TIFTON — Local talent Carmen Savelli will again be the featured performer at noon Friday in this week’s Concert in the Garden series downtown at Tifton Gardens. The free concerts are sponsored by The Tifton Gazette and Main Street Tifton.
Savelli learned after her Spring Concert in the Garden performance that she had received the part of Ariel in the Little Mermaid production at the Kudzu Theater in Atlanta. She performed in the play three days a week for four consecutive weeks. In June, she auditioned and won a spot as a member of the UGA’s premier show choir “Clover’s & Co.” for the third consecutive year. Last week, she again performed with Sugarland member Jennifer Nettles at the Georgia State Fair in Perry. Savelli was also selected for a second time and sang the National Anthem in July at an Atlanta Braves game.
Savelli lived in New York City in August and worked on Broadway with Grammy-award-winning producers, choreographers and vocal coaches from current shows like “Wicked,” “Legally Blonde,” “Hairspray,” “Chorus Line,” “Young Frankenstein,” “In the Heights” and “South Pacific.” She worked nine hours each day and six days each week while in New York.
“It was a whirlwind traveling summer and almost dreamlike to be given the opportunity to work with the talented people I’ve been able to work with,” Savelli said. “I’m glad to be home, see my friends, my family and slow down a little.”
Savelli plans to add some of the Broadway musical selections she learned to her Concert in the Park show and will also add show tunes, pop and R&B.; She will also sing some of her older songs, but most of them will be new. Hunter Brock will join Savelli for a few numbers Friday.
The free Friday noontime concerts will continue weekly through the end of October. Other local performers scheduled in the coming weeks include Kirsten Underwood and Three For One. Bring your lawn chairs and a lunch.
To contact senior reporter Angie Thompson, call 382-4321.
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