Author: Margaret Evans

BTC Presents Hilarious Tribute to Broadway

 USCB Center For The Arts announces Beaufort Theater Company’s production of “Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits,”  a hilarious, loving and endlessly entertaining tribute to many of Broadway’s biggest shows. Laugh out loud as the cast parodies selections from Annie, Wicked, Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera and Cats, as well as Broadway legends like Carol Channing, Ethel Merman, Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli.

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Sinatra & Swing

Those who love the songs of Frank Sinatra and the sound of the great big bands can get both when the 17-piece Odyssey Jazz & Swing Orchestra presents ‘Sinatra & Swing’. Two shows mark this major music event – Friday evening April 20 at 7:30 pm on Lady’s Island in Beaufort in the Walsh-Palmetto Hall at St. Peter’s Church, and on Hilton Head at the Hilton Head Beach & Tennis Resort on Sunday afternoon, May 6 at 5:00 pm.

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Recovering My Musical Chops

The Lowcountry Community Concert Band plays ‘Pops from Stage to Screen’ Among the baggage we brought when we moved to the Lowcountry in 2015 was an old, silver-plated B-flat tuba, which I’d played in college and in many reunion parades (and office parties) since graduating from Rutgers University in 1971. I didn’t think I would still be playing the horn in retirement, and it seemed fated to sit in a corner in our living room as a rather unusual objet d’art.

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LWS Features Young Violinist in ‘Cinematic Highlights’

The Lowcountry Wind Symphony will round out its third season with a program entitled ‘Cinematic Highlights.’ Back to back free concerts will be presented at 7 pm on Saturday, April 21 at Lord of Life Lutheran Church, 351 Buckwalter Parkway; and Sunday, April 22 at 4 pm at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 157 Lady’s Island Dr. in Beaufort.

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SCAA Inductees Share Thoughts on the Honor

The South Carolina Academy of Authors will induct four new writers into the Palmetto State’s literary hall of fame in a weekend featuring an awards dinner, free public conversations, exhibitions, and tours in Beaufort, April 27–29. The SCAA’s 32nd annual induction weekend will honor the literary contributions of James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Nathalie Dupree, New York Times best-selling novelist Mary Alice Monroe, Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer Valerie Sayers, and dramatist and first director of the SC Academy of Fine Arts John Blake White (1781–1859).

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Sharing the Spotlight

Art League of Hilton Head presents Sharing the Spotlight, Paintings by Nancy Vineburgh & Joan Moreau McKeever this May at Art League Gallery. Both artists are from Connecticut and now live in Belfair, but each traveled entirely different roads to becoming artists. This show will encompass their shared love for the Lowcountry, along with paintings that divulge to the viewer the different times and places that they each hold dear. 

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LowCountry Light & Color

Beaufort Art Association (BAA) Gallery is featuring ‘LowCountry Light & Color’ by Kim Painter from April 29 to June 30. The artist’s reception will be at the Gallery located at 913 Bay Street in Beaufort on Friday, May 4, from 5:30 – 7:30 pm.

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Passages, Bitter and Sweet

Margaret Evans, EditorDear reader, I greet you from the leafy, violet-flecked banks of the Tennessee River, where we’re currently spring-breaking with my parents and day-tripping to area colleges with our daughter. There are big things afoot in the world, reader. Enormous things, even.

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