Final weekend of Charlotte SHOUT! — tons of concerts, art installations, more

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Follow the links below to jump to the section of this article with details on each topic.

• Venues
• Music
• Food
• Ideas
• Fashion
• Art

Ally Main Stage at First Ward Park

• Friday, March 29, 5 to 10 p.m.: Men of Soul
• Saturday, March 30, 2 to 10 p.m.: Saturdays at SHOUT!, featuring Dane Page, Arsena, Tuba Skinny, much more
• Sunday, March 31, 3 to 8 p.m.: Easter Praise Fest
• Thursday, April 4, 5 to 10 p.m.: Local Night, featuring Shake the Dust, Jason Scavone, Elonzo Wesley, more
• Friday, April 5, 8:30 p.m.: Nightingale and the Tower, featuring the Sonic Butterfly, a harp with 60-foot strings
• Saturday, April 6, 2 to 10 p.m.: Saturdays at SHOUT!, featuring TuKool Tiff, Gino Vanelli and more
• Sunday, April 7, 3 to 8 p.m.: Island Night, featuring Of Good Nature
• Thursday, April 11, 5 to 10 p.m.: Country Night, featuring Brittney Spencer
• Friday, April 12, 5 to 10 p.m.: Rock & Blues Night, featuring Dana Fuchs
• Saturday, April 13, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.: CMS Day, featuring Charlotte students
• Saturday, April 13, 6:45 to 10 p.m.: Saturdays at SHOUT! featuring Robert Randolph Band
• Sunday, April 14, 3:30 p.m.: Jazz Fest, featuring Ghost-Note, Groove 8, Harvey Cummings II, more

Pianodrome at Grace A.M.E. Zion Church

• Friday, March 29, 5 p.m.: Dane Page at Pianodrome
• Saturday, March 30, 5 to 9:30 p.m.: Saturday Night at Pianodrome, featuring Shake the Dust
• Wednesday, April 3, 6 to 10 p.m.: Wednesday Night at Pianodrome, featuring Queen City Groove, Val Merza and Melodic Triads Band
• Thursday, April 4, 6 p.m.: Thursday Night at Pianodrome, with Ethan Uslan, E’Lon JD, Josh King
• Friday, April 5, 6 to 10 p.m.: Friday Night at Pianodrome, featuring Reinaldo Brahn & Jim Brock
• Saturday, April 6, 7 to 10 p.m.: Saturday Night at Pianodrome, featuring The DJaM Collective and Kenya Templeton
• Friday, April 12, 6 to 10 p.m.: Friday Night at Pianodrome, featuring Lynsea
• Saturday, April 13, 5 to 10 p.m.: Saturday Night at Pianodrome, featuring Queen Charlotte Chorus, Bruce Hazel, more
• Sunday, April 14, 4 p.m.: WDAV’s Recording Inclusivity Initiative: An Afternoon of Song (free tickets required)
• Sunday, April 14, 5:45: Sunday Night at Pianodrome, featuring Noel Freidline Duo

Cafe 400

• Tuesdays to Fridays, 5 to 9 p.m.
• Saturdays: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 to 9 p.m.
• Sundays: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Food

Charlotte StrEATs Festival returns! Events include the ticketed StrEATs Uncorked on April 3, the ticketed StrEATs Tasting Tour on April 13, and Charlotte StrEATs Festival on April 14, a free event where chefs representing different Charlotte neighborhoods compete.

In addition, food trucks will be on hand throughout Charlotte SHOUT.

Find more information, including a schedule of food trucks, here.

Charlotte Ideas Festival

Charlotte Ideas Festival takes place from April 3 to 5, 2024. It features a range of thinkers and innovators exploring a wide rang of topics. More information here.

Fashion

This year, for the first time, Charlotte SHOUT! includes fashion too. Learn about the fashion events here.

e/motion

Location: First Ward Park
Artists: CREOS, Init, Oliver Landreville, Serve Maheu

Created by Olivier Landreville, e/motion is a revisited version of our childhood see-saw that invites you to dive into the joys and sensations of surging water. As you ride this infinite wave, the glowing liquid acts like a living entity that responds to your ups and downs.

Queen’s Greens Putt Putt

Location: Wells Fargo Plaza
Artists: multiple

Come with a group of friends, family, or that special date and play a round of putt-putt. Our 9 hole Miniature Golf course has creatively designed obstacles by local Charlotte artists from Upcycled Arts. Upcycle Arts and Charlotte is Creative will build the obstacles to celebrate Charlotte SHOUT!’s pillars; art, music, food, and ideas. This course is a great way to take part in some friendly competition or just plain fun!

Optik

Location: TBA
Artists: CREOS, Init, Serge Maheu, The Urban Conga

The ten 6 feet (1,8 meters) gyroscope-like forms with, at the center, a dichroic film, offer new everchanging opportunities that reflect any ray of lights during the day while refracting the inner rings lighting at dusk. As the audience rotates each unit, they create their own endless cascade of colors. The experience is raised to another level as sound joins us on the rhythmical effort, turning each unit into a different musical instrument.

Sonic Runway

Location: Levine Avenue of the Arts
Artists: CREOS, Rob Jensen, Warren Trezevant

The Sonic Runway is a light-art installation that converts audio signals into patterns of light that shoot down a 350 ft corridor of 20 LED lined arches at the speed of sound.

Melody of Spring!

Location: Disc Plaza
Artist: Rupam Varma

Melody of Spring! celebrates the fusion of art, music, and eco-consciousness. Mithila art adorns the xylophone’s frame on the sides. This ancient folk art from the Mithila region of India brings vibrant colors, intricate patterns, and cultural storytelling to our musical masterpiece. Each creative stroke of the brush tells a tale of cultural heritage and its interplay with nature.

HYDRATE

Location: The Green
Artist: Rebecca Lipps

Hydrate is an interactive projection installation that encourages you to digitally step into a downfall of water. This large-scale projection uses simulation and motion sensing technology to insert your live image into a scene of falling water. This projection-mapped, live video illuminates an uptown building during all seventeen nights of the festival. Two highly interactive segments of Hydrate invite you to become a visual conductor of the projection mapped building every night of the festival. When you step into the interactive area, your image is inserted into the projection, then your movement determines the change in flow of digital water. Experience an additional segment on the weekends, where you can change the imagery of the projection by pressing buttons on a digital screen. People of all ages can press a series of buttons on the screen that change the color, image, style, and effect of the projection on the building. Come check out Hydrate from 7:00-10:00pm every night of Charlotte SHOUT!.

Cathedral of Revelry

Location: Wells Fargo Plaza
Artist: Studio Cultivate

Cathedral of Revelry is a large-scale installation that invites people to be immersed in a world of light and refracted colors. We invite you to find a meditative moment absorbing the vibrancy of color, break into an impromptu dance party, or chase bubbles, light and joy.

Birdhouse Forest

Location: First Ward Park
Artist: Anuja Jain

Come enjoy this beautiful and colorful installation of 30 unique hand painted birdhouses with centuries old Mandala Art. Mandalas, intricate geometric patterns that symbolize the universe’s harmony, serve as the heart and soul of this project. Artist Anuja Jain has added freehand painted unique distinct mandala patterns, along with some sustainable features on each of these birdhouses to give them an aesthetic look and sensory feel. People are encouraged to stop and pay attention to the carefully selected birdsongs playing in the background to get a sense of harmony and energy flow through all these pieces. Artist also encourages gentle touching to get the feel of 3d patterns used on these pieces.

Prismatic Perspectives

Location: ImaginOn
Artist: CHEEKS

Discover ‘Prismatic Perspectives,’ a mesmerizing interactive art installation designed to captivate and inspire during Charlotte SHOUT!. This exciting piece features a 3×4 grid of triangular prisms, each adorned with intricate artwork on all three sides. Step into a world where art meets motion, as you physically spin the panels to reveal the enchanting magic of transformation. Watch as distinct variations of the artwork unfold before you, evoking a sense of exploration and collaboration.

Easter Eggs on Parade

Location: The Green
Artists: Multiple artists

Easter Eggs on Parade is a fun way for Charlotte SHOUT! to showcase local artists’ talent inspired by famous, bejeweled eggs. This year we will have 13 giant eggs – a baker’s dozen – at The Green. Each egg is designed by a local artist.

Spray Jam

Location: 141 E 4th Street
Artists: Sydney Duarte and Treazy Treaz

Over the three weekends, come experience local and international artists from a variety of backgrounds, collaborating to bring blank spaces to life. Filling the walls with color to take you on an adventure throughout the space. Immersive artwork, unique styles, kind-hearted humans, all making magic before your eyes. Hang out, talk with creatives, support local art, and be inspired.

Luminous Lane

Location: Alleyway connecting 3rd Street and 4th Street, near Tryon Street

Luminous Lane is an alleyway located half a block away from Tryon Street, connecting 3rd Street and 4th Street, that has been covered with murals, paste-ups, fiber art, and more. The project began as part of Charlotte SHOUT! Spray Jam in 2023 with the theme “Bringing Light to Dark Places” and curated by Sydney Duarte and Treazy Treaz.

Charlotte Crown

Location: The Green
Artist: Check back soon

200 S Alleyway

Location: 200 S Tryon Alleyway
Artist: Studio Cultivate

Check back soon for details.

Chair Monster

Location: First Ward Park
Artist: David Furman

The “Chair Monster” sculpture was created by local architect and artist, David Furman and fabricated by ASCM Design + Build. Nearly 100 wooden chair frames form the spine of the 60-foot-long mystical monster.

Charlotte’s Web — ImaginOn Community Art Project

Location: ImaginOn

During Charlotte SHOUT! ImaginOn is hosting a one-of-a-kind community art project in our lobby. Stop by during regular business hours and answer the short question “What are you curious about?” ImaginOn staff will link all the answers together to form a paper-chain web. Let’s see how big we can make it!

Fashion Row

Location: SHOUT! HUB in the Overstreet Mall
Artist: Will White

Nestled in 2024’s new Hub also known as “The Overstreet Mall” we’re offering a street wear pop up shop and an evening wear/separates on the go Atelier. Each of which, will feature Charlotte based fashion designers/artists and live interactive demonstrations. The true jewel of this new meeting ground will be the SHOUT! Chic “Fashion Icons”, 15 wildly embellished fashion mannequins transformed and adorned by some of Charlotte’s incredible fashion designers. Come stroll through and get to know them. Don’t forget to snag selfies with your faves!