Lowcountry Jazz Band to play free concert
The 18 piece Lowcountry Jazz Band is presenting a free concert, “A Tribute To The First Lady Of Song: Ella Fitzgerald,” at 4 p.m., Sunday, May 25, at the Church of the Palms at 1425 Okatie Highway in Okatie.
Featured vocalists are Mary Manges and Josh Hamilton. The concert features Big Band classics that Ella loved and recorded solo and with Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong: “Cry Me a River,” “Dream a Little Dream of Me,” “Fly Me to the Moon,” “The Lady Is a Tramp,” “Sweet Georgia Brown,” “What a Wonderful World” and Ray Charles’ rousing duet of “America.”
Book-signing event for ‘Questionable Behavior’
Lowcountry resident Larry Chewning will be holding a signing event for his new book, “Questionable Behavior,” from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Friday, May 23 at the Beaufort Bookstore.
Chewning’s book is a collection of short stories about college life in the South in the 1970’s. Many of the stories are humorous and many are heart warming stories of survival in the environment of “work hard and play hard.”
From epic parties and college romance to pulling all-nighters, these stories will resonate with anyone who attended college in the South and belonged to a fraternity or sorority. “If you grew up in the South during the mid-twentieth century you can relate to this story,” Chewning said.
