Vineyard Festival, Pageants & Concerts Highlight Weekend Events
By Lauren Poster
One of the best signs that the long hard winter is ending is the barrage of spring-like happenings blowing onto the coast in the first week of March. In addition to the onslaught of Lenten supper events at area churches (suitable for those of you who give a rip about being good), Myrtle Beach has a lot of cool things to check out this weekend.
With Can-Am Days and the National Shag Dance Championships still weeks away, it seems like little could assuage the weary traveler’s need to break out.
Thankfully, La Bell Amie Vineyard is hosting the Remember When Oldies Festival on Saturday from 12 to 5 p.m. Featuring local music and food from two Lowcountry restaurants (Hunt’s Lexington Style Cookin’ and Smokin’ Pit BBQ), the vineyard will also offer tours and wine tastings. Tickets are $8.
Also this weekend is the 2010 Miss Myrtle Beach Teen and Miss Myrtle Beach Scholarship Pageant. This is the official preliminary for the Miss South Carolina and the Miss America Pageants, and is the largest event of its kind in the state. Even those of us who are personally uninvolved may be lured to attend in the perverse hope of witnessing a backstabbing, "Drop Dead Gorgeous" moment. Held 5 – 9 p.m. Saturday at Coastal Carolina’s Wheelwright Auditorium, the pageant will award scholarships to local, well-behaved ladies between the ages of 13 and 24. Tickets are available by calling 843-449-8945.
The Oak Ridge Boys are also playing the Alabama Theatre on Saturday. The show starts at 7 p.m., and tickets range from $40.95 to $53.95.
Even more refreshing may be an infusion of up-and-coming talent scheduled for Friday at the Fresh Brewed Coffee House downtown. Chattanooga-based band Jettison Never, a three-piece featuring brothers Matt and Josh Gilbert and cousin Ben Phillips, are a power pop force to be reckoned with, having toured exhaustively over the last year both solo and in support of bands like Mute Math and Pillar. The performance begins at 8 p.m., but getting there early is advisable. Fresh Brewed is a dynamic, cutting-edge local venue with very limited seating in the heart of downtown Myrtle Beach near the old Chapin department store.
Another cool, matchbox-sized local venue right around the corner from Fresh Brewed is The Basement (the only basement in town). They are hosting an art show Saturday at around 7 p.m. Both venues have MySpace pages offering more information. Now get out there and pretend like it's warm!
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