Events Calendar

Gather with your community for a FREE tasty meal, lessons on healthy eating and information on Double Up Food Bucks (a new program through SNAP)! Community Dinners are held on the second Wednesday of each month from 6 – 7:30 pm. FREE childcare provided.

Seating is limited. Reserve your seat online.

For more information, contact Leah Berger-Singer, Preventive Health Coordinator at (828) 254-7206 ext. 212 or [email protected].

Join us for the first Professional Pours of the new year at Craft Axe Throwing Spartanburg! As the premier destination for hatchet and tomahawk throwing, Craft Axe provides an exciting and popular activity that’s taking the United States by storm.

We look forward to having author Terri Parlato spend an evening with us! Grab a cocktail and a seat because you’re not going to want to miss hearing her chat about her new novel A What Waits in the Dark.

Your ticket includes admission, a cocktail, and a copy of the book.

BOOK SUMMARY

Her ballet career derailed by injury, a once-promising young dancer returns to her hometown only to face a grisly discovery – and the increasingly alarming realization that nothing from her past is quite what she believed…

When Esmé Foster left the Boston suburbs to become a professional ballerina, the future shimmered with promise. Eleven years later, her career has been derailed by an injury, and Esme knows it’s time to come back to Graybridge to help her brother care for their ailing father. But her return coincides with an unthinkable crime. Kara Cunningham, one of Esme’s high school friends, is found dead in the woods behind the Fosters’ house.

Esmé is shocked and grieving, but also uneasy. In her dreams, she still sees the man who showed up at the scene of the car accident that killed her mother—and told Esmé he was going to kill her too. Family and friends insisted the figure was a product of Esmé’s imagination, that she was concussed after the crash. But she and Kara looked alike, sharing the same petite build, the same hair color. Could Kara’s murder have been a case of mistaken identity?

Detective Rita Myers is familiar with close-knit communities like Graybridge, where, beneath the friendliness, there are whispers and secrets. The town has seen other tragedies too, including the long-ago drowning of a young girl in a pond, deep in the woods. Even within the once-close circle of friends that included Kara and Esmé, Rita discerns a ripple of mistrust.

Day by day, Esmé discovers more about the place she left behind—and the friends and family she thought she knew. Soon, shining a light into the darkness to learn what really happened the night Kara died is the only way she can bring the nightmare to an end . . .

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Terri Parlato is the acclaimed author of domestic suspense, including All the Dark Places and What Waits in the Woods. Born and raised in upstate New York. She currently lives in a small north Georgia town with her husband and dog, Lucy. For more information, visit her online at TerriParlato.com.

MEET MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST, STEVEN GALLOWAY!

This Greenwood, SC based, smooth jazz saxophonist has an impeccable degree — specifically a music degree from Lander University where he studied under Columbia jazz mainstay Robert A. Gardiner, whom he’ll still sit in with on occasion when passing through Columbia. For his music performance degree, Galloway said Gardiner would have him transcribe solos from the likes of Miles Davis and other jazz greats. However, Steven enjoys listening to a variety of music, from Grover Washington Jr., to Stevie Wonder and even Drake. Among his musical influences are, Charlie Parker, Hank Mobley, Thelonious Monk, Roberta Flack, Jim Snidero, Jerry Bergonzi, to name a few.

In addition to being a gifted saxophonist, Steven Galloway is also a jazz and classically trained pianist, so his supple licks are intricately constructed without being out there, and he drops in familiar covers of everyone from Michael Jackson to Patti LaBelle at his sold out shows. 

The soft-spoken Galloway considers himself to be an introvert, but he enjoys performing and exudes an amazing energy and a soul clenching performance that is unmatched. Stay tuned for more from Steven Galloway.

View Full Steven Galloway Bio >>

http://www.stevengalloway.net/

Join us at one of my favorite places for lunch, the Pita House! Remember to bring cash or a check, because they do not take credit or debit cards. If you want to go directly to the Remodeling Expo that begins at 2:00 p.m., I will give you a free ticket at the entrance of the Greenville Convention Center, One Exposition Drive, Greenville (ends at 7:00 p.m.). You do not need to go to the expo if you are having lunch with us, and you do not need to stay at the Expo until it ends! One free ticket will be given to each person who attends this Meetup, and arrives at 2:00 in the entrance of the Expo Center today.

Now this is gonna be fun! We’re teaming up with the our good friends The Back 9 to raise lots of loot for The Cancer Association of Spartanburg & Cherokee Counties. On Saturday, January 13th, come enjoy an awesome oyster roast at the Upstate’s premiere outdoor venue. Save the date!

SHUCK CANCER OYSTER ROAST BENEFIT

$65 Ground Level Ticket
House roasted oysters w/condiments, free drink ticket, awesome entertainment, and a GR8 cause!

$150 Upper Deck VIP Ticket
House roasted oysters w/condiments, low country boil, OPEN BAR, awesome entertainment, and a GR8 cause!

Groove Masters Band was formed in 2007, in Charlotte, NC. The band consists of five veteran musicians with over twenty years of professional musical experience. The Band has achieved massive success across the US, and International. In 2009, Groove Masters Band released their first album “Elements of Groove.” This album was so awesome, they had the opportunity to travel to the West Coast. That same year, the album won “Best Jazz Band” in the Carolina’s. A few years later in 2011, Groove Masters Band released their sophomore project called “Praise Worthy.” This album gave them the opportunity to tour with some of the Great Legends of Gospel and R&B. In 2016, Groove Masters released their third project ” Keeping The Groove Alive” (a funky, electrifying, high energy jazz album) Groove Masters Band, is currently in the studio finishing their next album due in 2021.

View Full Charles Page and the Groove Masters Bio >>

Groove Masters Band was formed in 2007, in Charlotte, NC. The band consists of five veteran musicians with over twenty years of professional musical experience. The Band has achieved massive success across the US, and International. In 2009, Groove Masters Band released their first album “Elements of Groove.” This album was so awesome, they had the opportunity to travel to the West Coast. That same year, the album won “Best Jazz Band” in the Carolina’s. A few years later in 2011, Groove Masters Band released their sophomore project called “Praise Worthy.” This album gave them the opportunity to tour with some of the Great Legends of Gospel and R&B. In 2016, Groove Masters released their third project ” Keeping The Groove Alive” (a funky, electrifying, high energy jazz album) Groove Masters Band, is currently in the studio finishing their next album due in 2021.

View Full Charles Page and the Groove Masters Bio >>

Come join us January 15th to celebrate Martin Luther King day!

We will be open our normal hours that Monday from 4P-9P.

We cannot wait for you to join us!

We look forward to having author Rachel Hawkins spend an evening with us on Thursday, January 15th starting at 7:30 pm! Grab a cocktail and a seat because you’re not going to want to miss hearing her chat about her newest novel The Heiress.

Your ticket includes admission, a cocktail, and a copy of the book.

BOOK SUMMARY

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins returns with a twisted new gothic suspense about an infamous heiress and the complicated inheritance she left behind. THERE’S NOTHING AS GOOD AS THE RICH GONE BAD

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge Mountains. But in the aftermath of her death, her adopted son, Camden, wants little to do with the house or the money—and even less to do with the surviving McTavishes. Instead, he rejects his inheritance, settling into a normal life as an English teacher in Colorado and marrying Jules, a woman just as eager to escape her own messy past.

Ten years later, his uncle’s death pulls Cam and Jules back into the family fold at Ashby House. Its views are just as stunning as ever, its rooms just as elegant, but the legacy of Ruby is inescapable.

And as Ashby House tightens its grip on Jules and Camden, questions about the infamous heiress come to light. Was there any truth to the persistent rumors following her disappearance as a girl? What really happened to those four husbands, who all died under mysterious circumstances? And why did she adopt Cam in the first place? Soon, Jules and Cam realize that an inheritance can entail far more than what’s written in a will––and that the bonds of family stretch far beyond the grave.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

RACHEL HAWKINS is the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs, Reckless Girls, The Villa, and The Heiress, as well as multiple books for young readers. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. She studied gender and sexuality in Victorian literature at Auburn University and currently lives in Alabama.

Join us for Empower Hour, a one-hour program and facility tour where you will experience firsthand the YWCA’s work to bridge gaps in earning power, education, health & wellness and access to childcare.

Empower Hours take place twice a month on the first and third Tuesday at 11:30 am.
Lunch is served as part of our Empower Hour, so reservations are required.

To make a reservation: contact Elizabeth Alvandi, Advancement Assistant, at (828) 254-7206 ext. 103 or [email protected].

MEET MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST, STEVEN GALLOWAY!

This Greenwood, SC based, smooth jazz saxophonist has an impeccable degree — specifically a music degree from Lander University where he studied under Columbia jazz mainstay Robert A. Gardiner, whom he’ll still sit in with on occasion when passing through Columbia. For his music performance degree, Galloway said Gardiner would have him transcribe solos from the likes of Miles Davis and other jazz greats. However, Steven enjoys listening to a variety of music, from Grover Washington Jr., to Stevie Wonder and even Drake. Among his musical influences are, Charlie Parker, Hank Mobley, Thelonious Monk, Roberta Flack, Jim Snidero, Jerry Bergonzi, to name a few.

In addition to being a gifted saxophonist, Steven Galloway is also a jazz and classically trained pianist, so his supple licks are intricately constructed without being out there, and he drops in familiar covers of everyone from Michael Jackson to Patti LaBelle at his sold out shows. 

The soft-spoken Galloway considers himself to be an introvert, but he enjoys performing and exudes an amazing energy and a soul clenching performance that is unmatched. Stay tuned for more from Steven Galloway.

View Full Steven Galloway Bio >>

http://www.stevengalloway.net/

Some of the best times we have at M. Judson come from our collaborations with Mission Grape and Camilla Kitchen, where we let the food and wine do the storytelling. One afternoon amongst the bottles, Chef Teryi got to talking about her not-so-distant tradition of Runaway Fridays, where a person might sneak off for a midday margarita and be all the better for it. And we figured we can do better than that.

So join us for our favorite getaway in The Gallery at M.Judson: Runaway Friday Wine Lunch. We’ll pair three wines from the same producer with three small plates from Camilla Kitchen, get some delicious education from Danny Baker and Chef Teryi, as well as a sweet little treat to go.

Wines will be for sale, tickets will be limited!