Mauldin High band wins

Mavs beat 19 other bands to win at Sugar Bowl competition

JANUARY 6, 2011 11:53 a.m. (0)

One South Carolina school brought home a championship trophy from a football bowl game this season.

The Mauldin High Marching Band beat 19 other high school bands to win the grand champion trophy at the Sugar Bowl Marching Band Competition this week.

Mauldin band director Adam Scheuch said the competition is the biggest marching band competition ever won by the school.  Continue reading...

 

Have music, will travel

Spartanburg Music Trail celebrates contributions of local musicians to national, international music scene

JANUARY 6, 2011 12:02 p.m. (0)

Spartanburg’s musical heritage did not start or stop with the Marshall Tucker Band.

While the band is arguably the headliner of the influential musical acts to come from Spartanburg, it is by far not the only one that has gone on to national or international prominence.  Continue reading...

 

High noon

Music sandwiched in gives Spartanburg music lovers something to eat to

MARCH 3, 2011 3:13 p.m. (1)

The deep notes of the cello and more airy ones of the flute reverberated off the acoustic barrier behind the musicians in the Barrett Room at the Spartanburg Public Library Headquarters and drifted toward the audience, where feet were tapping and heads were nodding.

They were there for Music Sandwiched In, a free event open to the public and presented by the Music Foundation of Spartanburg and held every other Wednesday.

The people were seated in rows of chairs and at tables throughout the room. Some of the audience members ate at the tables in the back of the room, either the lunches they brought with them or sandwiches that were available for purchase at the event. During the music, which lasted from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m., people trickled in and out of the room.  Continue reading...

 

Young at their art

Edwin McCain, Taylor Moore start new concert series for up and comers

MAY 16, 2011 8:43 a.m. (1)

Taylor Moore already had a career.

He was living in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, working as a journalist during the day, playing music at night.

On his 24th birthday, he decided if he could make a living doing anything, he wanted that anything to be music.  Continue reading...

 

A hanging, a stabbing and a killing

It's just that old-time music

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 2:15 p.m. (0)

Old-Time mountain music spills out of Oolenoy Community House in Dacusville where every Friday night for the past 20 years men, women, young and old gather with their banjos, fiddles, dulcimers and guitars for jam sessions.

“I started to sing this music when I was a boy,” said Dan Wood, who plays banjo for the group Pine Top Revival. “I’d hang out in the barn with my grandmother and she taught me these songs. We’d sing and sing. Some of the songs were a little rough. They seemed to all end with someone being hung or stabbed or killed.”

Old-time music is often associated with Contra, folk and square dance, though it also includes slower ballads.  Continue reading...

 

Professor’s short music lessons go viral

YouTube videos on history of rock music draw worldwide audience

MARCH 22, 2012 1:06 p.m. (0)

YouTube helped University of South Carolina Upstate music professor Dr. Gregg Akkerman battle the short attention spans of college students.

And now Akkerman’s short video lectures on the history of rock and music business have gone viral.

Akkerman has uploaded to YouTube 40 video lectures on music topics ranging from motion picture music, punk rock, MTV and hair bands to publishing music, touring and who does what in a record company.  Continue reading...

 

The Nashville Connection aids vets through music

Country star Darryl Worley caps off four days of events throughout Greenville

JUNE 21, 2012 10:15 a.m. (2)

Getting Darryl Worley to come to Greenville to headline the second annual Nashville Connection Heroes Salute seemed like an obvious idea to Joan Betros.

Betros, executive producer and director of this four-day series of events at various venues in Greenville, first met the country star on a USO tour while her husband was stationed in Iraq with the Army Reserve.  Continue reading...