The Charleston Symphony Orchestra League, Inc. (CSOL®) is pleased to present Home for the Holidays on December 29, 2019 at 3:30 pm at the Unitarian Church, 8 Archdale Street, Charleston, SC. Please join us as we welcome former CSOL scholarship recipients forRead more
This New Year’s Eve, all are invited to join with the Gullah Geechee people at the historic Morris Brown A.M.E. church in downtown Charleston for a daytime Watch Night and Emancipation Proclamation celebration. It’s a tradition that is over 155Read more
Happy New Year, Charleston is free to the public and offers a family friendly, non-alcoholic event with activities, live music, and food trucks. Ring in your New Year with musical performances, light shows and many hands-on opportunities for family fun!Read more
When the struggling writer was asked to take over the unpaid, anonymous position of advice columnist, Cheryl Strayed used empathy and her personal experiences to help those seeking guidance for obstacles both large and small. Tiny Beautiful Things is a play aboutRead more
It is difficult to imagine that anyone would ever consider the music of Johann Sebastian Bach overwrought and exaggerated, but this is indeed how many nineteenth century music critics interpreted his work. They labeled this period’s music “baroque,” stemming fromRead more
Join Charleston’s premiere high voices ensemble for our second annual Epiphany concert as we perform Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols," works by Rutter, Chilcott, and more. The performance features a very special guest, international prize-winning harpist Abigail Kent. The beautiful soprano, alto,Read more
Mark Wigglesworth, Conductor Olga Kern, Pianist PROGRAM DOVE Sunshine RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.2 Interval SIBELIUS Symphony No.2 For more than seven decades the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) has been at the forefront of music-making in the UK. Its home base sinceRead more
Charleston City Paper and Theatre 99 have teamed up once again to bring laughter and comedic relief to cure the post-holiday blues. January 2020 will mark the 17th annual Charleston Comedy Festival, the premier comedy event of the Southeast. This year’s event promises to be an even biggerRead more
City Gallery at Waterfront Park celebrates Linda Fantuzzo: Penumbra, a new exhibition by artist Linda Fantuzzo, with a free, public reception on January 17, 2020. The exhibition remains on view through March 1. Fantuzzo is known for capturing the mysterious qualities ofRead more
Join the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston to celebrate the opening reception of their new exhibitions "Butch Anthony: Inside/Out" and "Coulter Fussell: The Raw Materials of Escape." All College of Charleston students, faculty, and staff,Read more
Free Verse is expanding its efforts to include events throughout the year! First up is hip-hop / harp duo Kuf Knotz and Christine Elise. What do they sound like? A mix of Tribe Called Quest & Joanna Newsom. Philadelphia's MC/Read more
Join the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston for an artist talk with Coulter Fussell as she speaks about her current exhibition, "The Raw Materials of Escape." Free admission - open to all! Coulter Fussell’s early-developedRead more
First Annual MLK, Jr. Commemorative Concert "Hold Fast To The Dream" featuring Lowcountry Voices will perform at First Baptist Church of James Island (Host Pastor, Rev. Charlie Murray). Lowcountry Voices is under the direction of Nathan L. Nelson. January 20,Read more
The Charleston Music Club presents harpist Holly Avesian and flutist Tacy Edwards in a concert of classical harp and flute duets. The program will include works by Gossec, Faure, Godard, Bizet, Ravel, de Falla, Ibert, Rutter, and Wilson, as wellRead more
The 6th Annual Charleston Jazz Festival presents performances by a wide variety of talented jazz artists. From legends of jazz to emerging artists, to Charleston’s most celebrated home-grown talent, artists of the Charleston Jazz Festival will perform in a wideRead more
Join members of the Long Table Poets of Charleston, SC for a reading of ekphrastic poems inspired by the work of artist Linda Fantuzzo. Her current exhibition, Linda Fantuzzo: Penumbra, is on view January 18 through March 1 at City Gallery atRead more
Join the Charleston Academy of Music for a Russian Opera during their Rush Hour Concert Series. The concert will feature Russian singer, Evgenia Pirshina and Uruguayan pianist, Carla Ferreira Romaniuk. They will dazzle you with music by great Russian composers,Read more
Remarkable jazz violinist Regina Carter is one of today’s most original and daring musicians. Classically trained, Regina grew up in Detroit, where she absorbed all the music that Motown had to offer. Though her work draws upon a wide range of musical influencesRead more
Village Rep presents the South Carolina premiere of a new play by the Pulitzer Prize winning Ayad Akhtar. A fast paced financial thriller set in the high flying, devil-may-care financial world of the 1980s and inspired by real life junkRead more
Journey with Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy through a magical wardrobe in the magnificent world of Narnia, in C.S. Lewis’s classic tale of adventure and discovery.
The 6th Annual Charleston Jazz Festival proudly presents a star-studded evening at the Gaillard Center. It begins with a performance by the Monty Alexander trio, followed by the Charleston Jazz Orchestra with vocalists Jane Monheit and Freddy Cole. Originally from Kingston,Read more
Nurturing the next generation of jazz performers is integral to our mission and on the final day of the Charleston Jazz Festival, we are celebrating our up-and-coming jazz musicians from around South Carolina! Come hear from some of the bestRead more
In the revered halls of art museums around the world, high art forms are usually confined to specific media: oil on canvas, marble, bronze, and so on. But are these the only materials that we consider to be fine art?Read more
The Middleton Place Foundation is proud to host the Colour of Music Festival for three performances at the Edmondston-Alston House and Middleton Place. Colour of Music Festival January 29 - February 1, 2020 Now in its seventh year, the ColourRead more
To kick off the spring season of National Book Foundation Presents, join 2019 National Book Award Finalists Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition, and Akwaeke Emezi, the author of Pet, for a discussion on breaking convention to create brand-new forms,Read more
Patrick Davis & His Midnight Choir is Patrick’s rediscovering (and reaffirming) his faith in the sound, sincerity and soul of the timeless songs, artists & music that moved him to pick up the guitar (and pen) in the first place.Read more
The Middleton Place Foundation is proud to host the Colour of Music Festival for three performances at the Edmondston-Alston House and Middleton Place. Colour of Music Festival January 29 - February 1, 2020 Now in its seventh year, the ColourRead more
The second longest running off-Broadway revue in history has been revised for the 21st century! This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum known as 'the relationship’ from the journey of datingRead more
