What's Going On In Charleston

Melanie Fiona
2025-05-02 20:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Charleston Music Hall
Charleston Music Hall Presents:Melanie Fiona: Say Yes Tour
Friday, May 2, 2025Doors 7:00PM | Show 8:00PMAll Ages
Tickets $30 | $80 for Boxes | ALL RESERVED SEATING
Tickets available at CharlestonMusicHall.com or at the Charleston Music Hall Box Office open Thursday – Friday from 10AM to 3https://bit.ly/CMHJoinNewsletterInstagram: www.twitter.com/CHSMusicHallTikTok:

Blue on the River Music Fest
2025-05-25 15:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Riverfront Park, 1061 Everglades Avenue, North Charleston, SC 29405, North Charleston, SC, 29405, US
Join us for the southeast premiere all white party/music fes at the beautiful Riverfront Park featuring Tweet +803Fresh + Live in the Flesh

Join us for the southeast premiere all white party/music fest, outdoors at the beautiful Riverfront Park Featuring Tweet, Mr. “Boots on the Ground” 803Fresh, Live in flesh band, Tribute to Frankie Beverly & Maze by Tommy & more! There will be food trucks, DJ’s, Bars and more!

Cash Money Millionaires
2025-06-12 23:00 - 2025-06-13 01:00 UTC
Dope Shows Presents Cash Money Millionaires 30th Anniversary Show featuring Birdman, Juvenile, Mannie Fresh, B.G., and Turk.

Matt Rife
2025-06-22 00:00 - 02:00 UTC
NO CELL PHONES, TEXTING, PHOTO, VIDEO, OR RECORDING DEVICES OF ANY KIND DURING THE SHOW. FAILURE TO ADHERE WILL RESULT IN EJECTION. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION!

R&B Picnic & Cooler Festival
2025-09-13 16:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | 3100 Amphitheater Ave, 3100 Amphitheater Avenue, Hanahan, SC 29410, Hanahan, SC, 29410, US
Join us for our springtime kickback at the R&B Pinic & Cooler Festival for some adult fun, good vibes and good music.

We’re Back Outside Y’all! Saturday, September 13th Courtnay Nicole is back again to end the summer with the R&B Picnic & Cooler Festival!!! The name says it all! All the R&B hits you know and love curated by live DJs!
-Coolers and Picnic baskets welcomed ($25 fee)
-R&B Karaoke Cash Prize!!!
-VIP Picnic Packages Available!!!
Hookah Service, Food Trucks and Vendors will be available onsite!

2025 Winter Recital
2025-12-20 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Boulder Bluff Elementary, 400 Judy Drive, Goose Creek, SC 29445, Goose Creek, SC, 29445, US
Get ready to chill and thrill at the 2025 Winter Recital — live vibes and cozy tunes await!

Get Ready for the 2025 Winter Recital!
Join us in person for an awesome celebration of talent and music. It’s the perfect chance to enjoy live performances, connect with friends, and soak up some great vibes. Whether you’re coming as a performer or an audience member, the 2025 Winter Recital promises to be a fun and memorable event. Don’t miss out on the excitement!

The Great American Songbook featuring Joe Clarke
2026-04-02 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-09 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-16 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-23 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-30 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-05-07 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-05-14 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-05-21 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) and 3 more dates | Forte Jazz Lounge, 477 King Street, Charleston, SC 29403, Charleston, SC, 29403, US
Join us every Thursday for an amazing jazz set performed by Charleston’s best musicians. Joe Clarke sings the greatest Jazz Standards.

Forte Jazz Lounge presents an evening of vocal jazz from the Great American Song Book. Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, George and Ira Gershwin, Duke Ellington are just a few of the composers represented in this night dedicated to the the Great American Songbook and the Vocalists that brought them to life for the past 80+ years. Artists like Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Bobby Darrin, Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Sarah Vaughn are all celebrated on Thursday Nights.
This evening Forte’s Owner and veteran Big Band vocalist, Joe Clarke will be entertaining you from 7pm-10pm.

Brett Belanger Trio - Instrumental Jazz Series
2026-04-08 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-15 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-22 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-29 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-05-06 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-05-13 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-05-20 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-05-27 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) and 3 more dates | Forte Jazz Lounge, 477 King Street, Charleston, SC 29403, Charleston, SC, 29403, US
Join us every Wednesday for an amazing jazz set performed by Charleston’s best.

Brett Belanger is a highly accomplished and sought after bassist. He leads this trio of A-list musicians, Abdiel Iriarte on Piano and Ron Wiltrout on Drums. They cover great American Jazz Standards as well as more contemporary material from the Bebop era. From time time, they include some of their own compositions. Come in for a relaxing night listening to great performances.

Shinyribs w/ Seth Walker
2026-04-28 20:30 - 2026-04-29 01:30 (America/New_York) | Charleston Pour House – Main Stage, 1977 Maybank Hwy., Charleston Pour House, SC 29412, Charleston Pour House, SC, 29412, US
Shinyribs brings swamp-funk soul to Charleston Pour House w/ Seth Walker – Main Stage, Apr. 28th, 2026. High-energy Southern grooves!

Shinyribs
w/ Seth Walker
Thursday, October 2nd 2025
Charleston Pour House
Main Stage
7:30 doors /8:30 show
$22 advance /$25 day of show

Shinyribs

We will maybe never know what Shinyribs is. Sometimes, it’s a sprawling multi-piece ensemble slapping the air until it grooves; sometimes he’s a somber subtle songwriter pouring poetry on the ground from a cup half full. Either way it’s always the house-party-meets-library that is, Kevin Russell.
Raised in Beaumont, TX, and Shreveport, LA—the cradle of swamp pop, Leadbelly, and bayou R&B—Russell distills those regional sounds into something both timeless and immediate, dripping from his fingers like honey, salt & fat. Think Texas Gulf Coast meets Muscle Shoals, songs carved and weaved by hand with a storyteller’s heart.
Shinyribs evolved from a solo residency Russell began under that moniker in the mid-2000s, after an incident in a Houston club, playing a private party for a group of welders where he bought a homeless woman a plate of ribs. “Her name was Roberta,” says Russell. “She was a high priestess of transistor radios and an almost forgotten music she called ‘Chilibump.’ For that plate of Ribs that night she gave me in return a name, Shinyribs and a road map to the mysterious big thicket sounds I had only heard of from old timers and time travelers.”
With Leaving Time produced by David Beck (Texan Weekend, Blue Healer), Russell parks the party bus behind the venue and sits in a lawn chair in the street lights with the bugs and a dingy moon. Joined by extraordinary bassist, arranger and co-producer, Mason Hankamer, keyboardist Jonny Keys (Uncle Lucius), drummer Dees Stribling and Mr. Beck singing gourd- like harmonies while handling multiple Instrumental touches, Leaving Time is a departure and an arrival showcase of Russell’s long evolution as a classic Texas songwriter. The songs reconnect with Russell’s literary roots, the folk and country influences that shaped his work with The Gourds, and the ever-present irreverence guiding his musical journey since his early years.
Kevin Russell – Shinyribs – invites you into his junkyard of juke, his shack of shakin’ souls, for a Sunday evening sit down, a slow sound for a sweet night. When the time is just right for Leaving, let ya mind wander into believing.
It’s Leaving Time.

Seth Walker

In the midst of recording his 12th album, wavering in his resolve to finish what he’d started, Seth Walker came to a realization. “This work does not define me. This is not who I am forever. This is just a moment.” No album is trapped in amber, no song is set in stone. Distance colors compositions over the years and each album is left as a reflection of its own period in time. This idea played a big part in shaping Why The Worry. Now, the other half of knowing is letting go; letting go of the worry about perception, the worry of over-preparation, and the worry that seeps in constantly from the news and noise of everyday life. Taking a page from Willie Nelson, Walker embraced the songwriter’s sage wisdom, “I’ve never seen worry accomplish anything… so I decided not to do it.” Truth be told, there aren’t many better oracles to hang an ethos on than brother Willie.
The new album finds Walker reunited with old friends and familiar names. Once again Jano Rix steps behind the boards, co-producing the album with Seth and engineer Brook Sutton.
In the producer’s fifth outing he’s become an invaluable sounding board, the kind who knows what’s missing and, just as importantly, what needs to be taken away. Oliver Wood (The Wood Brothers) lends a pen to the title track, and Seth’s classically trained father Scott adds strings to “I’m Getting Ready,” a song penned by Walker’s contemporary Michael Kiwanuka.
Mostly, though, the record was shepherded into shape by Walker’s trio, rounded out by longtime confidants Rhees Williams (Guitar, Piano) and Mark Raudabaugh (Drums). The three let the studio guide them, entering without agenda, set straight by the title’s mantra to stop worrying where they’d end up.
But worry always tries to creep in. It’s inevitable, isn’t it? The album was just about finished when Hurricane Helene hit Walker’s region in the mountains around Asheville, and as a result, the record almost didn’t see light. As catastrophe took shape and literal bridges were broken, the album’s importance wavered in Seth’s mind until the central theme came back into view. The worry wouldn’t undo any damage, and there was still service in song. There’s a telling nod in the album closing with Bobby Charles’ seminal ode “I Must Be In a Good Place Now.” Why The Worry is a spiritual reset, watching the sunrise over the mountains. It soaks in like warmth on the skin after a night of shivering in the dark.
Charles isn’t the only notable scribe among the track list, an even mix of Walker’s originals and a carefully curated crop of covers that rifle through the past and present. Setting the course are two gems from JJ Cale, whose sanguine saunter leans well into the album’s themes of amble and ease. Walker opens the album with the smoke ring sway of Bill Withers, turning the lights low for a gently funked rendition of “The Same Love That Made Me Laugh.” The groove grows deeper on Al Green’s “Take Me To The River,” putting a distinctly reclined feel on the soul classic. The breezy feeling extends to the originals as well, injecting a bit of Cale’s country funk into “Up On The Mountain,” soaking spring air and hope into “Supernatural Thing,” and melting nostalgia into meditation on “Midway Girl.”
Why The Worry follows a string of critically acclaimed albums from Walker, garnering praise from NPR to The Washington Post. He’s been found on the road with The Mavericks, The Wood Brothers, Raul Malo, Paul Thorn and Ruthie Foster among others. He recently penned “Moon and Stars” – the title track to The Mavericks new album, sung as a duet with Sierra Ferrell. Walker’s latest album Why The Worry is out on April 4, 2025 on Royal Potato Family.

* Show is 21+. Attendees under 21 must be accompanied by a parent & will be subject to a $5 surcharge. The surcharge must be paid in cash at the door on the day of the event.

The Light Show
2026-05-01 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Hobcaw Brewing Company
Mr. Enlightenment & Friends present….The Light Show. The brightest poetry show in the city.

An exciting, thought-provoking, night of poetry.
7:00-7:45 Enjoy 90’s Hip Hop/R&B while sipping some beverages from Hobcaw Brewing Company. If you’re hungry, there will be a rotating food truck on-site.
7:45-9:00 Poetry from Mr. Enlightenment & Friends
