Spoleto Festival USA breaks five-day sales record

Despite a down economy and a scaled-back slate of offerings this year, early ticket sales for Spoleto Festival USA have been surprisingly strong, officials say.
Within the first five days of opening for sales, the festival sold 17% more than in the same period in 2006, the festival’s strongest year to date for sales.
“We’re buoyed by [...]

Spoleto Finale

2008 Spoleto finale guaranteed to be something to celebrate
By Wevonneda Minis
Orchestra to perform at Middleton Place’s Butterfly Lakes for first time in 10 years.

Hip-Hop History at Spoleto

Multimedia trip through hip-hop history
By Rob Young (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Thursday, May 29, 2008
One could describe Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s “the break/s” as a mix tape for stage, the charted course of hip-hop over continents and generations.
Joseph does. He also calls it “a dream journal,” as he guides audiences across Planet Hip Hop.

Umi Vaughn
Mark Bamuthi Joseph [...]

Spoleto Starts Today….Tips on the Festival

Friday, May 23, 2008

The Post and Courier
This year’s Spoleto and Piccolo Spoleto festivals begin today, opening our annual 17-day season of fine-arts immersion. It’s more culture than any individual can hope to absorb, and you’d have to be independently wealthy and blissfully idle to score tickets to all the festival highlights. So how do you [...]

2008 Spoleto Poster

Richard C. Hagerty
2008 Piccolo Spoleto Official Poster Artist
Richard Hagerty (Artist-Surgeon), a self-taught artist, paints from a vast reservoir of dreams, his store of personal imagery suffused with the infinite memories, symbols, and archetypes of the collective unconscious. Attenuated since childhood to the power of dream and myth, the notion of the shadow self, and the [...]