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…