Arts & Culture

Did you see Anna McGary during finals week at Lafayette High? She was the one with the coloring book and the “gorgeous feet.”

Rhyan Sprague of Lexington realized a life-long dream last summer when she played a gig in Nashville, at a club called 12th & Porter.

Talk about a fast learner. Quinn Coffey, an eighth grader at Jessie Clark Middle, received her first guitar on her birthday two years ago. Since then, the 14-year-old has been the pre-show act for Melissa Etheridge, performed on TV, appeared on “Woodsong’s Old-Time Radio Hour” and will cut her first CD of original music this summer.

When Harper Toney, a senior at Lafayette SCAPA, was planning her classes for the 2013-14 school year, she realized the school lacked a course she wanted.

After Cavan Hendron, then 6 years old, saw “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” at the Lexington Children’s Theatre, he told his grandmother, “I want to do something at that place.”

Classical education was made for Victoria Robinson, a senior actor and singer at Trinity Christian Academy, which features a Classical Christian curriculum.

When you ask Serena Dudee how old she was when she started writing, she’ll tell you, “As soon as I could open a Word document.”

If they had a Newcomer of the Year award in the West Jessamine High theater program, Isaiah Estes would have won it.

You’ve probably heard the term “triple threat,” referring to someone who can sing, dance and act.
But in the case of sophomore Kurtis Brown, the correct term is “quadruple threat.”

Hailey Stone starts her day like many of us do – singing in the shower.
But that’s only the beginning for the Dunbar High senior. She literally sings her way through the day.