The Smithsonian exhibit, New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music is coming to town! The Beaufort Branch Library, in cooperation with The Humanities Council SC will explore aspects of America’s roots music as it hosts the local showing of New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition.
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The Photography Club of Beaufort celebrate American Roots Music at the Beaufort Branch Library Celebrate the roots of American Music with the Photography Club of Beaufort. The club’s 2011 annual exhibit is currently hanging in the Second Floor Gallery of the Beaufort Library. This year the Library asked the club to coordinate their year-long project with the traveling Smithsonian exhibit “New Harmonies: American Roots Music,” which will be coming to the Beaufort branch in mid December. Club members spent the past year photographing every aspect of American Music from blues to jazz; from porches to street corners.
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New Work by Cabell Heyward at the Charles Street Gallery From December 9 through the 31st, the Charles Street Gallery offers a show of new work by Cabell Heyward, a contemporary oil painter of amazing realism crossed with flagrant surrealism, balanced by humor and skill.
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“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more . . . He became as good a friend, as good a master, as good a man as the good old City knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough in the good old world.” – Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Carol”
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Down the alley and up the stairs, ArtLofts takes Beaufort’s art scene to a whole new level. THE CONTACT POINT My first ever assignment for Lowcountry Weekly was to interview the author of 100 Best Small Art Towns in America. The Beaufort Guild of Galleries flew John Villani in for a weekend art event in February 2008. As I recall – much to the Guild’s chagrin – gale force winds and rains blew in right along with him.
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Down the alley and up the stairs, ArtLofts takes Beaufort’s art scene to a whole new level. THE CONTACT POINT My first ever assignment for Lowcountry Weekly was to interview the author of 100 Best Small Art Towns in America. The Beaufort Guild of Galleries flew John Villani in for a weekend art event in February 2008. As I recall – much to the Guild’s chagrin – gale force winds and rains blew in right along with him.
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(Part Two in a Series. Read Part One here.) As I mentioned in the last issue, Port Royal is in the midst of making significant history…again. The first part of this series took a look at the town’s various eras of prosperity as well as its many instances of untimely fate. By understanding the town’s history, readers can now share in the contagious excitement surrounding the current slate of events that will put 2011/2012 on the town’s perpetual timeline of monumental feats.
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As part of the Lowcountry Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration, The Coastal Discovery Museum and the Lowcountry Civil War Roundtable are pleased to announce a performance of “The Road Home” on Thursday, December 1st at 7:30 pm at the Hilton Head Island High School Visual and Performing Arts Center. “The Road Home” is a journey and weaving of thoughts, words, songs and speeches of those caught in the maelstrom of the early years of the Civil War.
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Conversations about ethics, education, creativity, love, parenting and pretty much anything else except chess or math. Dr. Maggie: Of the countless questions we’ve received thus far, which strikes you guys’ fancy this week? Dr. Martha: Questions? Did we get any questions? This is our first column. Who would’ve written in? A benevolent psychic?
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Conversations about ethics, education, creativity, love, parenting and pretty much anything else except chess or math. Dr. Maggie: Of the countless questions we’ve received thus far, which strikes you guys’ fancy this week? Dr. Martha: Questions? Did we get any questions? This is our first column. Who would’ve written in? A benevolent psychic?
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