Events Calendar

Join us from 12-3 Saturday September 1st to kick off Oktoberfest! We will be tapping our Oktoberfest Brew!! There will be festival games, music, German food, an area designated for taking pictures with lots of cute Oktoberfest props, and SO MUCH MORE!! The festival itself runs this year from September 22 to October 7 and we have decided to release our Okto a little early ? so there’s a little something for everyone to enjoy and make it one big party! Come out and celebrate! ???

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SAVE THE DATE for the first annual Give to the Music Wine & Jazz Fest at Asheville Outlets Sunday, September 23rd from 1:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m., with a special VIP Hour from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. The event, sponsored by iHeart Radio – Asheville and Ingles Markets, will feature a variety of wines from across the region.

Tickets are $25 in advance online and $30 at the gate. Ticket cost includes live music, wine sampling, food tastings, educational seminars, games and more! Visit www.shopashevilleoutlets.com to purchase VIP or General Admission tickets. If you have any questions or would like more information about the event, please contact Toni Pisani at [email protected], 828-279-6396. Leary PR for Asheville Outlets.

SAVE THE DATE for the first annual Give to the Music Wine & Jazz Fest at Asheville Outlets Sunday, September 23rd from 1:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m., with a special VIP Hour from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. The event, sponsored by iHeart Radio – Asheville and Ingles Markets, will feature a variety of wines from across the region.

Tickets are $25 in advance online and $30 at the gate. Ticket cost includes live music, wine sampling, food tastings, educational seminars, games and more! Visit www.shopashevilleoutlets.com to purchase VIP or General Admission tickets. If you have any questions or would like more information about the event, please contact Toni Pisani at [email protected], 828-279-6396. Leary PR for Asheville Outlets.

Weekly concert series hosted by the City of Greenville

Guten Tag! Join us for Fireforge’s first-ever Oktoberfest, Sept. 28-30th
Fall isn’t just for pumpkin spiced ale. It’s also time for one of our favorite fests of the year: Oktoberfest! Join us for three days of feasting with our Oktoberfest beer and other crafted lagers and ales, grilled brats, pretzels, food trucks with special “fest-inspired” menus, games and feats of strength, costume contests, live accordion music and oompah bands, and more.

“I Was Born to Be in a Library”: Pat Conroy’s Great Love of Libraries
Presented by Jonathan Haupt
Sponsored by a grant from South Carolina Humanities
Hosted by Dorchester County Summerville Branch Library
(George H Seago, Jr Library, 76 Old Trolley Rd, Summerville, SC)

Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt will discuss best-selling author Pat Conroy’s lifelong love of books and libraries—focusing on the roles public libraries, school libraries, and Pat’s own personal library played in his writing life. Through video and audio clips, photographs, and published and unpublished writings by and about Conroy, this presentation welcomes attendees into the book-filled world of one of America’s most beloved writers.

FREE and open to the public, this program also includes an overview of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and our annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival which honor and continue Conroy’s legacy as writer and educator in his adopted hometown of Beaufort, South Carolina.

This program is sponsored by South Carolina Humanities, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities; inspiring, engaging and enriching South Carolinians with programs on literature, history, culture and heritage. www.schumanities.org

About our presenter: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center, the founding director of the Pat Conroy Literary Festival, and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint in partnership with Pat Conroy. Haupt serves on the boards of the South Carolina Academy of Authors and the Friends of South Carolina Libraries, and on the South Carolina Humanities advisory committee and the American Writers Museum affiliates steering committee. With Charleston novelist Nicole Seitz, he is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy. www.patconroyliterarycenter.org

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Jazz Night at SAB is proud to feature Jazz guitarist/composer and impresario Bill Perkins. Bill has appeared on stage in the USA, Germany, Malta, Brazil, and Mexico. He currently resides in Johnson City, TN, where he hosts the Wellington Jazz Jam on Thursday nights and coordinates the Johnson City Jazz Festival. Bill will perform a set of his original music with Cameron Austin (bass), Jazz Night at SAB host and musical director Jason DeCristofaro (vibes/piano), and Josh Dunn (drums). 7 – 10 PM, and no cover. First set is Bill Perkins Quartet, second set is a Jazz jam!

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Two-day BBQ cook off and festival presented by PRTC!

October 5, 4 PM until 10 PM, and October 6, 9 AM until 8 PM

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Squealin’ on the Square celebrates it 18th year of bringing family fun and delicious BBQ to the historic downtown. The first weekend of October each year sees the downtown square come alive with live music, arts & crafts, food and especially BBQ. The two day event kicks off on Friday and runs through 8PM on Saturday.

As a KCBS sanctioned event, Squealin’ on the Square is excited to participate in the new Palmetto BBQ Series SC BBQ Championship. This new competition series will award the best BBQ Competitor in SC who has the highest cumulative points for participating in at least 4 of the 6 KCBS sanctioned events in SC. Squealin’ on the Square is the next to last KCBS event of the year for SC, so we are expecting a large turn-out of BBQ competition teams.

Squealin’ on the Square is presented by the non-profit, Main Street Laurens, as a way of raising funds to assist in their efforts to revitalize the Historic Downtown District. All proceeds from the event go back into the organization to help with projects such as facade grants for businesses, marketing of the downtown, decorative lighting in the downtown and implementation of the new Downtown Master Plan.

So, we encourage you to mark your calendars and join us for a good time, good food and good friends all while helping revitalize downtown Laurens!

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This is a great event for the entire family! Live entertainment, food and old-fashioned children games along with about 100 craft vendors! No pets please!

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PEDAL. RUN. JUMP! Save the date for the Greenville CX CUP, OCTOBER 6TH at Conestee Park, Mauldin, SC! Races begin at 10 AM – Full schedule of Youth, Amateur and Professional races. Racers will be racing under USA Cycling Sanctioning. Course will have two dismount sections, a challenging hill (or two) and many long straightaway sections for riders to pick up some speed.
New element to course this year; Circle of Doom, encompasses the kids climbing wall!
GetOut Greenville is the largest, one day family festival in Greenville County. It will be a great day to hang in the park!

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Asheville Outlets (www.shopashevilleoutlets.com) and Food Truck Festivals of America are excited to present the 2nd annual Asheville Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival Saturday, October 6th, from 12 noon to 5 p.m. (VIP hour 11 a.m. – 12 noon). While some of North Carolina’s most popular food trucks dish out fan favorites, craft ales and beers will be available for sale. There will also be music playing, lawn games to enjoy, and an artisan market where local artists will showcase their work.

Visitors will find the festival located next to Field & Stream. Tickets $5 in advance online and $10 day of. Children 12 and under are free. Food and Beer sold separately. For more information, or to purchase VIP or General Admission tickets please visit www.foodtruckfestivalsofamerica.com/asheville-nc. Leary PR for Asheville Outlets.

Carolina Bauernhaus is proud to sponsor Amongst the Trees as part of the Tuesdays Tunes & Tastings at the SCBG!

Amongst the Trees is a trio born out of the red clay of Upstate South Carolina and filtered through 3 collective lifetimes of musical joy and experience. Josh Gibson and BJ Callahan met at a beer festival in 2016, and discovered a mutual love of The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, and craft beer. They brought on BJ’s longtime friend and drummer, Larry Williams, shortly there after. The rest is funky, jammy, grassy history. Original compositions, old traditional tunes, tight harmonies, and a healthy dose of improvisation are at the core of what makes Amongst The Trees a unique voice in the modern music landscape.

Pack a picnic dinner and join us on the Lower Lawn behind the Visitor’s Center!

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Please join us in October for the 2018 American Liszt Society Festival and Conference. The general theme of this Festival is The Poetic Liszt. The festival is dedicated to the exploration of the many aspects of poetry in Franz Liszt’s life and works. His enthusiasm for literature and poetry is openly reflected in mottos and quotes Liszt put in front of numerous works. But this is not where the affiliations end, and we can assume deeper connections between the art forms of literature and music, as represented by this erudite cosmopolitan composer. This will function as a point of departure from whence the festival seeks to shed light on the many guises in which Liszt’s sensitivity to the written word appeared in his compositions.

Highlights will include:
• Epic tales
• The complete early Album d’un voyageur Vol. I
• A special lecture on Chopin by Alan Walker
• The Petrarch Sonnets (with and without words)
• The rarely heard Melodramas
• Liszt organ encounters
• And a lot more…

We are fortunate that Fall for Greenville weekend, a downtown food and music festival, will be happening the same weekend as the 2018 festival. The conference hotel will be downtown by Falls Park, so stick around after the Saturday banquet and enjoy Fall for Greenville hospitality! www.fallforgreenville.net

In the meantime, if you come early, you can visit the newly-opened Carolina Music Museum, with its over 40 English, European, and American pianos and harpsichords dating from
1570 to 1845. www.carolinamusicmuseum.org

Please see below for The American Liszt Society 2018 Festival website. There you will be able to find registration, hotel, and meal information. Come early – stay late! We’ll see you in October!

Learn More and Register: www.furman.edu/liszt-festival-2018

Sincerely,
Derek Parsons, Artistic Director
2018 American Liszt Society Festival
Furman University
[email protected]

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We will be back at Greenville’s longest running street festival: Fall for Greenville! Get your tasting tickets ? and prepare to feast ? on all the foods! Stay tuned for sneak peeks on what we’ll offer this year!

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Join us for a great music in the beautiful Peterson Amphitheater. The one-night only line up features music from local artists Zendetta, the Rich Nelson Band, and Yondur. We’ll have local food trucks and concessions on site. Admission is a suggested $10 donation at the door.

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Again at the Mill tonight!
Pumpkin Festival at main location so we can’t be there tonight!
Main room Pickin’ or pick on the porch, in the barn, on the stage!
There are a lot of wonderful Pickin’ Places at Hagood Mill!
Refreshments available!
Donations welcome!
Join in the Jam or Grin along and tap your toes!! ?

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