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Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, is one of America's major performing arts festivals. It was founded in 1977 by Pulitzer Prize -winning composer Gian Carlo Menotti, who sought to establish a counterpart to the Festival dei Due Mondi ( The Festival of Two Worlds) in Spoleto, Italy . When Italian organizers planned an American ...
Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival in Kansas City [citation needed] Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival in Sedalia [72] Nebraska. Omaha Blues, Jazz, & Gospel Festival in Omaha. Nevada. Las Vegas City of Lights Jazz Festival in Las Vegas [73] Reno Jazz Festival in Reno [citation needed] New Jersey.
The Charleston Jazz Orchestra is a big band that does just this by presenting concerts of standard South Carolina jazz as well as new works. To this day Charleston maintains a vibrant and diverse jazz scene and is home to many musicians in all genres. As it has always been, Charleston remains a melting pot of musical styles and influences.
Official music. South Carolina is noted for being the birthplace of beach music, an offshoot of early R&B and rock 'n' roll that featured a shuffling beat which spawned the dance called The Shag. This Myrtle Beach-area dance is the official State Dance, although South Carolina has also contributed to two other famous dances, the Charleston in ...
Belleayre Music Festival, Catskill Mountains. Camp Bisco, Albany. Caramoor Summer Music Festival, Katonah. Electric Zoo, New York City. Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Hillsdale. The Fest for Beatles Fans, New York metropolitan area. Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance, Trumansburg.
Ranky Tanky is an American musical ensemble based in Charleston, South Carolina. It specializes in jazz-influenced arrangements of traditional Gullah music, a culture that originated among descendants of enslaved Africans in the Lowcountry region of the US Southeast. Apart from lead vocalist Quiana Parler, four of the group's members, Quentin ...
Green has also appeared at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston, Massachusetts; the Jazz at the Y series in New York's 92nd Street Y; Zinno's in New York; the Main Street Jazz Festival in Columbia, South Carolina and the 1999 Indy Jazz Festival.
This is an incomplete list of festivals in the United States with articles on Wikipedia, as well as lists of other festival lists, by geographic location. This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays.
South Restaurant & Jazz Club: 3 Zanzibar Blue; Pittsburgh. Chris’ Jazz Café: 3 Con Alma; Gullifty's, Squirrel Hill; MCG Jazz: 3 South Carolina. The Jazz Corner, Hilton Head: 4 Tennessee. The Palace, Memphis; Rudy's Jazz Room, Nashville: 4 Texas. Caravan of Dreams, Fort Worth
Music festivals in South Carolina (4 P) Pages in category "Festivals in South Carolina" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.