Festivals in South Carolina

From South Carolina's Atlantic coast, where the Grand Strand unrolls its beaches, to the historic grace of Charleston and a Lowcountry laced with marshes and tidal creeks, the Palmetto State turns its geography into a stage. In Myrtle Beach, the Carolina Country Music Festival plants its stages in the sand each summer for four days of country facing the ocean — one of the East Coast's biggest gatherings of the genre. Charleston, by contrast, keeps a rootsier spirit: the High Water Music Festival, dreamed up by local duo Shovels & Rope, blends americana, folk and indie along the riverbanks each spring.

Come autumn, Riverfront Revival carries that waterside roots tradition on in Charleston, while the Southern Soul Blues Festival and the High Tide Music Festival are reminders of how deeply Southern blues and soul still run through the region's musical identity. Between the country fervor of the shoreline and the americana weekends of the port city, FestT works out your FestiScore — how closely a lineup matches your favorite artists — and keeps dates, headliners and ticketing up to date.