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The Merling Trio, recognized as one of today’s premier ensembles, will play in concert on Sunday, February 27th 5 pm, at the Fripp Island Community Center. This performance is not to be missed. A truly international group, the Trio brings together musicians from Polish, Japanese, and Dutch backgrounds. The Merling Trio has been hailed as a brilliantly distinguished group endowed with remarkable gifts of communication, magnificent precision, and an impeccable blend of sound. The Trio made its New York debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 1993, and was named a finalist for the Naumburg Foundation Chamber Music Award in 1994.
Legendary vocalist Marlena Smalls and the Lavon Stevens Band will be performing at USCB Center for the Arts on February 26 at 8 PM and February 27 at 5 PM. Ms. Small’s voice will take you on a musical journey celebrating Jazz and blues greatest performers such as: Sarah Vaugh, Etta James, and Big Mama Thorton. Another Lowcountry favorite, Vic Varner and Friends, will be opening the show. They will feature a Bossa Nova set with some early swing thrown in.
”It would be hard—very hard—to find better chamber music playing than at the cellist Edward Arron’s enterprising series.” This high praise appeared in a recent New Yorker magazine, and although the reference was to Mr. Arron’s chamber music series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it could just as easily be said of the USCB Festival Series that Mr. Arron brings to the Lowcountry five times each year.
Six artists have formed the expressive and colorful 'Upstairs Group,' taking over the second floor of the esteemed Charles Street Gallery. Their work celebrates the colors, imagery and scenes that drip, slide and smudge from the brushes of skilled and insightful artists— they know how to speak with color, share with joy, and spread around the beauty: Lynn Brown, Sharon DeAlexandris, Carol Henry, Jim Rothnie, Sara Timmons, and Nancy Sturgis.
The York W. Bailey Museum at the Penn Center National Historic Landmark will host a debut exhibition by Charleston photographer David Soliday, entitled “Remnants of Rice Fields in South Carolina”, featuring images of rice fields from Georgetown to Beaufort, South Carolina. The gallery opening will be held on February l9, 2011 from 5:00-7:00 p.m., featuring an artist’s talk and a taste of Gullah rice sampling. The admission to the event is $6 for adults.
“If you could spend one evening with any American living or dead, wouldn't Ben Franklin be fairly close to the top of your list?” asked popular local Ben Franklin interpreter Steve Nousen.
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