Scott Kirby’s “Main Street Souvenirs”, a musical and visual journey through 150 years of American music and memory, will be Jan. 22 at the University of South Carolina Aiken Etherredge Center.
Through live piano performance, narration, and film, Scott Kirby brings to life the sounds and stories of Classic Americana, featuring works by American masters such as Stephen Foster, John Philip Sousa, and the ragtime genius of Scott Joplin, according to a news release.
Kirby’s performance is accompanied by a video collage of archival images, striking contemporary photography, and his own evocative watercolor paintings of the Great Plains—artworks praised for their ability to “touch the soul of the heartland.”
Audiences will be transported to baseball games and barbershops, prairie churches and one-room schoolhouses, concerts in the park and everyday moments that defined life on Main Street.
Kirby has recorded the complete rags of Scott Joplin and appeared at major ragtime festivals across the United States and abroad, including performances in Belgium, France, Norway, New Zealand, and Hungary. He has served as musical director for the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia, Missouri, the Rocky Mountain Ragtime and American Music Festival in Boulder, Colorado, and as director of the San Juan Islands Ragtime Institute.
He has been hailed by Time magazine as an “ace pianist,” has released 25 recordings, and has composed more than 150 original works.
Tickets are $20 for the general public, $15 for senior citizens, military, and USCA faculty and staff, and $5 for students. Tickets may be purchased online at etherredgecenter.universitytickets.com or in person at the Etherredge Center Box Office, 340 Scholar Loop. For more information, call (803) 641-3305.
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