Christmas is coming later than expected for the Serenity Academy of Performing Arts.

The Denham Springs High School Theatre Department is giving audiences quite the variety in its next production.

To celebrate 12 years, the Grand Country Junction is charging $12.

Students selected to the 2018-2019 Livingston Parish High School Honor Band were honored last weekend.

Students selected to the 2018-2019 Livingston Parish Middle School Honor Band were honored last weekend.

DENHAM SPRINGS -- Children painted one of the most popular — and most imaginary — animals in the world last weekend at the Arts Council of Livingston Parish.

Heading into 2019, the News is reaching out to our community to hear what you value about our products, and what you'd like to see in the new year.

Two Southeastern Louisiana University Community Music School violin students recently won the Sinfonia Division of the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra (GNOYO) concerto competition.

WALKER -- There were times when Randy Blackwell couldn’t help but stare at the photographs, those faded moments-in-time that provide a glimpse into the glorious past of this five-decade-old building.

DENHAM SPRINGS -- The Arts Council of Livingston Parish will open its doors to a new member organization over the next two months.

The Old South Jamboree, where the sounds of country music have delighted the ears of ticket buyers for around five decades, will ring in the New Year with its first show of 2019 on Saturday, Jan. 5.

Southeastern Louisiana University’s Community Music School recently announced its five Fall 2018 CMS Outstanding Musicians, including two from Livingston Parish.

Approximately 120 band students from 11 Livingston Parish schools were selected to the District IV middle school and high school honor bands.

WATSON -- The Livingston Parish Children’s Choirs, made up of more than 100 singers in grades K-12, put audiences in the holiday spirit with a wide variety of tasteful selections during its 28th Annual Christmas Concert on Friday, Dec. 7.

SATSUMA -- “The Nutcracker” came to life inside the Suma Crossing Theatre.

Annabelle Mack has returned as Clara in the Hammond Ballet’s production of “The Nutcracker,” a role she also held during the 2016 show.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

The Community Music School at Southeastern Louisiana University will present the Northlake Community Band in a concert titled “Fall Potpourri” on Tuesday, Dec. 4.

The Livingston Parish Library hosted its yearly gathering celebrating books, literacy, and the arts during the annual Livingston Parish Book Festival on Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Main Branch in Livingston.

The Southeastern Louisiana University Bella Voce, Concert Choir, University Chorus, and Northshore Choral Society will present “And Suddenly… A Jazz Holiday,” an evening of holiday carols in preparation of the holiday season, on Thursday, Nov. 29.

It’s going to be Christmas time at the Old South Jamboree when the historic music venue in Walker holds “A Country Christmas Show” on Saturday, Dec. 1.

For parents who need extra time to shop for the holidays without bringing along the kids, there’s a camp just for you.

St. Joseph Catholic Church will host its 10th annual “Food Festival - A Taste of French Settlement” from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 2.

Dancing dolls, a forest of snow, clouds of angels, and fields of poinsettias.

The Southeastern Symphony Orchestra will present its final fall concert in Pottle Music Auditorium on Wednesday, Nov. 28.

SPRINGFIELD -- The name is Joshua Frunheiser.

The Arts Council of Livingston Parish is offering three classes over the next month that will give patrons a chance to illustrate a snowman, decorate cookies and paint a Christmas design.

Ten Southeastern Louisiana University vocal performance students and one alumnus were finalists at the Louisiana Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) competition held recently at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches.

Approximately 81 students were selected for the 2018-2019 Livingston Parish High School Honor Band.

Sara Collins is heading back to the Grand Country Junction.

Roger Johns, the author of the Wallace Hartman Mysteries from St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books, discussed his new book series during an appearance at Cavalier House Books on Tuesday, Nov. 6.

The man behind some of the most iconic characters in comic book history has passed, and the Livingston Parish Library is doing its part to honor his memory.

Southeastern Louisiana University’s Department of Music and Performing Arts’ dance company, Dance Performance Project 2, will present “A Few of Her Favorite Things: A Dedication to Mary Lou Champagne” on Nov. 19.

DENHAM SPRINGS -- Where else could you find a hippy camp counselor, a dancing drill sergeant, a neurotic British teen, a kid loaded with camp supplies in his trench coat, a smelly camper, and a constant snoozer?

The third lecture in the “Let’s Talk: Art” series, sponsored jointly by Southeastern Louisiana University’s Department of Visual Art + Design and the Friends of Sims Library, will be held Wednesday, Nov. 14.

The Arts Council of Livingston Parish will hold an artists reception for its “100 Under 100” exhibit on Saturday, Nov. 10.

The Southeastern Louisiana University Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Lab Band will present its final concert of the fall 2018 semester Monday, Nov. 12, at 7:30 p.m., in Pottle Music Building Recital Hall.

DENHAM SPRINGS -- David Peoples calls it a battle between “misfits and jerks.”

Roger Johns rewrote his book at least seven times before finally nailing it down.

If you’re in search for an inexpensive piece of art, the Arts Council has a few items just for you — approximately 100 of them.

Kerwin LeBlanc is coming back.

DENHAM SPRINGS -- The creators of “Chicory & Roux,” a children’s book about a pair of Louisiana mice from different backgrounds, recently stopped by Cavalier House Books for a storytelling session and book signing. 

WALKER -- Audiences can normally expect to hear country music whenever they enter the Old South Jamboree.

“The Heart is an Organ,” a new documentary by filmmaker and Livingston Parish native David S. White, will be among the films screened during the 29th Annual New Orleans Film Festival.

BATON ROUGE -- Chorale singers have performed in Old North Church in Boston, Carnegie Hall in New York City, Disneyworld in Orlando, and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., among several other in-country venues.

The Spotlight Theater Players are taking people back in time.

The creators of “Chicory & Roux” are coming to Cavalier House Books.

Southeastern Louisiana University’s Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts will present “Tapestry: The Carole King Songbook” in a one-time-only performance scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25.