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Field Trips & Schoolday Performances

Think of the Holly Theatre for your next school or large group education booking!  Interactive tours for all ages, field trip shows, and even shows brought to your school are all options with The Holly Children's Theatre.
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Ruth Purcell

Ruth Purcell is the Music Director for the Music Theatre Intensive Day
Camp. Ruth Has loved musical theater since she started memorizing the
current Broadway hit songs as a child, and entertaining her family.
Within a few years she and her sister were folksingers and songwriters
together in Birmingham, Alabama and later in Nashville, and members of
Hickory Wind, a bluegrass group that later became the Front Porch
String Band.  An instrumentalist as well as a vocalist, she played the
fiddler in the Holly's "Fiddler on the Roof" and played backstage
fiddle in Black Bear's "Oliver" as well as singing in the chorus and
playing the part of Mrs. Bedwin. She was music director, performer,
and fiddler in the Holly's "Quilters", and played fiddle in the
Gainesville Theatre Alliance's recent production of "Barbary Allen".

Ruth has been working with children for many years, in the classroom
and as a church musician. She has a B.A. in music from George Peabody
College in Nashville, and recently acquired her Teacher Certification
from NGCSU. She has taught general music for the past 6 years at
Westminster Christian School, where she started an afterschool chorus
as well as teaching general music to K-8th. In 2007 she launched the
North Georgia Children's Chorus here in Dahlonega, a weekly community
children's choir. She has created a CD, "Songtales" with 28 children's
songs. She teaches private or group lessons in piano, violin, and
recorder and is a freelance violist and accompanist.


When she is not singing or fiddling, Ruth can be found gardening andenjoying picking and baking with this year's bumper crop of berries,or hiking with her husband and dog. This is her first opportunity to work with the Holly's children's program, and she is thrilled to have
a chance to share her love for singing with the campers this summer!
 
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