Cultural and Carolina Series features performers from around the world in 2024-2025 season
The Cultural Series will open up with the Concert Truck, a mobile music venue that makes live music accessible to all.
The Etherredge Center at the University of South Carolina Aiken will host the 2024-2025 Cultural and Carolina Series.
“Many Cultures. One World” and “Friends, Old and New” are this year’s Cultural and Carolina Series themes.
“The significance of ‘Friends Old and New’ is that all the Carolina Series artists this year are people that the Director of the Etherredge Center, Paul Crook, and I know,” said Kayla Gardner, assistant director of the Etherredge Center. “Geographically, this year we have performers coming all around the world and country: Texas, Japan, and the Northeast.”
Shows will explore various cultures and periods, from the Harlem Renaissance in Soul of Langston to the art form of Japanese Taiko drumming with the Yamato Drummers.
Audiences can also enjoy Lobster Man, a new play making its debut during the Carolina Series. The one-act play tells the story of two survivors in a post-apocalyptic world struggling to determine whether they are the last two people alive.
“I think it’s widely important to help make these different cultures and art forms accessible to people to help educate and broaden their world view,” Gardner said. “Often, the Carolina Series features budding artists, early in their professional careers or artists who are only known in their corner of the state. In this way, we can give these artists a place to perform or showcase their work.”
Tickets will go on sale starting Aug 2. For more information about performances and tickets, visit the Etherredge Center.
The SHARP Dance Company is one of the acts performing in the Cultural Series this year.
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