Linda Sheppard will be the Featured Artist at Beaufort Art Association Gallery during April and May. Her exhibit, entitled “Painting at Home and Abroad,” will include pastels, oils and watercolors of plein air work in France, Switzerland, England, Turkey, Italy, and Greece as well as figurative work of locals and Lowcountry landscapes and seascapes.
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A Conversation With The Everyday Gourmet On The Occasion of Her 250th Column By Mark Shaffer In the seven years I’ve known Debbi and Vince Covington, it seems that whenever we’re together some sort of celebration is happening, sometimes for absolutely no reason to be found. It’s no coincidence then that Debbi titled her recent award-winning cookbook Celebrate Everything. It’s what she and Vince do. And as Beaufort’s best caterer, it’s also her job – one this feisty tarheel transplant is passionate about.
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With his ‘heritage portraits’ and other innovative fine art techniques, veteran photographer Eric Smith is taking his work to creative new heights.By Margaret Evans, Editor When I offered to do a story about local photographer Eric Smith, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I owed Eric a favor – he’s been very generous with us here at Lowcountry Weekly – and he’d mentioned he had an upcoming exhibit at the USCB Gallery. Maybe I could help him promote it? The conversation started casually, almost a year ago, when neither of us knew exactly what that exhibit would be. All we had was a date: April 3, 2015.
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On our cover is a painting by Carol Henry, from her exhibit with photographer Mark Evans called...
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Having a decent if not great job and exciting career is a persistent focus of human activity. Fortunately so, because how else can we ever go shopping and find good new stuff on store shelves or the web?
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The mission of the Santa Elena Foundation is the discovery, preservation, and promotion of the “lost 100 years of European colonization” through the international story of Santa Elena, the 16th Century settlement and colonial capital on present-day Parris Island. Lowcountry Weekly recently interviewed some key players in the evolution of the Santa Elena Project: Executive Director Andrew Beall, Chairman of the Board Daryl Ferguson, and County Council Chairman Paul Summerville, who just announced that the Foundation will be moving into the Federal Building on Bay Street.
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Shakespeare Rep continues its Season of Wonders with a modernized interpretation of Shakespeare’s most popular comedy. Set in 1967, the Summer of Love, A Midsummer Night’s Dream brings a lot of happy vibes and great music to help fuel the comic masterpiece.
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Publicists aren’t supposed to run out of superlatives. Ever. But the return of singer/songwriter Susan Werner to the Fripp Island Friends of Music stage on March 22nd could change that.
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… Jaimee Paul is coming to Beaufort The USCB Beaufort Center for the Arts will present Jaimee Paul in “At Last,” a powerful jazz tribute to the great female singers of our time, on Friday, April 3 at 7:30 pm. Imagine a 1940’s jazz club, filled with the voices of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Rosemary Clooney, and other favorites. Jaimee Paul and her jazz combo, led by husband Leif Shires on trumpet, deliver just that. “At Last,” a tribute to that wonderful era and those fabulous female vocalists, will take you back to the glory days of yesteryear.
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On Sunday, March 15 at 7:00 pm, the Sea Island Chamber Singers will present a concert of sacred music at Sea Island Presbyterian Church.
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