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April 15, 2009 -- Carolina Studios to send two students to DC for national conference! -- Read article here! April 15, 2009 -- Carolina Studios to be beneficiary of ROCKSTOCK 2010 -- The College of Charleston's Public Relations Student Society of America (aka: PRSSA) is putting on it's second annual highly popular ROCKSTOCK this April 15th at the Music Farm. The event will feature a host of live music and will go from 7:00pm until 2:00am. This year's lineup features Spartanburg-based Southern rock group After August, reggae-rock band The Plainfield Project (voted Charleston's Best Local Band three years in a row), and the soulful blues-rock of Gaslight Street! Also, DJ TanTrum will spin between sets. Carolina Studios would like to extend a special thanks out to LAUREN ASHLEY for making all of this happen for us. Lauren was an intern for Carolina Studios last summer and was integral in the promotion of our world-class Toots & The Maytals fundraising concert and auction. December 2009 -- Carolina Studios to receive Innovative Programming Award. Carolina Studios is very excited to announce that it will receive the 2009 Innovative Programming Award from the Recreational Arts and Programming Branch of the South Carolina Recreation and Parks Association. The award will be presented by the Executive Director of the SC Recreation and Parks Association at the Charleston City Council meeting at City Hall on Broad Street on December 15th at 5:00pm. This award is given annually to an organization that demonstrates exceptional innovation in design, presentation, and implementation in the parks and recreation field in South Carolina. This award is contemporaneous with Carolina Studios’ newest location opening in the Forest Park Playground in West Ashley, but also with the massive progress the organization has made in 2009.
September 2009 -- Carolina Studios brings youth program to West Ashley! Our newest location just opened this month and we are very excited! The studio is located at 780 West Oak Forest Drive at the Forest Park Playground in the recreation center adjacent to the aquatic center. Due to the closing of Frasier Elementary School downtown, and due to the fact that our Mall Park location was too close to our Mary Street location, we have decided to essentially move the Mall Park location to West Ashley. It is great news because now we will be able to reach a much wider range of eager children.  August 2009 -- Carolina Studios to be at Shinefest on October 17th! Shinefest is Charleston's newest all-day charity music festival, featuring a bundle of popular local bands, plus Blues Traveler, The Wailers, The Blue Dogs, Jeff Sipe, and Jeff Coffin. The event is to take place at the Joe Riley Stadium downtown. Carolina Studios will have an info table and a digital workstation set up for kids to see what our program is all about. Click here for more info!
July 23, 2009 -- Toots & The Maytals and Carolina Studios featured in Charleston Post & Courier Preview Section. We would like to give a warm and hearty thanks to Emily Lane for doing the article! July 2009 -- Carolina Studios in the news...AGAIN! Check out the July 2009 issue of Charleston Magazine for a great article in the Channel Markers section! Also, check out Moultrie News on this Wednesday, July 15th for a feature article! HUGE thanks goes out to Jon Yarian for the Charleston Magazine article and the Charleston Magazine staff. Also, HUGE thanks goes out to Helen Ravenel for the Moultrie News articles!  TOOTS & THE MAYTALS CONFIRMED FOR ANNUAL FUNDRAISER ON JULY 24TH -- Carolina Studios is very excited to announce that Grammy-award-winning and internationally known reggae artist, Toots & The Maytals will headline their annual fundraising event on Friday, July 24th, 2009 at Patriot’s Point. The event will host a VIP charity auction and will include opening performances by children who have excelled in the Carolina Studios media arts program. The event has been made possible by the producers of Rockin’ On The Point, who generously offered to let Carolina Studios book a larger than normal act to end this year’s ROTP series with a big bang. We would like to thank our sponsors as well: CHARLESTON CITY PAPER , MOTLEY RICE, KIAWAH ISLAND REAL ESTATE , and NUVOX . Carolina Studios has also forged a relationship with the Charleston Riverdogs that will generate a substantial amount of promotion for the fundraiser and overall exposure to the charity’s objective. TOOTS website: www.tootsandthemaytals.com
ROTP website:www.rockinonthepoint.com
 CAROLINA STUDIOS STUDENTS TO PERFORM AT PICCOLO SPOLETTO -- Carolina Studios is very excited to announce a new partnership with Piccolo Spoleto, whereby Carolina Studios’ children will get to perform their own songs live in front of large, diversified groups of people. They will perform at the Piccolo Spoleto Children’s Festival in Marion Square downtown on Saturday, May 23rd, and as an opening act for the Piccolo Spoleto Finale at Hampton Park on June 6th. Both events boast several acts of various genres. Participation in the performance will be a reward for children who excel in the program and exert the best behavioral skills. For show times and other information, please visit the official Piccolo Spoleto website, at www.piccolospoleto.com.
Carolina Studios’ Executive Director, Ms. Johnnie Mitchell, says, “This is such an awesome opportunity for our kids to be introduced to the 'world stage' where they hopefully will be motivated to stay in school, achieve, and strive for success in the world…”
According to Mark Bryan, Board Chairman, and founding member of Hootie and The Blowfish, “The basis for Carolina Studios is in-studio music and computer education. The opportunity for the kids to perform their songs live at Piccolo Spoleto, to the tracks they have created themselves, adds an exciting new wrinkle to our program. It will be fun, and we hope it will create more incentive for kids all over Charleston to participate in Carolina Studios.” CAROLINA STUDIOS FEATURED IN CHARLESTON POST & COURIER -- March 5, 2009
Check out http://www.charleston.net/news/2009/mar/05/carolina73808/ to read it! CAROLINA STUDIOS FEATURED IN ONLINE ARTICLE -- February 25, 2009
Carolina Studios was written up in a feature article on Charleston's newest online magazine, called CHARLIE. We want to give Caroline Nuttall a big shout-out and thanks for her gracious article! Check it out at READCHARLIE.COM and check back often for more great articles! CAROLINA STUDIOS ON THE TAMMY SHOW -- February 2009
The Tammy Show on local Comcast Channel 2 will air a program in late Febrary on our organization. The television program will feature board chairman, Mark Bryan, and our Executive Director, Johnnie Mitchell in an exciting interview with Tammy. Look out for the show at 10:00am and 10:00pm every day. NEW PROGRAM STUDIO NOW OPEN -- January 29, 2009
We are proud to announce that we have successfully opened our newest studio location downtown at the recreation center at Mall Park, on the corner of Columbus and America Streets. The location has new computer workstations and a vocal recording booth for children to enjoy. We would like to give a big thanks to Pam Zanowski at the City of Charleston Department of Recreation. This could not have happened without her gracious efforts. ANNOUNCING OUR NEW WEBSITE! -- January 5, 2009
This is a newly designed website for Carolina Studios. We hope to give you the chance to catch a closer look at what we do. We hope to provide you with downloads, news and more up to date info right here on the new website. Be sure to check back often for updates!
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