NEW LOCATION

Edisto Civic Center Grounds - 42 Station Court, Edisto Island, SC 29438

This outdoor event is being held on Saturday, March 30th from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Don’t miss the original Edisto Art Guild - Arts & Craft Market that has been bringing artisans and crafters to Edisto for many years. TooGood Foods will have a food truck onsite.  Sponsored by Edisto Chamber of Commerce to benefit the Edisto Art Guild.

The Edisto Art Guild is excited to welcome back Theatre 99 to the Edisto Civic Center for our February 2024 program. Theatre 99 is located in Charleston, SC and offers several performances each week at their Meeting Street location. They perform improvised plays based entirely on audience suggestions. If you want to laugh and be entertained - we’ll see you there!

Social hour will start at 6:30 p.m. followed by the “Improv Comedy” performance.

Everyone is welcome! Free and open to the public.

We are pleased to present Edisto’s talented wildlife photographer, Ron Scroggy, at our January 2024 program.

Ron is in his “next chapter” on Edisto Island after a 40+ year career in executive leadership for child welfare organizations in Georgia. His retirement hobbies include wildlife photography, travel and being a “Papaw”.

His four decade professional career included being CEO of Inner Harbour Hospital, Georgia State Director for the Department of Family and Children Services (DFACS) and Executive Director of Together Georgia (trade association for children and youth services).

Ron has been married to Linda for 45 years, father to Jen (family lives in Atlanta) and Josh (family lives in Toronto). “Papaw” to Nyck (16), Landon (14), Matt (14), Essen (7) and Willow (5).

His current civic participation includes serving on the boards of Edisto Island Preservation Alliance (EIPA) and Edisto Beach Property Owners Association (EBPOA), Edisto Beach Town’s TIDE committee, Town of Edisto Beach Zoning Board of Appeals and volunteering at Botany Bay and the Turtle Patrol. He is also an active elder at Presbyterian Church of Edisto Island.

Ron says, “I always dabbled in photography but decided when I retired I needed a hobby that’d fill up more of my free time. Linda was glad I did!!”

 Ron’s photography has been featured in many places locally, and has placed and won awards including: Smithsonian Magazine’s 17th Annual Photo Contest & Scenic America’s 2022 America the Beautiful Photo Contest.

In 2022, Ron published a new book. His book, A Collection of Low Country Birds is available locally at the Edisto Book Store, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

“Sing-along with the Band”

Sips @ 6:30pm & Singing @ 7:00pm

Free and Open to the Public

Potluck Supper with members and guests

Social time from 6:30 to 7:00 pm

Brief business meeting at 7pm followed by meal

All are welcome - free and open to the Public

Edisto Island Concerts are approximately an hour in length without intermission. A light cookie and lemonade reception follows and the audience has the opportunity to meet the performing musicians and fellow audience members.
Tickets are $20 when purchased in advance or $25 at the door.

STILL Miniatures

BACH/VIVALDI Organ Concerto No. 2 in a minor, BWV 593

KLUGHARDT Wind Quintet in C Major, Op.79

Regina Helcher Yost flute l Kari Kistler oboe l Charles Messersmith clarinet l Sandra Nikolajevs bassoon l Debra Sherrill Ward horn

ARTISTS, ART LOVERS, OLD TIMERS, NEWCOMERS, and FRIENDS….

EVERYONE is invited to join the Edisto Art Guild to toast acquaintances old and new, enjoy an impromptu art exhibit and participate in an art supply swap. Refreshments will be served.

Art Exhibit: Painters, photographers, sculptors, authors, poets, hand crafters, and such: Bring one piece of your work to display. Include a business card (or make a card identifying yourself) to accompany your work. Space for showing your work will be available on both a gallery wall as well as on display tables.

Art Swap: If you have art materials you are no longer using and would like to participate in an art supply swap, bring your old goodies and take home something new-to-you.

Two events on Edisto Island honoring James Jamerson

August 19, 2023

4:30 pm - JAMES LEE JAMERSON MEMORIAL WAY - Sign Dedication at the Intersection of Hwy 174 & Steamboat Landing, Edisto Island

6:00 pm - A musical tribute at the Edisto Civic Center - 42 Station Court, Edisto Island

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Join us for an evening of live reggae, Sunday, August 13th at 7:00 at Bay Creek Park. Milele Roots is a Chattanooga, TN based reggae band and we are excited to welcome them to Edisto. For a sample of their music, click here

The Arts in the park concert series is sponsored by Edisto Art Guild, Edisto Chamber Of Commerce, and The Town of Edisto Beach. Admission is free! Bring your chairs or blankets and snacks and enjoy the show!

Join us for an evening of entertainment presented by Carlyle Griffin - local SC singer/songwriter/musician now pursuing her dream in Nashville. A featured article on Carlyle by Nick Tressler states: “Her voice lives somewhere between Stevie Nicks and Nora Jones and she knows how to captivate a crowd. Carlyle lists Stevie, as well as artists like Joni Mitchell, Susan Tedeschi, Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin, and Brandi Carlile as her musical influences.” sponsored by the Edisto Art Guild, Edisto Chamber Of Commerce, and The Town of Edisto Beach. Admission is free and Carlyle is amazing!

The JackTown Ramblers were such a hit when they performed in 2022 and we are SO excited to have them return! The JackTown Ramblers were formed as a group of like-minded acoustic musicians who want to create something just a little bit different. Performing bluegrass, string band, swing and gypsy jazz arrangements all in the same set provides an eclectic feel to their music.

The Arts in the Park concert series is sponsored by Edisto Art Guild, Edisto Chamber of Commerce and The Town of Edisto Beach. Admission is free! Bring your chairs or blankets and snacks and enjoy the show!

Edisto Island Concerts are approximately an hour in length without intermission. A light cookie and lemonade reception follows and the audience has the opportunity to meet the performing musicians and fellow audience members.
Tickets are $20 when purchased in advance or $25 at the door.

VIVALDI Chamber Concerto in D major, RV 90, “Il Gardellino”

BACH Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor BWV 1060r

IBERT Two Interludes for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord

TELEMANN Quartet in d minor from “Tafelmusik II” TWV 43:d1

Jenny Weiss, violin; Regina Helcher Yost, flute; Sandra Nikolajevs, bassoon; Julia Harlow, harpsichord

VENUE CHANGE: Edingsville Grocery & Restaurant

This outdoor event is being held on Saturday, April 8, 2023 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Don’t miss this popular bi-annual event that brings artisans with their original crafts to Edisto each Spring and Fall.  Sponsored by Edisto Chamber of Commerce to benefit the Edisto Art Guild.

 For vendor application or information call (843) 869-3867 or email: chamber@edistochamber.com

We are pleased to present the talented artist Mary Edna Fraser at our February program. This should be a captivating presentation combining art and environmental awareness.

The pioneering work of Mary Edna Fraser has been collected and exhibited worldwide. Her silk batiks and oil paintings range from panoramic to plein air. The common thread in her career of four decades is environmental awareness. Her art has supported the efforts of Charleston Waterkeeper, Coastal Conservation League, SC Environmental Law Project, Water Missions International, The Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Fund. Her blog, Delete Apathy, is a venue for activism, from local to global. NASA recognized Fraser as their Artist of the Year and she was featured demonstrating batik in DC at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The Verner Award was presented in 2016, South Carolina’s highest honor for an artist. Fraser has lectured internationally in Indonesia, Taiwan, and Australia. Venues such as the National Academy of Sciences, Duke University Museum of Art, and the National Science Foundation have hosted over 100 of the artist’s one-woman exhibitions. 

For more information on her work and her fascinating career, please visit her website at maryedna.com.

"A library could show you everything, if you knew where to look."—Pat Conroy, My Reading Life

The author of "The Prince of Tides," "The Great Santini" and "The Water Is Wide," Pat Conroy (1945–2016) is synonymous with the literature of the Lowcountry. Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt will discuss Conroy’s lifelong love of books and libraries—focusing on the roles public libraries, school libraries, and Pat's own personal library played in his writing life.

Through video and audio clips, photographs, and published and unpublished writings by and about Conroy, this presentation welcomes attendees into the book-filled world of one of America's most beloved writers.

This program also includes an overview of the Pat Conroy Literary Center which honors and continues Conroy’s legacy as writer and educator in his adopted hometown of Beaufort, South Carolina.

Free and open to the public, the program is co-hosted by the Edisto Art Guild and the Edisto Beach Library of the Colleton County Memorial Library, and sponsored by South Carolina Humanities, a not-for-profit organization inspiring, engaging and enriching South Carolinians with programs on literature, history, culture and heritage.

 About Our Presenter: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Conroy Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy, named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of "the top ten things to love about the South." Haupt’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier, Lowcountry Weekly, Beaufort Lifestyle, Savannah Morning News’ Beacon magazine, Southern Review of Books, and Southern Writers Magazine’s Suite T blog. He is co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, the recipient of seventeen book awards. He serves on the boards of the Friends of South Carolina Libraries and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. In 2020, Haupt was recognized with the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award presented by the Pulpwood Queens, the largest book club in the U.S.

The Edistonian General Store
406 Highway 174, Edisto Island, S. C.

This outdoor event is being held on Saturday, October 22, 2022 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Don’t miss this popular bi-annual event that brings artisans with their original crafts to Edisto each Spring and Fall.  Sponsored by Edisto Chamber of Commerce to benefit the Edisto Art Guild.

 For vendor application or information call (843)869-3867 or email: chamber@edistochamber.com

The Edisto Art Guild is bringing Theatre 99 to the Edisto Civic Center for the opening program of the Edisto Art Guild’s 2022-23 season.

Social hour will start at 6:30 p.m. followed by a short business meeting.

The performance by Theatre 99 Improv Comedy will begin after the Annual Business meeting.

Everyone is welcome! Free and open to the public!

PUCCINI Three Minuets for String Quartet

SCHUBERT Quartetsatz

HAYDN String Quartet in G Major, Op. 76, No. 1

With: Frances Hsieh and Jenny Weiss, violins; Ben Weiss, viola; Tim O’Malley, cello

Join us for an evening of live jazz, Sunday, August 14th at 7:00 at Bay Creek Park. Nolan Tecklenburg is a jazz pianist from Charleston with a love for New Orleans. He studied at Loyala University in New Orleans and while in the Big Easy he was able to craft his own sound through listening and playing with some of the best local musicians. He spearheaded a project called NuSpeak, which would go on to play at Tipitina’s and other local venues including Jazz Fest.

The Arts in the park concert series is sponsored by Edisto Art Guild, Edisto Chamber Of Commerce, and The Town of Edisto Beach. Admission is free! Bring your chairs or blankets and snacks and enjoy the show!

Join us for an evening of show-tunes, presented by Emily Decker and Erin Jackson, Sunday, July 10th at 7:00 at the Edisto Beach Civic Center (due to rain). The Concert series is sponsored by Edisto Art Guild, Edisto Chamber Of Commerce, and The Town of Edisto Beach. Admission is free!

The JackTown Ramblers were formed as a group of like-minded acoustic musicians who want to create something just a little bit different. Performing bluegrass, string band, swing and gypsy jazz arrangements all in the same set provides an eclectic feel to their music.

The Arts in the Park concert series is sponsored by Edisto Art Guild, Edisto Chamber of Commerce and The Town of Edisto Beach. Admission is free! Bring your chairs or blankets and snacks and enjoy the show!