A once-in-a-lifetime compilation of Gullah songs and stories collected on St. Helena Island becomes a lavish concert of modern jazz and chamber music for Spoleto Festival USA 2024. “Lowcountry: South Carolina Music in the Gullah Tradition” premieres June 2 at the College of Charleston Cistern Yard, a culmination of years of archival documentation and the first orchestral iteration of the 2023 album “Lowcountry.”

With the staging of “Dark Noon” during this year’s Spoleto Festival USA, theater lovers can experience another plane where cultural identities fold in on themselves to evoke a story that is as true as it is strange. “Dark Noon” takes place at Festival Hall in downtown Charleston on May 31, June 1 and June 2. 

Spoleto Festival USA typically doesn't allow kids at performances. That is changing with one show this year featuring Lightwire Theater in a showcase of "The Ugly Duckling."