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Live Music in SC

• South Carolina Bands - Popular music
• South Carolina Bars
• South Carolina Beach Music History
• South Carolina Bluegrass Guide - Bands, festivals, pickin' parlors
• South Carolina Orchestras and Symphonies
• South Carolina Wedding Music and Bands
• South Carolina Band Link - High school bands
  

SC Music Organizations

• Musicians & Songwriters Guild of South Carolina
• South Carolina Entertainment and Music Hall of Fame
• South Carolina Music Hall of Fame Initiative
• Southeastern Bluegrass Association of SC - SEBGA

SC Music Retail Resources

• SC musical instruments
• SC music lessons
• SC record stores
• SC recording studios

SC Songs

• SC Soundtrack - Compilation of songs spanning seven decades of music either by SC artists or about our state
  
• SC State Songs - Do you know South Carolina has two state songs?
  
  

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Music Festivals and Events in SC

• Aiken Bluegrass Festival
• Albino Skunk Bluegrass Festival - Greer
• Apple Valley Bluegrass Festival - Long Creek, Oconee County
• Black History Parade and Gospel Soiree' - Columbia
• Carolina Downhome Blues Festival - Camden
• Charleston Beach Music and Shag Festival
  
• Columbia Blues Festival
• Conductors Institute of South Carolina - Columbia
• Congaree Bluegrass Festival - Cayce
• Downtown Blues Festival - Rock Hill
• Five After Five - Columbia concert series
• Greenwood Music Festival
• Jammin' in July - Camden
• Juilliard in Aiken
• Lowcountry Blues Bash - Charleston
• Mozart in the South - Charleston
• Music & Oysters For Wildlife - Awendaw
• Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que Bluegrass Festival - North Augusta
• Pawleys Island Festival of Music and Art
• Piedmont Blues and Hash Bash - Abbeville
• RenoFest Bluegrass Music Festival - Hartsville
• Rhythm on the River Concert Series - West Columbia
• Softshell Crab Fest and Lowcountry Blues Festival - Port Royal
• South Carolina BBQ Shag Festival - Hemingway
• South Carolina Jazz Festival - Cheraw
• Southern Exposure New Music Series - USC Columbia
• Spittoono - Clemson
• Sumter at Six Concert Series
• Vista After 5 - Columbia concert series

Famous Muscians, Bands, and Singers from SC

• James Brown - "Godfather of Soul" - singer
  
• Maxine Brown - Soul singer
• Cravin' Melon - Rock - no longer together
• John Birks Gillespie - "Dizzy" - trumpeter
  – Memorial - Cheraw
  
• Hootie and The Blowfish - Rock
  – Darius Rucker - Country singer
  
• Jenkins Orphanage Band - Jazz - no longer exists
• Etta Jones - Jazz singer
  
• Eartha Kitt - Singer
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• Marshall Tucker Band - Southern rock
• Linda Martell - Country-western singer
  
• Edwin McCain - Rock
  
• Thales Thomas "Skipp" Pearson - Jazz legend
  
• Bill Pinkney - Singer for "The Drifters"
  
• Sarah Reese - Opera singer
  
• Rootdoctors - Rock
• Marlena Smalls - Gospel singer