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March 2023
Coffee with the Curator
Grab your coffee and join us Wednesday, March 15, at 10:30 AM for Coffee with the Curator in our Great Hall! For the start of a new season of Coffee with the Curator, join Earl Scruggs Center Assistant Director and Curator Zach Dressel for a first look at the Cleveland County Historical Collection’s most recent acquisition, the Shelby Star archives. Bring along your favorite memories of the longest running newspaper in Cleveland County history to share alongside former Shelby…
Find out more »Center Stage Concert Series: Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley
Thursday, March 23 6:00 PM $30 Click here to purchase tickets to Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley. Limited season passes are available. - Click here to purchase season passes to Center Stage Concert Series 2023. - A Center Stage Concert Series season pass includes a ticket to each show, a drink ticket for each show, and a commemorative concert poster. Add preferred seating to your season pass for access to the best seats in the house. Limited numbers…
Find out more »African American Storytelling featuring North Carolina Association of Black Storytellers
Saturday, March 25 2:00PM - 3:30PM FREE Family Friendly Event Click here to reserve your spot! The North Carolina Association of Black Storytellers, Inc., NCABS, promotes and perpetuates the art of Black Storytelling, an art form that embodies the history and cultures of Africans and African Americans, especially those in North Carolina. NCABS preserves, protects, and passes on the historical truths, folklore, legends, myths, and fables important to African American traditions. NCABS members represent the entire…
Find out more »April 2023
Center Stage Concert Series: Bill & The Belles
Thursday, April 13 6:00 PM $25 Click here to purchase tickets to Bill & The Belles Cash bar will be available. About Bill & The Belles: Happy Again isn’t exactly happy. But the delightfully deadpan new album from roots mainstays Bill and the Belles is full of life, humor, and tongue-in-cheek explorations of love and loss. Out May 21, 2021 on Ditty Boom Records (distribution and promotion by Free Dirt Service Co.),…
Find out more »Coffee with the Curator
Interested in historic textile production? Join Zach Dressel (Earl Scruggs Center) and Dr. Natalie Bishop (Gardner Webb) as they take a look into how textiles were made at the time of the founding of Cleveland County. Dr. Bishop will demonstrate early textile making techniques and Dressel will exhibit pieces from the Cleveland County Historical Collection from the 18th and 19th centuries including quilts, blankets and clothing alongside the tools that would have been used to make them. Grab your coffee…
Find out more »Pickin’ at the Pavilion with the Henhouse Prowlers
Shelby, NC 28150 United States + Google Map
Hey Shelby, come get yourselves a serving of high octane, internationally-influenced Bluegrass music when the Henhouse Prowlers come to the Bobby Bell Pavilion on Thursday, April 20! FREE CONCERT! Come out from 6 pm – 8 pm for music, food trucks, and more. About the Artists: The Henhouse Prowlers are Bluegrass Ambassadors. Founded over 16 years ago with the simple desire to play original and powerful bluegrass, this quartet now finds themselves at the intersection of…
Find out more »May 2023
SOLD OUT – Coffee with the Curator
Shelby, NC 28150 United States + Google Map
It's time to enjoy the outdoors for our upcoming Coffee with the Curator event. Join Earl Scruggs Center Assistant Director Zach Dressel and special guest Joe Depriest on a tour of historic Sunset Cemetery. Be prepared to learn the stories of some of Cleveland County’s most famous (and infamous) citizens while visiting their graves. To take part in the tour, please register in advance and meet at the front gate of the cemetery (between the Boys and Girls Club…
Find out more »Educational Presentation by Jake Blount
Wednesday, May 24 6:00 PM FREE As part of the Jagged Path exhibit programming series, the Earl Scruggs Center presents a special educational program led by Smithsonian Folkways recording artist Jake Blount. A skilled educator, Blount frequently gives lectures and presentations pertaining to both his original research and the history of Black string band music. For this program, he'll dive into the influences of African culture on America, from the rhythms we still recognize today to the creation…
Find out more »Center Stage Concert Series: Jake Blount
Thursday, May 25 6:00 PM $25 Click here to purchase tickets to Jake Blount Cash bar will be available. About Jake Blount: A powerfully gifted musician and a scholar of Black American music, Jake Blount speaks ardently about the African roots of the banjo and the subtle, yet profound ways African Americans have shaped and defined the amorphous categories of roots music and Americana. His 2020 album Spider Tales (named one of…
Find out more »June 2023
The Blue Healers – Tribute to Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
Shelby, NC 28150 United States + Google Map
On Saturday, June 10, at 3pm join us on the court square as Sandy and Phil pay tribute to the music of Blues duo Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. Pull up your lawn chair and enjoy Blues music made popular by Terry, who began his musical journey here in Cleveland County. This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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