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Third Thursday Art Night: Christopher Lane
About This Show
As a member of the Vista Guild, the Koger Center for the Arts partnered with The Jasper Project to open a new rotating art space, titled The Nook, in celebration of Third Thursday Art Night. This month’s featured artist in The Nook is Christopher Lane.
Artist Bio,
Christopher Lane uses fantastic imagery to turn life experiences into visual stories that primarily focus on people and their relationships with one another. Lane is passionate about social justice to protect the environment and inhabitants of our planet, and paints about both as one can’t exist without the other. Employing flora and fauna, his paintings often feature historical, political, or spiritual narratives as he is passionate about these subjects. He is a modern surrealist and storyteller. Each painting can usually be broken down into several scenes yet are cohesive in theme. He uses vivid colors, lush symbolism, and double imagery to illustrate divisive topics, allowing viewers to see them through a new, perhaps…
Admission Cost: Free Admission.
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
Koger Center Upstairs Gallery.
Musical Feast
Join us for the 2025 Musical Feast at the Koger Center for the Arts, where the building will come to life while showcasing our students’ talent. Sip wine and nibble hors d’oeuvres, prepared by local restaurants, from the main stage to the lobby with musical performances as varied as the locations. Move among the percussion, jazz, opera, strings and vocal musicians and delicious food displays as you meet new friends and catch up with old ones. Dawndy Mercer Plank, former WIS news anchor, will serve as emcee for the evening.
Proceeds from the evening directly impact our students’ academic lives by raising funds for scholarships. Help our students achieve their dreams of making a difference in the world through music by purchasing a ticket today!
Koger Center of the Arts.
Admission Cost: $125 per person, $200 per couple, $75 young professionals (ages 21-30 with ID).
Saturday, May 17, 2025, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
Koger Center for the Arts.
Live in the Lobby Jazz: Don Braden - Billy Strayhorn Reimagined
About This Show
Created as a partnership between the Koger Center for the Arts and the ColaJazz Foundation, Live in the Lobby 2025 will consist of seven concerts held throughout the Koger Center facility. Join us to experience this one-of-a-kind series designed for audiences seeking premier jazz and specialty experiences in an exceptional setting.
Don Braden is known around the world as an exciting and interactive jazz soloist, a creative and prolific composer, a passionate and energetic educator and as a specialist at arranging and performing classic popular songs in the modern jazz style.
Having spent years as the saxophonist with greats like Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard and Roy Haynes, he has developed an extensive knowledge of every aspect of Jazz performance.
Billy Strayhorn was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades. His compositions include “Take the ‘A’ Train”…
Admission Cost: $30 - $37.
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
Koger Center Upstairs Gallery.
Palmetto Concert Band
The USC Concert Band is comprised of professional and semi-professional musicians from throughout South Carolina, and with members also from North Carolina and Georgia. A majority of the ensemble’s members are alumni of the University of South Carolina School of Music, and more than half of its members are public school band directors. These experienced performers, who receive no compensation for participating, choose to play with the ensemble because of their passion for making music and performing outstanding repertoire composed or transcribed for the wind band.
This performance, honoring members of the U.S. Armed Forces, is at Koger Center for the Arts. Free and open to the public.
Admission Cost: FREE.
Sunday, May 25, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Koger Center Auditorium, See Description for Event Location.
The Music of Hans Zimmer and Others - A Celebration of Film Music
Experience “The Music of Hans Zimmer and others – A Celebration of Film Music”! The best film music from Dune, James Bond, The Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lion King, Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar, and many other top productions – in a breathtaking concert event with The Hollywood Film Orchestra, choir, star soloists, and selected film sequences – as well as illumination and laser projection. Dive into the musical cosmos of Hans Zimmer!
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Admission Cost: $29.95 - $101.90.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
Koger Center Auditorium.