The Beaufort Symphony Orchestra and music’s rising young stars help drive each other to greater levels of excellence. It’s not an easy life for young soloists as they reach their late teens and young adulthood, explains Conductor Fred Devyatkin, the Beaufort Symphony Orchestra’s Musical Director.
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Mindy Lucas interviews columnist and veteran bookseller Will Balk on the porch of the Pat Conroy Literary Center, where he serves as volunteer coordinator.
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By Margaret Evans, Editor Ryan Copeland on The Beauty of Beaufort, his new book with Lydia Inglett and the Photography Club of Beaufort.When I heard that Lydia Inglett, Ryan Copeland, and the Photography Club of Beaufort were joining forces to create a new book about Beaufort, I could hardly wait to get my hands on it. Both Lydia and Ryan are longtime friends of Lowcountry Weekly: Lydia was our original art director and Ryan’s writing has enlivened our pages over the years. As for the Photography Club, I can’t count the number of times their work has graced our publication. I suspected this creative team would produce a Beaufort book to beat all Beaufort books. I was not wrong.
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The Sea Island Quilters will present their biannual “Southern Comforts” quilt show on Friday, May 5, and Saturday, May 6, at the Holiday Inn, 2225 Boundary Street, Beaufort, SC. The hours are from 10 am to 5 pm both days. Admission is $6.00 for adults. Children under 12 are free.
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Margaret Evans, Editor This spring, it seems there’s no escape. You can’t get away from it. It’s everywhere. All over the place, all the time, making us all feel lousy. No, not pollen. Politics.
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USCB students are making a difference with a student-led greenhouse project.
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On this the occasion of my 100th column for Lowcountry Weekly, I thought it might be worth taking a breath and sifting through reader feedback. For better or worse, almost all the feedback that comes to me directly is positive. Yes, I suspect that negative responses just don’t reach my eyes and ears though such responses surely exist. But all of your thoughts are much appreciated, whether in person or via e-mail. I read them all and never discount anyone’s reaction. Never.
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Matilde, an earthy young Brazilian housekeeper, would rather be onstage delivering comic lines than wielding a feather duster for her employer, an uptight doctor named Lane. Along with her frustrations about her messy home, Lane discovers she’s about to lose her surgeon-husband to his 67-year old Argentinian breast cancer patient. Thrown into the mix are a loopy quest to find a healing yew tree in Alaska, an extended dirty joke told in Portuguese, and a sponge-wielding sister who finds scrubbing bathrooms therapeutic.
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Beaufort’s New Hi-Tech Incubator Brings the 21st Century to Town By Mark ShafferPhotos courtesy of Beaufort Digital Corridor Last January Beaufort Mayor Billy Keyserling cut the ribbon at 500 Carteret Street officially ushering in the city’s Age of Technology. In a town that dates back centuries some things are better late than never. Enter the Beaufort Digital Corridor, a hi-tech incubator sponsored by the city to grow the tech and knowledge-based companies of tomorrow in the shadow of the Antebellum South. The Beaufort model is a slightly modified spin-off of the highly successful Charleston Digital Corridor, the brainchild of Earnest Andrade – also instrumental in getting the Beaufort project up and running.
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The season-ending USCB Festival Series chamber music concert, on Sunday, April 30 at 5 pm, is an all-Russian affair, featuring music that will appeal to every temperament. The four works include passionate (Tchaikovsky), austere (Stravinsky), sentimental (Schnittke), and Mother-Russia (Glière) moods and constructions.
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