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Friday, April 11, 2025
MJ: The Illusion: Reliving the King of Pop
Apr 11 all-day
Flat Rock Playhouse

A one-of-a-kind music concert that will take you on a journey through the music, performances, and visuals of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Through this live performance experience, you’ll be immersed in the magic of Michael Jackson’s music, from his breakthrough album “Off the Wall” to his timeless hits like “Thriller” and “Smooth Criminal” and of course “Billie Jean.” You’ll be transported back in time to the golden era of Michael Jackson, with a fully immersive experience that will leave you with unforgettable memories.

Event Times: 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM

Ticket Prices: $48 / $58 / $68

Child Pricing Available (17 & under)

Saturday, April 12, 2025
MJ: The Illusion: Reliving the King of Pop
Apr 12 all-day
Flat Rock Playhouse

A one-of-a-kind music concert that will take you on a journey through the music, performances, and visuals of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Through this live performance experience, you’ll be immersed in the magic of Michael Jackson’s music, from his breakthrough album “Off the Wall” to his timeless hits like “Thriller” and “Smooth Criminal” and of course “Billie Jean.” You’ll be transported back in time to the golden era of Michael Jackson, with a fully immersive experience that will leave you with unforgettable memories.

Event Times: 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM

Ticket Prices: $48 / $58 / $68

Child Pricing Available (17 & under)

Southern Roots: A BBQ Reunion
Apr 12 all-day
Trailblazer Park

Join us on April 12th at Trailblazer Park for a reunion unlike any other!

Come enjoy delicious BBQ bites from some amazing local and guest pitmasters and chefs, live music, unlimited beverages, access to the artisan market, great company and experience the joy of coming together as a community for an incredible cause – IDefine.

Over 35 pitmasters and chefs will be joining together as teams to cook over 15 different BBQ dishes! Each one of our amazing menu items created by ou talented chefs will be ALL-INCLUSIVE, so you can eat and enjoy all day long!

ONE ticket price gets you FOUR hours of all the BBQ you can enjoy, unlimited beverages, shopping and live music!

Tunnel to Towers 5k
Apr 12 @ 7:00 am
Sirrine Stadium

Tunnel to Towers is an organization aiming to help the nation to Never Forget the brave men and women who lost their lives on 9/11. T2T will be putting on this 5k to help support the nations veterans today. The race will be throughout the greater Downtown Greenville area.

Little Sprouts Sensory Play Day
Apr 12 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Surpass Behavioral Health

Come celebrate Autism Acceptance Month with us at our Little Sprouts Sensory Play Day! Enjoy a morning filled with arts & crafts, games, and interactive activities for all ages. This family-friendly event is free and open to the public—so bring everyone along for springtime fun.

Spring Sprout
Apr 12 @ 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
The Children's Museum of the Upstate

Hop in to TCMU for an egg-cellent springtime adventure! Join us for Spring and Sprout at TCMU-Greenville on Saturday, April 12! Snap a photo* with the Easter bunny or snuggle a few in our petting zoo.

All guests, including members, must purchase a ticket to attend.

*Please note, a professional photographer will not be available for Easter Bunny photos. Caregivers are encouraged to take photos on their own device. TCMU staff will be available to assist as needed.

Bob Ray: Suit Yourself
Apr 12 @ 10:00 am
Greenville County Museum of Art

Bob Ray (b. 1952) works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and even correspondence and performance. Born in Warrensburg, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, he now lives with his wife in the small town of Washington in eastern North Carolina.

Guest-curated by Mark Sloan, Bob Ray: Suit Yourself features a selection of the artist’s most recent paintings and drawings. Inspired by the Abstract Expressionist painters, Ray also draws from the Dada and Fluxus movements. Each of Ray’s artworks offers evidence of its own evolution. Erasures, false starts, notes, scribbles, overpainting, and tentative asides are visible on the layered surfaces. The artist incorporates household substances into his work, including housepaint, tar, masking tape, coffee, butter, tea, and collaged fragments of previous works.

Ray was the recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in 2015, and he has had recent shows at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina; Lump Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina; and the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.

The GCMA has published an exhibition catalog of Ray’s works that includes a commissioned collaboration with California poet Allison Benis White, which will be available for purchase.

Garden Conservancy Open Day – Forty Oaks Farm
Apr 12 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Open Day at Forty Oaks Farm

Since 1995, the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days program has opened the garden gates to thousands of private gardens across the country. Open Days offers the extraordinary opportunity to visit private sanctuaries across the country and to learn from the gardeners behind these exceptional spaces.

From backyard jewel box gardens to beautiful estate gardens, to sweeping landscapes, the Open Days program highlights the breadth of traditions and perspectives within American gardening. Bound together by a mutual love of nature, art, design, and horticulture, the Open Days community is marked by the love for sharing ideas and expertise and learning from one another.

The Spartanburg County Open Day features renowned Forty Oaks Farm, who will open their gates on Saturday, April 12 at the height of the spring season.

Pop Up Author Marie Nichols
Apr 12 @ 10:00 am
J Hudson Booksellers

If you have never heard of the Dinosaur Forest, then open the book and read about Bracken and Gram’s amazing adventure.
When Gram comes to visit, Bracken decides it is time to go on a dinosaur hunt. But as they head into the Dinosaur Forest, they find more than they bargained for. We’re Going to the Dinosaur Forest is a story of fun, adventure, and finding your bravery when you need it the most!

Vivaldi’s Invisible Orchestra by Stephen Costanza: Music by the GSO String Quartet
Apr 12 @ 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Hughes Main Library & Hughes Library Travelers Rest Branch

Please join members of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra at the library for Vivaldi’s Invisible Orchestra by Stephen Costanza music by the GSO String Quartet.
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 10:00 am Hughes Main Library and at11:30 am Travelers Rest Branch.

Jeep Cruise In @ Holliday Brewing
Apr 12 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Holliday Brewing

Drop in to show off your jeep at this quacktastic event! Meet other jeep enthusiasts, grab a bite and make new friends.

Rocky Cove Railroad Exhibit
Apr 12 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
NC Arboretum

On exhibit Saturdays and Sundays from 12 – 4 p.m., Rocky Cove Railroad is a G-Scale (garden scale) model train that demonstrates the coming of trains to western North Carolina at the turn of the 20th century. The exhibit is located below the Grand Promenade. Please note, Rocky Cove Railroad will not operate in rainy or wet conditions.

Southern Roots: A BBQ Reunion
Apr 12 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Trailblazer Park

Come to Travelers Rest on April 12th at Trailblazer Park for a reunion unlike any other!

Come enjoy delicious BBQ bites from some amazing local and guest pitmasters and chefs, live music, unlimited beverages, artisan market, great company and experience the joy of coming together as a community for an incredible cause – IDefine.

Over 35 pitmasters and chefs will be joining together as teams to cook over 15 different BBQ dishes! Each one of their amazing menu items created by their talented chefs will be ALL-INCLUSIVE, so you can eat and enjoy all day long!

ONE ticket price gets you FOUR hours of all the BBQ you can enjoy, unlimited beverages, shopping and live music!

Intro to Chair Yoga Workshop: No Studio. No Mat. No problem!
Apr 12 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Yogaunme Studio

Introductory Chair Yoga workshop (no experience required!) Saturday April 12th, 1-4pm at Yogaunme Studio in Spartanburg, SC. (virtual option also) designed to help you feel better, reduce stress, and improve flexibility—no matter your lifestyle or physical ability! Whether you’re new to yoga or looking for a more accessible or versatile practice, this workshop is for you!
What to expect:
–The benefits of chair yoga & how to adopt it any lifestyle or physical ability.
–How chair yoga can help you feel better by decreasing stress & stiffness in the body.
–Experience a range of chair yoga poses & exercises for a variety of situations – including sitting, standing, and using the chair as a prop.
–Take home resources & sample practice guides for making chair yoga part of your daily life.
Details:
 Wear comfortable clothes that allow movement.
 Tea & snacks provided. Bring your own water bottle.
Online Participants: Set up a quiet space with a sturdy chair (no wheels or arms) and at least 3 feet of open space around you. You’ll have interactive opportunities with live video or chat.

Don’t miss this chance to explore how chair yoga can transform your well-being. Sign up today!

Register at https://yogaunme.com/event

Tapestry of Song
Apr 12 @ 3:00 pm
Peace Center-Gunter Theatre

Join us for Greenville Youth Chorale’s 5th anniversary spring concert. This performance will feature more than 100 young singers from GYC’s four ensembles. Greenville Youth Chorale is cultivating a community of young singers who share a love of music, a passion for musical excellence, and a desire to grow together.

Foothills Philharmonic: Spotlight Chamber Concert
Apr 12 @ 7:00 pm
Edward Driggers City of Greer Center for the Arts

In the intimate setting of a small music hall, the orchestra breaks apart into small groups, each with a different sound and kind of music.

The audience is invited to visit the art displayed at the Gallery before or after the concert. Concert, art gallery and parking are all absolutely Free.

Live Music Saturdays
Apr 12 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Ji-Roz on the corner of Main & Stone

Eat, drink and be merry! Join us this Saturday (and every Saturday) from 7pm to 10pm as we host live local talent! The talent in our beautiful city is incredible, so come out for dinner and live music. Saturday, February 3rd we will have the acoustic sounds of Katie D. Check out our website for a list of all artists that will be playing!

The Cross and the Switchblade
Apr 12 @ 7:00 pm
The Logos Theatre

New York. 1950s. When David Wilkerson senses the call of God to minister to the gangs of New York, he could never have imagined the challenges and struggles he was going to face along the way. The violence, drugs, and despair that plagues the gang members seem to overwhelm his every effort, but soon, through God’s work in the life of one young man named Nicky Cruz, David begins to see that the transformation he is working for comes only through the power of the Holy Spirit.

King James
Apr 12 @ 8:00 pm
The Warehouse Theatre

Play by Rajiv Joseph

Directed by Ahsha Daniels

“King” LeBron James’s years playing in Cleveland bring promise, prosperity, and renewal to a city in desperate need of all three.  His tenure also unites Shawn and Matt in an unlikely bond forged by fandom.  Over twelve years, from LeBron’s rookie season to an NBA Championship, the men navigate their turbulent friendship through their shared love of basketball—and the endless amiable arguments that erupt from that love.  A clever comedy, King James is an intimate exploration of the place that sports occupy in our lives and relationships.

Shows Thur, Fri, Sat are 8pm. Sunday shows are 3pm.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Apr 12 @ 8:00 pm
Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium

Between Long Beach high school days and the release of Dirt Does Dylan, the Dirt Band brought folk music to the national forefront with “Mr. Bojangles,” recorded the volumes of the multi-artist Will the Circle Be Unbroken series of albums, featuring Mother Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, John Prine, Dwight Yoakam, and dozens more. They’ve won three Grammys and placed an album and a single in the Grammy Hall of Fame, and scored country hits including “Voila (An American Dream),” “Modern Day Romance,” “Stand a Little Rain” and many more. They’ve undergone numerous lineup changes, the latest of which has just recorded its first studio album together. The album was produced by Ray Kennedy (Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams) and Hanna in a nondescript building located behind an auto parts store in Nashville’s Berry Hills neighborhood. In that studio, with vintage microphones and instruments and this newly reconstructed Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the group added a definitive album to an unprecedented catalog.