A Multimedia Celebration of Downtown Greenville April 2011

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The Darkness Inside 24 Contributors

3 Questions with Kerry Murphy 26 Jack DelGado

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4 Fête Notes from LiveSyphon

Trey Pennington
18 The Funniest Car Ride Ever Columnist

19 Light Stalking and Shadow Play Gene Berger

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21 Greenville Forward
32 UnXpected Jordana Jordana Megonigal
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The Gasholes perform their cover of “Respect” The Cold Roses perform their riginal song
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Record Store Day
By Gene Berger, Horizon Records
Saturday April 16, 2011 is Record Store Day, so
I’m going to talk in rather personal terms and give
a shout out to Record Store Day. This national and
internationally celebrated day was invented about 5
years ago and has now become a cause célèbre world
wide exploding into a huge, exciting and fun filled
grass roots cultural phenomenon. The idea is to honor
the tradition of what a local owned, independent
record store brings to a community and how that shop
is grateful to and can thank that community. Record
Stores have been closing and dying off in droves
under pressure from big box discounters, Amazon
type e-tailing, the onslaught of the digital era and
finally the impact of the great recession of the last
few years. With all this and the so called death of
the CD format, record stores were widely believed to
near extinction, however here comes the renaissance
of the record, of the vinyl culture. It has coincided
with the discovery of recycling music i.e. buying and
selling used CDs and LPs as a new economy act
and the trend of waste not want not meets budget
considerations.
This new vinyl record collecting cultural revolution has
energized fans from new customers of school age
to grandma & grandpa dusting off their turntables or
buying a record player and rediscovering the joy that
is collecting and listening to music that isn’t a mp3
file or a click on their computer.
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Happily Horizon Records, a survivor since 1975, is
no exception to this vinyl flavored rejuvenating trend.
Record Store Day is a blast and a welcome boon as
the new era unfolds. Horizon will celebrate like many
of our music retail brethren nation wide with a full
day starting at 8am there is our 13TH Annual Music
Yard Sale and simultaneously music collectors will
pour into the shop trying to grab copies of over 300
limited edition one day only record store day releases
that are available only to participating independent
record stores. There will be live music performances
all afternoon and food specials in The Bohemian Café.
It’s a kind of carnival, scavenger hunt, and rock n roll
family re-union sort of atmosphere.
At the end of the day Horizon believes every day is
record store day, which is why we still do what we
do, but it is nice to celebrate the culture of music
and the community aspect of what a record store is
before we become
a total rarity like the
family hardware
store and such.
Onward! Grasping the
cherished past and
carrying it into the
future.
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Kim Sholly
Kim Sholly moved from Madison, Wisconsin to
Greenville in 2002 and the first thing she looked
for was a place to set up her black and white film
darkroom. She found one in a newly renovated
building on S. Main Street in the West End. Shortly
after moving in, she founded the popular WestEnd
Darkroom Photo School in the building’s surrounding
2700 square foot space. The facility was dedicated
to the appreciation of photography in the Greenville
area, and although it centered on the large public
darkroom, it also offered a variety of classes in film
and digital photography, with darkroom rentals and a
gallery specializing in exhibiting work by local artists
and photographers.
Kim continues to work only in film photography and
Kim closed the school after a transfer of building
states that as photography continues its advance into
ownership, and moved her darkroom to West
the technologically sophisticated digital realm, she
Greenville, to the back of Glen Miller’s studio and
wants to turn back in time to historic photographic
gallery, Gallery 1266.
processes— to a time when simply capturing light
onto a light-sensitive surface was all that was needed
to create photographic beauty. She feels that while
today’s cameras, computers, and software programs
are continually updated with bigger, faster, more
advanced versions of themselves, she prefers to take
the low-tech approach by using film,
and the cameras and equipment—
some up to 75 years old—which
time has not made obsolete, and
which allow her to create the
images by hand in the darkroom.

The photo on the front cover of this

month’s issue of fete was shot with
a handmade pinhole box camera
and printed on photo paper that
expired in 1972.

Many of you may know Kim’s name through the

Metropolitan Arts Council’s ArtNews eblasts, one of the
many ways Kim helps support the arts in Greenville
from her position as Project Director of MAC.

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Springtime in downtown Greenville.

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Light Stalking
D S H A D O W P L A Y

Playing with light and shadows is

a way to produce simple forms
with strong angles of images,
ones that bring about raw
emotions and intense moods. It is
this method that allows the
viewer to thoroughly feel the
experience. Photographs and
music have something in
common - they both touch us in
ways that words cannot.
Photographers and musicians
must be masters of their
instruments in order to take
memorable photographs or
create unforgettable music; and
it is only after the basic methods
of these crafts are mastered that
playing with light and jamming on
the guitar become emotionally
driven. It’s all about getting lost
in the moment and sharing a part
of yourself with others. In the end,
however, it isn’t the music we
play or the pictures we take but
the emotions they evoke. After
all, what photographer or
musician doesn’t want to hear it
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Featuring Marketing & Communications Director Kate Hofler

At Greenville Forward, we recognize the extreme importance of community involvement to making a vision
like Vision 2025 a reality. Of the five main things we do daily, Inspiring Future Leadership is one of the most
important. Join us in opening the discussion on the importance of community involvement and how you can
become involved by watching this video featuring Kate Hofler, Marketing and Communications Director at
Greenville Forward.

Looking to get involved today? Check out Greenville Forward’s community calendar to see where you can
plug in or email us to talk about how to connect your passions with opportunities in Greenville.

Greenville Forward was created in January 2006 to help Greenville achieve Vision 2025, the bold, comprehensive, and
aggressive plan to create a vibrant Greenville in the next twenty-five years. By having a group like Greenville Forward,
whose sole purpose is to facilitate, coordinate, and communicate the ideas from Vision 2025, the aggressive goals for
Vision 2025 will be kept vibrant, alive, and attainable.

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Throughout the first part of his career, Dave Wyman applied his creativity and enthusiasm for adventure toward
creating engaging, entertaining toys. Now the British inventor cultivates that same spirit in the lives of
entrepreneurs in the Upstate. Wyman is the interim director for the Spiro Institute wonderfully nestled at the top
of the falls at Reedy River.

He says, “The mission of the Arthur M. Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership is to support educational,
research and outreach programs that promote entrepreneurial activity and economic development of the region,
state and nation. The focus is on wealth creation through entrepreneurial activity.” Wyman focuses
the considerable resources of Clemson University on helping entrepreneurs in Greenville
imagine, develop, and launch business ideas. The strength of our economy, and even our
economic future, he says, depend on entrepreneurial innovation and business launches.

Even if you’re not looking to start a brand new business, you can benefit from what
Wyman’s team offers: the Spiro Institute hosts regular idea-fostering, brain-stimulating
lectures, workshops, seminars, and networking events to help you grow your business.

Make sure you know what golden opportunities await you at Clemson’s Spiro
Institute by visiting http://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/spiro

Trey Pennington is a story prospector and professional speaker. He founded the

747-member Social Media Club Greenville and started clubs in Spartanburg
and Columbia. You’ll find his blog on marketing at treypennington.com
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The Darkness Inside
By Tim O’Neill

Outside was perfection. The sun shone. The breeze blew. The birds sang and children reeled
with delight. But inside was darkness. Despair. Inside was where he thought of her. Where he
dreamed of her. Inside was where he just heard the news. Inside was where he just lost her.

She first came to him as if on a breeze. Light and refreshing. An unexpected delight. It was in
the park. His park. The place he came every weekday. His sanctuary. He would come to the park
and enter a different plane of reality. A reality of one. Everyone – everything – else faded into
a blur. Even his thoughts and emotions would dull to an inaudible hum. He came here just to
be. To engage his senses in the natural world, leaving behind that of man. This conjured reality
consisted of warm sunlight, the scent of grass, an occasional misty rain and always a refreshing
breeze. And it was his. Alone.

It was a Friday in September. The weather was warm, but the breeze made it bearable. His
bench was in the shade when the trees held their leaves, so there he sat in isolationist bliss.
That’s when she walked by. He never noticed anyone during his daily hour-long respite, so why
did her notice her? Certainly she was beautiful. But the city is full of beautiful women, what did
her care? How did she enter his solitary plane? He was more curious than concerned. Although
uninvited, she was not unwelcomed. Why her? Why now? Had she always been here and he just
noticed? Would she return?

He thought about her over the weekend. Nothing specific, or improper, more abstract. The line
of her torso. The curve of her hip. The way her hair bounced as she walked. He was at odds
with himself the following Monday. His anticipation betrayed his sense of purpose. He went to
the park for isolation. To shut down. But there he sat with a schoolboy’s anticipation, noticing

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everyone and everything around him. Then he made out her form. Approaching from the
distance. He would have hid if he could. Although an outside observer would have noticed no
apparent change in his demeanor from every other lunch hour from every other day, he felt as
if he were a spectacle. He watched her more closely this time. Out of the corner of his eye of
course.

Her walk was confident without a trace of arrogance. She didn’t smile, but she didn’t frown
either. Her step had purpose, but she was not rushed. There was something else. Something
was missing. A purse. She carried no purse, nor bag of any kind. Where was she going? Every
woman in the city carried something. She was dressed well – skirt, heels – she certainly
wasn’t exercising. So what was is it? As she passed by, he caught the slightest hint of
perfume. Nothing specific, just a shift in the breeze. He decided then to stop watching her,
for fear of making an ass of himself. Besides, watching her walk “away” wouldn’t be right. He
would play her stroll over again in his imagination and decided the best word to describe her
aura was “grace.” So that’s what he called her.

Eventually, he came to sense her presence and the rest of the world faded back to its typical
obsolescence. He was lost again in his private existence and her presence was a welcomed
breeze. He didn’t see her every day. But he saw her enough. Enough to see the changing
fashions, the harried days, the occasional spring in her step and weight on her shoulders. She
became entwined in his world. And he never gave her as much as the nod of his head or the
wink of his eye.

It was a Saturday. He was at home reading the paper with a cup of coffee and a lightly
buttered croissant. Just like every other Saturday. He was startled to see her picture. He
checked his bearings then went back to his paper. She had died in the freeway pile-up earlier
that week. The funeral was on Monday. She was a mother of two. Her name was Michelle. She
was gone. And inside, part of him broke. Forever.

T I M O ’ N E I L L I S A N A DV E R T I S I N G
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Since its inception in 2005, the Artisphere Festival has quickly become a highlight on Greenville, SC’s arts
calendar, showcasing local cultural offerings alongside some of the most talented visual and performing
artists from across the country and beyond. Each year the Festival attracts, entertains, educates, and
inspires a diverse audience of residents and visitors, making the arts accessible to everyone and highlighting
the power of the arts to build community.

In 2009 and 2010 Artisphere ranked in the Top 20 out of 600 Fine Arts Festivals across
the country in Greg Lawler’s Art Fair Sourcebook In 2010, tens of thousands of people
attended Artisphere, and spent over $500,000 purchasing original works of art from 120
participating artists.

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Way back before Music Inc. took
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manufactured blondes and Ken-doll
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Note Ropers
What do you have when you combine an orthodontist,
accountant, an apartment service manager and Upstate
business owners of Sign South and R & U Alarm Company?
Greenville’s very own Honkabilly band, The Note Ropers. If
this is your first introduction to The Note Ropers, you are
cheating yourself to one FUN, swinging & toe tapping great
time. You’re also missing OLD SCHOOL country twang with
influences from some of the finest including Elvis, Hank
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Faron Young, just to name a few, that seem almost extinct
in today’s music scene. Somehow I was lucky enough to
get an afternoon with Don Hunt, Chris Harrison, Chris Craft
& John Ervin (Mike Bagwell was MIA) to drink some ice
cold adult beverages and learn The Note Ropers’ story.

While having a good time is this band’s top priority, they

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The Note Ropers owe all of their success to their friends and fans and the
gratefulness and humbleness exudes from all 5 members.
In the past 18 months, these guys have gone from tossing
around the idea of playing some music, buying a bass off
ebay, traveling to Nashville and falling in love with honky
tonk and bringing it back to Greenville to create a one of a
kind local sensation. Each member brings a bit of
eclecticism to make The Note Ropers one of a kind and
stand out from the rest. Chris Craft (vocals and writes
music) was in a high school band called Blue Highway;
Don Hunt plays the guitar and is one of the music writers;
Mike Bagwell provides the twang with the steel guitar;
Chris Harrison plays the bass he bought off Ebay and
taught himself to play; and John Ervin, who has been a
drummer with several upstate bands – along with playing
with Train - has designed and rocked their spinning drums.
The guys like to throw in some washboard, have the fever
for some cowbell & also some steel drums – and just for
added measure they wear the infamous
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 Presently, this very family oriented band has only played
shows around the Upstate – including their upcoming
shows April 16th at The Azalea Fest in Pickens (daytime)
and The Handlebar that evening. To date, their greatest
opportunities have been to headline Palmetto Music’s
1965 Benefit For Haiti and being a presenter at
TedX Greenville 2011.

Like I’ve said before, The Note Ropers are a band you’re
going to want to see and experience very soon. I truly
believe that they are the goods for Greenville and could
become quite well known throughout the country. The
image they portray brings back the REAL feel of country
and a bit of nostalgia for anyone that was a part of that
era that’s slowly disintegrating. More than anything that I
learned through an afternoon of hanging out with the
band, The Note Ropers are a hilarious, gracious, lively
and talented group of musicians that are not looking for
stardom -although it wouldn’t be such a bad thing- but
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At TEDx Greenville, which I recently attended (along with 400

of my best friends) it’s easy to walk away inspired. After all, that’s
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With TED, you learn that each speaker holds
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say based on how they look or what they do
for a living or how old they are.

And you think you know this, but then you

are reminded every 15 minutes. And for
me, the most unexpected surprise this
year— at least for me — was Greenville
Parkour. Imagine five or six young guys
jumping and and running and hopping
all over walls and canopies and chairs and
beams. It was the most beautiful thing I
had seen. (Don’t know what it is? Stop here
and find “parkour” on Google or YouTube. I’ll
wait…)

See, I’m not uneducated when it comes to the art

of parkour…it’s something I’ve found interesting for
years, watching video clips online and just reveling in
the fantastical art that it is. But it’s always something done
in California. In New York. In Germany. In London. But
never in Greenville. Never.

I grew up in Greenville.We’re not that cool.We’re not that

trendy. Or at least…maybe…we weren’t. But the fact that
Greenville is now “cool” enough to have parkour literally
brings me to tears.

We really have come so far, even as recently as the past 15

years. Isn’t it great that we can celebrate that? Isn’t it cool that
Greenville is “cool”? But even better than that…and this is
what is so exciting…these guys—young as they are—are poised
to take charge and inspire future generations.

See, you don’t end up at TEDx without having a message. You

don’t end up there without the ability and capacity to inspire
people. Sure, these guys may be running and jumping around like
jack rabbits, but the truth is…they are the future.

And that is the coolest thing ever.

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Fête Greenville Facebook page each month.

And, lastly, factor in that Fête is an online media sponsor of:

The Peace Center Pedal Chic’s “Avant Garde Fashion Show”
The Warehouse Theater TEDx
The Greenville Chamber of Commerce the Xperience
Downtown Alive and Main Street Friday Pulse
Greenville Forward and a few others to come…
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The Children’s
Museum of
the Upstate

for ages 21+

Tickets, $20 each.

THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE

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Upcoming Events
April 9, Catawba Saturday Follow
Upcountry History
Music & Tour with Monty Branham Museum
Noon - 2:00 pm

April 14, History After Dark

Voices Through the Clay:
Catawba Oral History
7:00 pm

April 19, An Evening of Classical Guitar

for Supporting Members
7:00 pm

April 30 & May 1,

Springwood Cemetery Tours
6:00 or 8:00 PM
April 30 - Furman University’s
Connections to Springwood with
Dr. AV Huff
May 1 - An Overview of the
Cemetery with Debbie Spear

May 11, Lunch & Learn

“Shoeless” Joe at the
Intersection of History and
Nostalgia
Noon - 1:00 pm

May 14, Catawba Saturday

Catawba Cultural
Preservation Project
Noon - 2:00 pm

June 17, Greenville Chic:

A Thirties Affair
7:00pm

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Peace Center

A Lesson Before Dying is a story about Jefferson, an innocent young

man, condemned to death in a small town in Louisiana in 1948.
As he struggles with his sentence and his sense of self-worth, his
godmother asks a bright young schoolteacher to teach him to
face his inevitable death with dignity and honor. As execution
day draws near, the teacher, Grant Wiggins, faces his own trials
and tribulations in trying to find hope and meaning in an
otherwise senseless, uncivilized act that he is powerless to
prevent. A Lesson Before Dying promises to be one of the most
emotionally gripping, thought-provoking shows Upstate
theatre goers will ever experience.

The stellar cast includes Greenville favorite Clark Nesbitt

as Reverend Moses Ambrose, Asheville-based actress
Becky Stone as Emma Glen, and returning to South
Carolina to play the role of Grant is Aiken born and New
York City based actor Calvin Thompson. Other cast
members include Ashley Adams as Vivien, Jeff Warren as
Sheriff Guidry, Peyton Hray as Deputy Paul and Shawn
Simmons as Jefferson

Tickets: $25.00 for Adults // $24.00 for Seniors (65 and

older) // $15.00 for Students and Children
Group rates available.

Call the Warehouse Theatre Box Office to

reserve your tickets now:
864-235-6948

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21 East Coffee St.
Greenville, SC 29601
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Corner Pocket
Taproom

Appetizers
Nachos Tortilla chips topped with shredded cheese, black
olives, sour cream, lettuce, diced tomato, jalapeno and picante
sauce. Smothered with your choice of seasoned beef or hickory
Wings
smoked chicken. 7.50 Dipped in one of our
delicious sauces or spices
Basket O’Rings Large portion of our hand-battered onion
rings served with a spicy dipping sauce. 4.75 Mild | Hot | Turbo
Loaded Skins Topped with shredded cheddar cheese, Cajun | Habanero | BBQ
green onions, crumbled bacon and fresh sour cream. 7.25
Hot BBQ | Roasted Garlic BBQ
Mozzarella Sticks Lightly fried golden brown and Teriyaki | Hot Teriyaki | Thai
served with our marinara sauce. 5.95
Lemon Pepper | Honey Mustard
Bleu Cheese Chips Our tavern chips topped with bleu
cheese crumbles and served with dipping sauce. 4.95
10 Wings ....... 7.99
Chicken Tenders (6) Battered and deep fried strips of 20 Wings ..... 14.99
chicken breast served with honey mustard dipping sauce. 7.95 30 Wings ..... 21.99
50 Wings ..... 34.99
Queso Dip White Queso served with tricolor chips. 5.95

Buffalo Shrimp Fried shrimp dipped

in our wing sauce. 7.95

Sausage & Cheese Platter 7.25

Red Pepper Hummus with pita chips 5.95

april’s essential shows Visit our web and Facebook pages

for the latest live music info
Every Tuesday
Greg Payne
Friday, April 8
Wolfman
Saturday, April 9
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Firethorn
Until I was 18 – all four Grandparents lived in North Augusta and The Masters was in our blood.

As a child, I sat beside the bunker across from Sarazen’s bridge with my Granddad Spivey on the 15th
hole – all day. He taught me to appreciate the art, patience and honor of golf as the players jousted with
this storied bit of land. Granddad Johnson walked me around Amen Corner and regaled me with tales of
Hogan and Jones as if they talked with him regularly.

I learned to adore this quiet church. I carry the sounds of their voices and the whirl of the wind through
the pines in my mind. Every hole is a scene in my dreams and Jack plays each stroke as my hero. I can
close my eyes at this very moment and sense myself willing his shot closer to the hole.

Having my family’s folklore so intertwined with this hallowed place gives me a canvas on which to paint
some of my fondest memories.
I learned greatness on these grounds and humility.
I saw excitement and wonder on a most perfectly groomed stage.
I could tell which roar was from which hole and who had caused it.
…was it Jack?
…it was an eagle, I know!

There really are Bear tracks all over 16.

I fell in love for the first time at the Masters. I fell in love again there 15 years later. I used to look for both
of them in the crowds until a few years ago.

In the ‘80s I would strive to attend only on Fridays so I would be able to follow Jack in case he missed
the cut. I would follow him anywhere. In ’86 I strolled the course with him - enthralled that he would
make the cut. I knew I would possibly see him on TV over the weekend. I cried while he was on the back
nine that Sunday. I saw glory.

Jack is long retired and the urge for me to go to this wondrous place is mostly gone now. Except for a
few trips with my buddy Chip – I just want to keep the dream as it was.

My childhood came to an end in 1986 as my dreams were fulfilled and I will remember my heroes until
my last breath – my two Granddads and Jack.

I learned it all at Firethorn and wandering Amen Corner.

Robert Redford narrates this dream and Rae’s Creek runs through it.

It is spring.

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Fête-Worthy Links from the Publisher

Straight Up With Sturg

Mark Sturgis has started his own
radio show on Saturday mornings
at 11am on 104.9. Wanna know
ACC and SEC sports? Tune in.
“But Then” - Jeff Sumerel’s latest installment in
his video project. Take a look!

Go visit my buddy Kelly Odom at

The Pickwick Pharmacy & Soda Fountain
at 3219 Augusta Street • Phone: 864-277-4180 • www.thepickwick.net

Find them on Facebook too!

~ Your neighborhood pharmacy and soda fountain ~

Lace up your Walking shoes May 14 for the Upstate Kidney Walk
WALK TO HELP SOMEONE TAKE A LIFESAVING STEP
Saturday, May 14, hundreds will gather at CU-ICAR off of I-85 near Greenville
to fight kidney disease and call attention to the need for organ donation.

Friday, April 29th 5pm to 10pm

Wadah Khanfar
A Historic Moment in the Arab World
As a democratic revolution led by tech-empowered young people sweeps
the Arab world, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, shares a profoundly
optimistic view of what’s happening in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and beyond —
at this powerful moment when people realized they could step out of their
houses and ask for change.
The Reedy River Jazz and Wine Festival was designed to soothe the soul
and excite the palate. All at the same time. The beautiful, relaxed setting of
the Peace Center Amphitheater provides the perfect backdrop to kick back
and enjoy some of the finest regionally and nationally acclaimed musicians
as they put their passion on display. Add in delectable foods, amazing wines
and a worthy cause, and you have a jazz festival Upstate audiences can
really embrace, and help support and grow for years to come.
www.reedyriverjazzandwinefestival.org

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of Downtown Greenville