On Thursday, April 11, at 6pm, Dr. Rick Van Noy will be visiting Hub City Bookshop to discuss his book Sudden Spring: Stories of Adaptation in a Climate-Changed South. A signing will follow the discussion.
Poets Andrew Dally and Patrick Whitfill will be in conversation at Spartanburg County Public Library HQ for National Poetry Month on Friday, April 12, at 7pm.
On the last Sunday of every month from 2-3pm, Hub City Bookshop will host a multilingual story hour for children. Join us with your little ones for crafts, snacks, and great stories!
Welcome to one of the premier charity events in Upstate South Carolina—Blue Ridge Fest. Blue Ridge Fest combines great entertainment and a classic car cruise-in along with good food and the best hosts around. Hosted by Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative employees, this annual fundraiser has donated nearly $2.8 million throughout its first 21 years to upstate charities located in our four-county service area.
22nd Annual Blue Ridge Fest
Friday, May 3, 2019
Ticket Prices
Adult $25
Children (7-12 years) $15
6 years & under Free
Entertainment for Blue Ridge Fest includes three highly exciting and entertaining bands. With a great line-up of bands, Blue Ridge Fest is a great venue for those who like to get up and dance or those who just want to listen. Take a look at this year's entertainers!
Entertainment Schedule
5:15p MAGIC
6:10p Jim Quick & Coastline
7:10p The Tams
8:30p The Oak Ridge Boys
9:30p Raffle Drawing
Miracle Hill in Motion is a family-friendly FUNraising event that will include 4 cycling routes with challenges for novice and experienced riders and our famed Kids Ninja Warrior course. All proceeds will support the homeless and hurting children and adults in Miracle Hill’s shelters and programs.
Now it is time for the 15th annual Duck Derby to be held on May 4th, 2019 from 10:00am til 4pm.
Join us every Saturday from 8am-12pm, April 6-December 14, 2019! As a producer-only Market you’ll find all kinds of local goods including produce, meats, dairy, bread, and artisan goods.
David Bromwich's Cultural Life Program talk, “Power, Passion, and Mark Antony,” is free and open to the public. The lecture is the final talk in the five-part Tocqueville Lecture Series “Love, Friendship and Politics.”
Bromwich is the author of numerous books including “Moral Imagination: Essays” (Princeton, 2014), “The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence” (Belknap, Harvard, 2014), “Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry” (Chicago, 2001) and “Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s” (Chicago, 2000).
The familiar story of Pinocchio, the puppet who longs to be a real boy, told as a musical from the perspective of the toy maker Geppetto.
The true story of the small town that welcomed the world.
Broadway’s Come From Away has won Best Musical all across North America!
The New York Times Critics’ Pick takes you into the heart of the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships.
Don’t miss this breathtaking new musical written by Tony® nominees Irene Sankoff and David Hein and helmed by Tony-winning Best Director, Christopher Ashley. Newsweek cheers, “It takes you to a place you never want to leave!”
On 9/11, the world stopped. On 9/12, their stories moved us all.
Born and raised in Veracruz, Mexico, the Villalobos Brothers use their violins and voices to blend Mexican folk music with elements of classical, jazz, and rock. Their performances are notable for their own unique style of playing called “Fast-Chatting Violin,” as well as their powerful message of love, brotherhood, and social justice. In addition to their virtuosic playing, the brothers — Ernest , Alberto, and Luis – also compose their own original music featuring closely mingled harmonies and intricate patterns. Through multidisciplinary acts that include masks, poems, and theatrical sketches interwoven with powerful lyrics and high-energy compositions, the Villalobos Brothers use their unique style to redefine contemporary Mexican music.
Phil Hughes to kick off Poolside Chat series at Topside Pool Club
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Topside Pool Club has started a new business series aimed at letting some of the Upstate’s biggest names in business tell their story in a new kind of setting.
Poolside Chat will launch on April 4 at 5:30 at the downtown pool club with special guest Phil Hughes, said Jaci Willing, Topside membership and event director. A limited number of seats are available for this exclusive event and free registration can be found at www.topsidepoolclub.com.
Hughes is the founder and President of Hughes Investments, Inc., a commercial real estate development company, which develops office buildings, retail shopping centers, industrial facilities, apartment buildings and urban mixed-use projects in the Carolinas. Some local projects include RiverPlace, Poinsett Plaza, Falls Park Place and RiverWalk.
Presented by the Greenville Symphony Orchestra
Edvard Tchivzhel, Conductor
Long live the French and the GSO in our spectacular Masterworks finale! France’s greatest hits take center stage as we close our season in “le magnifique” style.
Peace Interludes are FREE music appreciation gatherings that unpack the rich traditions and diverse styles of great composers. Each month will feature a unique composer and drink pairing, providing a multi-sensory sip, listen, and learn experience that highlights a musical period.
Much like the divisions of the World Wars during the 20th century, the musical style also became divided—no single style dominated, providing an opportunity for a wide range of music composed during this time. Radio broadcasting, sound recording, and electric instruments, along with countries either beaten down by or feeling victorious from war, created a diverse environment for music to develop and transform. Join us for a “War and Peace” Interlude!
The Peace Center’s Peace Voices Poetry program and the Fine Arts Center’s creative writing department partner to host a poetry reading for National Poetry Month, where students from both programs will showcase their work. The featured guest poet will be Sabrina Orah Mark, the author of the poetry collections The Babies and Tsim Tsum. Mark holds an M.F.A. from The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
300 students, 5 ensembles, a night of accomplishments. Greenville County Youth Orchestra’s annual end-of-year concert featuring the Junior Sinfonia, Chamber Strings, Sinfonia, The Philharmonic, and the Young Artist Orchestra.
Introducing the Fine Arts Center Jazz All Stars Concert Series. This new partnership between the Fine Arts Center and the Peace Center’s Community Impact program gives up-and-coming young artists the opportunity to showcase their skills and perform in a professional setting. Featuring students from both the jazz studies and vocal departments, along with Jazz Studies Instructor Steve Watson and Voice Instructor Danielle Knox, these concerts give you the opportunity to see local rising stars.
Straight No Chaser has had an amazing decade. In that time, the group has sold more than 1.6 million albums in the US and amassed more than 100 million YouTube views thanks to tightly arranged songs, impeccable vocal harmonies, and a healthy sense of humor.
With this conference, you will begin the courageous conversations necessary to assure progress in peace and conflict resolution through learning how to
We believe that through practicing peaceful conflict resolution our friends, families, and communities will be safer and able to encounter greater opportunities of peace and joy.
Bring the whole family for Ninety Six's very first Movie in the Park--Mary Poppins Returns, starring Emily Blunt.
* FREE FAMILY FUN!!!
* FREE Admission
* FREE Food - While Supplies Last
* Movie Starts @ 8:00 PM
* Bring Your Own Chair
* Sponsored by the 96MVNA
No Small Matter is a 70-minute documentary film built from stories of real children, families, and teachers, illustrating the impact of high-quality early childhood experiences. We meet parents who are struggling to do their best for their kids, incredible teachers who model what early childhood classrooms should and could be like, and children learning and developing in real time. These positive, hopeful stories serve as motivational tools in both the film and the No Small Matter campaign: Change is necessary, critical, and attainable if we put our minds to it.
FREE event, open to public. Eligible for 2 hours of DSS childcare training in professional development.
Film screening is at 6 p.m.
Panel discussion begins at 7:15 p.m.
The Original Equipment Suppliers Association (OESA) and South Carolina Automotive Council (SCAC) invite suppliers and industry guests to attend the OESA/SCAC 2019 South Carolina Regional Supplier Meeting on May 16, 2019, at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) in Greenville, S.C. Attendees will hear the latest trends impacting the North American light vehicle supply chain including updates on trade and tariffs, automotive production in Mexico, and insights into Volvo Cars USA’s South Carolina operations.
The thrilling fusion of dance and music comes together in our final Chamber Orchestra concert of the season. Five distinct, international selections will not only have you tapping your feet, but dancing in the aisles when dance Sarah Lane takes to the stage in an exhilarating performance!
Will the good times continue?
Be part of the conversation about the Upstate economy.
You'll hear reliable insights and expert analysis about trends shaping our fiscal outlook and the economic trajectory.
Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and Upstate SC Alliance CEO John Lummus will discuss key economic indicators and take questions from the crowd.
This mind-blowing spectacular showcases the jaw-dropping talents of five of the most incredible illusionists on Earth. The Illusionists – Live From Broadway dazzles audiences of all ages with a powerful mix of the most outrageous and astonishing acts ever to be seen on stage.
Audiences will witness stunning acts of grand illusion, levitation, mind-reading, and disappearance. This group of world-class performers take their cue from the showmanship of the great illusionists of the past – such as Harry Houdini – and pair it with a new and updated contemporary aesthetic, with set and costume design that lend the genre a theatricality and artistry that has rarely been seen before. Collectively, these performers have been seen by millions of people around the world, and this production showcases their incredible talents together on stage.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Dance Theatre of Harlem will lead three workshops to fit each experience level. The workshops will include a ballet-based warm-up with exercises that focus on stretching, strengthening, placement, coordination, agility, and musicality, as well as an exploration of dance themes and phrases that are developed into across-the-floor movement combinations.
All shoes are dancing shoes, and everyone is a dancer when Dance Theatre of Harlem brings dancing to the streets to kick-off Artisphere weekend! Join us on Graham Plaza as two dancers from this ground-breaking, empowering ballet company demo and lead you through easy to learn steps that prove anyone can dance. Come as you are - no experience necessary.
The Young Artist Orchestra and The Philharmonic finish out the season with flair. YAO timpanist Will Harris will be flinging his marimba mallets on Ney Rosauro’s Concerto for Marimba and String Orchestra!
At 75 years young, Jeanne Robertson continues to charm audiences with humorous observations about life around her. Standing tall at six-foot-two, this former Miss North Carolina has a vivacious personality, heart, and sense of humor.
Robertson tours nationally and appears regularly at the Grand ‘Ole Opry. She has eight nationally released DVDs, three books, hundreds of hours on SiriusXM satellite radio, and over 56 million YouTube views. The demand for Robertson's family-friendly and engaging brand of comedy has grown exponentially. Some of her most popular anecdotes include "Don't Go to Vegas Without A Baptist," "Don't Bungee Jump Naked," and "Don't Send a Man to the Grocery Store."
Tony Award®-winning Broadway legend Betty Buckley stars in Hello, Dolly! – the universally acclaimed smash that NPR calls “the best show of the year!” Winner of four Tony Awards® including Best Musical Revival, director Jerry Zaks’ “gorgeous” new production (Vogue) is “making people crazy happy!” (The Washington Post). Breaking box office records week after week and receiving thunderous raves on Broadway, this Hello, Dolly! pays tribute to the original work of legendary director/choreographer Gower Champion – hailed both then and now as one of the greatest stagings in musical theater history. Rolling Stone calls it “a must-see event. A musical comedy dream. If you’re lucky enough to score a ticket, you’ll be seeing something historic. Wow, wow, wow, indeed!”
It’s been nearly a decade since Dawes first emerged from Southern California, carrying with them a roots-rock sound that nodded to the past – including the West Coast folksingers and cosmic country-rockers who chased a similar muse during the 1970s – while still pushing forward.
Over the years that followed their debut, the band evolved and electrified. The grooves deepened. The amplifiers grew louder. Once known for their honest approach to classic sounds, Dawes grew into something different: a forward-thinking, boundary-pushing band for the 21st century, willing to follow inspiration wherever it leads. On the group’s sixth album, Passwords, that inspiration pulls guitarist/singer Taylor Goldsmith, drummer Griffin Goldsmith, bassist Wylie Gelber, and keyboardist Lee Pardini into their most universal, topical territory to date.
Peace Interludes are FREE music appreciation gatherings that unpack the rich traditions and diverse styles of great composers. Each month will feature a unique composer and drink pairing, providing a multi-sensory sip, listen, and learn experience that highlights a musical period.
In the spirit of progress and innovation from the beginning of the 20th century, contemporary music pushed boundaries and performance venues. Reflecting the variety of surrealism, pop art, and abstract expressionism in visual art, music branched out with the birth of jazz, Yiddish theater, vaudeville, and Broadway. Join us for tapping feet and jazz hands!
Train your eye to understand three dimensions and transfer it into twodimensional form using contour drawing, perspective, and value studies using a variety of dry media. No experience necessary, all materials and supplies included.
Master Classes give students and developing writers the chance to learn from professional poets prior to a Poetic Conversation. Each master class is a unique and intimate experience shaped by each artist, their writing process, and their work.
How do we speak of place? Are lineage and place geographical, cultural, emotional, and spiritual? Alicia Jo Rabins and Kevin Coval are privy to the traditions, rituals, and struggles of being Jewish Americans. Rabins is a writer, musician, composer, performer, and Torah teacher. Her work explores the intersection of ancient wisdom texts with everyday life. Coval is a poet and community builder. As the artistic director of Young Chicago Authors, founder of Louder Than A Bomb, and professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago—where he teaches hip-hop aesthetics—he’s mentored thousands of young writers, artists, and musicians. These poets stem from very different literary traditions, but both have so much to contribute about lineage and place and how they write about it.
Gibson will read from her novel, Beyond the Point, and then participate in a Q&A with the audience. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a reception in Furman Hall 217.
Beyond the Point” is set at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where three women—a nationally-ranked point guard, the granddaughter of an Army general and a rebellious Homecoming Queen—are brought together in a story of friendship, heartbreak and resilience.
Copies of the book, published by HarperCollins, will be available at the event and at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore on campus.
You’ll never think of the tuba the same way again after experiencing the jaw-dropping artistry of the internationally-renowned tuba player, Velvet Brown and her unforgettable rendition of John Williams’ brilliant Tuba Concerto.
Junior Achievement of Upstate South Carolina invites you to an original event created to connect over 150 business leaders with over 300 high school students to enhance students' business acumen and soft skills. The Junior Executive Challenge provides an opportunity for local businesses to directly interact with students, sharing personalized information about prospective industries, companies, and careers. The event will feature remarks from SC Lt. Governor Pamela Evette, pitch competition for area businesses, interactive soft skills scenarios enacted by staff from the Warehouse Theatre, student pitches for scholarships, and a "business" luncheon to foster networking, soft skills and communication experiences for local students.
The Day the World Came to Town is the inspiring true story of the small town of Gander, Canada and the goodwill of its residents. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, 38 jetliners bound for the United States were rerouted for Gander International Airport on the island of Newfoundland. Gander residents greeted stranded passengers with overwhelming kindness, providing for their needs and creating friendships that will last a lifetime.
Peace Voices Adult Writing Workshops offer a place to create for everyone from experienced writers to beginners. Workshops are led by Glenis Redmond, who guides participants as they tell their own stories through the craft of poetry.
