Key West Band Free Concert

This Thursday June 17th join locals and vacationers for a free concert with The Key West Band at Rourk Garden on Main Street in Shallotte NC.

Gather up the family, lawn chairs and coolers and come on down to Shallotte’s Rourk Garden for great entertainment This summer! Listen toan  awesome Jimmy Buffet tribute band!

Free Summer Concerts & Movies

Join locals and vacationers for free concerts and top movies at Rourk Garden on Main Street in Shallotte NC.

Gather up the family, lawn chairs and coolers and come on down to Shallotte’s Rourk Garden for great entertainment This summer! Listen to some awesome bands playing beach music, classic rock, Jimmy Buffet, and contemporary country. See some great movies, stroll through area artists offerrngs. and have a snack— its all FREE!

Our Sunday May 30th concert will honor our local veterans and for a special pre-movie concert before The Hannah Montana Movie. There will be even more Surprises, So come early! Please no alcohol and don’t forget file the bug spray (just in case)!

May 30     6:00pm Memorial Day with The Craig Woolard Band
June 3     4:00—8:00pm SummerFest Art Festival
June 11     8;00pm “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”
June 17    7:00pm Key West Bond
June 25    8:00pm ‘The Blindside” (P6 -13)
July I      7:00pm Jaded Mayberry Band
July 15     7:00pm The Embers Band
July 23     8:00pm “Monsters vs. Aliens”
August 5   7:00pm The Coastline Band
August 20  7.00pm “Hannah Montana The Movie”
(with Gabbie Roe as Hannah Montana Show)
Sept 2     7:00pm The Spare Change Band

Spend An Unforgettable Day!

Come to the beach and take in some history at Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson Historic Site and Orton Plantation. Read more

Orton Plantation 100th Anniversary

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Local Theaters Go Digital

The technology used for projecting movies onto the screens at movie theaters hasn’t changed much over the decades but now it has taken a giant leap!

Coastal Cinemas in Shallotte has just changed over from using the traditional 35 mm film to all-digital projection. Engineers there recently installed new Sony 4K Digital Cinema Systems technology into their 10-screen theater, providing for viewing in high-definition for regular and 3-D movies.

The new 4K format produces four times the number of pixels in its images than other digital projectors. The first major motion picture to incorporate this new technology was James Cameron’s recent blockbuster “Avatar.” Sony claims it will soon become the norm.

At Coastal Cinemas, three of the 10 screens will now show 3-D movies. Several of these are soon to premiere there. These include “Toy Story 3 and “How to Train Your Dragon”. Sony has created a partnership with RealD combining the 4K projector system with RealD’s 3D technology, creating an intense experience for moviegoers.

The new projectors also make the method of building film to be projected onto the screen obsolete and this will create an lighter workload for theater employees.

Before the installation of the digital projector, theater staff had to build the movies using film reels placed on circular tables called “platters”. The projectionist then fed the film through a number of rollers, then had to thread the film through the projector with it finally ending up on another platter.

With the change to digital technology the staff will receive movies on hard drives to be downloaded into the digital projectors instead of receiving large canisters of film every week to feed through the projector.

Using no film will mean there are fewer moving parts, no splicing and none of the wear and tear that gradually breaks down film.

Memorial Day in Shallotte

Memorial Day in Shallotte begins with the Memorial Day Service, Sunday, May 30, beginning at 6:00pm.

The service will include Patriotic Music, Gun Salute, Laying of the Wreath and much more.

The Craig Woolard Band will perform. Rourk Gardens, Main Street, Shallotte.

Memorial Day originated in 1868, when Union General John A. Logan designated a day in which the graves of Civil War soldiers would be decorated.

Known as Decoration Day, the holiday was changed to Memorial Day within twenty years, becoming a holiday dedicated to the memory of all war dead. It became a federal holiday in 1971, and is now observed on the last Monday in May.

There is also a Confederate Memorial Day, which is celebrated on various days in spring in some of the southern states.

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