The 8th Annual Kiawah Island Art and House Tour will take place on Friday, April 11 from 2pm – 6pm on beautiful Kiawah Island. The tour features five exceptional homes with views of the salt marsh, ocean, ponds and lagoons that showcase spectacular private art collections. Gibbes, etc., a group of Kiawah Island women dedicated to supporting the Gibbes Museum of Art, has produced this event since the group was founded in 2001.
Fitter, Happier: Instrumental Arrangements of Radiohead
The College of Charleston School of the Arts will be presenting the work of music students Andrew Walker and Lee Marchbanks in a benefit concert entitled Fitter, Happier: Instrumental Arrangements of Radiohead. For the concert, Walker and Marchbanks have created original arrangements for classical ensembles from the music of popular rock group Radiohead. The evening, benefiting Charleston Breast Center, will be held at the Sottile Theatre at 44 George St. on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 8 p.m.
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Sidewalk Arts Festival – Savannah, Georgia
The Savannah College of Art and Design presents the annual Sidewalk Arts Festival April 28, 2007. This popular event features a chalk drawing competition on the sidewalks of Savannah’s centerpiece, beautiful Forsyth Park. Drawing competition entries will be judged and awarded prizes. The event also includes food, and children’s and youth areas for young artists as well as live music throughout the day.
Admission is free and open to the public. The chalk competition features categories for students, alumni and prospective students.
Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Forsyth Park, between Whitaker and Drayton streets, Savannah, Ga.
for more information, visit www.scad.edu
The Rite of Swing – Savannah, Georgia
Duke Ellington Concert features Sam Skelton
The Coastal Jazz Association presents a tribute to Duke Ellington on Sunday, April 27, 2008 which will feature special guest saxophonist, Sam Skelton. As a woodwind doubler, Mr. Skelton is well versed in any genre of music. His grasp of saxophone, clarinet and flute has enabled him to remain very busy in live performance as well as in the studio.
This event will be celebrating the legacy left by one of America’s greatest musicians/composers for what would have been his 109th birthday (born April 29, 1899).
Kinderkonzerts: The Jammin’Town Musicians – Summerville, South Carolina
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra, and Resident Conductor Scott Terrell, will present this season’s popular Kinderkonzert, The Jammin’ Town Musicians. Two performances of this entertaining, child-friendly concert will take place at 10:00 and 11:30 AM.
Designed for young children, Kinderkonzerts are fun, casual concerts that expose kids to music in an entertaining way. Ten musicians from the Charleston Symphony and Scott Terrell will start off the morning with a quick ride through the Kabalevsky’s Commedian’s Galop. Children are encouraged to dance and enjoy themselves during Scott Joplin’s ever-popular Maple Leaf Rag. The feature presentation will be Edie Hill’s Jammin’ Town Musicians; a humorous musical journey adapted from the Brothers Grimm fairytale, The Bremen Town Musicians. Narrator Anthony Pierce will lead the audience in the story of a colorful group of animals that decide to leave their hometown to become musicians. Choose to attend this performance at either 10:00 AM or 11:30 AM. All Kinderkonzerts are free of charge.
All programs and artists are subject to change. For further information, call the Charleston Symphony Orchestra at 843-723-7528, ext. 110. The Charleston Symphony Orchestra is online at www.charlestonsymphony.com.
Flowertown Theater, Summerville, SC
Phone: 843-723-7528