Author: Margaret Evans

‘La Boheme’ Graces The Lowcountry

The Charleston Opera production of the Puccini masterwork La Bohème will come to the Sonesta Resort on Hilton Head Island on January 21st and 22nd, 2017.             Bringing an opera to the stage involves dozens – maybe hundreds – of talented, committed people, but one Hilton Head man is at the heart of this production, coordinating all the moving parts from start to finish. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing that extraordinary man, producer/presenter Martin McFie.

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Water & Earth at BAA Gallery

     Area artists Wayne Chambers and Daniel McSweeney will be featured at the Beaufort Art Association (BAA) starting January 8 and running through February 26, 2017. The theme of their exhibit will be “Water & Earth” highlighting Chambers’ watercolor technique and McSweeney’s pottery techniques. An opening reception will be held at the Gallery at 913 Bay Street in Beaufort on Friday, January 13, from 5 to 7:30 pm. Light refreshments will be served. There will also be on exhibit the work of 65 other local artists, who are members of the Gallery. The public is invited.

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Vineburgh’s Contemporary Impressionism

The SOBA Gallery is excited to start the new year by introducing Nancy Vineburgh as the January Featured Artist with her show “Contemporary Impressionism.” Appropriate for a fresh new year as the work to be displayed is lively and carefree, characterized by colorful, quick brushstrokes. This exhibit represents Nancy’s artistic journey for the past two years and is sure to delight with lovely paintings inspired by our Lowcountry surroundings. The local ornamental grasses fascinate Nancy and her canvas, ‘Penelope’s Pink Muhly Grass’ is the centerpiece of this, her first one-person show. 

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Picture a Song: Images that Sing

Can one photo accurately depict the essence of a song? The Photography Club of Beaufort hopes that’s the case. Throughout 2016, members of the club were asked to select a song title and spend the year photographing events, places, landscapes, still lifes or portraits that represent that song in a single photograph.

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The Community Mural Project Wants You!

Calling all artists, sculptors, writers, poets, musicians, songwriters, architects, engineers, planners, fund-raisers, theater producers, set-designers and other creative people interested in being a part of an historic public art venture, co-sponsored by the Beaufort Arts Council and the Technical College of The Lowcountry.

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Anything Goes!

Art League of Hilton Head announces Anything Goes!, the 2017 annual member show. The entire gallery will be devoted to the best new works from Art League’s exhibiting members. Artworks in all media will be on display and for sale and truly, anything goes! 

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In Praise of the Single Ladies

Frank Roberts might grow the world’s best oyster right here in Beaufort. Now the world is about to find out. Story and photos by Mark Shaffer A good oyster smells like the sea breeze skipping over the shore. A bad oyster smells like a murder victim. I prefer the former. But I like how even the latter helps exemplify the essence of the interface: an oyster conveys its life experience directly to your senses. Â      – Rowan Jacobsen, from The Essential Oyster, a Salty Appreciation of Taste and Temptation, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016

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Saddle Up

“’I was so reduced and debilitated,’ [early 1800’s sea captain James] Riley recalled, ‘that I could not support even good news with any degree of firmness, and such was my agitation that it was with the utmost difficulty I could keep on my mule for some moments afterwards.’” – Dean King, Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival (Little, Brown, 2004)

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Singing with Helpful Hearts

The members of the Hilton Head Choral Society gathered the first weekend in November for a retreat. Not only did the group come together to reflect on their 41st season of song, the HHCS also came to the aid of some of the most helpless victims of Hurricane Matthew.

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