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Happy New Year, Charleston!

Charleston Visitors Center 385 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC, United States

Come celebrate with your friends and neighbors at this family-friendly, non-alcohol event. We will have live music and entertainment as the evening progresses.

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CSO Masterworks – Hart of Tchaikovsky

Charleston Gaillard Center 95 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC

This performance will explore fanfare, reflection, and fate with music from two living composers and a 19th Century Russian Romantic. The concert opens with Black American composer Adolphus Hailstork’s Fanfare on “Amazing Grace,” a work performed by “The President’s Own”Read more

CMC Ovation Concert Series

Historic Dock Street Theatre 135 Church Street, Charleston, SC, United States

Chamber Music Charleston’s Ovation Concert Series continues with the return of guest pianist Phillip Bush and violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti joining musicians of CMC to perform Mahler’s Quartet Movement for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello in A minor alongside Franck’sRead more

$5 – $50
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Griots of Cotton, Indigo, & Clay

City Gallery 34 Prioleau St, Charleston, SC, United States

Griots of Cotton, Indigo, & Clay debuts the permanent collection of the Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund, an evolution of the advocacy efforts of the Black Belt Justice Center. Curated by Torreah “Cookie” Washington, and featuring over 75 piecesRead more

Free, reservations required

CSO Pops – The Great American Songbook

Charleston Gaillard Center 95 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC

There was a time before Elvis swiveled his hips on national television and prior to anyone knowing a musical genre called “rock and roll.” Music written during what we now call the Great American Songbook originally started around 100 yearsRead more

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Ben Butler

Cannon Street Arts Center 134 Cannon Street, Charleston, SC, United States

BEN BUTLER BY RICHARD STRAND Directed by Sharon Graci Cannon Street Arts Center January 21 – February 12 When an escaped slave shows up at Fort Monroe demanding sanctuary, General Benjamin Butler is faced with an impossible moral dilemma—follow theRead more

$28 – $40

Rush Hour Concert: Guitar

Second Presbyterian Church 342 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC, United States

Charleston Academy of Music presents a Rush Hour Concert: Guitar with Ulyana Machneva and Nikolai Svishev. About CAM: Charleston Academy of Music prides itself in being one of the leading music schools in the Lowcountry. Founded in 2003, Academy hasRead more

Free, Donations Appreciated

‘Masterworks of Voice and Drama’ Presented by the College of Charleston

Sottile Theatre 44 George St, Charleston, SC, United States

CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Department of Music at the College of Charleston School of the Arts will continue its 2021-2022 CofC Concerts season with a performance of dramatic opera works and art songs. The concert, “Masterworks of Voice and Drama,” willRead more

$10 – $25
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CSO Mastworks – Chopin’s Masterpiece

Charleston Gaillard Center 95 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC

Julia Perry’s aptly-titled A Short Piece for Small Orchestra manages to celebrate the entire orchestra in its seven-minute journey. Perry, a Black American composer who started out writing vocal compositions, lived from 1924-1979 and penned a dozen symphonies before herRead more

Charleston Music Fest – College of Charleston

Sottile Theatre 44 George St, Charleston, SC, United States

A fundraising concert of Beethoven works performed by violinist and conductor Yuriy Bekker, concertmaster of Charleston Symphony Orchestra, who in addition to his illustrious orchestral career is renowned as a soloist and chamber musician; concert pianist, laureate of the MargueritteRead more

$10 – $25