Folk music is as popular as ever — and for good reason. With its beautiful instrumentation and powerful lyrics, the genre instantly transports you to the countryside and makes all your worries melt away.
Five Points celebrated St. Patrick's Day with its 42nd annual festival, which brings in crowds from all over the Southeast. It featured its largest lineup of musicians, including Lawrence, The War and Treaty, Futurebirds, Sister Hazel and Conner Smith.
Many historic religious buildings in Columbia have stood against the test of time and have grown and expanded with the city. With the growth of these churches, their history has expanded as well. Members of some of Columbia's oldest churches shared that each of the church's structures help tell its story.
Psychedelic rock has been around since the '60s, and with its unique form of style, it reflects feelings of a drug-induced state. While it's associated with the hippie movement, anyone can vibe with these energetic songs.
The Koger Center for the Arts' newest exhibit, "Joyous Creatures," features artwork from Â鶹Сòòò½´«Ã½ professor Marius Valdes. Valdes' art style is brightly colored and comic-like, and he said his goal for the exhibit is to spread joy and inspiration.
Schoolwork might make you want to live a different life filled with action and adventure. Grunge and rock songs that might remind you of a certain bat-like vigilante can make you more energetic on your walk to class.
Colleen Clark, an assistant professor of Jazz Studies at Â鶹Сòòò½´«Ã½, was invited to perform with "Late Night with Seth Meyers" 8G band. Playing on the late-night show has given Clark the opportunity, she said, to not only represent herself but to represent the University of South Carolina and its Jazz Studies program on a large, national platform.
Announcing its largest line-up to date, St. Pat's in Five Points unveiled national and local acts for its upcoming festival in March. Headline performances include artists such as Lawrence, The War and Treaty, Futurebirds, Sister Hazel and Conner Smith.
The Rockin' Resolutions Fundraiser Sunday night at The Senate, a concert collaboration between Â鶹Сòòò½´«Ã½'s School of Music and the Â鶹Сòòò½´«Ã½ Music Industry Studies program, aims to support the future of Music Industry Studies students with a festive night of rock-and-roll.
Built in 1911, McMaster College has a long history with the university and is the current home of the School of Visual Arts and Design. As the building has grown older, many students said facility issues are a inconvenience and make them feel overlooked compared to other schools.
The Â鶹Сòòò½´«Ã½ wind ensemble performs its iteration of New Morning for the World by Joseph Schwantner at the Kroger Center on Feb. 10, 2023. The ensemble is conducted by Cormac Cannon, the director of bands and a professor at the Â鶹Сòòò½´«Ã½ School of Music.
Fourth-year music student Deshawn Stevents (left) and first-year graduate music performance student Alyssa Santivanez (right) narrate quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Â鶹Сòòò½´«Ã½ wind ensemble's performance of Joseph Schwantner and Nikk Pilato's piece "New Morning for the World" at the Kroger Center on Feb. 10, 2023. The wind ensemble is currently on tour in Georgia, with its final show at the University of Georgia on Feb. 15, 2023.