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Grand Strand summer concerts - free and outdoors

By Steve Palisin
spalisin@thesunnews.com

Posted: Friday, Jul. 20, 2012

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Free concerts at the beach

Myrtle Beach

“Hot Summer Nights”: 8-11 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays through Sept. 29 at Plyler Park, Mr. Joe White Avenue and North Ocean Boulevard, Myrtle Beach.

Schedule: July 26: Who Shot JR? (rock/country/variety); July 28: Matt Parker Project (rock/country/variety); July 31, and Aug. 14 and 28: TruSol (R&B); Aug. 2: Eastbound (country); Aug. 4: Austin Mowery Band (modern country); Aug. 7 and 21: Ten Toes Up (rock); Aug. 9: Bullfrog (Americana/rock); Aug. 11: Weaving the Fate (rock/mix/variety); Aug. 16: Humble Vibes (reggae); Aug. 18: The Delta Saints (rock/blues); Aug. 23: The Bibis Ellison Band (rock/dance/variety); Aug. 25: Fireshot (reggae); Aug. 30: BPL Band (1970s-’90s); Sept. 1: American Aquarium (alternative country); Sept. 8: Painted Man (funk/rock); Sept. 15: Sugar High (rock/dance); Sept. 29: Crowfield (rock/Americana).

Details: www.myrtlebeachdowntown.com.

Broadway at the Beach: (U.S. 17 Bypass between 21st and 29th avenues) has free Thursday night outdoor concerts through Aug. 30.

Schedule: July 26: Leggz; Aug. 2: Bibis Ellison; Aug. 9: Holiday Band; Aug. 16: Colossal; Aug. 23: Time Clark; Aug. 30: Austin Mowery. Also, Elton John/Billy Joel Tribute show Aug. 3.

Details: www.broadwayatthebeach.com.

“Music in the Streets”: 6-9 p.m. Fridays through August at The Market Common on Farrow Parkway. Musicians play live music in the gazebos on Howard Avenue in front of Victoria’s Secret; and on Reed Avenue, in front of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro.

Surfside, S.C.

“Surfside Beach Sunday Serenades”: 2-5 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 2, at Veterans Memorial Park, Surfside and Willow drives (in front of the Horry County Memorial Library). Four performers each Sunday for 45 minutes. Bring beach chairs/blankets for seating.

North Myrtle Beach

“Music on Main”: 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Schedule for 202 Main St.: Aug. 2: The Stranger (Billy Joel/Elton John tribute); Sept. 6: Tokyo Joe (Top 40/classic rock).

Schedule for the Horseshoe (11 S. Ocean Blvd.): July 26: Bill Scott & the Prophets (beach); Aug. 23: Boogie Blues Review (blues); Sept. 20: Carolina Breakers (beach).

“Sounds of Summer”: 7-9 p.m. at McLean Park, 93 Oak Drive, south of Main Street, between First and Second Avenues South.

Schedule: Aug. 17: The Half Dozen Brass Band (New Orleans jazz); Sept. 21: Blackwater Rhythm & Blues Band (beach/blues).

Conway, S.C.

“Alive After 5”: 6-9 p.m. downtown.

Schedule: Aug. 2: Snow-cone social at 6:30 p.m., and Sea Cruz concert at 7:30; Sept. 6: Carnival games at 6 p.m. and "All Community Gospel Sing" at 7:30 with church choirs from across Conway.

Details: www.conwayalive.com.

Coordinators of various Grand Strand summer entertainment series have found the right note and their own groove.

Whether in downtown Myrtle Beach or Conway, S.C., a shaded park in Surfside Beach, S.C., up in North Myrtle Beach vacationers have many choices for unwinding after hours. And at the best price of all: free.

Glenn “Houndog” Hanson of Surfside Beach, S.C., is in his fourth summer of Surfside Beach Sunday Serenades concerts, which continue weekly through the day before Labor Day. From 2 to 5 p.m. Sundays, four artists each take 45-minute turns performing in the wooded area of Surfside Beach’s Veterans Memorial, in front of Horry County Memorial Library’s newly expanded and renovated town library branch.

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