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Saturday August 20-27

Art Class: Cigar Box Guitars

Saturdays, August 20 and 27 | 12:30 – 4:30 p.m.

SOLD OUT Build your own cigar box guitar in this two-day workshop in celebration of More Than Rhythm: A Black Music Series Featuring Adia Victoria. Learn how to design your own headstocks and sound holes, then assemble and string your creation. Taught by Anthony Walker of Southpaw Cigar Box Guitars, which crafts guitars using modern materials and techniques rooted in old blues traditions of creating musical instruments from whatever materials were available.
Friday August 26

6:00 pm

More Than Rhythm: A Black Music Series Featuring Adia Victoria

Friday, August 26 | Galleries and bar open at 6:00 p.m. | Conversation at 7:00 p.m. | Concert at 8:00 p.m.

More Than Rhythm returns for its second season with a special performance from South Carolina native and globally recognized blues musician Adia Victoria. On break from her world tour, Victoria joins host and ethnomusicologist Dr. Birgitta Johnson to discuss her journey as an eclectic 21st-century blues artist before taking the stage with guitarist Mason Hickman. Free.
Thursday December 08

6:00 pm

More Than Rhythm: A Black Music Series Featuring Nicole Neely and The Black Exchange

Thursday, December 8, 2022 Galleries and bar open at 6:00 p.m. | Conversation at 7:00 p.m. | Concert at 8:00 p.m.

Violinist-arranger-composer-conductor and Columbia, S.C., native Nicole Neely joins us for a concert celebrating the impact and influence of Black composers and musicians in American classical music. Neely and her string quartet, The Black Exchange, perform a range of pieces showcasing the diversity of today’s art music scene.
Thursday February 02

7:00 pm

More Than Rhythm Listening Party

As part of Free First Thursday at the CMA and in celebration of Black History Month, enjoy a funk and soul listening party with DJ Lady Marauder spinning vinyl records that were the backdrop and heartbeat of the Black Film Renaissance of the 1960s and ’70s.
Friday February 03

7:00 pm

More Than Rhythm: A Black Music Series Featuring The Mahoganëë Xperience

Friday, February 3, 2023 Galleries and bar open at 6:00 p.m. | Conversation at 7:00 p.m. | Concert at 8:00 p.m.

Mahoganëë is a South Carolina Lowcountry soul musician whose unique style, deemed “Funky Organik Soul,” is a blend of Southern soul, funk, jazz, blues, and hip-hop with African and Caribbean influences created by her husband, music producer André Amigér.
Thursday February 16

6:00 pm

More Than Rhythm Film Screening: Soul to Soul

In March 1971, dozens of African American musicians traveled from New York City to Accra, Ghana, to perform at the Soul to Soul concert. Ultimately, the journey was about their personal roots, ancestral homeland, and history.
Thursday February 23

6:00 pm

More Than Rhythm Film Screening: Claudine

Praised for showing a new dimension in Black cinema during the height of blaxploitation, Claudine deftly balances warm humor with a serious look at the myriad issues — from cycles of poverty to the indignities of the welfare system — that shape its characters’ realities.
Friday June 23

6:00 pm

More Than Rhythm: A Black Music Series Featuring Dom Flemons

Friday, June 23, 2023 Galleries and bar open at 6:00 p.m. | Conversation at 7:00 p.m. | Concert at 8:00 p.m.

Dom Flemons — GRAMMY Award winner, two-time EMMY Award nominee, and 2020 United States Artists Fellow — joins us for the series finale of More Than Rhythm: A Black Music Series. Flemons has branded himself with the moniker “The American Songster” since his repertoire covers over a century of early American popular music. In the pre-show conversation, series host Dr. Birgitta Johnson and Flemons discuss his passion for storytelling through old-time music, his experiences with the award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, and his current projects that champion the Black contributions to American folk music.