Continuing with in our bluegrass-bands-covering-popular-songs-at-Spoleto video series, here’s Joy Kills Sorrow (who were absolutely PHENOMENAL last night) doing their take on the Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights” at their soundcheck. Suck it, Sam Beam.
Two of the killer burgers at Charleston Burger Co. on Ashley River Road. Those are onion rings on the left, by the way.
See that jewelry? Those earrings and that brooch? They came from Charleston’s own Candy Shop Vintage, run by Dierdre Zahl. She connected with the show’s costume designer Janie Bryant at Charleston Fashion Week 2011.
Renaud Garcia-Fons explains some of techniques and demonstrates the rich variety he can express on his double bass. He performs as part of Spoleto tonight through Thursday.
Some of our favorites from this past weekend’s Southeastern Beard & Moustache Championships, taken by our photographer Jonathan Boncek.
Yeah, this is Ketch and Critter from Old Crow Medicine Show (and most of the rest of the band) singing Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” at their soundcheck yesterday. They repeated the performance at their pre-Spoleto show last night during their encore.
Social is everyone’s favorite happy hour bar (according to our Best of Charleston poll for the last couple of years). Its new chef Jesse Sutton, along with owner and sommelier Brad Ball, have transformed the menu into a serious study of food and wine.
Our first Spoleto issue is out on stands now with the cover boys from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. It comes with our buzz-o-meters (a handy guide to what you should be buying tickets for right now), previews for the coming week’s shows, and a calendar and map.
Spoleto Spoleto Spoleto. It’s really all we’re going to be talking about for the next three weeks. Get used to it. It doesn’t officially kick off until Friday (well, sort of on Thursday, what with the art openings and bluegrass concert that night), but we got a sneak peek at the set of Feng Yi Ting, one of this year’s operas, directed by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan.
Artist Motoi Yamamoto is currently on his knees at the Halsey, prepping his exhibit Return to the Sea: Saltworks. Since you have to view the exhibit from that wood-and-glass perch seen above, we expect Thursday’s opening reception will be a bit crowded.
