Brandy Clark’s Journey to Self-Discovery and Finally Winning Her First GRAMMY 
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1d ago
After decades in the music industry, GRAMMY and CMA Award-winner Brandy Clark is having a breakout year, in addition to her GRAMMY win, she nabbed her first Tony-Award for the Broadway musical Shucked, which she co-wrote, and has embarked on a national tour, performing in key slots at several high-profile music events. The Spoleto Festival USA 2024 Front Row Series performer discussed discovering her sexuality and how teaming up with another gay musician influenced her new album with the Los Angeles Times.   Over the past twenty years, Brandy Clark has written some of the biggest country ..read more
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Spoleto Perfomer Honors the Legacy of Women’s Suffragist with New Album  
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6d ago
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan is gearing up for her return to Spoleto Festival USA in June, but critics are already raving about her new album All My Friends, proving that the anticipation is well-deserved.     Inspired by the letters and speeches of suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt, All My Friends ponders the nation’s evolution in the century since women won the fight for the right to vote.  The nine tracks on the album build a rich, expansive sound upon the singer-songwriter’s harmonious and contemplative trademark style. Conceived and recorded as a ..read more
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Playlist: 2024 Front Row Series 
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Old Crow Medicine Show. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue. Amos Lee. Brandy Clark. Watchhouse. Aoife O’Donovan. Jason Isbell. These acclaimed nationally-touring artists make up the 2024 Front Row series at Spoleto Festival USA.   A titan of classical and jazz music, the Festival has expanded its commercial offerings in recent years bringing nationally touring acts to the atmospheric Cistern Yard for intimate and arresting performances not found anywhere else.  In the lead up to this season, we are sharing our essential listening playlist to get you ready to join us this spring.&nb ..read more
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Spoleto Chamber Musicians Joining Famed Kronos Quartet 
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2w ago
On March 5, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Spoleto alumni Gabriela Díaz and Ayane Kosaza will join the world-renowned chamber group Kronos Quartet in the article, “Two longtime members of Kronos Quartet plan a joint retirement.” Kronos will enter its sixth decade with two female members joining the ensemble, alongside existing members David Harrington and Paul Wiancko.  Both Kosaza and Díaz are alumni of Spoleto’s Bank of America Chamber Music Series. Kosaza appeared at the Festival in 2022 and 2023 and will return in 2024. In addition to the Chamber Music Series, Kosaza performed i ..read more
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“Chamber music is like no other art form.”
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by Geoff Yost
3w ago
By Paul Wiancko My father Gene used to tell me that the average person changes careers seven times. In his own lifetime, he enjoyed successful stints in engineering, cartography, and geophysics, before ending up in documentary filmmaking. At first, I interpreted this oft-mentioned fact as a subtle way of informing an unruly young music student that a life in music would be tough, and that I might want to pursue something more pragmatic. But in recent years, as my artistic priorities have twisted into new configurations, I have begun to understand what he meant. Life is short. Embrace change. I ..read more
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We’re Here for Sasha Velour
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Ahead of her 2024 Spoleto debut, Sasha Velour will join the fourth season of the Emmy-winning unscripted series We’re Here. The gender-fluid drag queen is known for her performance artistry, fierce activism, and boundary-breaking scholarship. Sasha will present an immersive evening of drag, storytelling, and live art on June 6 at the Charleston Gaillard Center. Get your tickets now and look out for We’re Here season 4 coming to HBO on April 26. ABOUT WE’RE HERE The Emmy®, Peabody, and GLAAD award-winning series We’re Here follows renowned drag queens, Sasha Velour, Priyanka, Jaida Essence Hal ..read more
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Add to Playlist: Charles Lloyd’s New Single “Monk’s Dance” 
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2024 Spoleto Festival USA performer Charles Lloyd has released the first single off his upcoming album, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow, due out March 15. Selected by The New York Times for its playlist of the most notable new tracks. Lloyd’s debut single, “Monk’s Dance,” is an auspicious preview of what promises to be one the celebrated jazz artist’s most significant recordings to date. Excerpt from The New York Times:    “The saxophonist Charles Lloyd’s composition “Monk’s Dance” pays homage to the pianist Thelonious Monk, and he shares it with a redoubtable pianist: Jason Mo ..read more
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New Release by 2024 Spoleto Composer Nathalie Joachim: Ki moun ou ye 
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2024 Festival composer, Natalie Joachim has released her second studio album, Ki moun ou ye. A Haitian American flutist, singer, and composer, Joachim’s original cello concerto will premiere at the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra concert performed by cellist Seth Parker Woods. Get your tickets for the Orchestra’s June 1 performance and listen to her new album Ki moun ou ye, available now on streaming platforms.  Ki moun ou ye Across the record’s ten intimate, original songs, Joachim ponders its title’s question: “Who are you?” Inspired by the remote Caribbean farmland that her family cont ..read more
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Romeo and Juliet: A Retelling in Cinema, Theater, Opera, and Music  
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1M ago
The perennial tragic romance, Romeo and Juliet has been depicted in a myriad of artistic mediums in the 400+ years since William Shakespeare wrote the original play.  In honor of the upcoming 2024 Spoleto Festival USA production Romeo and Juliet Suite by L.A. Dance Project, we’re looking back at numerous adaptations of this tale of star-crossed lovers, from the classic to the downright wacky.    1597: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare  Penned by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet was first published in 1597. Shakespeare’s principal source for the plot was “The ..read more
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Celebration of Gullah Culture Happening at the 2024 Festival
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by Geoff Yost
1M ago
Honoring the history and heritage of the Lowcountry’s Gullah communities, Spoleto Festival USA 2024 will present Lowcountry: South Carolina Music in the Gullah Tradition in the College of Charleston Cistern Yard on Sunday, June 2. What is Gullah? The Gullah are an African American ethnic group who reside predominantly in the Lowcountry region of the United States. Descendants of Africans who were enslaved on the rice, indigo, and Sea Island cotton plantations of the lower Atlantic coast, Gullah people came from the rice-growing region of West Africa. The nature of their enslavement on isolated ..read more
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