Arcadia Plantation’s Surprising Connection
February 16, 2017
By Tom Poland A fine Southern mansion complete with its own bowling alley? ’Tis true. A glimpse of the wealth and majesty that came with the era of…
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Arcadia Plantation’s Surprising Connection
February 16, 2017
By Tom Poland A fine Southern mansion complete with its own bowling alley? ’Tis true. A glimpse of the wealth and majesty that came with the era of…
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Scott Kirby celebrates Americana in multimedia performance
February 15, 2017Friday, February 24 | Doors at 6:30 p.m. | Performance at 7:00 p.m. WHAT: Program: Baker & Baker presents Main Street Souvenirs with Scott Kirby Pianist, composer, and visual artist…
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South Carolina Ag + Art Tour accepting farm tour sites for 2017 tour
February 14, 2017
The South Carolina Ag + Art Tour is currently seeking farms to participate in the nation’s largest free farm tour to take place in June 2017. This free, self-guided tour…
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Trakas completes first novel, ‘Messenger from Mystery’
February 13, 2017
It took Dr. Deno Trakas 30 years to bring his simmering, riveting, thoughtful story of forbidden love and international intrigue to fruition. Now, he’s waiting to see what his writer…
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Turn up the Volume: Spartanburg Music Trail
February 7, 2017
From Pink Anderson and the Marshall Tucker Band, to Marshall Chapman and the Sparkletones, music has been part of the cultural fabric of Spartanburg County. Now visitors can listen to…
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A Conversation with Judy Carmichael
February 3, 2017
By Alan Cooper Judy Carmichael will playing at the Harbision Theater, Saturday, February 4 at 7:30 pm. You can purchase tickets here. Nicknamed “Stride” by the great Count Basie, GRAMMY-nominated…
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Love Me Ugly. Love Me True.
February 3, 2017
By Amy Coward If you believe everything you see on television, love is for the beautiful. You’ve seen the commercial where the beautiful couple on a romantic getaway looks longingly…
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Spring’s Early Arrivals
February 3, 2017
By Tom Poland Essential Southern Flowers The trumpeters of spring arrived ahead of schedule. From the ground burst daffodils, those green-and-yellow harbingers of spring. The warm spell a…
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Spring’s Early Arrivals
February 3, 2017
By Tom Poland Essential Southern Flowers The trumpeters of spring arrived ahead of schedule. From the ground burst daffodils, those green-and-yellow harbingers of spring. The warm spell a…
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Van Cliburn silver medalist joins USC Symphony Orchestra on February 21
January 30, 2017
Guest artist Joyce Yang, piano, plays Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini Joyce Yang, a Van Cliburn International Piano Competition silver medalist and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient,…
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Teri Leigh Teed Fine Art Photography selected for inaugural NC Artists Count exhibition
January 29, 2017
Teri Leigh Teed, a multi-dimensional, award winning artist based in Sylva, North Carolina, has been selected as one of the featured artists in the western North Carolina “Artists Count” project, which…
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Teri Leigh Teed Fine Art Photography selected for inaugural NC Artists Count exhibition
January 29, 2017
Teri Leigh Teed, a multi-dimensional, award winning artist based in Sylva, North Carolina, has been selected as one of the featured artists in the western North Carolina “Artists Count” project, which…
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BJU Museum & Gallery to close for renovation
January 27, 2017Bob Jones University President Steve Pettit announced today that the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery will close for renovation on Saturday, Feb. 18. “The Museum & Gallery has long…
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Back When Gravity Was Weak
January 26, 2017
By Tom Poland My Buddy Was My Bike Two coincidences occurred this week. Sister Deb sent me a photograph of me as a kid on my bicycle. As for…
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EQUUS Film Festival returns to Camden Feb. 17-18
January 23, 2017The City of Camden and The Marley Project, Inc. announce that, for the second time, the internationally acclaimed EQUUS Film Festival has chosen Camden as its first tour stop featuring…
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EQUUS Film Festival returns to Camden Feb. 17-18
January 23, 2017
The City of Camden and The Marley Project, Inc. announce that, for the second time, the internationally acclaimed EQUUS Film Festival has chosen Camden as its first tour stop featuring…
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Arts in Basic Curriculum Project website gets makeover
January 20, 2017The Arts in Basic Curriculum (ABC) Project website (ABCProjectSC.com) has been transformed with a new design and streamlined content and will now serve as a digital hub for arts education…
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Shrimp, Collards, & Grits
January 20, 2017
By Tom Poland As Southern As It Gets Back in August, Patricia Branning emailed me. She and a woman who represents authors had been talking and my name…
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Shrimp, Collards, & Grits
January 20, 2017
By Tom Poland As Southern As It Gets Back in August, Patricia Branning emailed me. She and a woman who represents authors had been talking and my name…
Read MorePosted in: lowcountrybizsc, midlandsbiz, upstatebizsc Category: life, the-arts
Arts in Basic Curriculum Project website gets makeover
January 20, 2017The Arts in Basic Curriculum (ABC) Project website (ABCProjectSC.com) has been transformed with a new design and streamlined content and will now serve as a digital hub for arts education…
Read MorePosted in: midlandsbiz Category: on-the-move, the-arts
Arts in Basic Curriculum Project website gets makeover
January 20, 2017
The Arts in Basic Curriculum (ABC) Project website (ABCProjectSC.com) has been transformed with a new design and streamlined content and will now serve as a digital hub for arts education…
Read MorePosted in: midlandsbiz Category: on-the-move, the-arts
Arts in Basic Curriculum Project website gets makeover
January 19, 2017
The Arts in Basic Curriculum (ABC) Project website (ABCProjectSC.com) has been transformed with a new design and streamlined content and will now serve as a digital hub for arts education…
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Columbia City Ballet presents Swan Lake with full S.C. Philharmonic Orchestra
January 18, 2017
Graceful swans, a dashing prince and a moonlit lake become immersed in the world of breathtaking beauty with Columbia City Ballet’s adaptation of the quintessential classical ballet of Swan Lake.…
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Decoda Cello Quartet with special guest Winifred Goodwin to perform at the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County
January 18, 2017The first and only Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall, Decoda, returns to Camden for a community residency and chamber music performance at the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County’s (FAC)…
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Decoda Cello Quartet with special guest Winifred Goodwin to perform at the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County
January 18, 2017
The first and only Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall, Decoda, returns to Camden for a community residency and chamber music performance at the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County’s (FAC)…
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Jasper Project to produce new play by South Carolina native Randall David Cook as first in Play Right Series
January 16, 2017
The Jasper Project kicks off its new theatre project, The Play Right Series, with the world premiere of the play, Sharks and Other Lovers, by Columbia native Randall David Cook.…
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Columbia City Ballet presents Swan Lake with full S.C. Philharmonic Orchestra
January 14, 2017
A Historic Event for Two Nights Only Graceful swans, a dashing prince and a moonlit lake become immersed in the world of breathtaking beauty with Columbia City Ballet’s adaptation of…
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Prize-winning pianists to play two big piano concertos
January 11, 2017Nakahara conducts big, romantic Lizst and Grieg concertos Pianists won 2014 and 2015 Southeastern Piano Festival competitions Large screens to show live, up-close concert video Previous multimedia concert in 2014…
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CMA Jazz and Chamber Concerts start 2017 on a high note
January 4, 2017
Friday, January 20, and Tuesday, January 31 At left: CMA Chamber Music on Main Artistic Director Edward Arron At right: CMA Jazz on Main Artistic Director Noel Freidline …
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S.C. Phil creates Advisory Council
January 2, 2017Arts veteran Arnold N. Breman named chair The South Carolina Philharmonic Board of Directors voted to create an advisory council to be comprised of area leaders willing to serve as ambassadors…
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Lynn Robertson appointed as Interim Director of Columbia Museum of Art
December 28, 2016
COLUMBIA, SC – Lynn Robertson, former executive director of the McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina, has been appointed as the interim executive director of the Columbia Museum…
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So, You Want To Write A Book
December 20, 2016
By Tom Poland “What do you do?” It’s a question we ask. The answer reveals a bit of personal geography. It’s a question we get too. When I tell…
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So, You Want To Write A Book
December 20, 2016
By Tom Poland “What do you do?” It’s a question we ask. The answer reveals a bit of personal geography. It’s a question we get too. When I tell…
Read MorePosted in: lowcountrybizsc, midlandsbiz, upstatebizsc Category: life, the-arts
Arts Commission executive director named to national grantmakers board
December 14, 2016South Carolina Arts Commission Executive Director Ken May has been elected to the Grantmakers in the Arts board of directors. He will serve a three-year term beginning January 2017. Grantmakers…
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Arts Commission executive director named to national grantmakers board
December 13, 2016South Carolina Arts Commission Executive Director Ken May has been elected to the Grantmakers in the Arts board of directors. He will serve a three-year term beginning January 2017. Grantmakers…
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Arts Commission executive director named to national grantmakers board
December 13, 2016
South Carolina Arts Commission Executive Director Ken May has been elected to the Grantmakers in the Arts board of directors. He will serve a three-year term beginning January 2017. Grantmakers…
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Psychedelic rock posters take over CMA Paper Gallery
December 12, 2016
Exhibition on View December 16, 2016, through March 12, 2017 The Columbia Museum of Art presents the exhibition Psychedelic Design: Rock Posters from the Mel Byars Collection, 1966–1971, on view…
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2017 slate of South Carolina Chef Ambassadors announced
December 9, 2016
Four chefs in South Carolina were named official Chef Ambassadors yesterday and will spend a year representing South Carolina at key tourism and agricultural events. The chefs are William Cribb…
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2017 slate of South Carolina Chef Ambassadors announced
December 9, 2016
Four chefs in South Carolina were named official Chef Ambassadors yesterday and will spend a year representing South Carolina at key tourism and agricultural events. The chefs are William Cribb…
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Larry Hembree to join Columbia Children’s Theater staff
December 9, 2016
Columbia Children’s Theatre Board of Directors announces Larry Hembree has been hired by the organization as the theatre’s first Director of Development. “Larry has been a leader in the Columbia…
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Nominations for Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award due Dec. 15
December 6, 2016The South Carolina Arts Commission and the University of South Carolina’s McKissick Museum invite nominations for the 2017 Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award. Guidelines and nomination forms are available…
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Nominations for Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award due Dec. 15
December 6, 2016The South Carolina Arts Commission and the University of South Carolina’s McKissick Museum invite nominations for the 2017 Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award. Guidelines and nomination forms are available…
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Nominations for Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award due Dec. 15
December 6, 2016
The South Carolina Arts Commission and the University of South Carolina’s McKissick Museum invite nominations for the 2017 Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award. Guidelines and nomination forms are available…
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Crafty Feast kicks off holiday shopping season with one-stop market of handmade goods
December 5, 2016Sunday, December 11, 2016, 12-6 p.m. 8th annual indie craft fair – the Midlands’ largest – hosts 90+ vendors Crafty Feast, the Midlands’ largest independent craft fair, will kick off…
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Crafty Feast kicks off holiday shopping season with one-stop market of handmade goods
December 5, 2016
Sunday, December 11, 2016, 12-6 p.m. 8th annual indie craft fair – the Midlands’ largest – hosts 90+ vendors Crafty Feast, the Midlands’ largest independent craft fair, will kick off…
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Yvette Cummings wins 701 CCA Prize 2016
December 4, 2016
Conway, S.C artist Yvette L. Cummings won the 701 CCA Prize 2016 for South Carolina artists 40 years and younger. Cummings was announced as the winner during the December 1…
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Sentimental Journey Down U.S. 221
December 2, 2016
By Tom Poland Football, Family, & Fighter Jets We were on our way to explore Georgia’s Carolina bays down near the Florida state line. Valdosta, Georgia, to be precise.…
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Sentimental Journey Down U.S. 221
December 2, 2016
By Tom Poland Football, Family, & Fighter Jets We were on our way to explore Georgia’s Carolina bays down near the Florida state line. Valdosta, Georgia, to be precise.…
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Recording artist, Mark Carson, releases debut solo EP “Door Knockerz”
December 1, 2016
COLUMBIA, SC – Some Hip-Hop artists are looking to emulate trends, riding on the waves of everything that is popular at any given moment in time. Others do not want…
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