2006
- The 2006 Festival was a great success with artists' performances including
the great jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis who performed a riveting performance to a
sold-out crowd! The audience couldn't stay in their seats! Other highlights
of the Festival included a Gershwin On Broadway evening, the Nashville Mandolin
Ensemble, BlueRidge and another starlit performance by the Long Bay Symphony.
Bill Pinkney & The Gospel Drifters kicked off the series with another
children's performance (Cinderella) by the Enchantment Theatre Company. Dr.
Lorin Mason was inducted into the Festival of Fame and thousands enjoyed the
many great concerts at Brookgreen!
2005
- This year marked two significant changes in the Festival: a new location
and new dates. We moved to beautiful Brookgreen Gardens for the month
of October, which worked well on both fronts. Many say it was the most
successful Festival yet, with Music of the Generations as our theme,
highlighting the music from the 40's (In the Mood Live), the 50's (Let
the Good Times Roll - Dance Sounds from the 50's) and the 70's (The
Piano Men). World-renowned jazz with Branford Marsalis, the Flamenco
Vivo Carlota Santana Spanish Dance Company, Bluegrass at Brookgreen, the
Long Bay Symphony Orchestra, our first Children's Theater featuring
Pinocchio, the Miami String Quartet and our annual Pawleys Island Wine
Festival rounded out Festival 2005.
2004
- Art, stage plays, literature, dance and of course, wonderful music, all
combined for a remarkable fourteenth season of the Festival. September
2004 will be long remembered, not only for its weather challenges, but
for the sell-out performances of headliner Delbert McClinton and Rocky
Fretz playing Andrew Lloyd Webber.
2003
- The 2003 festival was a landmark season with the festival moving to its
11,000 square foot performance venue. A sell-out performance by Grammy
award-winning jazz legend Chuck Mangione headlined the year, along with Grammy
award-winner, The Nashville Bluegrass Band. The nationally acclaimed Richmond
Ballet and the Long Bay Symphony Orchestra added dramatic classical programs to
the month-long festival.
2002
- The 2002 festival featured a new and expanded look at the visual arts in the area by joining with six wonderful galleries in the Trolley Art Crawl. Dance returned to the line up as well. The music selections covered chorale, beach music, jazz, symphony, bluegrass, gospel and spiritual.
2001
- The Sound of Music: With the debut of our own Pops Orchestra, a Caberet, a Choral performance, a diverse African-American program and Musical Theatre, we launch the second program of the new millennium.
2000
- In the year 2000, the Festival of Music & Art celebrated its tenth anniversary with "Horizons 2002." Six musical programs were offered, as well as two visual arts programs and a theatre performance.
1999
- The 1999 Festival, "Celebrating the Century," offered eight musical programs that provided a retrospective look at the top musicians of the twentieth century.
1998
- The 1998 Festival of Music and Art's theme was "An American in Pawleys," programs dedicated to the American way of music. Seven musical programs explored this theme.
1997
- 1997 saw the beginning of Pawleys Island Pizazz, a series of free musical programs. Overall, seven programs were offered during the 1997 Festival, two of which were held at Brookgreen Gardens.
1996
- The 1996 Festival of Music and Art at Pawleys Island was comprised of four musical programs ranging from classical to African American spirituals. The spring of 1996 saw the first Youth Musicfest.
1995
- 1995's Festival offered five musical programs, and the spring of 1995 saw the beginnings of Youth Musicfest.
1994
- The 1994 Festival of Music and Art at Pawleys Island offered three musical programs, an art exhibit, a theatrical performance, and a second viewing of the documentary of Miss Ruby Forsythe.
1993
- In 1993 the event became known as The Festival of Music and Art at Pawleys Island. 1993's Festival included 6 musical programs, an art exhibit, a theatrical performance, and the premiere of a documentary film.
1992
- In 1992 the event became known as the Autumn Music Festival and consisted of two programs: "Eine Kleine Nachtmusick" and "Moravian Church Music."
1991
- "Eine Kleine Nachtmusick," a Mozart Bicentennial Celebration, is the beginning of what will be known as the Festival of Music & Art at Pawleys Island.
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