Ensemble Eclectica Brings Tapestry of Sound to Harbison Theatre Featuring Stan Gwynn, Clayton King, and Tracy Steele!

Classical Meets Bluegrass and Broadway in the new signature production by

Ensemble Eclectica

Tapestry of Sound:  Bluegrass to Broadway and More

Classical Meets Bluegrass and Broadway in the 2025 Ensemble Eclectica production: Tapestry of Sound: Bluegrass to Broadway and More... on  Saturday August 23rd at 7:30 at Harbison Theatre, 7300 College Drive in Irmo, SC

Celebrated local performers Stann Gwynn, Clayton King, and Tracy Steele, along with  Carolina Bluegrass Style, will join with Ensemble Eclectica to present a groundbreaking new signature production this year!

In keeping with our tradition, the production features music, dance, and vocals, including the award-winning dance duo of Roxana Marinoff and Cesar Davalos, renowned for their musicality and dance craftsmanship. Local performer, Mattie Mount, will share her award-winning tap dancing skills and, rounding out the dance selections of the evening is Columbia Classical Ballet. Three styles of dance on one stage and one night! 

Clayton King and Tracy Steele will also serve as co-emcees for the evening. And new this year, acclaimed Columbia’s Inaugural Poet Laureate for the city, Ed Madden, will take the stage to share one of his poems in a unique way, accompanied by live music. Throughout the evening, photography by Jim Guzel will be featured to further enhance the production. 

ENSEMBLE ECLECTICA  is a contemporary and innovative ensemble whose mission is to stimulate audience appreciation of the arts through exposure to a wide variety of artistic collaborations featuring local musicians, dancers, visual artists and media professionals and is led by Suzanna Pavlovsky. Dr. Pavlovsky is a former Associate Conductor in Residence of the Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra in Toronto, and Associate Conductor of the Lake Murray Symphony Orchestra in Columbia, SC. An Assistant Conductor at Michigan State University, she was also a graduate assistant at the Eastman School of Music, as well as a conducting and teaching assistant at the University of South Carolina

 

Reserve Your Tickets Here!

SEPTEMBER 14th -- A Double Dose of Jasper

Mark your calendars for the evening of Saturday, September 14th, after the LSU/Carolina game, to come out to Harbison Theatre for a double dose of Columbia Arts. Help Jasper welcome renown graphic artist Nate Puza to the walls of our Harbison Gallery with a free drop-in opening reception starting at 6 pm. Enjoy meeting Nate and hearing about his art, sip a little something, have a little snack, and chat with friends until 7:30 when the curtain rises on more new art coming out of Columbia, SC!

Let It Grow, by Chad Henderson, winner of the Jasper Project’s 2024 Play Right Project series, will premiere as a staged reading  and offer us the right to say I saw it first when it inevitably moves on to other stages near and far. Directed by Marybeth Gorman Craig, and starring Libby Campbell-Turner, G. Scott Wild, Kayla Machado, and David Britt, Let It Grow is a sweet and poignant comedy that looks at the expectations we share about family-like relationships, what happens when players outside of those relationships insert themselves, and PLANTS! The Play Right Series is administered by SC playwright Jon Tuttle and is in its fourth cycle of midwifing new theatre art onto the stage exclusively from South Carolina playwrights.

Previous Play Right Series winning plays include Sharks and Other Lovers by Randall David Cook, Moon Swallower by Colby Quick, and Therapy by Lonetta Thompson. Lonetta Thompson’s Therapy will be fully produced by the NiA Company August 29, 30, 31st at the Trustus Theatre Side Door Theatre and Jasper strongly encourages you to come out and support this new art, too! Tickets for Lonetta Thompson’s Therapy are here.

 

NATE PUZA OPENING RECEPTION

6 PM – FREE

 

LET IT GROW by Chad Henderson

7:30 pm -TICKETS

 

And while we have you, check out Harbison Theatre’s exciting calendar of events for 2024 – 2025 including Ensemble Eclectica on August 24th, South Carolina’s own singer-songwriter Cody Webb on September 6th, and The Box Masters featuring Billy Bob Thornton with opening act The Capital City Playboys, Friday October 18th!