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  • Southern charm
    Southern charm
    Cheraw boasts a charming downtown area of shops and down-home restaurants. The town’s annual Jazz Festival is named in honor native son Dizzy Gillespie.
  • Native son
    Native son
    Cheraw is well known as the birthplace of jazz great Dizzy Gillespie.
  • Salt peanuts
    Salt peanuts
    The fence around Dizzy Gillespie park is a musical staff with notes. One section features a peanut in a shell, reminiscent of Gillespie’s famous tune “Salt Peanuts.”
  • One of a kind
    One of a kind
    The shape of Gillespie’s distinctive trumpet is on display at the center of the park that bears the great musician’s name.
 

S.C. Jazz Festival coming up in Cheraw

Posted 8/14/2011 7:15:00 PM

Cheraw’s Dizzy Gillespie Park marks the birthplace of the jazz great with a historical marker and a sculpture garden.

There also is a statue of Gillespie on the Cheraw Town Green on Market Street.

The South Carolina Jazz Festival will be held in downtown Cheraw Oct. 14-16.

More than 20 regional musical artists from the region will perform. The festival will include a Bebop Parade, Jazz Crawls, a Fine Arts & Crafts exhibition, a Birthday Party for Dizzy, kids’ art activities, Madonnari-Southern Style Chalk Competition, a Jazz Mass, and student artwork.

For additional information, call (843) 537-8420 ext. 12 or (843) 537-8425.

Gillespie park is open to the public from dawn to dusk.