Sigal Music Museum’s current special exhibition, Worlds Apart: Musical Instruments from Secular to Sacred, highlights items from the JoAnn and Frank Edwinn Collection, which hails from all over the world. Showing November 2023 – May 2024, Worlds Apart uses a diverse range of historical instruments, objects, and visuals to bring together musical narratives from seemingly disparate parts of the globe.

 

Worlds Apart: Musical Instruments from Secular to Sacred aims to increase public access to historical instruments from around the world and improve visitors’ understanding of musical traditions at the global level. Expanding beyond the typical parameters of the Western musical canon, Worlds Apart seeks to expose audiences to musical instruments and customs that are often overlooked or exotified. The instruments and other exhibit materials will offer visitors new perspectives on global music and a chance to consider how music is used for prayer and leisure in cultures around the world. By celebrating these stories, the museum intends to further its mission to collect and preserve historical musical instruments, objects, and information, which engage and enrich people of all ages through exhibits, performances, and experiential programs.

 

Displaying various objects from the JoAnn and Frank Edwinn Collection, Worlds Apart: Musical Instruments from Secular to Sacred focuses on international musical instruments and cultures, celebrating rites and traditions with ancient histories and contemporary legacies. Frank Edwinn, a successful basso in the mid-20th century, studied and toured internationally, eventually settling in North Carolina, where he taught music at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Throughout his life, he purchased various objects from around the world, aiming to expose students, and himself, to the wide and wonderful world of musical instruments. This impressive collection occupies a unique position for educating audiences unfamiliar with the vast scope of global music.

And, UNCA’s Ramsey Library Special Collections is now processing the Edwinn’s papers and a few recordings that will be accessible next semester!

Wind up the work week at Greenville Heritage Main Street Fridays presented by Pepsi, listening and dancing to the best in musical entertainment.

FREE ADMISSION

This weekly music series on Main Street at NOMA Square opens at 5:30 p.m. and closes at 9:30 p.m., with bands playing two sets at 5:50 p.m. and 7:40 p.m. NOMA Square chairs go fast, so bring a tailgating chair if you are not arriving early.

Wind up the work week at Greenville Heritage Main Street Fridays presented by Pepsi, listening and dancing to the best in musical entertainment.

FREE ADMISSION

This weekly music series on Main Street at NOMA Square opens at 5:30 p.m. and closes at 9:30 p.m., with bands playing two sets at 5:50 p.m. and 7:40 p.m. NOMA Square chairs go fast, so bring a tailgating chair if you are not arriving early.

April 5, Iliana Rose Cuban Jazz Band

April 12, Encore

April 19, Hwy 25 Band

April 26, Alice’s Marmalade Cat

May 3, Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues

May 17, Upstate of Mind

May 24, Eric Weiler Group

May 31, Eclectic Band

June 7, Sweet Soul

June 14, Kami Ocean & The Rhythm

June 21, Xperience Soul

June 28, Carolina Coast Band

July 5, Jazzy Trinity – A Stevie Wonder Tribute

July 12, Infinity Remix

July 19, Marvin King Revue

July 26, Beth Inabinett & For the Funk of It

August 2, David Rodriguez & The Latin Hustle

August 9, Rock N Roll Reunion

August 16, Soulfield 7

August 23, Hot As A Pepper

August 30, Shades of Brown

September 6, Tuxedo Junction

September 13, Whitney Bradley & Groove Planet

September 20, Split Shot

September 27, True Blues

Bill & Tad’s Excellent Duo is an acoustic duo from Spartanburg that has been performing all over the Upstate and western North Carolina for eight years.

They play originals and primarily 60’s and 70’s classics that are both familiar, but also off the beaten path of typical cover songs. That includes The Beatles, Stones, Simon and Garfunkel, The Kinks, Neil Young, Marvin Gaye and many others.

Let the sunshine in! Get groovy with the Converse Theatre & Dance production of HAIR – the American tribal love rock musical celebrating the sixties counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded and fringed glory.

Hair remains relevant as ever as it explores community, identity, politics, peace, and what it means to be a young person in a changing world.

***This show contains mature subject matter and is not suitable for younger audiences.***

April 18 @ 7:30pm
April 19 @ 7:30pm
April 20 @ 2:30 pm & 7:30pm
April 21 @ 2:30pm

Admission
$20 Adults + $3 fee
$10 Youth 22 & under + $2 fee
Free for Converse students, faculty and staff – Show your Converse ID at the door.

Abbott Theatre, Wilson Hall, Converse University

Let the sunshine in! Get groovy with the Converse Theatre & Dance production of HAIR – the American tribal love rock musical celebrating the sixties counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded and fringed glory.

Hair remains relevant as ever as it explores community, identity, politics, peace, and what it means to be a young person in a changing world.

***This show contains mature subject matter and is not suitable for younger audiences.***

April 18 @ 7:30pm
April 19 @ 7:30pm
April 20 @ 2:30 pm & 7:30pm
April 21 @ 2:30pm

Admission
$20 Adults + $3 fee
$10 Youth 22 & under + $2 fee
Free for Converse students, faculty and staff – Show your Converse ID at the door.

Abbott Theatre, Wilson Hall, Converse University

Sigal Music Museum’s current special exhibition, Worlds Apart: Musical Instruments from Secular to Sacred, highlights items from the JoAnn and Frank Edwinn Collection, which hails from all over the world. Showing November 2023 – May 2024, Worlds Apart uses a diverse range of historical instruments, objects, and visuals to bring together musical narratives from seemingly disparate parts of the globe.

 

Worlds Apart: Musical Instruments from Secular to Sacred aims to increase public access to historical instruments from around the world and improve visitors’ understanding of musical traditions at the global level. Expanding beyond the typical parameters of the Western musical canon, Worlds Apart seeks to expose audiences to musical instruments and customs that are often overlooked or exotified. The instruments and other exhibit materials will offer visitors new perspectives on global music and a chance to consider how music is used for prayer and leisure in cultures around the world. By celebrating these stories, the museum intends to further its mission to collect and preserve historical musical instruments, objects, and information, which engage and enrich people of all ages through exhibits, performances, and experiential programs.

 

Displaying various objects from the JoAnn and Frank Edwinn Collection, Worlds Apart: Musical Instruments from Secular to Sacred focuses on international musical instruments and cultures, celebrating rites and traditions with ancient histories and contemporary legacies. Frank Edwinn, a successful basso in the mid-20th century, studied and toured internationally, eventually settling in North Carolina, where he taught music at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Throughout his life, he purchased various objects from around the world, aiming to expose students, and himself, to the wide and wonderful world of musical instruments. This impressive collection occupies a unique position for educating audiences unfamiliar with the vast scope of global music.

And, UNCA’s Ramsey Library Special Collections is now processing the Edwinn’s papers and a few recordings that will be accessible next semester!

Get ready to go around the world in a day, enjoying the sights, sounds and tastes of multiple cultures at Greer City Park and Greer City Hall. The Greer Goes Global International Festival brings a sampling of the many cultures that make up the Greater Greer Community and Upstate South Carolina.

Join us on April 20th 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 30 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 our 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 AND unlimited beverages!

Higgins, whose brand of folk-rock has been described as a cross between the punkish energy of the Replacements and the alt-country aesthetic of Whiskeytown, has long had a reputation for producing catchy pop hooks, going back to his work in such former bands as The Turnaround and The Edmonds.

Join us for a weekend of Blues & Jazz! Sink your teeth into the tastiest food around, wash it down with cold beer and wine, and groove to some live blues and jazz bands!

LINEUP

2:00 – 3:15 | Kylie Odetta Trio
3:45 – 5:00 | Greenville Jazz Collective Big Band
5:30 – 7:00 | Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues
7:30 – 9:00 | John Németh

VOLUNTEER
Volunteer with us at the Blues & Jazz Festival! We are looking to fill multiple positions for different times. Volunteers will receive a free festival shirt and meal. Sign up below!

Let the sunshine in! Get groovy with the Converse Theatre & Dance production of HAIR – the American tribal love rock musical celebrating the sixties counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded and fringed glory.

Hair remains relevant as ever as it explores community, identity, politics, peace, and what it means to be a young person in a changing world.

***This show contains mature subject matter and is not suitable for younger audiences.***

April 18 @ 7:30pm
April 19 @ 7:30pm
April 20 @ 2:30 pm & 7:30pm
April 21 @ 2:30pm

Admission
$20 Adults + $3 fee
$10 Youth 22 & under + $2 fee
Free for Converse students, faculty and staff – Show your Converse ID at the door.

Abbott Theatre, Wilson Hall, Converse University

Let the sunshine in! Get groovy with the Converse Theatre & Dance production of HAIR – the American tribal love rock musical celebrating the sixties counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded and fringed glory.

Hair remains relevant as ever as it explores community, identity, politics, peace, and what it means to be a young person in a changing world.

***This show contains mature subject matter and is not suitable for younger audiences.***

April 18 @ 7:30pm
April 19 @ 7:30pm
April 20 @ 2:30 pm & 7:30pm
April 21 @ 2:30pm

Admission
$20 Adults + $3 fee
$10 Youth 22 & under + $2 fee
Free for Converse students, faculty and staff – Show your Converse ID at the door.

Abbott Theatre, Wilson Hall, Converse University

The SomeBuddies are composed of 5 friends (Chad, Doug, Alex, Seth and Adam) that have known each other for many years. Their friendship is evident in their fun on stage and musical connection. Their love for rock, blues, and pop spans many decades and their music reflects it. At a SomeBuddies concert you can expect a range of well known, sing along, rock and pop covers from the 70’s through the 90’s and even today. Artists like CCR, Tom Petty, The Black Crowes, Gin Blossoms and so much more! So come on out, clap, dance and sing along with the SomeBuddies. You are guaranteed to have a good time.

Experience the powerful emotions, and sweeping melodies of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. This masterful composition showcases the composer’s unique blend of political and personal expression, resulting in a dramatic and profoundly moving work. It will leave you breathless from the ominous opening to the triumphant finale. Be transported to a world of beauty and emotion by your Spartanburg Philharmonic.

Elevator access to the main floor. No elevator access to the balconies.

Tickets are non-refundable.

Let the sunshine in! Get groovy with the Converse Theatre & Dance production of HAIR – the American tribal love rock musical celebrating the sixties counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded and fringed glory.

Hair remains relevant as ever as it explores community, identity, politics, peace, and what it means to be a young person in a changing world.

***This show contains mature subject matter and is not suitable for younger audiences.***

April 18 @ 7:30pm
April 19 @ 7:30pm
April 20 @ 2:30 pm & 7:30pm
April 21 @ 2:30pm

Admission
$20 Adults + $3 fee
$10 Youth 22 & under + $2 fee
Free for Converse students, faculty and staff – Show your Converse ID at the door.

Abbott Theatre, Wilson Hall, Converse University

The ensemble il pomo d’oro was founded in 2012. It is characterized by an authentic, dynamic interpretation of operas and instrumental works from the Baroque and Classical period. The musicians are all well-known specialists and are among the best in the field of historical performance practice. The ensemble so far worked with the conductors Riccardo Minasi, Maxim Emelyanychev, Stefano Montanari, George Petrou, Enrico Onofri and Francesco Corti. Concert master Zefira Valova leads the orchestra in various projects. Since 2016 Maxim Emelyanychev has been its chief conductor, and since 2019 Francesco Corti is principal guest conductor.

Il pomo d’oro is a regular guest in prestigious concert halls and festivals all over Europe. After the worldwide success of the program «In War and Peace» with Joyce DiDonato, in 2020 il pomo d’oro and Maxim Emelyanychev presented My favorite things with the and is now on tour worldwide with Eden, the latest program and album of il pomo d’oro, Maxim Emelyanychev and the American Mezzosoprano.

The discography of il pomo d’oro includes several opera recordings: G. F. Händel’s Agrippina, Serse, Tamerlano, Partenope and Ottone, Leonardo Vinci’ s Catone in Utica, and Alessandro Stradella’s La Doriclea. It features Recitals with the countertenors Jakub Józef Orliński, Franco Fagioli, Max Emanuel Cencic, and Xavier Sabata, with mezzosopranos Ann Hallenberg and Joyce DiDonato and with sopranos Lisette Oropesa, Emöke Barath and Francesca Aspromonte. Among the instrumental albums the recordings of Haydn’s violin and harpsichord concertos as well as a cello album with Edgar Moreau received ‘Echo Klassik’ Awards in 2016. Further instrumental recordings are dedicated to the violin concertos and the harpsichord concertos by J.S. Bach, with Shunske Sato and Francesco Corti as soloists, and to virtuoso violin concertos with Dmitry Sinkonvsky.

In 2021 new albums with Bach harpsichord concertos vol.2 with Francesco Corti, Ombra Compagna with Lisette Oropesa (Mozart concert arias) and Jakub Józef Orliński (Anima Aeterna) were released. In 2022 seven albums have been published: Handel’s Apollo e Dafne with Kathryn Lewek (Soprano) and John Chest (Bass), Mandolin on stage with Raffaele La Ragione (Mandolin), the new recital with Joyce DiDonato, Eden, Bach Harpsichord Concertos vol III with Francesco Corti, Violin Concertos by Benda, Graun, Saint-Georges and Sirmen with Zefira Valova as soloist, Roma Travestita with Soprano Bruno de Sá, and Handel’s oratorio Theodora with a stellar cast (Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Michael Spyres, John Chest) – also introducing the new vocal ensemble of il pomo d‘oro.

In 2022 il pomo d’oro started a long-term recording project of Mozart-Symphonies and selected solo-concerts with Maxim Emelyanychev conducting.

The albums Anima Sacra with Jakub Józef Orliński, and Voglio Cantar with soprano Emöke Barath received the prestigious Opus-Klassik award, and the recording of G.F. Händel’s Serse, conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev, was awarded the Italian ‘Abbiato del Disco’. In 2018, the recording of Alessandro Stradella’s opera La Doriclea, conducted by Andrea di Carlo, recieved the German ‘Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik’. Virtuosissimo with Dmitry Sinkovsky, released in 2019, received a ‘Diapason d’Or’. In 2022, Eden with Joyced DiDonato received a ‘Choc’ from Classica and an ‘Opus Klassik’.

Il pomo d’oro is official ambassador of El Sistema Greece, a humanitarian project to provide free musical education to children in Greek refugee camps. Il pomo d’oro plays charity concerts and offers workshops and music lessons according to the El Sistema method on a frequent regular basis in various refugee camps in Greece.

The name of the ensemble il pomo d’oro refers to Antonio Cesti’s opera from the year 1666. Composed to the wedding celebrations of Emperor Leopold I and Margarita Teresa of Spain, Il Pomo d’Oro was probably one of the largest, most expensive and most spectacular opera productions in the still young history of the genre. 24 different stage designs, a horse-ballet of 300 horses, a fireworks display of 73,000 rockets, numerous ‚special effects’- superlatives, which should make the Emperor’s court the highlight of cultural splendor in Europe.