Events Calendar

Enjoy the spectacular sights and sweet scents of Orchids on the Riverbanks during the weekend-long festival beginning this Friday, February 8.

Riverbanks has partnered with the South Carolina Orchid Society and Ikebana International Chapter 182 for the annual show that will feature hundreds of varieties of orchids from around the world as well as several Japanese-style flower arrangements.

Gorgeous displays will be showcased in the Magnolia Room at Riverbanks Botanical Garden. Guests will have an opportunity to seek expert orchid-growing tips and take advantage of complimentary programs on planting and flower arranging. A diverse assortment of plants also will be available for purchase.

Admission to Orchids on the Riverbanks is free with paid general admission to the Zoo and Garden.

https://www.facebook.com/events/391188178315063/?event_time_id=391188188315062

Enjoy the spectacular sights and sweet scents of Orchids on the Riverbanks during the weekend-long festival beginning this Friday, February 8.

Riverbanks has partnered with the South Carolina Orchid Society and Ikebana International Chapter 182 for the annual show that will feature hundreds of varieties of orchids from around the world as well as several Japanese-style flower arrangements.

Gorgeous displays will be showcased in the Magnolia Room at Riverbanks Botanical Garden. Guests will have an opportunity to seek expert orchid-growing tips and take advantage of complimentary programs on planting and flower arranging. A diverse assortment of plants also will be available for purchase.

Admission to Orchids on the Riverbanks is free with paid general admission to the Zoo and Garden.

https://www.facebook.com/events/391188178315063/

Join us for the first Decorate the Space event of 2019, created and hosted by the incredible folks Ghost Animal Productions.

This FREE DOUBLE FEATURE runs Friday and Saturday evening in the Aviary.

FRIDAY
7P
WHAT METAL GIRLS ARE INTO (Short Film) – Three women going to a metal festival in the desert find something disturbing in the freezer of their isolated vacation rental. Directed by Laurel Vail

NEVER HIKE ALONE – *SC Premiere* We are kicking things off with Vincente Disanti’s “fan film to end all fan films”. A MUST SEE FOR ALL FRIDAY THE 13TH FANS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZZzRf3JPSU

SATURDAY
4P – Southern Horror Shorts Block
Come check out horror shorts from the South. Chat with our filmmakers and share a beer or two.

7P – LIVESCREAM
When a popular video game streamer plays a haunted game, he faces deadly consequences for himself and his fans. Come check out this SC made feature-length horror film with a special Q&A afterward!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L73a6csZjzU

https://www.facebook.com/events/672641459799846/?event_time_id=672641463133179

For the first time, Wofford is hosting a Francophone film festival, “The Tournees Film Festival,” this spring with the financial support from the French Embassy and Wofford College. The festival includes 6 feature films from different countries and covers broad social topics such as unemployment, political extremism, colonialism and racism, gender equality, art in rural France, and discrimination. Admission is free and open to anyone wishing to view a recent Francophone film in its original version (subtitled in English). The six films run on Fridays at 7 p.m. from Feb. 15 – March 22, in McMillan Theater, located in the Campus Life Building. Refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m. before the first and last films of the festival.
Feb. 15 – As I Open My Eyes, 2015
Feb. 22 – Faces, Places, 2017
March 1 – The Workshop, 2017
March 8 – Two Days, One Night, 2014
March 15 – Little By Little, 1917
March 22 – Fatima, 2015
The Tournees Film Festival is a program funded by the FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) Foundation and supported by the French Embassy to promote French and Francophone film screenings on American College campuses.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2282645815354067/?event_time_id=2282645822020733

9pm/21+

THE GET RIGHT BAND is “hip-shaking, earthquaking pure funk fun” (The Alternate Root). They are one of Relix Magazine’s “On The Verge” picks, Home Grown Music Network’s 2015 “Best New Band of the Year,” and were voted “Best Progressive Band” in Western North Carolina by Mountain Xpress readers. They have performed on the famed World Cafe, a nationally syndicated NPR show, and have brought their unique sound to major festivals and venues such as FloydFest, The Orange Peel, Music City Roots TV Show, The Green Parrot, Arlene’s Grocery, and Riverbend Fest. Combining catchy, clever, honest songwriting with musical expertise and fearless improvisation, the live show promises to move your head, heart, and hips.

https://www.facebook.com/events/373986399832852/

Join us for the first Decorate the Space event of 2019, created and hosted by the incredible folks Ghost Animal Productions.

This FREE DOUBLE FEATURE runs Friday and Saturday evening in the Aviary.

FRIDAY
7P
WHAT METAL GIRLS ARE INTO (Short Film) – Three women going to a metal festival in the desert find something disturbing in the freezer of their isolated vacation rental. Directed by Laurel Vail

NEVER HIKE ALONE – *SC Premiere* We are kicking things off with Vincente Disanti’s “fan film to end all fan films”. A MUST SEE FOR ALL FRIDAY THE 13TH FANS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZZzRf3JPSU

SATURDAY
4P – Southern Horror Shorts Block
Come check out horror shorts from the South. Chat with our filmmakers and share a beer or two.

7P – LIVESCREAM
When a popular video game streamer plays a haunted game, he faces deadly consequences for himself and his fans. Come check out this SC made feature-length horror film with a special Q&A afterward!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L73a6csZjzU

https://www.facebook.com/events/672641459799846/

2018 finds Eric Congdon further cementing his reputation as one of Western North Carolina’s most talented artists. From mind blowing live performances and ground breaking music video projects, to his ongoing charitable efforts supporting Autism, Eric always brings an energy and creativity to any project he is involved with. His latest album, Into the Woods has earned high praise for its stunning mix of heartfelt songs mixed with blazing instrumentals.

His live show is a bouillabaisse of influences, ideas, and improvisation. You’ll hear sounds from Appalachia all the way to Arabia, and from Bombay to Britain. Great guitarists from Tony Rice to Jimmy Page, Chet Atkins and Duane Allman. Not to mention Eric’s interpretations of Classic songs played on his Irish Bouzouki that simply have to be seen to be believed. You never know what song or even what instrument he will play next.

Eric has taken advantage of living in one of the most picturesque and beautiful areas of the USA by creating his ground breaking HIKING JAMS video series. Featuring some of the most scenic waterfalls and vistas in WNC, Eric has fused live music and improvisation against the breathtaking backdrop of the area’s natural beauty. His video series was featured in Mountain Express. More episodes of the series are in production.

Over the past 7 years, Eric has helped raise over 150,000 dollars for Autism. From supporting the St Gerard House early intervention center in Hendersonville, to putting on Festivals to help the Autism Science Foundation and other organizations, Eric’s passion to help stems from his own experiences raising his daughter with Autism. He is committed to further educating people and raising awareness about the disorder, in addition to spreading hope through his music to those dealing with it.

Don’t miss a chance to see and meet Eric if he is appearing near you!

https://www.facebook.com/events/208888776667492/

Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, comedian-turned-actor DeRay Davis can most recently be “scene” and heard in the blockbuster mega hit 21 Jump Street, Jumping the Broom, and his wildly successful Showtime 1 hour Comedy Special, DeRay Davis:Power Play. He lends his voice and writing talent to countless characters on Kanye West’s Albums, the BoonDocks and currently on Adult Swims Black Dynamite!

DeRay developed and honed a hip, sardonic, streetwise mentality at an early age and parlayed it smoothly and efficiently into the comedy-club circuit. Davis achieved his career breakthrough at the Laffapalooza Festival in Atlanta, GA, then scored a triple whammy by winning the Comedy Central Laugh Riots Competition and landing covetable spots in the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival and the Cedric the Entertainer Festival. Throughout, the comic wove vulgar and droll, yet also telling and deeply personal routines around the subjects of race, poverty, and his challenging experiences growing up in the Windy City projects with a dysfunctional African-American family.

The transition from behind-the-mike spots to movie roles represented a relatively short jump, for most of Davis’ early film assignments emphasized the same subject matter as his routines; for example, he played the “Hustle Guy” in Barbershop (2002) and its sequel, Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004), rapper Mario “Fa Real” Greene in the Martin Short comedy Jiminy Glick in La La Wood (2004), and a Jamaican stoner in Johnson Family Vacation (2004). Davis expanded his genre focus with roles in Rupert Wainwright’s supernatural horror outing The Fog (2005), and Todd Phillips’ comedy remake School for Scoundrels (2006). Subsequent feature assignments include License to Wed (2007), Semi-Pro (2008, as basketball player Bee Bee Ellis), and Imagine That (2009). Life As We Know it and Old Dogs. Davis also appeared on television series including Entourage and Reno 911!, and televised comedy revues such as Comedy Central’s Premium Blend and was a Stand out MVP on Shaq’s All Star Comedy Jam Tour and is now making the rounds on the tour circuit preparing for his next 1 hour comedy special, Home, Street Home: The Hood Hero Returns.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1156502517845858/?event_time_id=1167327926763317

For the first time, Wofford is hosting a Francophone film festival, “The Tournees Film Festival,” this spring with the financial support from the French Embassy and Wofford College. The festival includes 6 feature films from different countries and covers broad social topics such as unemployment, political extremism, colonialism and racism, gender equality, art in rural France, and discrimination. Admission is free and open to anyone wishing to view a recent Francophone film in its original version (subtitled in English). The six films run on Fridays at 7 p.m. from Feb. 15 – March 22, in McMillan Theater, located in the Campus Life Building. Refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m. before the first and last films of the festival.
Feb. 15 – As I Open My Eyes, 2015
Feb. 22 – Faces, Places, 2017
March 1 – The Workshop, 2017
March 8 – Two Days, One Night, 2014
March 15 – Little By Little, 1917
March 22 – Fatima, 2015
The Tournees Film Festival is a program funded by the FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) Foundation and supported by the French Embassy to promote French and Francophone film screenings on American College campuses.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2282645815354067/?event_time_id=2282645832020732

Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, comedian-turned-actor DeRay Davis can most recently be “scene” and heard in the blockbuster mega hit 21 Jump Street, Jumping the Broom, and his wildly successful Showtime 1 hour Comedy Special, DeRay Davis:Power Play. He lends his voice and writing talent to countless characters on Kanye West’s Albums, the BoonDocks and currently on Adult Swims Black Dynamite!

DeRay developed and honed a hip, sardonic, streetwise mentality at an early age and parlayed it smoothly and efficiently into the comedy-club circuit. Davis achieved his career breakthrough at the Laffapalooza Festival in Atlanta, GA, then scored a triple whammy by winning the Comedy Central Laugh Riots Competition and landing covetable spots in the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival and the Cedric the Entertainer Festival. Throughout, the comic wove vulgar and droll, yet also telling and deeply personal routines around the subjects of race, poverty, and his challenging experiences growing up in the Windy City projects with a dysfunctional African-American family.

The transition from behind-the-mike spots to movie roles represented a relatively short jump, for most of Davis’ early film assignments emphasized the same subject matter as his routines; for example, he played the “Hustle Guy” in Barbershop (2002) and its sequel, Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004), rapper Mario “Fa Real” Greene in the Martin Short comedy Jiminy Glick in La La Wood (2004), and a Jamaican stoner in Johnson Family Vacation (2004). Davis expanded his genre focus with roles in Rupert Wainwright’s supernatural horror outing The Fog (2005), and Todd Phillips’ comedy remake School for Scoundrels (2006). Subsequent feature assignments include License to Wed (2007), Semi-Pro (2008, as basketball player Bee Bee Ellis), and Imagine That (2009). Life As We Know it and Old Dogs. Davis also appeared on television series including Entourage and Reno 911!, and televised comedy revues such as Comedy Central’s Premium Blend and was a Stand out MVP on Shaq’s All Star Comedy Jam Tour and is now making the rounds on the tour circuit preparing for his next 1 hour comedy special, Home, Street Home: The Hood Hero Returns.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1156502517845858/

The District Six Choral program presents their annual Choral Festival featuring students in the 5th through 12th grade Honor Choirs.
Can’t make the concert in person? Watch it live online here: https://livestream.com/spartanburg6/d6choral

https://www.facebook.com/events/552522125260404/

KG & Vine Nightclub

Present

DOM DOLLA

Vine Nightclub – Greenville, SC

Thursday, February 28, 2018

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DOM DOLLA

http://www.soundcloud.com/domdolla

www.facebook.com/domdollamusic

In the rapidly expanding dance music scene, artists are a dime a dozen, but Dom Dolla continues to increase in value as Australia’s most in-demand electronic DJ and producer. Only a few short years since establishing himself as a mainstay in Melbourne’s underground, his sound has gained traction internationally, earning support from Pete Tong, Diplo and Tchami – and it’s not only the big names that have been hypnotized by his sound.

Dom received a coveted ARIA nomination for best dance release of 2017, and his grinding basslines and energetic jackin’ house sounds have resulted in half a million monthly listeners on Spotify, banking over 23 million plays in total.

Dom had his first taste of single success with “Define” – a collaboration with label-mates Go Freek – in 2015, which saw the pair hold the throne at the top of the Aria Club Chart for nine weeks. He followed this by releasing his solo track “You”, then “Be Randy” with Torren Foot, both of which garnered critical acclaim, reaching number one in the charts, and cementing his status as a producer.

Although his success has reached heights that most could only dream of, Dom has continued honing his technical skills, which are evident in his remixes of Flight Facilities, Peking Duk, PNAU, Rufus, Monkey Safari and Madison Avenue.

Dom’s career has seen him tour across Australia, playing headline shows as well as notable performances at Splendour in the Grass and For the Love, and as a drawcard for the wildly popular Beyond The Valley festival, where he has performed the closing set for consecutive years. His initial international success, which saw him appearing at EDC Las Vegas, Splash House Palm Springs and ADE Amsterdam, has continued into 2018, during which he will return to the USA to play at some of the country’s highest profile spots.

Along with..

Evestreet

Zoltan Zicho

18+
Vine Nightclub.com

Vine Nightclub
21 East Coffee Street
Greenville, SC 29601

Take It – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjLd95gBano

Define – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U2wN7VA5sM

http://pilerats.com/music/electronic/dom-dolla-take-it/

https://www.facebook.com/events/832097860469169/

For the first time, Wofford is hosting a Francophone film festival, “The Tournees Film Festival,” this spring with the financial support from the French Embassy and Wofford College. The festival includes 6 feature films from different countries and covers broad social topics such as unemployment, political extremism, colonialism and racism, gender equality, art in rural France, and discrimination. Admission is free and open to anyone wishing to view a recent Francophone film in its original version (subtitled in English). The six films run on Fridays at 7 p.m. from Feb. 15 – March 22, in McMillan Theater, located in the Campus Life Building. Refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m. before the first and last films of the festival.
Feb. 15 – As I Open My Eyes, 2015
Feb. 22 – Faces, Places, 2017
March 1 – The Workshop, 2017
March 8 – Two Days, One Night, 2014
March 15 – Little By Little, 1917
March 22 – Fatima, 2015
The Tournees Film Festival is a program funded by the FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) Foundation and supported by the French Embassy to promote French and Francophone film screenings on American College campuses.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2282645815354067/?event_time_id=2282645825354066

SCSTA is excited to welcome all South Carolina Middle Schools to participate in the SCSTA Middle School Festival. Solo, Group and Speech/Design categories are available for your students to compete.
SCSTA Membership dues ($25) and Festival Registration fees ($70) are due Jan 31 2019. $20 discount for registration if postmarked by Dec 15 2018. Student entry fees are $5 and can be paid at the Festival. See scsta.org for more details!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1665562476899106/

Celebrate Japan’s Hina Matsuri Festival with this beautiful exhibit of traditional Japanese dolls! Hina means “small doll” and Matsuri means “festival in Japanese. This holiday celebrates traditional female values. Visit Be Anything Place at The Children’s Museum of the Upstate in Greenville to see a display of traditional dolls during the festival season.

Exhibit open February 26-March 3 from 2:00-4:00pm
SPECIAL PROGRAM Saturday March 2 from 11:00am-2:00pm

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate
300 College Street
Greenville, South Carolina 29601

On Saturday March 2, join us for special programming from 11:00am-2:00pm. After viewing the ornamental dolls, children can create their own paper dolls, participate in origami, and participate in other culture-based activities.

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate (TCMU) thanks the Japanese American Association of South Carolina (JAASC) for their participation in these events.

March is Upstate International Month! #uim #uimonth
JAASC is a proud participant in Upstate International Month (UIM), a multi-county collaboration of organizations, partners, sponsors, and communities. Welcoming, supporting, celebrating, and educating through a variety of internationally themed events, UIM promotes our rich cultural diversity, heritage, and global connections. See here for the complete calendar of UI Month events: https://upstateinternational.org/calendar/

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Bruce Katz is a four time (2008, 2009, 2010, 2015) Nominee for the Blues Music Award (W.C. Handy Award) for “Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year”, selected by the Blues Foundation of Memphis, TN.
While Blues is a very important part of his music, Bruce’s music has more angles and influences, occupying a unique space where blues, “soul-jazz”, jam-band rock, and all aspects of Americana Music collide into a style of original music all his own. He is equally comfortable playing Hammond B-3 Organ and Piano.
Besides leading the Bruce Katz Band, Bruce performs regularly with the Delbert McClinton Band, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band, John Hammond, and other artists as well. He was a member of the Gregg Allman Band from 2007-2013.
Bruce was also an Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music for fourteen years (1996-2010), teaching Harmony, Hammond organ labs, Private Instruction and Blues History.
As a performer, Bruce has been an in-demand sideman as well as leading his own band. He has played and recorded with many of the leading names in blues and roots music, appearing on over 70 albums with artists such as Ronnie Earl, John Hammond, Delbert McClinton, Gregg Allman, Duke Robillard, Joe Louis Walker, Little Milton, Maria Muldaur, Jimmy Witherspoon, Paul Rishell, Mighty Sam McClain, Debbie Davies, David “Fathead” Newman and many others.
Bruce has a lengthy background in classical piano. After hearing a Bessie Smith record when he was 10 years old, he started teaching himself blues and early jazz on the piano. He then heard boogie-woogie and swing music and continued his musical journey into more aspects of jazz and American roots music. Bruce attended Berklee College of Music in the mid-1970s, studying Composition and performance.
For the next fifteen years, he performed with many of the leading musicians in New England, and played “on the road” for long stretches of time. After a particularly long stint of touring in the late ’80s with Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, he decided to come off the road and enrolled at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he earned a Master’s degree in Jazz Performance and studied with Geri Allen, Paul Bley, Cecil McBee and George Russell. It was during this time that he conceived of and started writing music that became the Bruce Katz Band.
In 1992, he met Ronnie Earl, who soon invited him to join his band, The Broadcasters. During his nearly five-year stint with Earl, Katz toured the world and performed on six albums, writing and co- writing many of the tunes, such as “The Colour of Love,” “Ice Cream Man,” and “Hippology.” The album “Grateful Heart” (Bullseye) won the Downbeat Critics Poll for Best Blues Album of 1996.
In 1992 as well, Katz debuted his first solo album, “Crescent Crawl”, on the AudioQuest label. He released “Transformation” the following year. Just before the release of “Mississippi Moan” in 1997, his third solo album, Katz left the Broadcasters to concentrate on a solo career. At that point, the Bruce Katz Band began touring the U.S. and Europe, and has been his ongoing focus, in addition to his many other projects.
In these years, Bruce played with Duke Robillard (2001-02), John Hammond (2005 – present), Gregg Allman (2007-13) and many other high profile roots, blues and rock performers, while continuing to tour and record with his own band.
Bruce’s 2008 CD, “Live! At the Firefly” (Brown Dog Music/Vizztone), was received with critical acclaim. The CD rose to #11 on the National Living Blues Radio Chart, and received substantial play on XM/Sirius Satellite Radio His newest CD, “Homecoming (American Showplace Music, 2014) is receiving international acclaim and wide radio play, putting this album at or near the top of many radio charts, including the Living Blues Radio Chart for 4 months and The Roots Music Report for 18 weeks, rising to #3 on the Contemporary Blues Chart.
Bruce has also been the subject of a feature stories and reviews in most of the leading blues and jazz publications throughtout the world.
In addition to performing, Katz teaches piano, Hammond organ and theory privately at his studio in West Shokan, NY. He also conducts Master Classes in Hammond B3 and Blues History, which he has done at various schools and music festivals worldwide.
Formerly from Boston, Bruce has been based in Woodstock, NY since 2005.
The Bruce Katz Band maintains an active touring schedule throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe.

2015 – Living Blues Outstanding Musician (Keyboards) Award nomination.

2013 – Blues Hall of Fame inductee

2008, 2009, 2010, 2015 – four time Nominee for the Blues Music Award (W.C. Handy Award) for “Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year”

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In 1999 Janisse Ray published Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. She spent a week soon after in Spartanburg as writer in residence for the Lawson’s Fork River Festival organized by the Hub City Writers Project. While she was here she woke one morning, and the New York Times had published a full-page profile saying, “The forests of the Southeast find their Rachel Carson.” Ecology Cracker Childhood has since sold around 200,000 copies in various editions and Janisse Ray has become one of the South’s beloved and admired writers. Wofford is proud to celebrate the book’s 20th anniversary.

https://www.facebook.com/events/395900921185341/

For the first time, Wofford is hosting a Francophone film festival, “The Tournees Film Festival,” this spring with the financial support from the French Embassy and Wofford College. The festival includes 6 feature films from different countries and covers broad social topics such as unemployment, political extremism, colonialism and racism, gender equality, art in rural France, and discrimination. Admission is free and open to anyone wishing to view a recent Francophone film in its original version (subtitled in English). The six films run on Fridays at 7 p.m. from Feb. 15 – March 22, in McMillan Theater, located in the Campus Life Building. Refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m. before the first and last films of the festival.
Feb. 15 – As I Open My Eyes, 2015
Feb. 22 – Faces, Places, 2017
March 1 – The Workshop, 2017
March 8 – Two Days, One Night, 2014
March 15 – Little By Little, 1917
March 22 – Fatima, 2015
The Tournees Film Festival is a program funded by the FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) Foundation and supported by the French Embassy to promote French and Francophone film screenings on American College campuses.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2282645815354067/?event_time_id=2282645818687400

They’re Back! The Heritage Green Music Festival returns to the Carolina Music Museum with the Mountain View Bluegrass Band in concert on Friday night, March 8 at 7:30. Susan Snyder and the boys turned the place upside down their last visit! And, even upside down, the sold-out house was able to keep time with head bobs, hand claps, and foot stomps! Fabulous! Beer, wine, and popcorn will be served–yes, popcorn, we may even throw in a few pretzels! It will be a heckuva night! Don’t miss it! Only 80 seats so call 864-520-8807 and reserve your seats now! $15 for adults, $5 for students!

We promised and they are back! Mountain View Bluegrass Band at the Carolina Music Museum
Friday, March 8 at 7:30 pm

They’re Back! The Heritage Green Music Festival returns to the Carolina Music Museum with the Mountain View Bluegrass Band in concert on Friday night, March 8 at 7:30. Susan Snyder and the boys turned the place upside down their last visit! And, even upside down, the sold-out house was able to keep time with head bobs, hand claps, and foot stomps! Fabulous! Beer, wine, and popcorn will be served–yes, popcorn, we may even throw in a few pretzels! It will be a heckuva night! Don’t miss it! Only 80 seats so call 864-520-8807 and reserve your seats now! $15 for adults, $5 for students!

https://www.facebook.com/events/744949185904858/