It was pretty noisy yesterday at Meridian Community College. Students were testing out a few instruments. “It’s Symphony Fun Fest, one of the symphony’s biggest events. It’s a great introduction to the symphony,” said Julyn Shirley, who’s interning with Meridian Symphony Orchestra this summer. Students ages 4 to 19 years old spent a day learning from the masters. “We have band directors. We have some people that live in Nashville that came down to teach the strings. We al

The Meridian Symphony League invites all beer connoisseurs to its third annual beer tasting fundraiser this Thursday at Mitchell Distributing. “We’ve got six food vendors coming out to sample food from, and Mitchell is sponsoring us and they’re bringing all kinds of beer in to taste with each food,” said Ashley Massey, former president of the Meridian Symphony Association. The event starts at 6:30 p.m., and Mitchell Distributing will provide the beer samples. All proceeds fr