Alien Chic is Spartanburg Art Museum's defining annual fundraiser! This high-energy event features out-of-this-world entertainment by Imagine Circus, astronomical eats, intergalactic cocktails, and a live art auction. Don't forget your costume!
World-renowned banjo player Béla Fleck is the recipient of multiple GRAMMY Awards and nominations going back to 1998. His total GRAMMY count is 16 wins and 30 nominations. He has been nominated in more categories than any instrumentalist in GRAMMY history! If American old-time music is about taking earlier, simpler ways of life and music-making …
Whether you are encompassed by Copland’s transcendent orchestral suite or roused by the marvelous musical color of the banjo, this program truly paints a picturesque dreamscape of Appalachian nostalgia. The scene opens with Lincoln Highway Suite by Spartanburg’s own Nolan Stolz. Stolz composed this piece as a toast to the 100th anniversary of the historic …
This bestselling author of The Dream Daughter and The Silent Sister is back with a new story of secrets, lies, and mystery in a small southern town. Big Lies in a Small Town tells the story of two different women from two different time periods, both desperate for escape, opportunity, and connection in their own unique ways. What follows is an …
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Warren's book, What the Dog Knows, is "a fascinating, deeply reported journey into scent, death, forensics and the amazing things dogs can do with their noses: sniffing out graves, truffles, bedbugs, maybe even cancer." Rebecca Skloot of The New York Times Book Review calls it "a moving story of how one woman transformed her troubled dog into a loving companion …
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Animals have stirred and fueled the human imagination since we began making art over forty thousand years ago. Perhaps it is our reliance on them for our survival, or perhaps it is our deep reverence of their strength and beauty, or perhaps it is the knowledge that our ecological habits have caused species to go …
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