Koger Center for the Arts
March 2019
Live in the Lobby: JAZZ! Celebrating Marian McPartland
Located in the cool elegance of our Grand Tier lobby level, the Koger Center for the Arts in partnership with ColaJazz proudly presents a unique and exciting evening of intimate jazz music. This inaugural concert featuring The Mark Rapp Group will celebrate Marian McPartland, jazz pianist and composer. Jazz trumpeter and founder of ColaJazz, Mark ... Read more
Find out more »June 2019
A Midsummer Night’s Swing
A Midsummer Night's Swing featuring The Mark Rapp Group This event is FREE and open to the public! FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: Live in the Lobby: Koger Center Jazz This summer solstice jazz event in celebration of international Make Music Day will take place in the Koger Center for the Arts lobby. WINE TASTING Featuring a ... Read more
Find out more »August 2019
Dave Koz & Friends Summer Horns
In a career that spans more than three decades, saxophonist Dave Koz has racked up an astoundingly impressive array of honors and achievements: nine GRAMMY® nominations, nine No. 1 albums on Billboard’s Current Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, numerous world tours, playing for multiple presidents, a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and more. Now, ... Read more
Find out more »September 2019
Beyond the Neighborhood: The Music of Fred Rogers
Featuring Grammy-nominated pianist, Kevin Bales Fred McFeely Rogers - the cardigan-wearing, sneaker-shod, quintessentially gentle Presbyterian minister known as Mister Rogers on the awards-winning children's TV show that aired for nearly 35 years - also wrote the songs he sang on his program. He wrote a lot of songs, and he wrote them well. As a ... Read more
Find out more »October 2019
Jazz for Young People – Middle School
In partnership with the Communities In Schools of the Midlands, ColaJazz and the Koger Center, our ColaJazz Quintet will present an informative "Jazz for Young People" concert on Monday morning, October 21. The lucky middle shoolers will learn about the history of jazz, improvisation, communication, how jazz works, jazz's place in America's social development and ... Read more
Find out more »November 2019
Celebrating SC Jazz Culture featuring ColaJazz Little Big Band
The Koger Center for the Arts is proud to introduce the inaugural season of Live in the Lobby: Koger Center Jazz. The second concert of the series will take place on November 8, 2019 at 7:30 pm. Join the Koger Center and ColaJazz as we journey through the vibrant and diverse history of jazz music ... Read more
Find out more »January 2020
Beethoven & Blue Jeans- Two Performances!
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Records from a Vanishing City BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 in F Major, op. 68 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67 In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, we will have *two performances* of the Beethoven & Blue Jeans concert. Saturday, January 11 at 7:30 p.m. sponsored by Dominion ... Read more
Find out more »Beethoven & Blue Jeans- Two Performances!
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Records from a Vanishing City BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 in F Major, op. 68 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67 In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, we will have *two performances* of the Beethoven & Blue Jeans concert. Saturday, January 11 at 7:30 p.m. sponsored by Dominion ... Read more
Find out more »Live in the Lobby | Koger Center Jazz with Dante Lewis
Live in the Lobby • Koger Center Jazz with Dante Lewis Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - 7:00 p.m. A Mid-Week Smooth Jazz Social with Dante Lewis Featuring saxophonist, Dante Lewis Join us for a mid-week smooth jazz social on Wednesday, January 15th at 7:00 p.m. featuring Dante Lewis, a professional smooth jazz and R&B saxophonist ... Read more
Find out more »February 2020
Great Gatsby Ballet World Premiere
The “roaring twenties” and glory days of jazz return in Columbia City Ballet’s world premiere production of Great Gatsby, featuring live music by Mark Rapp. Based on the great American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, this sumptuous creation by William Starrett will illuminate the indulgent lifestyle of the east coast’s nouveau rich in one of ... Read more
Find out more »Great Gatsby Ballet World Premiere
The “roaring twenties” and glory days of jazz return in Columbia City Ballet’s world premiere production of Great Gatsby, featuring live music by Mark Rapp. Based on the great American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, this sumptuous creation by William Starrett will illuminate the indulgent lifestyle of the east coast’s nouveau rich in one of ... Read more
Find out more »September 2020
LIVEstream: Amos Hoffman
Streaming LIVE from the beautiful Koger Center stage, it's jazz guitar sensation Amos Hoffman. In this very special and rare solo appearance, Amos will present the best of jazz standards and originals. AMOS HOFFMAN (pronounced AH-mus) is an Israeli Jazz Guitarist & Oudist known worldwide as a pioneer in fusing the rhythms and melodic themes ... Read more
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