An artist of a different sort is coming to town this spring… Cam Chapman is a photographer of the highest order – and his specialty is capturing the beauty of America’s East Coast lighthouses.Hunting Island, by Cam Chapman
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Guest Conductor Chelsea Tipton II will lead the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra in “This England,” a celebration of the pomp and majesty of England’s Georgian Age. The concert will be held on Monday, April 28, at 8:00 pm in Hilton Head’s First Presbyterian Church. Cellist Christine Lamprea, winner of the 2013 Sphinx Competition, will perform Haydn’s Second Cello Concerto. A pre-concert talk will begin at 7:00 pm.
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What a wonderful finale to Beaufort Symphony Orchestra’s 2013-2014 season! A concert filled with some of the most romantic music ever written, played to perfection by our orchestra, and some of the most beloved show tunes of our time masterfully interpreted by Savannah’s Roger Moss. Â
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Metropolitan Opera’s music director James Levine makes his long-awaited return to the podium to conduct Mozart’s beloved opera, Cosi fan tutte, on Saturday, April 26, at the USCB Center for the Arts.
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The First Annual Bridges Block Party was a smashing success! A good time was had by all, money was raised for Bridges Charter School, and a group of high school students from Goose Creek, SC, swept the Shrimp & Grits competition. That’s right, Stratford High School won both the official judges’ award AND the People’s Choice Award for their Classic Charleston Breakfast Shrimp. (See recipe below.)
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Janis Wilson Hughes at the Art League Gallery The Art League of Hilton Head announces the exhibition Cycles of Vitality: Ceramic Sculpture by Janis Wilson Hughes opening May 8 in the Walter Greer Gallery on Hilton Head and continuing through June 1.
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Author and aviatrix, Millie West, has done it again! With the publication of her most recent novel – Catherine’s Cross – she weaves together a Lowcountry mystery imbued with romantic tension and intriguing characters.
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“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” – George Orwell   This Orwell quote has been floating around Facebook Nation lately. I keep seeing it, again and again, which isn’t particularly unusual. (That’s what FB memes do; they multiply.) What is unusual is that the adage keeps popping up on the pages of people who have very different values and, frankly, very different ideas about “truth.”
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Marine WormsOccasionally on a kayak tour, the dolphin are feeding elsewhere, the eagles are perched just out of sight, and the blue crabs refuse to let themselves be caught in the cast-net. So when these super-stars of the salt marsh are nowhere to be found, I start to look for some of the supporting actors – our marine worms.
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Phillip Greene’s Wood Song Canoes By Mark ShafferPhotos Courtesy of Phillip Greene As a child growing up in the wilds of the Northern Adirondacks in upper New York state, Phillip Greene’s first passion was fishing and a canoe was simply “a way to get to where the fish are; a mode of transportation.” With time this opinion has evolved. Today Greene’s meticulously handcrafted canoes and paddles are commissioned and collected as pieces of fine functional art.
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