Events Calendar
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Join an audience that loves talking back to history to discuss Jackie Kennedy with Marian Strobel, PhD, William Montgomery Burnett Professor of History and Chair of the Faculty at Furman University where she specializes in Recent US History and American women’s history.
One of the most photographed women of the 20th century, Jackie Kennedy mesmerized foreign leaders and the American people. Her husband’s murder left her soaked in his blood and brains. At JFK’s funeral she held us all together, and her widow’s weeds became a symbol of our own pain. There is something mysterious and private about this very public person. Was she mythmaker of her husband’s legacy or shell shock PTSD survivor? How did America survive a decade of unprecedented political assassination and unpopular war? How did democracy survive the Revolutionary ‘60s? Let’s talk about it.
This event is NOT a costumed performance. Leslie Goddard will perform as Jackie Kennedy in the Chautauqua History Alive Festival (June 14 – 23.) Free event and parking.
(Tips/No cover)
PALEFACE was schooled musically by friend Daniel Johnston and soon discovered at an NYC open mic by Danny Fields (The Stooges, The Ramones, MC5). He’s released over a dozen records including two major label releases, and has been called a major influence & inspiration by a wide range of artists including Grammy Award recipient BECK. Paleface has collaborated on three albums by The Avett Brothers. He is also visual artist who’s been selling his collectible music inspired paintings at concerts, art shows, festivals and via his website
http://PalefaceOnline.com/
“Paleface is a gem, a brilliant man…one of the greatest songwriters on Earth” The Avett Brothers
“Paleface is a great songwriter, a generous friend, and a big influence on my early stuff” BECK
“A rousing showman we’re lucky to get to see him play live” Creative Loafing, Tampa
“Melodic songs with a sunny vibe while maintaining an edge.” The New Yorker
“His bright songwriting and even more fiery performance style will set a room in motion… it’s fiercely fresh in pulse, and he and his band light up stages every night.” – Orlando Weekly
“indie folk-pop duo with eclectic style and grace, funky, hip, and even interactive” New Times, Palm Beach
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https://www.facebook.com/events/2123897154344933/
Bottle Cap Group has hidden Golden Eggs city-wide for a chance to win amazing prizes!
Be on the lookout for Gift cards from all of our restaurant and bars ranging from $5-$200, Wells Fargo Championship Tickets, Country Carolina Music Festival tickets and more. First person to find an egg, snags the prize!
They have hidden eggs around downtown Greenville. Best of luck!
Snap a photo of your egg and tag #goldeneggclt
https://www.facebook.com/events/169028637335342/
Don’t want to run a crowded 5k? Do you want to run on a certified course with a small town vibe? This is the race for you. Located in beautiful downtown Pickens, this race finishes on the Doodle Trail at the Pickens Trail Head. The course is certified and the same course as the Doodle Trail 5k run in July. Following the awards ceremony, head over to the Azalea Festival for music, food and drinks. Register at RunSignup.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/325953091368394/
OLE # 4 will be bringing you your favorite Classic Country and Southern Rock tunes! This year we will also be bringing you quite a few of our original tunes!
https://www.facebook.com/events/423130518437852/
Kid friendly and adult themed fun! Bigger and better than last year! 25+ Clemson University, local and state organizations, activities, GUIDED NATURE WALKS!, great food and live music! FREE ADMISSION!
Update: This year’s celebration is already shaping up to be our best Earth Day event ever! We have already confirmed participation from: musicians Wild Pines (4-5:30PM), Conservation Theory (5:30-7PM) and Meoldy Garden (1PM); GREAT food from Palmetto’s Smoke House and Oyster Bar as well as shaved ice by Appalachian Snow! The list of conservation and wildlife organizations has grown too quickly to mention them all here. Festival attendees will be treated to a variety of fascinating and fun activities and displays. Please put this event on your calendar now and join us to celebrate and protect our planet.
https://www.facebook.com/events/379950392834089/
Music Festival with food, drink, dancing and entertainment benefiting local charities.
https://www.facebook.com/events/219701865625124/
Enjoy the music of WNC’s Celtic history. Multiple music and performances daily.
Friday
12:15-1:00 Smokey Mountain Highlanders – Pipe & Drums
6:00-9:00 Piper Jones Concert joined by David Brown – $10 tickets
Saturday
12:30 – 1:00 Montreat Pipe & Drums
1:00 – 2:00 Piper Jones Band
6:00 – 8:30 Celtic ConFusion
Sunday
12:30 – 1:15 Michael Waters – Bagpipes
1:30 – 3:00 Piper Jones Band
3:30 – 6:00 Lynn Goldsmith and the Jeter Mountain Band
https://www.facebook.com/events/275675586651015/
We kick off our Celtic Festival with the return of the Smokey Mountain Highlanders.
https://www.facebook.com/events/172329437027934/
Come out for a Tryon International Film Festival benefit. Enjoy what Bullhded has to offer. All nights proceeds will be donated to the film festival. GO BULL | EVERYDAY
https://www.facebook.com/events/511888326004219/
Ready for LOADS OF FUN? Spring Fling, covering SEVERAL City blocks, is the Upstate’s largest street festival. The 3-day event brings 115,000+ people downtown for the music, food, shopping, kids rides, and tons of special attractions. It’s a great chance for everyone to see why downtown Spartanburg is AMAZING all year long.
Friday, April 26: 5 pm – 10 pm
Saturday, April 27: 10 am – 9 pm
Sunday, April 28: 12 Noon – 6 pm
FREE Admission
https://www.facebook.com/events/1279951598821913/
Our 10th annual BBQ Cook-off will be held April 26th and 27th, 2019! The festival takes place by the Reedy River at 320 S. Hudson Street. In conjunction with the South Carolina BBQ Association, we are smokin’ at the site of Unity Park near the Swamp Rabbit Trail. The festival includes an “Anything Butt BBQ” competition, barbecue, rib, and brisket cooking contests and great family entertainment including live music, food vendors, beverages, and games for kids. Admission is always free and tasting tickets are sold at the festival–cash and cards accepted. All proceeds benefit Project Host.
https://www.facebook.com/events/384837545668987/
FULL BAND SHOW, the official pre-party before the 8th Annual Meltdown Vintage Motorcycle Show on the 27th.
Morgan Geer, the songwriter behind Drunken Prayer, is the current guitar player for iconic alt-country goths, Freakwater. He’s recently been touring internationally solo with The Handsome Family.
Morgan was born in San Francisco and grew up traveling around the US, following his folk-singing mother. Today he splits time between Portland, OR and Asheville, NC. He’s lived in nearly every region of the country and sounds like it. His is American music – straight, no irony chaser.
Drunken Prayer will likely bring to mind The Band for a lot of listeners, with the sense of place and history. But Morgan Geer’s songs and his singing often suggest a kinship with artists like Bobby Charles or Doug Sahm, musicians with Southern roots, with a yip and break to their voices, and notes of sadness offset by a wicked sense of humor.
Over the past two years Drunken Prayer has played hundreds of shows across 18 countries and across the US at venues such as the Pickathon Music Festival and San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall. Geer’s music has been featured on AMC, NPR, WFMU and SiriusXM.
The new Drunken Prayer album, Cordelia Elsewhere, was mixed by Mitch Easter (Let’s Active, REM) at The Fidelitorium in rural North Carolina. A maverick descendant of outlaw country, this album bears witness to life on earth in uncertain times.
https://drunkenprayer.com/
https://www.facebook.com/events/330638964465224/
We hope you join us for our annual run at Kings Mountain State Park in Clover South Carolina!
In 2019, with fresh legs, we’ve teamed up with the Camp Cherokee YMCA staff to make this event bigger, better, and more inclusive than ever before. With the addition of the kid’s races, 5k, and a 10k to the half and full marathon, there will be something for everyone. This event supports Camp Cherokee’s revitalization efforts and helps get more kids to camps.
Children 9+ can certainly sign up for the 5k or 10k if the parents feel like the child is adequately prepared for the distance otherwise children who sign up for the kids races will be set into the following groups and distances.
Ages: Distance
5-6: 1k
7-9: 2k
10-14: 3k
We’ll run these a couple times through out the morning to give parents a chance to run with the tots after their race and complete details will be posted to the website and athlete guide at www.runkingsmountain.com
It was a little army and a little battle, but it was of mighty portent.
In 1780, atop Kings Mountain the Patriot Militia toppled the Royal Loyalists in the Revolutionary War. When the smoke cleared on the mountain’s steep western ridge, the Patriot Militia stood victorious.
“This is a place of inspiring memories. Here less than a thousand men, inspired by the urge of freedom, defeated a superior force entrenched in this strategic position.”
– President Herbert Hoover, October 7, 1930, atop Kings Mountain.
President Teddy Roosevelt once called this small but strategic victory the “turning point of the American Revolution.”
And to this day, the battle’s spirit lives on in the inhabitants of York County, South Carolina. Folks here carry a certain dignity because of their home’s unique place in history. And why shouldn’t they? It’s beautiful and rugged land they live on!
Which is why it won’t surprise you to hear that 230 years after the famous triumph, a small band of runners came directly to Kings Mountain for their own “battle.” A freak snowstorm and a last-minute marathon race cancellation had left them with little choice.
You see, just like the Patriot militia, they had something to prove. And if they could just get a race organizer to meet a few simple demands, they were going to fight for it.
So, they got in touch with Adventure Geek Productions, and inside an hour, the new Kings Mountain Militia was formed, and the battle was on!
Only this time the enemy wasn’t a red coated army. It was the terrain itself. Specifically, 26.2 miles of it. They called the challenge Kings Mountain Marathon.
Yes, this course has hills. Kings MOUNTAIN Running Festival.
The marathon fulfills all the marathonmaniacs.com requirements to count towards a marathon completion in all 50 states. A half marathon and full marathon course have been designed and tested by local runners to provide the best scenery, safety, and support for your race experience.
All 5k, 10k, half and full marathon participants will receive event t-shirts and all finishers will receive a custom finishers medal and other goodies!
Yes this course has hills. Kings MOUNTAIN Marathon.
This race fulfills all of the marathonmaniacs.com requirements to count towards a marathon completion in all 50 states. A half marathon and full marathon course have been designed and tested by local runners to provide the best scenery, safety, and support for your race experience.
All half and full marathon participants will receive event t-shirts and all finishers will receive a custom finishers medal and other goodies!
Race day registration will be available from 6:30AM-7:45AM.
*Participants who register on race day may not receive a t-shirt due to limited supply
Packet Pickup
Packet Pickup will be available on Friday at the starting line, from 5PM – 7PM and again on race day from 6:30AM to 7:45AM.
https://www.facebook.com/events/290855568420065/
This year the Mutts are taking over Main Street! Join us Saturday, April 27th for the 8th Annual Mutt Strut, presented by Papa John’s and benefiting the Greenville Humane Society! Participants will enjoy a 2-mile walk/run through beautiful Downtown Greenville beginning at 550 South Main St. in front of Halls Chophouse. Following immediately after, the Mutt Market festival and after party will take place on South Main Street between the Army Navy Store and Mary’s Cottage. The streets will be lined with entertainment including live music, free pizza from our presenting sponsor Papa John’s, caricature artists, face painters and sponsor tents with plenty of awesome giveaways! Participants over the age of 6 will also receive a swag bag filled with goodies and a race t-shirt. Don’t forget! All proceeds from the Mutt Strut go to benefit the animals of the Greenville Humane Society. Limited registrations remaining!
https://www.facebook.com/events/521352405034774/
The Railroad Festival takes place in historic downtown Central, S.C. annually on the fourth Saturday in April and features tours of the Central Railway Museum, local food, music and arts and crafts vendors.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2216626348590562/
Annual festival celebrating the work of the artist blacksmith, featuring demonstrations, hands-on activities, vendors, exhibitions, competitions and more! Admission is free and all are welcome. 2019 Master Blacksmith John Rais, featured demonstrators Rachel Kedinger, Eric Velleca, and Seth Gould.
https://www.facebook.com/events/992604394270978/
*FREE EVENT* It’s that time of year again! Come out to the Heritage Green on Saturday, April 27, for a morning of FREE activities and games. . This festival is geared towards our youngest learners and is filled with age appropriate activities for kids 1-5 years old.
Each Heritage Green organization will have a booth on the lawn with opportunities for families to experience what their museum or entity provides to our community every day.
Heritage Green includes Upcountry History Museum, Greenville County Library System (Hughes Main Library), Greenville Theatre, Greenville County Museum of Art, The Children’s Museum of the Upstate, and Carolina Music Museum!
Kids’ Fest at Heritage is presented by Primrose School of Greenville and supported by Greenville First Steps and Palmetto Basics.
More details coming soon!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2170944876299559/
Celebrate the cultures of the Upstate with Greer’s 6th Annual International Festival at Greer City Park. International Featured Country Tents, Entertainment, Sports, Crafts, and Food fill the park during the 5 hour event.
Would you be interested in showing off the culture and talents of your country? Message us for more details!
Children under 16 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Pets are not permitted.
Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, activity or public meeting of the City of Greer should contact 864-968-7008 as soon as possible, but no later than 48 hours prior to the scheduled event.
https://www.facebook.com/events/292567718276045/
Join us for the Second Annual Peter Rabbit Festival! There will be live animals, games, storytelling, food and much more. This family-friendly event is free to the public but donations are encouraged and appreciated. For additional information, email Sue Watts at [email protected].
https://www.facebook.com/events/375245366571308/