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Lowcountry Chorale Tunes Up for 13th Season

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Singing beautiful music is the bond that brings male and female voices together as they prepare for their annual Spring concert.� The Chorale is looking for people who love to sing.

The group is directed by Cliff Kosier who also leads the Harbormasters and Beaufort Belles. He sings with the quartet Eu4ia and is the Pastor of Music at Grace Community Church, Hilton Head. Cliff has been a minister of music for over 20 years with various community choirs and groups throughout the south.

Gloria Bockelman accompanies the chorale on both piano and organ.�She has played the piano for over 30 years and has been the piano accompanist with St. John�s Lutheran Church since moving to Beaufort in 1990.� .

Rehearsals will begin Tuesday, February 16 at St. John�s Lutheran Church, 157 Lady�s Island Drive.� Please arrive at 6:30 pm to pick up your music and sign in.� There is a $30.00 fee.� Students� fees are waived. An interview will take place with the director after attending two rehearsals. Twelve weeks of rehearsals culminate with the May 15 concert.

Not ready to commit?�Undecideds are welcome to�come to St. John�s Tuesday night at 6:30, February 16, and sit in on a rehearsal.

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New Author Series Serves Up Food for Thought

Books

Literary Luncheons set for February, March and April in Beaufort

Saltus River Grill will host Bay Street Trading Company�s new luncheon series, which begins February 5 with author Janice Shay, who will be discussing her most recent release, �Southern Classic Seafood.� The Lee Bros. and their book, �Simple Fresh Southern,� will be featured March 3 and Chef Charlotte Jenkins, author of �Gullah Cuisine: By Land and By Sea,� along with narrator William P. Baldwin and beloved Gullah painter Jonathan Green, will be featured April 7. Reservations may be made for $50 per person for each luncheon by calling (843) 524-2000.

Shay is a native of Savannah, Ga. and owns a book packaging company, Pinafore Press, where she develops and produces illustrated books, including cookbooks, art, garden and gift books, and children�s books. �Southern Classic Seafood� is the most recent of her Southern cookbook releases. Matt and Ted Lee, or �The Lee Bros.� grew up in Charleston, SC, immersed in the flavorful traditions that have made southern food the most beloved of American cuisines. �Simple Fresh Southern� is the Lee Bros. first fully illustrated book, with full-color recipe photographs. Chef Jenkins grew up Gullah, learning to cook alongside family. She trained at Johnson & Wales University in Charleston, SC, and �Gullah Cuisine: By Land and By Sea,� is a tale of connection, sharing a world the Gullah built. It features a narrative�by critically acclaimed author William P. Baldwin, photographs by Pulitzer-prize-nominee Mic Smith and art by beloved Gullah painter Jonathan Green.

Reservations include a three-course meal prepared by Saltus Chef de Cuisine Brian Waters, a 10 percent off certificate good toward the new book release and the opportunity to participate in question and answer sessions with the authors. Waters will be selecting recipes from each featured cookbook to create the luncheon meals, enabling guests to �experience� the cookbooks first-hand.

With a view of the Intracoastal Waterway from its Sonoma-style patio or from the expansive full-service bar and dining room, Saltus River Grill offers the atmosphere of a chic Manhattan eatery with the historic charm found only in the South Carolina Lowcountry.

Books

lunch-karenwhite-beaufort When Southern novelist Karen White returns to the USCB Lunch With Author series on February 25 at the Sea Trawler Restaurant, Bluffton, she will be celebrating her tenth anniversary as a published author.� Among the Kudos for this gifted, prolific writer is that all eleven books published during this career have won noteworthy national book awards.� Book 11, The Girl on Legare Street made the NY Times bestseller list the first week of publication.

The Girl on Legare Street is book two of four of the Charleston-set Tradd Street series which began with The House on Tradd Street called an �intricate tapestry of history, loss, and redemption� by Southern Living magazine and �a page-turner featuring historical spirits and sleuths whose antics cause the reader many a chuckle.�

In The Girl On Legare Street, Karen embraces Charleston�s mystical lore, its history, its architecture, its ambiance, and its ghosts as she revisits Melanie and Jack, the protagonists of the series.� Karen places the heart of her latest plot in a 1755 Georgian double house, where a long dead Hessian soldier has yet to find rest and another, malevolent spirit is determined to destroy Melanie. Not surprisingly, Legare Street already has its own ghosts� 31 Legare, built around 1790 by Mrs. William Heyward is home to the ghost of her son, who was killed while hunting but appeared within the hour to his sister in the library.� It is said that over at 23 Legare, built in 1838 by Dr. Robert Trail Chisolm, there is a ghost who appears only to the Chisolm family.� Karen notes that she didn�t choose the street for its spirits, saying, �For Legare, I picked a street near Tradd. It never crossed my mind that there would be a street without ghost legends in Charleston. Even if I blindly lowered my finger onto a map, I was bound to land on a haunted thoroughfare in the Holy City.�

Italian and French by ancestry, a southerner and a storyteller by birth, Karen White has made her home in many different places. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she has also lived in Texas, New Jersey, Louisiana, Georgia, Venezuela and England, where she attended the American School in London. She returned to the states for college and graduated from New Orleans� Tulane University. Hailing from a family with roots firmly set in Mississippi (the Delta and Biloxi), Karen notes that �searching for home brings me to the south again and again.�

Karen credits her maternal grandmother Grace Bianca, to whom she dedicated The Lost Hours, with inspiring and teaching her through stories shared over many years. Karen also notes the amount of time she spent listening as adults visited in her grandmother�s Mississippi kitchen, telling stories and gossiping while she played under the table. She believes that started her on the road to telling her own tales. The deal was sealed in the seventh grade when she skipped school and read Gone With The Wind. She knew�just knew�she was destined to grow up to be either Scarlet O�Hara or a writer.

Karen White�s appearance at the USCB Lunch With Author series follows book reviews and interviews from every major magazine, talk show and newspaper in the southeast.� She will talk about her books and writing skills, lead a Q & A period and sign books at the luncheon which starts at noon. The lunch is at the Sea Trawler restaurant, Bluffton.� Reservations are necessary and can be made at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or calling 843-521-4147.� The all-inclusive price is $42.

Variations on a Marsh View

Art

New Work by Beth Brya at the Charles Street Gallery variations-brya-beaufort

Beth Brya will show us the marsh through her eyes at the Charles Street Gallery, February 12 through March 6. The public is invited to a reception with the artist on Friday, February 12th, 5:30-9pm, at 914 Charles Street.

"I live surrounded by the marshes," Beth explained from her home on Dataw Island. "They're a fun thing to paint." She has lived in Beaufort for twenty years, and spends time in the mountains of North Carolina as well. variations-brya-beaufort2

The Charles Street Gallery is an established source for Lowcountry and international art, presented within a carefully renovated house surrounded by a lush garden in the middle of Beaufort's historic district. 914 Charles Street 29902, 843-521-9054, http://www.thecharlesstreetgallery.com.

Surrender to Nature

Art

Linda Sheppard at the Art League Gallery

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The Art League of Hilton Head Gallery presents Surrender to Nature by Linda Sheppard opening with an artist reception in the Pineland Station Atrium on Tuesday, February 9, 2010.� The exhibit runs through Saturday, March 7^th.� The public is cordially invited. Call 843-681-5060 for details.

Linda Sheppard is an experienced professional artist who exhibits in some of the nation�s most prestigious venues, including the Pastel Society of America, the American Artists Professional League, the National Academy of Design and the Connecticut Pastel Society.� She is interested in capturing the essence of her subjects through the effects created by light, color and shape.� Her luminous paintings include landscapes, still life, portrait and figures.

Her most recent endeavor has been a plein air painting trip to Provence, France. Sheppard cherished the experience to be able to paint in utter solitude for hours at a time with no human sounds, cars, cell phones, or chaos on the television. ��The quiet helped me center down and really look.� The light was magnificent,� she raves.� �The more I looked, letting go of my fears and frustrations, the more I saw.� I felt like I was standing in God�s Temple of Creation.� It was a beautiful experience and one that I know will affect my painting.� surrender-beaufort2

The result is her series of vineyard paintings of the French countryside.� Sheppard says, �As an artist I need to sense, deep in my soul, the essence of the beauty of a place.� Considering a landscape, there has to be a conscious understanding of what I am attempting to say about the place.�I need to ask myself questions to find out what is touching me, so I need to focus on.��When I do that, I hope my viewers will see something deeper in life, a greater appreciation for the varied beauty, or sense peace and quiet as they view my landscape paintings.�

Sheppard has studied portrait and figure painting at the National Academy, the Art Students League, the Pastel Society of America Workshops, and with Daniel Greene and Michael Shane Neal.� She teaches portrait drawing and painting using �Old Master Techniques� as well as painting workshops and classes in oil and pastel.� She is a signature member of the Connecticut Pastel Society and recently awarded �fellow� status at the American Artists Professional League

surrender-beaufort3 She has held over 25 solo shows in galleries in Denver, California, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, and South Carolina.� Her work hangs in public and private collections throughout the United States.

This exhibit includes work by other Art League artists and should not be missed! The Art League of Hilton Head is a not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the visual arts. It operates a Gallery for the display and sale of artwork by its members.� The Gallery is open Monday-Saturday, 10:00 a.m. till 6:00 p.m.� For more information call 843-681-5060 or check www.artleaguehhi.org

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The Art of Old Town Bluffton

Art

Old Town Bluffton Art Galleries will again host its popular Gallery Walk on Friday, February 19 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.� There�s a reason Old Town Bluffton is home to some of the Lowcountry�s best art galleries.� Live oaks, historic buildings and friendly people welcome visitors to an eclectic mix of galleries and shops.� May River Road, Calhoun Street and Boundary Street house galleries are filled with fine art and fine crafts created by some of our areas most creative artists.� This gallery walk will provide visitors an opportunity to meet many of Bluffton�s finest artists in various galleries.
The work of over 200 artists can be seen at the� SoBA� Gallery (Society of Bluffton Artists), Pluff Mudd Gallery, Maye River Gallery, Four Corners Framing, old-town-bluffton The Filling Station, Vintage Posters and Jacob Preston�s. Wine and refreshments will be served by each gallery.� There will be live music on Boundary and Calhoun Streets throughout the entire event.� This event has traditionally brought�600 visitors to Old Town Bluffton. old-town-bluffton-shay

This event is sponsored by the Old Town Bluffton Merchants Association.� For more information call 843-757-2633.

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