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The Lancaster Cultural Arts Center, previously the Old Presbyterian Church, hosts cultural and public events. The walls are of handmade brick.
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Owned by the Lancaster Society for historical preservation, the expanded center, after ten years of restoration was re-opened on Nov. 5, 2020 (Old Presbyterian Church) Lancaster Presbyterian Church has played an integral part in this community’s history since the mid-1800s. Completed ca. 1862, the present church is thought to have been the first brick church in Lancaster County. Basilican in plan,

the church features a gallery along the sides and back of the sanctuary and culminates in an arched pulpit apse. The walls are stuccoed and scored to resemble stone. Interesting details include hood moldings over the arches, cornice brackets with pendants under the gallery, and round wooden columns supporting the gallery. The Lancasterville Presbyterian Church was organized in 1835, and in 1860 the congregation decided to erect a new church (the present structure) on the site of the original one. The contract was given to Sidney Retting of Charlotte, North Carolina, and the church was completed by January 1862. Designed in the Early Gothic Revival style, the church was dedicated on March 29, 1862. A cemetery dating from the 1830s is located to the left and rear of the church, and many of its graves are of Lancaster’s leading citizens. In 1926, the congregation moved to a new church on Main Street in Lancaster. The old structure was then used by another church and later by the Masons. In 1962 it was purchased by Dr. Benjamin F. Emanuel under whose direction it became the Carolina Museum. Unoccupied since 1972, the church was purchased in 1976 by the Lancaster County Society for Historical Preservation, Inc. Listed in the National Register December 16, 1977. The building is now the Lancaster Cultural Arts Center. The ribbon cutting and re-opening of the completed center took place on Nov. 5, 2020. For information on becoming a member of the Lancaster County Society for Historical Preservation, please visit our website at www.lcshp.org

08/21/2024

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08/19/2024

On Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 6:30 pm Jay Brown, founder of the Lazybirds Band, will perform a lively solo show at the Lancaster Cultural Arts Center. Brown will entertain with a night of original songs, classic covers, some blues and boogie on the piano, and will also take requests. The show will include original songs from Brown’s latest album “Empathy and Comedy,” which looks at modern times with an old-fashioned magnifying glass, accompanied by the classic sounds of American folk and rock. This is a concert sure to please, and we hope you can attend.

Advance tickets are available on-line at lcshp.org for $15 plus a small admin fee. If you have any difficulties with on-line purchasing, call 803-287-6826 for assistance. Tickets at the door will be $20.

The CAC is located at 307 West Gay Street in historic downtown Lancaster, SC 29720. Free on-site and street parking are available.
Thanks for taking this event under consideration.

08/08/2024

On Sunday, August 11, 2024 at 3:00 p.m., OperaCarolina star Corey Lovelace, soprano, and Sophia Pavlenko-Chandley, pianist, will join to bring a concert featuring German Lieder (or songs) which are characterized with rich, dark harmonies and poetic imagery. The program will highlight the works of German Franz Schubert who is considered the greatest composer of Lieder. Lovelace will also perform compositions of Austrian Hugo Wolf, Hungarian Franz Liszt, and German Richard Strauss. Lovelace and Pavlenko-Chandley performed a show of classical Russian and Ukrainian composers this past June at the CAC, receiving strong audience reviews. Come and hear the historically unique and acoustically acclaimed Cultural Arts Center resonate to the voice of one of the great operatic voices of our region.

Tickets are available online at lcshp.org for $15 plus a small admin fee. Tickets at the door will be $20. For any difficulties purchasing online tickets, call 802-287-6826.

The Lancaster Cultural Arts Center is located at 307 W. Gay St. in historic downtown Lancaster, SC 29720. On-site and street parking are available at no charge. We hope to see you on Sunday!

07/02/2024

We are delighted to have Ethan Uslan return to the Lancaster Cultural Arts Center on Sunday, July 7, 2024, at 3:00 pm to perform his annual summer ragtime/jazz piano concert. Ethan will be playing rousing and celebratory American music--ragtime, boogie woogie, and jazz pieces in his inimical style featuring superb piano skills, humor, and high spirits. Uslan is a sure-fire crowd-pleaser, rendering well know songs from the American song book such as "The Perils of Pauline" and "Georgia on My Mind" in a unique way. This concert will be a great way to close out the week of Fourth of July on a high note, so come and enjoy.

Advance tickets are available online at lcshp.org. for $15.74. For any problems purchasing online, please call 803-287-6826. Purchase early, as this concert could be a sell-out. Tickets at the door will be $20.

The Cultural Arts Center is located at 307 West Gay St. in historic downtown Lancaster, SC 29720, and on-site and street parking are available.

06/17/2024

The June "Conversation" at the Lancaster Cultural Arts Center will be on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, with the program beginning at noon.

We are honored to have former NC Governor James G. Martin to discuss with us on June 19 the compatibility of science and faith--which he articulates in his book Revelation Through Science (2020). Governor Martin was a 6-term NC Congressman before serving two terms as Governor of North Carolina, and began his career as a chemistry professor at Davidson College. He knows his science and is a man of faith. I think you will find his discussion of how the universe and life came to be fascinating.

The Lancaster Cultural Arts Center is located at 307 West Gay St. in historic downtown Lancaster, SC 29720. There is no charge for this event and no reservations necessary. Free on-site and street parking are available.

I hope to see you on June 19th.

05/28/2024

On Sunday afternoon, June 2, 2024, at 3:00 pm., Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Calin Lupanu will lead the Chamber Music for All (CM4A) string ensemble in a Beethoven and Tchaikovsky concert at the Lancaster Cultural Arts Center, The program will feature Ludwig van Beethoven's C Minor string quartet, op. 18, no. 4, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's E-flat Minor quartet no.3. The Beethoven quartet was one of the composer's early works, almost Romantic, and the Tchaikovsky piece is melodic and richly harmonic. In addition to Lupanu, Monica Bobac will perform on violin, Marcus Pyle, on viola, and Marlene Ballena, on cello--all being also members of the Charlotte Symphony.

Advance tickets @ $15 plus a small admin fee are available online at lcshp.org. Call 803-287-6826 for assistance if you encounter online purchase problems. Tickets at the door will be $25. Free on-site and street parking are available at the CAC, which is located at 307 West Gay St. in historic downtown Lancaster, SC 29720.

We hope to see you at Sunday afternoon's concert!
John Craig
LCSHP Chair

04/15/2024

On Saturday night, April 20, 2024, the LazyBirds Band from the mountains of North Carolina will return to the Lancaster Cultural Arts Center (6:30 pm) for another evening of rollicking old time music. The band will be in full force on Saturday, with six players: Leader Jay Brown on guitar, James Browne on drums, Mitch Johnston on bass, Brad Pope on mandolin, Cas Sochacki on pedal steel, and Oliver Johnston on piano. Brown, Browne, M. Johnston and Pope will provide vocals. The Lazybirds have a fond relationship with the Red Rose City thanks to Lancaster resident Larry Cauthen, who assembles a group of local sponsors, including himself, for each of the three concerts the group does at the CAC every year. The Band will be doing a wide array of American roots and original music on Saturday night, including a few Hank Williams’ songs in honor of Larry Cauthen.

Advance tickets for the concert can be purchased at lcshp.org for $15 plus a small service charge. Tickets at the door will be $20. If you have any difficulties online, call 803-287-6826 for assistance.

The CAC is located at 307 West Gay Street in historic downtown Lancaster, SC 29720. Free onsite and street parking are available. We hope you can join the fun at the CAC on Saturday night.

The Lancaster Cultural Arts Center, previously the Old Presbyterian Church, hosts cultural and public

03/27/2024

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03/22/2024

We are excited to be back in Lancaster with another beautiful and exhilarating program of classical piano solo and duet music. We look forward to sharing this extraordinary program with our wonderf…

03/04/2024

“…ultimately one cannot get away from the passionate feelings that the C Minor key brings to music.” -Calin Lupanu

03/04/2024

On Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 3 PM, acclaimed concert pianist Philip Bush will perform 3 major piano trios with the Chamber Music for All ensemble led by Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Calin Lupanu. The program will consist of piano trios in C Minor by Edvard Grieg, Dmitri Shostakovitch, and Felix Mendelssohn. Lupanu and Monica Boboc will perform on violin and Marlene Ballena on cello. Lupanu points to the power of the C Minor key: “It’s a very dramatic, tumultuous and romantic key, treated differently by the three composers. But ultimately one cannot get away from the passionate feelings that the C Minor key brings to music.”

Come and enjoy these splendid works, performed by top-tier musicians!

Advance online tickets @ $15 can be purchased at lcshp.org, and are strongly advised. If you have any difficulty, call 803-287-6826. Tickets at the door will be $20.

The Cultural Arts Center is located at 307 W. Gay St. in historic downtown Lancaster, SC 29720. Free onsite and street parking are available. Enjoy this springtime concert!

02/27/2024

A Thousand Pebbles Ben Rosenblum and his multi-talented, six-man ensemble, the Nebula Project, will perform at the Lancaster Cultural Arts Center at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, March 2, 2024. The co…

02/19/2024

On Sunday, February 25, 2024, at 3:00 pm, five top brass musicians from the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra will perform works featuring some of America’s finest composers including Leonard Bernstein, Eric Ewazen, Kevin McKee, Michael Tilson Thomas, Bobby Timmons, and Joan Tower. The program will begin with Ewazen's 1997 processional "A Western Fanfare" and will be followed with works by the young brass chamber music composer McKee, the highly successful woman composer Joan Tower, famed conductor-composer Thomas, and jazz pianist and composer Timmons. The concert will close with rousing renditions of pieces from Bernstein’s Broadway musical West Side Story. The Carolina Brass group will consist of Alex Wilborn (trumpet), Jonathan Kaplan (trumpet), John Bartlett (trombone), Colin Benton (tuba) and Byron Johns (triple horn). Charlotte Symphony Concertmaster Calin Lupanu and CSO violinist Monica Bobok will emcee the interactive show.

We don’t often have all-brass concerts at the CAC, so this is one not to miss! Advance online tickets are available at lcshp.org for $15 plus a small admin fee. Tickets at the door will be $20. Online purchase is strongly advised. If you have any difficulties, just call 803-287-6826,

We hope to see you on Sunday afternoon, when visitors will be able to see some of the revitalization work in progress on West Gay St. https://spilledinkabovethefold.wordpress.com/2024/02/18/revitalizing-west-gay-street/?fbclid=IwAR0klm8s2t3W32guukBv0rGTW4iG9Ris5FWtCEMHy31BPvqG7lyYuxCV3wY

Every city has a symbol of either decline or recovery. West Gay is becoming that symbol for recovery for historic downtown Lancaster. – John Craig, Chairman, Historical Preservation Society

01/08/2024

NOT TO BE MISSED!

In the first Lancaster Cultural Arts Center concert of 2024, the Filament Baroque Chamber Music ensemble will present a program of 17th and 18th centuries music at 6:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. The Philadelphia-based ensemble consists of period instruments - violin, viola da gamba, organ, and piano. The trio is young – all 40 and under. Their program will include works by J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Buxtehude (1637-1707), William Lawes (1602-1645), Antonio Bertali (1605-1669) and others. Tickets can be purchased online at www.lcshp.com for $15 plus a small service fee in advance or $20 at the door. The CAC is located at 307 West Gay St. in historic downtown Lancaster, SC, and free on-site and street parking is available. It's rare that we have an organ at CAC concerts, and not that often, a harpsichord. So do come and enjoy this inspiring and aspiring group. They are going places!
John Craig

01/08/2024

12/05/2023

We are super excited to be bringing our holiday show back to Lancaster. We created this very special show almost four years ago and it is definitely one of our favorites. We are especially thrilled…

12/02/2023

Good riddance and good by to the old laundromat on West Gay Street.

08/07/2023

07/03/2023

The Vietnam war was a tragedy on all sides, and it is ironic that today the united country is a largely capitalist economy and a potential US ally. – John Craig

04/23/2023

Currently at the Lancaster Cultural Arts Center

04/09/2023

Our Ella show is one of my favorites because I have the opportunity to show honor to one of my ‘sheroes.’ There’s no one like Ella. She has influenced so many singers and musicians around the…

04/05/2023

Now appearing at the Lancaster Cultural Arts Center. Ann Evans, Spring family archivist "Life and Achievements of Elliott white Springs, Textile Magnate.
There were 90 people in attendance.

03/29/2023

The Springs family have been movers and shakers all along the way. They saw themselves as responsible to the citizens in their communities.” – Ann Evans, Springs Close Family Archivist

03/05/2023

Now performing at the Lancaster Cultural Arts Center. Charleston Piano Trio. Yuriy Bekker , Charleston Symphony concert master. Volodymyr Vynnytsky, piano and Natalia Khoma, cello.

03/03/2023

Charleston Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Yuriy Bekker will lead the Charleston Piano Trio in a Mozart-Smetana concert on Sunday, March 5, 2023 at the Lancaster Cultural Arts Center. Performing at 3:00 pm with violinist Bekker will be pianist Volodymyr Vynntsky and cellist Natalia Khoma. Come and hear two beautiful works--Mozart's Piano Trio No. 5 in C major and Smetana's Piano Trio in G minor--performed by an acclaimed international ensemble. Purchase tickets ($15) in advance at lcshp.org. Call 803-287-6826 if you have any difficulties online. Tickets at the door will be $20. The Cultural Arts Center is located at 307 West Gay St. in historic downtown Lancaster, SC 29720.

The Lancaster Cultural Arts Center, previously the Old Presbyterian Church, hosts cultural and public

02/24/2023

The Brent Burgin grave site monument has been installed.

02/05/2023

The addition of literary events like the Kakalak poetry reading is a further step towards realization of our dream of what the CAC can mean for Lancaster. This a great location for book launches, r…

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