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The JazzArts Music Camp is an exciting one-week comprehensive music training program for rising middle and high school students ready to discover America’s original art form: JAZZ. Students will be immersed in an intensive jazz curriculum and have the opportunity to interact and play with other motivated young musicians from across the Charlotte region.
The JazzArts Music Camp experience includes: small combo performance, jazz improvisation, faculty concerts (each afternoon), jazz history and listening, jazz theory (basic to advanced), composition, master class instruction on bass, drums, guitar, piano, saxophone (all woodwinds), trombone and trumpet, and student jam sessions. All instruments are welcome, including vocals.
In addition, each summer, we are thrilled to bring in a renowned national jazz musician to spend a day one on one with students. There will be a culminating community concert performance on Friday evening, the last day of camp.
Need- and merit-based scholarships are available. Registration is open now through June 8 2023. For more information and to register, contact the JazzArts Charlotte at www.thejazzarts.org or call 704-334-3900.
Thanks to Akers Foundation, Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, North Carolina Arts Council, Arts & Science Council. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Knight Foundation, South Arts, UNC Charlotte, the Infusion Fund, Ford Foundation, and Alice T Walton Foundation for their support of this program.

Get ready for the next edition of our community concert series, OneBand, hosted in partnership with the amazing humans at Charlotte is Creative! Enjoy a mini concert performed by a group of local musicians, as well as a special guest performer or two throughout the night! It's totally free to attend, and the amazing StrudelTeig Food Truck will be serving dinner during the event!

Presented by Epoch Tribe with Levine Museum of the New South and Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, The Men Inside is a live, on-stage production that honors the paths of Black men who have become change-makers in their community. Inspired by the exhibition Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth., the show shares deeply personal stories and open-hearted truths of Black men in Charlotte.

It’s a full-on display of the emotional and interpersonal journeys, as well as a beautiful and bold theatrical exploration of the hearts and minds of real Black men. Through the stories of a few, we see connections to many.

On Saturday, March 25, 2023, Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center will host its 4th annual Communication Counts timed 5k race and Kids Dash at McAlpine Creek Park in Charlotte. All registrants will receive a t-shirt and 5k racers will also receive a race medal.

This event will raise critical funds that provide access to superior speech-language and hearing services that empower and transform lives to anyone in need in our community.

Artist Associate in Piano Cynthia Lawing presents a program of music based on religious themes. Most of his life, Franz Liszt embraced two worlds, secular and spiritual, and this performance highlights his works that reflect his innermost ecclesiastical yearning.

Free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.

Expect the unexpected from comedy to thrills, circus artists and dancers will entertain in this cabaret-style, PG performance for mature audiences. Enjoy gravity-defying aerial acts and tantalizing dance featuring breakdancing, contemporary dance, Cyr Wheel, Aerial Straps and much more on February 17-19 at the Booth Playhouse.

Expect the unexpected from comedy to thrills, circus artists and dancers will entertain in this cabaret-style, PG performance for mature audiences. Enjoy gravity-defying aerial acts and tantalizing dance featuring breakdancing, contemporary dance, Cyr Wheel, Aerial Straps and much more on February 17-19 at the Booth Playhouse.

Expect the unexpected from comedy to thrills, circus artists and dancers will entertain in this cabaret-style, PG performance for mature audiences. Enjoy gravity-defying aerial acts and tantalizing dance featuring breakdancing, contemporary dance, Cyr Wheel, Aerial Straps and much more on February 17-19 at the Booth Playhouse.

Expect the unexpected from comedy to thrills, circus artists and dancers will entertain in this cabaret-style, PG performance for mature audiences. Enjoy gravity-defying aerial acts and tantalizing dance featuring breakdancing, contemporary dance, Cyr Wheel, Aerial Straps and much more on February 17-19 at the Booth Playhouse.

The Gold Standard Chorus, Charlotte's premier men's a cappella group, is preparing to deliver Singing Valentines. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and our SV project is an important fundraising activity.

Friday, Jan. 27 Charlotte Regional Farmers Market will be hosting Meat Soup Day from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. January is National Meat Month and National Soup Month. What better way to celebrate than combining those two things and hosting a Meat Soup Day? Four Charlotte Regional Farmers Market vendors will be sampling different meat soups made from their chicken, beef and even crab. Come enjoy a savory chicken soup from All Natural Farms, two tasty beef soups from S & J Produce and Rockraven Farms, and a comforting crab soup from BB’s Homemade Krab Kakes. These meat soups are sure to warm you up and put a smile on your face with how mouth-wateringly excellent they are. Stop by to enjoy the tastes of the Charlotte Regional Farmers Market.

After sampling some delicious soups, you may want to make some yourself. This is an excellent place to purchase local ingredients for your meals, in-season produce and products for gifting. The Charlotte Regional Farmers Market is open Wednesday through Sunday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. year-round; This can become your weekly food shopping location!

The Charlotte Regional Farmers Market is one of four, state-operated farmers markets located across North Carolina. It is located at 1801 Yorkmont Rd, Charlotte, NC 28217. For more information visit www.charlottefarmersmarket.com or follow them on Facebook.

Horrible bosses make life miserable in a variety of ways, but when the doofus in charge is the President of the United States, the stakes of maintaining workplace sanity are even higher. In Selina Fillinger’s savage, riotous POTUS, a group of unwitting heroines, ranging from the Chief of Staff to the mistress to the First Lady herself, must keep the toxic office culture of the White House from tipping into international disaster. Will they grab a little power for themselves in the process?

Directed by Stephen Kaliski with an all-star cast of Charlotte actors, POTUS skewers the proud American tradition of feckless male leadership while also hinting at a better way forward.

The recent Broadway premiere starred Vanessa Williams, Lea DeLaria, and Rachel Dratch. Critics called it “a delicious feminist farce” (Variety) and “a breath of fresh air on Broadway…The likelihood that you will laugh until your face hurts is one of near certainty.” (Entertainment Weekly). It closed in August 2022, making this Charlotte staging one of the first regional productions.

This new cast includes Jennifer Adams, Marla Brown, Iris DeWitt, Sarah Molloy, Iesha Nyree, Katy Shepherd, and Valerie Thames. The show will be designed by Chip Davis (scenic), Ashleigh Poteat (costumes), Gordon Olson (lighting), and Matt Sherwin (sound and compositions), with Allison Collins and Sarah Provencal as fight and intimacy choreographers. Carrie Cranford will serve as production manager, and Kathryn Harding will stage manage. Savannah Deal and Marla Brown are the producers.

Contains strong adult language. Recommended for ages 17+.

Charlotte, NC Water Lantern Festival is coming up on July 8, 2023!
Voted #1 Best Cultural Festival by USA Water Lantern Festival TODAY two years in a row!
Water Lantern Festival is a floating lantern event that is all about connections. Magical nights in cities across the U.S. include food, games, activities, vendors, music and the beauty of thousands of lanterns adorned with letters of love, hope and dreams reflected upon the water.
As the sun begins to set on the evening sky, the Water Lantern Festival begins to shine with the launch of the lanterns onto the water as we Light The Water together. Watch your unique lantern drift out into the water as it joins other lanterns carrying hope, love, happiness, healing, peace, and connection. It's a night that you'll never forget.
Tickets are selling fast!
Visit www.WaterLanternFestival.com for more details.

Matthews Playhouse of the Performing Arts, known for its popular theatre education programs and live performances for young people, has announced its School of Theatre acting class schedule and student performance dates for the upcoming 2022-2023 school year.

Students will come to class one day a week starting the week of September 12 and continuing through February 10, 2023. Class dates and times vary, please see schedule. Each week students will build on material learned in class. Participating students will eligible to audition for the following Spring 2023 School of Theatre productions:

THE CHOCOLATE WAR- March 17-18, 2023

SCHOOL DAYS- March 18, 2023

MISS NELSON IS MISSING- March 18-19, 2023

MATILDA JR.- March 24 -25, 2023

ZOMBIE PROM- March 25-26, 2023


Parents who want to learn more about the School of Theatre classes and/or register their children may do so by going to www.matthewsplayhouse.com/classes222. Anyone who registers before August 12, 2022 will receive $20 off their class registrations.

The Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room and the Allegra Westbrooks Regional Library proudly present Dr. Sonya Ramsey, who will discuss her new book, Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership. Dr. Maxwell-Roddey was the first black principal in a former white only school in Charlotte. She was the founding director of UNC Charlotte’s Africana Studies Department and in 1974, she cofounded the Afro-American Cultural and Service Center, now the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Art & Culture. Maxwell-Roddey founded the National Council for Black Studies. To register: https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/63d053173bc3f33600935061

The Lake Norman Orchestra proudly presents a free concert at the beautiful St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Davidson, NC. Since 2002, the 35-member full orchestra has been providing quality music and opportunities for community member musicians to perform. Their conductor, Mr. Samuel A. Kyzer, leads the "all volunteer" group in performing a wide variety of music including classical favorites, pop favorites, and music from film and theater. Selections to be performed at this event include:
“William Tell Overture” by Rossini
“Flute Concerto in D major” by J.C. Bach
“Armed Forces Salute” by Bob Lowden
“Motown Medley”
Mrs. Stephanie Holly is our vocal soloist on three selections and Mrs. Karen Franks will be our soloist on the Flute concerto.

The Lake Norman Orchestra proudly presents a free concert at the beautiful Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in Cornelius, NC. Since 2002, the 35-member full orchestra has been providing quality music and opportunities for community member musicains to perform. Their conductor, Mr. Samuel A. Kyzer, leads them in performiong a wide variety of muisc including classical favorites, pop favorites, and music from film and theater. Selections to be performed at this event include:

"Bachannale" (from "Samson and Delilah) by Camille Saint-Saens
"Lake Dance"
"Motown Medley"
"Willliam Tell Overture"
"Led Zeppelin Reunion"
Soloists include vocalist Mrs. Stephanie Holly and flute soloists Mrs. Karen Franks.

This weekend is the opening of the civil rights drama, CADILLAC CREW, the second play in the Hickory Community Theatre’s Firemen’s Kitchen Series. Performances are Friday and Saturday, Feb 17 and 18, at 7:30pm and Sunday, Feb 19 at 2:30pm. For tickets visit hickorytheatre.org or call the box office at 828-328-2283.

Join the Charlotte Pride Band as we kick off our 2023 Performance lineup with our first concert of the new year, titled "Journey". Through the incredible vision of our Artistic Director, John Stanley Ross, and Assistant Artistic Director, O'Shae Best, "Journey" will feature triumphant, adventurous, and atmospheric arrangements that are bound to move you! We are honored to also feature Jacob Lipham, Principal Timpanist of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra.
We'll be performing in CPCC's Parr Center Theater at 1201 Elizabeth Ave. in Charlotte.
Ticket Information: This is a free admission event.

Join us, meet some new friends and unwind at the end of a busy work day. It's our monthly Chamber Social at Chamber Member Dave and Buster's in Pineville. Come as you are and have a great time. Preregister to get your first drink free. There are also complementary appetizers. Register below for this free event. We'll print you a personalized name tag that you can pick up at the door.

Free appetizers provided by Dave & Busters!