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400 Faces: Leigh Ann Cannady, founder and artistic director of Forsyth Academy of Performing Arts
Leigh Ann Cannady
Leigh Ann Cannady, Founder and artistic director of Forsyth Academy of Performing Arts - photo by Brian Paglia
Leigh Ann Cannady wasn’t sure what to do next. The Conyers native was raising a family and giving private piano and voice lessons out of her family’s Forsyth County home at the time, and her students kept asking where they could take performing arts classes or participate in a production. Everywhere Cannady knew to send them was outside Forsyth County.