Events Calendar
Explore family friendly events, theatres, galleries, concerts, nightlife, things to do, and more in the Greenville, SC and Upstate areas.
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“The Great Affairs is a rock ‘n’ roll band.
And they made a rock ‘n’ roll record.
You get it all: classic rock, power pop, roots rock, Southern Rock…
When you think you are hearing Cheap Trick, The J. Geils Band, The Bottle Rockets and Bad Company at the same time, you are probably a good listener.
More important, if you are looking for a Saturday-Night-Record, I have found you one.”
-Patrick Donders, Sweet Sweet Music Blog
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Tav – a -tav….
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Join the well drinkers for a night of folk music at a great venue, we will be kicking things off around 9 and going to round 12! ?
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Topfloor Promotions
Active in the Community
DJ Montana Presents
#NOKNOB featuring Miami’s Own City Girls
Hosted by @Acura88 / @LilJearia / @ABMBIGCEE / & CokZay ENT
Everybody Free till 10:30 PM
@ CLUB MAZE!!!
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Spartanburg
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The Biltmore Estate has been planning the largest exhibition in its historic gardens for almost a decade. And finally, last week, Chihuly at Biltmore opened with a mega installation of glass sculptures from the famous artist Dale Chihuly. Tens of thousands of glass pieces from all around the world reside in 14 locations around the Estate (which is the very first large-scale N.C. Chihuly installation).
The exhibition is up from now until Oct. 7th, free admission with a Biltmore day pass (and free for annual pass holders). Chihuly at Nightis a special, ongoing event where the glass sculptures are lit up, plus live music in the gardens + a wine bar. Tickets are $37.50 for kids + range from $65 – 75 for adults ($10 discount for pass holders).
Three new works were blown just for Biltmore, and 6 new compositions were put together.
Community Fest is a chance to see what GTC is all about.
View the full event details here: http://go.activecalendar.com/gvltec/event/community-fest/
The leaves will be turning this October and the pumpkins will be ready to be carved! The PEANUTS gang returns to the GSMR Pumpkin Patch this October. Ready for some family fun? PEANUTS™ The Great Pumpkin Patch Express returns to the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad for 2018! The excursions, which are themed after Charles M. Schulz’s classic story “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” will be departing from the Bryson City Depot in October of 2018!
Reclaimed Creations is a unique sculpture exhibit created by renowned artist Sayaka Ganz. Utilizing reclaimed plastic objects, such as discarded utensils, Ganz creates amazing sculptures that visually appear unified at a distance, but are in fact separated when examined up close. Described as using a “3D impressionistic” style, Ganz’s exhibit includes installations of animals in motion, which are in rich in color and energy, to create an illusion of form.
About the Artist
Born in Yokohama, Japan, Sayaka Ganz grew up living in Japan, Brazil and Hong Kong. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. A lecturer and teacher, Ganz’s work has been displayed at various institutions around the globe, including the Hermann Geiger Foundation in Cecina, Italy, the Isle Gallery in Isle of Man, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California.
My work is about perceiving harmony, even in situations that appear chaotic from the inside. When observing my sculptures up close, one might see gaps, holes and items being held on only by small points; step away, however, and the sculptures reveal the harmony created when the objects are aligned to the same general (but not identical) direction. Similarly, it is important to gain perspective by stepping back from current problems and look at the larger picture. Then one can perceive the beauty and patterns that exist.”
25 years ago, Flat Rock Playhouse debuted an exciting new program, Project Playhouse, with specially priced matinees for local students as well as regular evening performances for our patrons. The play was Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, a drama of great tenderness, charm and beauty and one of the most famous plays of the modern theatre.
Matinees: Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00PM
Evenings: Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30PM. Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00PM
Flat Rock Playhouse Mainstage
2661 Greenville Highway Flat Rock, NC 28731
Worthwhile Sounds Presents: Lera Lynn w/ Reuben Bidez at Ambrose West
WHERE: Ambrose West, 312 Haywood Road, 28806
WHEN: Friday October 5th, 2018
DOORS: 7pm | SHOW: 8pm
GENRE: Independent Post-Americana
AGES: All Ages
TICKETS: $15 adv. / $18d.o.s. / $22 VIP (guaranteed seat in 1st 3 rows)
SEATING: seated general admission
Lera Lynn
Throughout her career — a nearly decade-long run filled with three album releases, a career-shifting appearance and soundtrack for HBO’s True Detective, hundreds of shows on both sides of the Atlantic, and a sound encompassing everything from Americana to stark indie rock — Lera Lynn has balanced her fierce independence with a string of collaborations.
She’s written songs with T Bone Burnett and Rosanne Cash. She’s recorded albums with full bands (2014’s The Avenues, hailed by outlets like Rolling Stone and American Songwriter) and smaller lineups (the experimental, NPR and New York Times-approved Resistor, which Lynn co-produced at her Nashville home). On her fourth album, Plays Well With Others, she teams up with eight different duet partners and seven co-writers, resulting in her most diverse, collaborative work to date.
Plays Well With Others is a unique duets album — one in which nearly every song is completely co-written and co-sung. Peter Bradley Adams, John Paul White, Dylan LeBlanc, Andrew Combs, Rodney Crowell, Shovels & Rope, JD McPherson, and Nicole Atkins all make appearances, working alongside Lynn not only to perform these songs, but to create them, too.
“Songwriting can be such a personal process; in the past I have tended to do it alone,” Lynn admits. “With this record, I wanted to get outside of my own writing corner. I have access to a great community of writers and singers in Nashville, and it became an exciting challenge to sit down with some friends and say, ‘Let’s write a duet — one that maybe hasn’t been written before — and then record it together.’ This was an important thing for me to do as an artist: to open myself up to other people and have some fun.”
Lynn recorded Plays Well With Others at John Paul White’s studio, Sun Drop Sound, in Florence, Alabama. There — with Lynn, White, and the Alabama Shakes’ Ben Tanner all serving as co-producers — she tracked nine songs in a series of live takes. Looking to add some sonic framework to an album whose tracklist was vast and varied, she only used acoustic instruments, layering upright piano, strings, percussion, acoustic guitars, and creative sounds into arrangements that nodded to artists like Roy Orbison, George Harrison, Neil Young, John Lennon and Tom Petty. The result is an album that’s at times more stripped-down than The Avenues and far less amplified than Resistor, while still shining a light on Lynn’s striking voice and unique blend of American music.
Appropriately, the nine songs on Plays Well With Others tackle issues of the heart, from love to lust to loss. On the album’s haunting opener, “Same Old Song,” Lynn and Peter Bradley Adams swap harmonies from opposite sides of a broken relationship, both trying to summon up the courage to sever ties completely. “What is Love” — a gorgeous folk song recorded with Dylan LeBlanc — finds its two singers questioning their own worth, while the Rodney Crowell collaboration “Crimson Underground” unfolds like a conversation between the self and the voice of temptation. There’s also a coed cover of TV on the Radio’s “Wolf Like Me,” performed with Shovels & Rope; a tribute to the glory days of 1960s Roy Orbison with Nicole Atkins; a kinetic, psychedelic “Breakdown” with Andrew Combs; and a pair of duets with John Paul White, who first sang with Lynn during a handful of shared shows in 2017.
“John’s a great vocalist and really great harmony singer, which makes him the perfect duet partner,” Lynn says of John Paul White, who kicked off his career as one-half of the Civil Wars. “During our tour together, we started covering ‘Almost Persuaded,’ which I’d heard Conway Twitty and many others perform. By the time we recorded the song, we’d also written ‘Lose Yourself’, which is a song about the love-strickens’ last attempt at retaining their fleeting individual identity.
With Plays Well With Others, Lera Lynn cements her own identity as both creator and collaborator. On an album filled with Grammy winners, country icons, folksingers, and Americana heroes, it’s still her star that shimmers the brightest, shining light on the newest phase of an eclectic, ever-expanding career.
Reuben Bidez
When Reuben Bidez sings, he opens his heart and projects a vulnerability that draws you into his intimate portraits of lovers facing the pleasures and woes of romance. “I want to write songs that explore real emotions,” he says. “Songs that awaken people from their slumber of distraction and make them feel something.” On Turning to Wine, his first EP, he’s as good as his word. He delivers a collection of inviting melodies and insightful lyrics that illuminate the mysteries of the soul, with a vision informed by sorrow, uncertainty and the warmth of unconditional love. The songs are a record of the transitions he’s been going through since he moved to Nashville from Atlanta. “The record is a snapshot of the changes I’ve been experiencing in my marriage and my music, for the last two and a half years. They’re more honest and open than anything I’ve written before.”
http://www.reubenbidez.com/
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TD Saturday Market continues its 16th season every Saturday through October 27th, providing farm-fresh produce, baked goods, meats, cheeses, seafood and other specialty foods to Main Street in downtown Greenville.
The TD Saturday Market is open Saturdays, May 5th through October 27th, from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm on Main Street at McBee Avenue. Enjoy free parking in the Richardson Street Garage from 6:00 pm on Fridays to 11:59 pm on Sundays. Additional parking locations are listed in the Market Map or visit the City of Greenville’s homepage for more information on downtown Greenville parking.
What will you find? Visit https://www.saturdaymarketlive.com/ for more info!
Pedal through the beautiful South Carolina upcountry Blue Ridge Mountain region.
Cyclists have the option to choose from a 65-mile, 30-mile or 10-mile ride. 100 percent of proceeds will go directly to high-impact programs to speed better treatments and a cure for Parkinson’s disease.
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There’s really nothing like watching the sun rise over Lake Lure and the Hickory Nut Gorge, so we’re opening up early just for our Annual Passholders.
We’ll also serve up a hot, yummy breakfast and hot coffee prepared by Old Rock Cafe’s Chef Randall Spencer.
Afterwards, guests are welcome to head out on the trails and take some photos of the waterfall or the views from Peregrine’s Point.
Advance registration is required.
Event Menu
Scrambled eggs
Breakfast potatoes
Fresh cut fruit
Biscuits with fixings
Bacon
Sausage
Build your on parfait bar
To RSVP, please call 800-277-9611 by September 29.
Cost: $5 Annual Passholder, free for kids under 5.
PHOTO BY CHUCK HILL
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International Research and Philosophy Symposium hosted by Sherman College of Chiropractic, with keynote speakers David Fletcher, Julie Mayer Hunt and Stan Pierce, Jr.
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This is a day where it is all about you QUEEN, from the crown of your head to sole of your feet – it is all about you! From the powerful speakers, entertainers, vendors, to the delicious meals, This will be an unforgettable moment in time as we consider joy, “AFTER THE PAIN”.
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The Town of Pacolet is excited to announce that on October 5th and 6th we will be hosting a Rubbish Collection Day. Town of Pacolet residents (proof of residence will be required) will be able to drop off yard waste and rubbish (wood, metals, bricks, etc) to help clean up and beautify our yards. No hazardous materials, electronics or ordinary household trash will be accepted. Look forward to flyers regarding the event coming soon.
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Join our Comfort Keepers Team and walk with us on October 6th, 2018!
Register online to join our team or donate money here –>
http://act.alz.org/site/TR/Walk2015/General?team_id=481965&pg=team&fr_id=11509
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Held annually in more than 600 communities nationwide, the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s® is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research. This inspiring event calls on participants of all ages and abilities to join the fight against the disease!