Chamber Music Charleston returns to our gallery for a performance on Sunday, February 19, at 4 p.m. The program will include Caliendo “La Milonga”, Beethoven String Trio Op 9 No. 2, and Schubert quartet in E flat Major, D. 568. The musicians are Regina Helcher Yost on flute, Frances Hsieh on violin, Ben Weiss on viola, and Timothy O’Malley on cello. Tickets for 2012 members are only $10, and non-members $15.
Chamber Music Charleston returns to our gallery for a performance on Sunday, February 19, at 4 p.m. The program will include Caliendo “La Milonga”, Beethoven String Trio Op 9 No. 2, and Schubert quartet in E flat Major, D. 568. The musicians are Regina Helcher Yost on flute, Frances Hsieh on violin, Ben Weiss on viola, and Timothy O’Malley on cello. Tickets for 2012 members are only $10, and non-members $15.
McClellanville businesses will showcase the work of local artists on Friday, December 9, from 5-8 p.m. and Saturday, December 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Arts Center will be filled with art and artists. We have many affordable gifts, including one of kind hand made glass ornaments and nightlights of shrimp, shrimp boats, and fish. Also available are ceramics by Georgette Sanders and others, local books, jewelry, and tinworks by Richard Nash, and paintings by Anita Callert, Lanie Youngman, Billy Baldwin, and fabrics by Zelda Grant, and calendars by Sharon Cumbee, and much, much more! We will also have the CD with songs written by Billy Baldwin and sung by Rut & Mindy!
George Younce, who teaches theater at the Art Institute of Charleston, presents a one-man rendition of Charles Dickens’s beloved story, “A Christmas Carol.” Younce says, “The idea of this show is to reach out to others and let them see what the theater can be about. It’s different each time I perform this play. I think the audience’s imagination gets into the story and helps it to carry through.” Come join in the fun on Saturday, December 17, at 10:30 a.m. Admission is free. Co-sponsored by the McClellanville Branch of Charleston County Library, the play is suitable for all ages.
JUST ADDED! At 6 p.m. Rut & Mindy will offer a concert featuring songs written by Billy! Following the concert Billy will read from his works. The reception will follow. Come celebrate it all!
“Charleston’s First Lady of Jazz,” Ann Caldwell, will sing songs and tell stories associated with the stars of the Harlem Renaissance whose portraits hang on our gallery walls. She will be accompanied Tyler Ross, who teaches jazz guitar at the College of Charleston. Songs will include Around Midnight, Blue Moon, Don’t Mean a Thing, Stormy Weather, and other classics. Our gallery doors will open at 4 p.m. on Sunday, September 18, so that concertgoers can enjoy “O, Write My Name,” a collection of fifty photographs by Carl Van Vechten, before the concert begins at 4:30 p.m. A reception will follow.
Singer-songwriter-guitarist Jack Williams, a South Carolina native, will perform in the gallery on Tuesday, June 7 at 7 p.m. Williams’ music draws deeply from the eclectic well of our musical heritage, including jazz, classical, rock, blues, country, and folk. Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) cites him as “the best guitar player I’ve ever heard.” Check out his website, jackwilliams.com, to hear a sample. Tickets are $15 for members and $20 for non-members.
Jack Williams Concert 2011 Member $15
Jack Williams Concert Non- Member $20
On August 31, 1886, a massive earthquake centered near Charleston sent shock waves as far north as Maine, down into Florida, and west to the Mississippi River. Weaving together the emotionally charged stories of Confederate veterans and former slaves, McClellanville resident Susan Millar Williams and Charlestonian Stephen G. Hoffius portray a South where whites and blacks struggled to determine how they would coexist a generation after the end of the Civil War.
This is also the story of Francis Warrington Dawson, a British expatriate drawn to the South by the romance of the Confederacy. As editor of Charleston’s News and Courier, Dawson walked a lonely and dangerous path, risking his life and reputation to find common ground between the races. Hailed as a hero in the aftermath of the earthquake, Dawson was denounced by white supremacists and murdered less than three years after the disaster. His killer was acquitted after a sensational trial that unmasked a Charleston underworld of decadence and corruption.
Join us on Saturday, June 18 at 7 p.m. for a slide lecture and book signing.
