Meet Songstress Elise Testone
Originally Published October 23, 2009 Elise Testone has a voice that you know was meant to sing. If you are at the music club and the room is filled with a stirringly passionate voice belting out jazz, soul, and rock standards, or an original that you are beginning to fall in love with, then [...]
2012 Sea & Sand Festival – Folly Beach – Saturday & Sunday March 24 & 25
Information on the Sea & Sand Festival, March 24 & 25, 2012 on Folly Beach, SC. Everyone’s favorite festival on Folly Beach is the annual Sea & Sand festival, now in it’s 22nd year. This year along with the bands, food, games and vendors on Center Street, there will be a scavenger hunt, a surf [...]
February 2012 Folly Beach Real Estate Market Report
Information on the sales of homes, condominiums, and property on Folly Beach, SC. 5 properties sold on Folly Beach in February 2012, bringing the total to 10 for 2012. The median price year-to-date is $397,500. This compares to 16 sold for a median price of $392,500 for the same time period in 2011. The highest [...]
2012 Folly Gras Festival & Parade – Saturday February 18th
Come and enjoy Mardi Gras, Folly style with the annual Folly Gras festival and parade. Center Street on Folly Beach will close down from 12-5 pm, and there will be New Orleans style food and drink, as well as activities and a parade. If you are interested in being in the parade, show up to [...]
January 2012 Folly Beach Real Estate Market Report
Information on real estate sales activity for Folly Beach, SC. 4 properties sold in January 2012 for an average sales price of $364,375. January is typically a slower sales month on the island, and this level of activity is normal. The sales included a Mariners Cay condominium for $225,000, a small beach cottage for $337,500, [...]
Follywood Productions celebrates 2 years strong with party on February 4, 2012
Follywood Productions may not be what you think. They are not a concert promoter, record label, or management firm, although all those roles have been performed. In fact, owner and founder Ben Bounds once owned a 360 label that handled the entire realm of music business from management to booking, promotion, publicity, and overseeing studio [...]
Taste of Folly Beach 2012
A Taste of Folly 2012 will be held Saturday, January 21st from 11am-6pm. The annual event is a crowd favorite with food booths from your local restaurants, a server race, dunk tank, live music, hot dog eating contest, chili cookoff, date auction and more! This event is put on by the Folly Beach Restaurant Association [...]
Why I Love Folly Beach
Why I love Folly Beach A Canadian friend recently asked me what drew me to Folly Beach? The truth is I was intrigued that an authentic beach town could be found among the elite of South Carolina resort destinations. Let me explain. I’d been to Kiawah and Hilton Head too, but when I wanted to show a [...]
2011 Folly Beach Real Estate Market Report
Folly Beach real estate showed signs of life in 2011, with more buyers taking advantage of the low prices to find a new beach home. That may be good news for the future, as a rise in demand is exactly what sellers are looking for. 94 properties sold on Folly Beach in 2011 compared with [...]
Save the Lighthouse Oyster Roast – January 8, 2012 – Bowens Island
An Oyster Roast will be held Sunday January 8, 2012 from 2-6 P.M. at Bowens Island at Folly Beach to benefit Save the Light, an organization committed to preserving the Morris Island lighthouse. Tickets are $25 per person, and include all the local oysters you can eat plus beer and sodas. Chili and hotdogs will [...]
Folly Beach New Years Eve information 2011/2012
Wondering what is going on and where the party is at on Folly Beach this New Years Eve? Here is a guide to all the events, music, and parties on the island. (12/26 – site in progress, updated information will be added) Giant Flip Flop DropMidnight New Years Eve [...]
2011 Folly Beach New Years Eve information
Wondering what is going on and where the party is at on Folly Beach this New Years Eve? Here is a guide to all the events, music, and parties on the island. (12/26 – site in progress, updated information will be added) Giant Flip Flop [...]
Have a Folly Jolly Christmas
My favorite English professor once told me, “Good things come in threes.” This to my protest of having to read Beowulf a third time. But here we are to all who know us, three years after moving from Switzerland to Folly Beach and our lives are falling into place. For better or worse we count [...]
Folly Beach Christmas parade – Saturday December 10, 2011 – 1:00 PM
The Folly Beach Christmas parade will be held this Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 1:00 PM. Be sure you are across the bridge by 1:00 as it will close to island traffic during the parade. Participants can begin showing up at 11:00 to line up in front of Marsh Winds on Folly Rd. There is [...]
Enjoying the warm weather in December on Folly Beach, SC
Contributed by Laurie Bruton Long time Folly Beach resident Linda Price was out on the east side beach this morning lavishing in the balmy 74 degree weather, contemplating life and collecting shells to add to her ocean treasures which include dried starfish and sand dollars. Linda and her family have always only taken what is [...]
Thankful for Folly Beach
Folly Beach at Thanksgiving, through the eyes of Laurie Bruton, contributer. Through the past seasons and more and more, many of us are holding closer the values and traditions which exemplify our lives at Thanksgiving. We feel grateful for home, a shelter to secure us; for family and friends to laugh with and who uphold [...]
October 2011 Folly Beach Real Estate Market Report
Keeping you current on real estate information, including home and condo sales, and market trends on Folly Beach, SC. 2 properties sold on Folly Beach in October 2011, bringing the total year-to-date sales to 77. This was a weak sign and one of the lowest total sales months of the year. Our chances of hitting [...]
Eric Penrod – Local Folly Beach musician
Classically trained, and having toured all over the country, Eric Penrod has successfully built up a steady following here on Folly Beach. He heads the Eric Penrod trio, a funk/jazz fusion band which includes Jake Holwegner on bass and alternates between Quentin Ravenel and Stratton Moore on drums. Penrod writes all the music and lyrics [...]
Folly Beach Halloween Carnival 2011
The Folly Beach Civic Club will once more be bringing family fun and excitement to our beach by organizing a Halloween carnival on Monday evening, October 31, 2011 at the Folly River Park on Center St. from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. There will be apple bobbing, trick or treat bags for children of all ages, [...]
Graham Whorley loves Folly Beach
Graham Whorley loves Folly Beach, and is a pioneer and trailblazer of the music scene here on the island. When they write the book about music on Folly, there will be a whole chapter on him, and talking to him was an awesome education on where we are and why we are here. He is [...]
