So, with thanks to presenters who've shared their events/seasons with us, we now have 270 listings for Nov., 116 for Dec., 57 for Jan., and 83 for Feb.. (The count is 1,314, total, from now to forever.) This is OK for now but surely there's more going on throughout all of NC so please don't hesitate to send well in advance - indeed, please send WHOLE SEASONS when you announce them to your own patrons. This lets us get them done for you and that means you get even more exposure for your offerings from their presence in this statewide calendar. Thanks for continuring to work with us. PS Please CHECK your listings in our calendar from time to time, to make sure they're still current and accurate - and to make sure we have everything we ought to have to help YOU promote your events!
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Performing Arts Events
1391 Events (viewing events 1 through 25)
Charlotte -- Tue., Jan. 21, 2020 at 7:00 PM
Charlotte Symphony Orchestra: CSO On Tap
Performed by Charlotte Symphony; Christopher James Lees, conductor
We're back On Tap at NoDa Brewing Company! Unwind with an evening full of great music, craft brews, and a lot of fun. Plus, a takeaway and beer on us. Cheers to that!
$15
Winston-Salem -- Tue., Jan. 21, 2020 at 7:30 PM
UNC School of the Arts: Bridging the Gap
Robert Young, saxophone, M. Maxwell Howard, piano and Timothy Sullivan, drum set, perform groove-oriented music aiming to blur the lines between classical and jazz. Join us for a concert full of new and creative music.
$20 Regular/$15 Student with valid ID
$20 - $15
Chapel Hill -- Tue., Jan. 21, 2020 at 7:30 PM
UNC Chapel Hill Department of Music: Keith Coons
Keith Koons and Donald Oehler, clarinet, and Steve Chicurel, piano. Music by Richard Rodney Bennett, William O. Smith, Louis Cahuzac, Gary Schocker, and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Free
Greenville -- Tue., Jan. 21, 2020 at 7:30 PM
East Carolina University School of Music: CANCELLED: Faculty Artists: John Kramar and Eric Stellrecht
Cancelled due to illness.
A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall. -- 252-328-6851 , http://www.music.ecu.eduFree and open to the public.
Winston-Salem -- Wed., Jan. 22, 2020 at 6:00 PM ( Wed., Jan. 8, 2020 - Wed., Jan. 29, 2020 )
Mixed Doubles: Tandem Lectures on Unrelated Topics
During each event of the 8-part series, the two speakers featured each evening will each present for 20 minutes on their topic, without making any references to the other speaker or topic. This will be followed by a 15-minute combined Q&A period during which anything can occur. We encourage the audience to get adventurous... Read More
THIS FREE SERIES begins January 8 at the Central Downtown Library (Jan 8, 15, 22, 29th) then moves to Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) on Thursdays (Feb 6, 20, 27, and Mar 5th). Programs start promptly at 6 pm, and social mingling begins at 5:30.
Free and open to the public.
Davidson -- Wed., Jan. 22, 2020 at 7:00 PM
Davidson College Music Department: Charlie Chaplin’s The Cure
Performed by Ethan Uslan, piano
Join ragtime pianist, raconteur, and three-time winner of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest Ethan Uslan as he accompanies Charlie Chaplin’s 1917 silent film The Cure.
Free and open to the public.
Free and open to the public.
Raleigh -- Wed., Jan. 22, 2020 at 7:00 PM
North Carolina State University: Timothy Holley in Recital
$5 NC State Students, $10 NC State Faculty/Students at other universities/Seniors (60+) $12 General admission
Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre. -- 919-515-1100 , https://artsnowseries.wordpress.ncsu.edu/2019-2020-season/$12 - $5
Chapel Hill -- Wed., Jan. 22, 2020 at 7:30 PM
Carol Woods Retirement Center: Jeanine and Friends
Performed by Jeanine Wynton, violin, Seth Horner, tuba and Grace Lin Anderson, cello.
Unterkagner Landler for Violin and Tuba, Jan Koetsier
Sarabande from Cello Suite #5, Bach
Blues in F for Unaccompanied Tuba, Michael Nickens
Duo for Violin and Cello, Zoltan Koda'ly
Passacaglia in G Minor for Violin and Cello; J. Halvorsen and G.F. Handel
Free
Charlotte -- Wed., Jan. 22, 2020 at 7:30 PM ( Thu., Jan. 16, 2020 - Sat., Feb. 8, 2020 )
Actor's Theatre of Charlotte: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Philadelphia, 1959. Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances, a riveting portrait of the lady and her music mere months before her death.
Thursday, January 16 @ 7:30 - Pay What You Can Night
Friday, January 17 @ 8:00 PM - Preview, 50% Off
Saturday, January 18 @ 8:00 PM - Preview, 50% Off
$
Blowing Rock -- Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 at 11:00 AM
Blowing Rock Art and History Museum: Scholars & Scones: Hugh Morton's Living Legacy, Grandfather Mountain
Museum Hours: Tue-Sat 10a-5p; closed Mondays Sun 12-4p (May-Oct)
Blowing Rock Art & History Museum. -- 828-295-9099 , http://www.blowingrockmuseum.org$5 nonmembers, free for members
Winston-Salem -- Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 at 6:00 PM
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA): Alix Hitchcock: Natural Response Opening Reception
Alix Hitchcock’s colorful art on paper works range from gelatin plate monotype prints, encaustic wax monotype prints, to collages made from monotype prints. Hitchcock mines her relationship to the natural environment through compositions of humans, birds, sea animals, and tree forms. Many of the pieces' abstracted... Read More
Free and open to the public.
Hickory -- Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 at 7:00 PM
Lenoir-Rhyne University: Abigail DeWitt
The author of three novels, including The Boston Globe bestseller Dogs, Dewitt’s work is described as engrossing and ambitious by The New York Times. Her most recent novel, News of Our Loved Ones, was named an Editor’s Choice by both BookBrowse and the... Read More
Hickory -- Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 at 7:00 PM
Lenoir-Rhyne University: Abigail DeWitt, Visiting Writer-in-Residence
Abigail DeWitt, Visiting Writer-in-Residence
Free
Charlotte -- Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 at 7:00 PM
Davidson College Music Department, Steinway Piano Gallery: Chad Lawson
89.9 WDAV announces "Four Days of Steinway," a collaborative concert series presented through a partnership with Steinway Piano Gallery of the Carolinas and Free Range Brewing. Running Thursday, January 23 through Sunday, January 26, the event will feature a different performer and style of music each day, each integrating a... Read More
Free and open to the public.
Charlotte -- Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 at 7:30 PM ( Sat., Jan. 18, 2020 - Sat., Jan. 25, 2020 )
Opera Carolina: La Bohéme
Before the Broadway blockbuster Rent, Puccini brought the starving artist trope to exquisite life in La Bohème. Jonathan Larson’s musical about artists, squatting in squalor, was inspired by his love for Puccini’s opera. The characters in Rent are dying from AIDS. In La bohème,... Read More
$22+
Raleigh -- Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 at 7:30 PM ( Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 - Sun., Jan. 26, 2020 )
Sweet Tea Shakespeare: MacBeth
Macbeth, Shakespeare’s classic tale of ambition, legacy and evil, tells the story of the would-be king of Scotland and his wife, as they encounter witches, plot murders, and brew trouble on their way to the throne. Directed by actor, director, lyricist, and stage veteran KP Powell (American Shakespeare Center,... Read More
Advance tickets for performances: $17.50 general admission, $15 seniors/military, $10 student
Tickets at the Door: $25
$25 - $10
Raleigh -- Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 at 7:30 PM ( Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 - Sun., Feb. 9, 2020 )
Burning Coal Theatre Company: Talley's Folly
Lanford Wilson’s beautiful and funny Pulitzer Prize winning 1980 play introduces us to Matt Friedman and Sally Talley, who come together, for better or for worse, in a gazebo on a river bank in Missouri in 1944. The New York Times called the play “… a valentine to a classic romantic ideal: two lost souls... Read More
$
Winston-Salem -- Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 at 7:30 PM ( Fri., Jan. 17, 2020 - Sun., Jan. 26, 2020 )
The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem: Science Fiction Double Feature: Two Plays by Ray Bradbury
The evening will include performances of two of Bradbury’s one-act plays: Kaleidoscope, a space adventure featuring a crew of six dealing with their own mortality, and Pillar of Fire, a futuristic horror story.
$15
Charlotte -- Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 at 7:30 PM ( Thu., Jan. 16, 2020 - Sat., Feb. 8, 2020 )
Actor's Theatre of Charlotte: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Philadelphia, 1959. Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances, a riveting portrait of the lady and her music mere months before her death.
Thursday, January 16 @ 7:30 - Pay What You Can Night
Friday, January 17 @ 8:00 PM - Preview, 50% Off
Saturday, January 18 @ 8:00 PM - Preview, 50% Off
$
Wilmington -- Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 at 7:30 PM ( Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 - Sat., Jan. 25, 2020 )
North Carolina Jazz Festival: North Carolina Jazz Festival
The North Carolina Jazz Festival Celebrates 40 Years of World Class Jazz in Wilmington
One of the oldest jazz festivals in the country, the North Carolina Jazz Festival, will celebrate its 40th anniversary in January. This 3-day event, held in the ballroom of the Hotel Ballast (formerly The... Read More
Ticket prices are Thurs. $40 general admission, Fri & Sat. $60 g/a. Each night $25 military, $15 students. Patron tickets are $200. and include Fri. & Sat. evening concerts plus our special patron brunch at 10:30 Sat. morning, where the all-star musicians will play and socialize with our patrons, then... Read More
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Greenville -- Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 at 7:30 PM
East Carolina University School of Music, North Carolina NewMusic Initiative: The Wavefield Ensemble
Pauline Oliveros’ 4 Pieces for Orchestra and Pierre Boulez’s Dérive 2
Free and open to the public.
Raleigh -- Thu., Jan. 23, 2020 at 8:00 PM ( Fri., Jan. 17, 2020 - Sun., Feb. 9, 2020 )
Raleigh Little Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Performed by Patrick Torres, director
Fifteen-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain; he is exceptionally intelligent but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion for killing his neighbor’s dog, he sets out to identify the true culprit, which leads to an earth-shattering discovery and a journey that will change his life... Read More
Sensory-Friendly Performance: February 9, 3:00pm. Sensory-friendly performances include modifications designed especially for individuals with autism spectrum disorders, sensory sensitivities, or other disabilities. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will be RLT’s sixth production to include a... Read More
$
Durham -- Fri., Jan. 24, 2020 at 4:00 PM
Duke University Department of Music: Musicology Lecture: Kelsey Klotz
Kelsey Klotz from UNC-Charlotte presents on “Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness”
Free
Blowing Rock -- Fri., Jan. 24, 2020 at 4:00 PM ( Fri., Jan. 24, 2020 - Sat., Jan. 25, 2020 )
Blowing Rock Art and History Museum: Cork & Canvas: Winterfest
Advance registration required; 2 dates available.
Museum Hours: Tue-Sat 10a-5p; closed Mondays
Sun 12-4p (May-Oct)
$45 nonmembers, $40 for members
Chapel Hill -- Fri., Jan. 24, 2020 at 4:15 PM
UNC Chapel Hill Department of Music: CSMC Lecture: Dr. Nina Eidsheim
Dr. Nina Eidsheim (University of California, Los Angeles)
2019-2020 James W. Pruett Lecture in Music and Culture
Free
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