Press Release
South Carolina Public Radio (SC Public Radio) today announced coverage plans for Spoleto Festival USA 2023. Sonatas & Soundscapes, which airs weekdays at 11 am on the network's News & Music stations, will feature Spoleto content from May 26 through June 9. Additionally, SC Public Radio will broadcast recordings from this year's Bank of America Chamber Music Series as well as offer on-demand audio of the performances on southcarolinapublicradio.org.
Sonatas & Soundscapes will begin festival coverage May 26, broadcasting live from the Dock Street Theatre in downtown Charleston, S.C. until June 9. Recordings from the festival's renowned Chamber Music series will also be featured starting on June 2 and will run until June 16. Hosted by SC Public Radio's Bradley Fuller, Sonatas & Soundscapes will feature interviews with musicians and tributes to Spoleto's late Director of Chamber Music Geoff Nuttall. In celebration of Nuttall, preeminent artists, including Alisa Weilerstein, Inon Barnatan, and Alexi Kenney, will honor their friend with performances in a program both informed and inspired by Nuttall.
South Carolinians looking to listen to Sonatas & Soundscapes can tune in to 89.3 FM HD1 in Charleston, 91.3 FM in Columbia and 90.1 FM in Greenville/Spartanburg. In addition, a livestream of SC Public Radio's News & Music format broadcast can be accessed on southcarolinapublicradio.org or by downloading the SCETV app.
With over four decades of collaboration, SC Public Radio began covering Spoleto Festival USA in 1981. Now in its 50th year of broadcasting, SC Public Radio reaches more than 300,000 listeners each week. With eight transmitters located across the state, the network offers two formats – News/Talk and News/Music. For more on SC Public Radio, visit southcarolinapublicradio.org.
For more on this year's Spoleto Festival, visit spoletofestival.org.
