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Spoleto Backstage
Spoleto Backstage

Spoleto Backstage: The Backstage Scoop

By Jeanette Guinn
Published May 24, 2018 at 2:37 PM EDT
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Mayor John Tecklenburg performing at Spoleto USA, 2017.
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Mayor John Tecklenburg performing at Spoleto USA, 2017.
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Mayor John Tecklenburg performing at Spoleto USA, 2017.
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Mayor John Tecklenburg performing at Spoleto USA, 2017.
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Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music director, Geoff Nuttall.
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Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music director, Geoff Nuttall.
Spoleto Festival USA
Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music director, Geoff Nuttall.
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Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music director, Geoff Nuttall.
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Nigel Redden
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Spoleto Festival USA general director, Nigel Redden.
Peter Frank Edwards
Nigel Redden
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Spoleto Festival USA general director, Nigel Redden.
Peter Frank Edwards

To kick off Spoleto Festival USA, we interviewed key figures and artists about their performances before they go live. Let us take you backstage to get the inside scoop from Spoleto’s general director, Nigel Redden; the mayor of Charleston, John Tecklenburg; and the director/host of the Chamber Music series, Geoff Nuttall.

Check out the live stream of Spoleto USA’s opening ceremony below!

https://www.facebook.com/CityCharleston/

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Jeanette Guinn
Jeanette Guinn is a professor in the Arts Management Program in College of Charleston’s School of the Arts and is pleased to have former students working in the US, Europe and Australia. After interning at the South Carolina Arts Commission during graduate school, Jeanette spent 25 great years working as an arts manager.
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