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Charleston has a rich history of jazz music, and Karen Chandler, the co-founder
and director of the Charleston Jazz Initiative, can fill you in on virtually all
of it. The Charleston Jazz Initiative is a multi-year research project that
documents the African American jazz tradition in Charleston, t…
over 4 years ago
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This time last year, many music lovers and musicians were wondering when they
would be able to take in the thrills of live music again. The bumping speakers,
loud guitars and screaming fans all felt like a bygone myth, like something from
a past life. “We had just released an album, Kingdom in My M…
over 4 years ago
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Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran draw on personal family traditions and stories
for their Spoleto Festival USA performance this week to explore the Great
Migration — the historic movement that saw 6 million African Americans relocate
from the rural South to various Northern cities and beyond from 1…
over 4 years ago
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Charleston welcomed poet Kwoya Fagin Maples back home with open arms and open skies on Wednesday. Plentiful rain moved the seventh Piccolo Spoleto Sundown Poetry reading into the Gibbes Museum of Art, where a crowd gathered in the Fellows Member Reception Hall. Katherine Williams, co-coordinator of the Piccolo Spoleto Sundown Poetry, gave a touching introduction […]
over 4 years ago