live performances
Davidson Community Players will perform Disney’s Frozen Jr. at Cain Center
Oct. 12. Davidson Community Players (DCP), one of Charlotte’s top theatre producing organizations, will mount two of its 2024 shows at Cain Center for the Arts. DCP’s first show at Cain Center will be Disney’s Frozen Jr., which will run from Jan. 25-27, 2024. Adapted from the beloved 2013 movie, this one-hour version of the […]
Boos & Brews is looking for writers
Aug. 16. Are you a writer, frustrated or otherwise? Davidson Community Players‘ seventh annual “Boos and Brews” festival is all about horror-ific short plays conceived for a small stage. If you’ve got zombies in your oeuvre—or scary stories with pumpkin ale—this is the right place to tell your most ridiculously macabre story as quickly as […]
Cain Center announces fall schedule
June 16. The Cain Center for the Arts has announced its fall schedule, which includes a wide range of artists and genres. The new seasons launches with a performance by Nashville star Canaan Cox on Aug. 25, followed by stand-up comic Mike Goodwin on Sept. 9. There will also be a Lake Norman Songwriter Showcase […]
Charlotte Symphony performs Sunday at Cain
May 10. The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra will perform at the Cain Center on Sunday, May 14. The “uplifting and entertaining performance” closes out the inaugural season at the Cain Center. There will be a variety of works by Dvořák, John Williams, Duke Ellington, & more. Doors open at 12:30 pm, with the show starting at […]
Sundown concerts are back
May 3. Three of Mecklenburg County’s Park and Rec “Sundown Sounds” concerts will take place at Ramsey Creek Beach, on June 2, July 7 and Aug. 4. The free concerts will run from 7 pm to 9 pm with food and beverage vendors on site. Here’s the full schedule: Friday, June 2–Sahara Reggae Band at […]
Choir of Clare College will perform at Davidson UMC
April 3. Davidson United Methodist Church will host the Choir of Clare College from Cambridge, UK for a concert on April 17 at 7:30 pm. Their Rolling River program celebrates some of the greatest choral music to have emerged from America in the last century, including a piece from North Carolina native Caroline Shaw, the […]
‘Breach of Peace’ performance is Friday at Cain Center
Feb. 22. There will be a performance of “Breach of Peace: Stories of the Freedom Riders of 1961” this Friday at the Cain Center for the Arts. Based on true accounts of surviving participants of the Freedom Rides as well as many other individuals involved in the early struggle for African-American equality. In 1961, Jean […]
Jesse Jones, a comic from Huntersville, will perform at Studio 13
Feb. 14. Jesse Jones, a popular comedian who lives in Huntersville with his wife and two children, will do a stand-up show at Studio 13 in the Oak Street Mill downtown on March 10. The show will start at 8 pm with opening acts Drew Harrison and Julie J. The UNC-Charlotte art major has been […]
Davidson College Symphony Orchestra concert features Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony Feb. 16
Feb. 10. Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy who made his concert debut at the age of 10. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he became a church organist, first at Saint-Merri, Paris and, at the ripe old age of 23, at La Madeleine, the official church of the French Empire. You can hear Saint-Saëns’s […]
