The Life and Music of Johnny Mercer at USCB Center for the Arts It’s a safe bet that everyone in the country has heard a Johnny Mercer song, even if they don’t know anything about the man and his music. A legend among American composers, he won four Academy Awards for “Best Song” and was nominated 19 times, more than any other composer.
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 Known for bringing a broad spectrum of music to the Lowcountry, Fripp Island Friends of Music continues the tradition with the selection of award winning classical guitarist Christopher Berg, who will appear on February 24th.
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 The Town of Port Royal, which is considered the barbecue capital of the state, will host two days of barbecue paradise on February 22nd and 23rd as approximately 30 cookers from all over the Southeast converge on the area for the 4th Annual Bands, Brews and BBQ to benefit Friends of Caroline Hospice.
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February is generally a throwaway month. The happy holidays are long gone – but not your holiday weight – and flirtatious spring refuses to commit (thank God, since you still need to lose that holiday weight). If you’re black, you can celebrate your history; if you’re newly enamored, you can rock Valentine’s Day. For the rest of us, there’s little to mitigate the midwinter blahs.  Unless you’re a movie maniac living in Beaufort.
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 Most of us seem to need a good reason or two to get out of bed in the morning and go about our day, fight the good fight if necessary and earn our keep. Or just try to enjoy it.
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 When A.R. Gurney wrote “Love Letters,” he created so much more than a story about a collection of letters exchanged between lifelong friends. Over 23 years after its debut performance in 1989, his Pulitzer Prize-nominated play is still connecting with audiences all over the world as the two characters share their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, and victories and defeats throughout their separated but shared lives.
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 Jan Spencer will perform a Valentine’s concert on Saturday, February 16th as part of the new Lowcountry Parlor Jazz Series hosted by CreateWhole Wellness Services.
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 High praise from The NY Times: “Mr. Denk, clearly, is a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs, in whatever combination – both for his penetrating intellectual engagement with the music and for the generosity of his playing. Wherever he plays, his reputation as an unusual and compelling artist, with a broad and thought-provoking repertoire grows.”
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A conversation with Savannah Book Festival honoree David Baldacci  The world is full of breathtaking people, places and events to write about. David Baldacci proves it in his best- selling thrillers that take you down twisted paths of intrigue. He introduces CIA agents, military agents and agents of doom – but never agents of the status quo. Baldacci lures the reader with smudged maps of intent and does it with great delight.
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The Society of Bluffton Artists presents “Songs of Awe and Wonder,” oil paintings by Juliana Boyd Kim. This show will be on display from February 4 through March 3.
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