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Ashley Melzer
Bio: Ashley Melzer is a writer, photographer and filmmaker living in Carrboro.Twitter: http://twitter.com/ashleymelzer
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Full Frame video interview: Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher discuss Raising Renee
Raising Renee screens at 2 p.m. Friday in Fletcher Hall. Read Chris Vitiello’s story about the film here.
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Alumni of Raleigh’s Enloe High School gather their tunes in Chapel Hill
All Enloe Performer Night is open to all spectators Thursday, Dec. 23, 9 p.m. at Nightlight. On Thursday, Viswas Chitnis will play a three-hour set of classical Indian music at Chapel Hill’s The Mint. Then he’ll slip around the corner to Nightlight and trade his sitar for a keyboard, joining a vivacious cadre of performers […]
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Eleni Vlachos’ vegan Thanksgiving sidesteps politics for community
When Eleni Vlachosalso known as Eleni Binge, half of the quirky Durham pop duo Beloved Bingebecame a vegetarian two decades ago, she was quickly confronted with the challenge of Thanksgiving, the day countless American families gather around a slowly roasted bird. “I didn’t know how to cook yet,” she admits, laughing. Vlachos tried her hand […]
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Pieces of Troika (Ashley Melzer)
I spent a lot of Troika Music Festival not thinking about music at all: I wrestled over the perils of eating food truck-inspired second dinners. I cursed my broken cell phone. I paced between venues looking for familiar faces. I thought about a boy. I clumsily broke a glass and poured beer on my foot. […]
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Troika Music Festival 2010: Thursday, Nov. 4
Troika 2010 website schedule Our Troika guides Thursday Friday Saturday Start the long weekend in Central Park with Carrboro’s BIRDS AND ARROWS at 7 p.m. This trio’s elegant indie folk is a country-politan pop delight. The band’s couple-core, Pete and Andrea Connolly, harmonize over winding, textured arrangements, built above Josh Starmer’s cello. Their metaphors and […]
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Itinerary: Ashley Melzer (2010)
I often experience tall-person guilt. It mostly manifests itself at concerts as the inkling of sympathy I feel for the poor chump stuck standing behind me, only catching a glimpse of a show every time I turn to high-five a friend or reach down to pull my jaw off the floor. When I’m feeling particularly […]
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Birds and Arrows/ Billy Sugarfix’s Carousel Split 7″
“Pride of Lions,” the contribution of Chapel Hill sweethearts Pete and Andrea Connolly of Birds and Arrows to this hand-sewn 7-inch package, follows the elegant, elemental folk path that defined the duo’s full-length debut, Starmaker. But where that record’s tracks tended toward intimate portraiture, this song flirts with idiosyncratic nonsense. The lyrics are a collage […]
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2010 HFQ Compilation
2010 HFQ Compilation is available free at bandcamp. With tracks that play at the edges of metal, noise, blues, country pop and folk, the 2010 Holidays for Quince sampler showcases the region-spanning approach to personal expression. These artists aren’t interested in being part of a macro-discussion of genre convention or playing pawn in the sound […]