Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium Archives

2024 rewind: Upstate Beat

2024 was a year of ups and downs for the local music scene, and a lot of those ups and downs were chronicled here in the “Upstate Beat” column.

Here is a list of five Upstate concerts to look forward to in the first half of 2025 by Vincent Harris.

Band keyboardist Dean Sams said he has definitely noticed a resurgence in Lonestar’s concert crowds lately.

The Tops and The Temptations perform at the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium Oct. 17.

The 3,200-plus capacity venue has been open since 1951 and was most recently refurbished in the early 2000s.

It’s difficult to imagine a band with a better pedigree than the one Asia had when it formed in 1981.

REO Speedwagon is playing every song on its 1980 album “Hi Infidelity.”

Charlie Starr is not a patient man. Not when his band, the Atlanta, Georgia, beast known as Blackberry Smoke, has a new album ready.

Early in October, Dylan Scott released a new six-track EP called “I’ll Be a Bartender.”

Walker Hayes’ show in Spartanburg isn’t just a chance to see a country singer in top form – it’s a chance to check out a cultural phenomenon.