at 101 N. Second Street into a first class Arts Center.

  • Red Molly
  • Lynn Miles
  • Chris Smither
  • Trio of Poets
  • Ruthie Foster
  • Del Castillo
  • Toucan Jam
  • Gary Hutchison
  • Johnny A.
  • Stanley Jordan
  • Sam Bush
  • Blue Fiddle
  • Raul Malo

JAMES HAYES is a graduate of Hendrix College fine arts program. His medium is blown glass having trained at the Chilhouly Pilchuck Glass School outside Seattle and with the famous Murano glass artists in Italy. He was the recipient of the Hendrix College 2007 Odyssey Medal for Artistic Creativity.

Jon Lee studied fine art at the Memphis College of Art. This young painter has attracted considerable attention in the art world, having been featured in New American Paintings Southern Edition in 2007. Lee’s vivid mixed media box painting was cultivated by his printmaking background and inspiration found on the streets of Memphis and the farms of his native Dumas.

Sam King, an Indiana University master’s prepared fine art student and recipient of 2007 Governor’s Emerging Artist fellowship award, presents a varied approach to oil painting from non-objective landscapes to urban realism.

Photographers Henry Turner, Ed Barham, Steve Jones and David Rackley demonstrated the wide world of fine art photography from hand painted silver gelatin prints to alternative process approaches to digital imagery.

Kevin Arnold, a fine art graduate from the University of Arkansas, is one of our region’s strongest painters. His large canvases depict nocturnal scenes of social realism reminiscent of Edward Hopper.