Wild Edges: A Musical Collaboration with Joe Henry, Over the Rhine and The Milk Carton Kids Hayti Heritage Center, Durham Friday, April 11, 2014 The ambition was, as Joe Henry put it Friday night in Durham, to write a batch of new music that will “stand, no matter how abstractly or cozily, in response to […]
Ashley Melzer
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Southern Documentary Fund’s Rachel Raney on “In-the-Works” at Full Frame
This Sunday at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, the Southern Documentary Fund presents “In-the-Works,” its annual sneak peek and critique session for new projects that have yet to reach their final cuts. This year, the program runs from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Durham Arts Council and features Danielle Beverly’s Old South, about […]
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Abigail Washburn talks collaborations with her husband Béla Fleck, plays UNC tonight
Abigail Washburn and Béla Fleck have thriving musical careers that have spanned the globe, from the hills of the Sichuan Provence in China to the flood plains of The Gambia. And now they have Juno, their baby boy born last year. As one-half of the adventurous ensemble The Sparrow Quartet, Fleck and Washburn reimagined chamber […]
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ComedyWorx celebrates 25 years of nurturing local improv
Head to the corner of Peace and West Streets in Raleigh and you’ll find a jaunty ComedyWorx logo on an unassuming brick storefront. “FUNNY & CLEAN,” reads a sign on the window. This theater is home to the improv troupe founded by Richard Gardner, a now-retired environmental engineer who has spent the last quarter-century producing […]
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Josh Sharp returns to his Triangle roots with Upright Citizens Brigade
UCB TourCo Carolina Theatre March 21 Tickets start at $18 The most exclusive basement in New York City might be the one below Gristedes grocery store on West 26th Street. There, you’ll find the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, a lightning rod for an innovative community of improvisers and writers who are vying to be the […]
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Durham-Chapel Hill-Hillsborough Old-Time Jam finds a new home in Carrboro
Starting tomorrow, old-timers can head to The ArtsCenter in Carrboro for the Durham-Chapel Hill-Hillsborough Old-Time Jam. The need for a new space for the twice-monthly jam came after The Depot in Hillsborough closed this December. “Sadly, something did not work out, and they decided to shut the doors altogether,” says organizer Mike Sollins. “I posted […]
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After a bout of online bullying, a Durham woman walks away with a new Moog synthesizer
After taking 2013 off, Moogfest is back and clammering to be at the top of your social media news feed. Their big idea to make that happen? The Moogfest Amplification Society, which, during February, turned would-be fans into marketing minions who posted, tweeted, shared and instagrammed for a chance to be atop the contest’s leader […]
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John Darnielle set to release his first novel
The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle is known as a storyteller in song. But this October, he moves to printed fiction when Farrar, Straus and Giroux publishes his debut novel, Wolf in White Van. The story follows Sean Phillips, a man isolated from society since an injury at 17 left him disfigured. Broader plot points are […]
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Now that Little Raleigh Radio is on the online air, what can you actually hear?
For nearly five years, Kelly Reid and Jacob Downey had dreamed of and planned for what happened at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 17. Tucked away in a small studio off of St. Mary’s Street, the pair finally took Little Raleigh Radiotheir brainchild of a station dedicated to local news, music and interestsonline. “It’s the […]
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Kat Robichaud hopes to Kickstart her career after The Voice
Almost three months have passed since Raleigh’s Kat Robichaud was eliminated from The Voice. The singing competition had been kind to her for the most part, providing Robichaud with a grand forum for belting her big notes and kicking her stretch pants high. She stage-dove and earned some 30,000-plus Twitter fans. Ultimately, Tessanne Chin grabbed […]