Midtown Dickens The Pinhook, Durham Friday, February 23, 2018 After five long years apart, Midtown Dickens reformed at The Pinhook in Durham to benefit the nonprofit organization Durham For All. In that hiatus, core band members Catherine Edgerton and Kym Register have pursued other creative projects—Register running Loamlands and running The Pinhook, Edgerton growing as […]
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Video: H.C. McEntire Celebrates Lionheart at The Pinhook
H.C. McEntire The Pinhook, Durham Friday, February 9 & Saturday, February 10, 2018 Back in February, Heather McEntire celebrated the release of her debut solo album, Lionheart, at The Pinhook in Durham with two sold-out shows. Having led Mount Moriah for a number of years, McEntire has stepped out on her own with solo a […]
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Video: An All-Star Durham Crew Pays Tribute to Tom Petty
Even The Losers: A Tom Petty Tribute The Pinhook, Durham Wednesday, February 14, 2018 When Tom Petty passed away unexpected ly in early October, he left behind an impressive artistic legacy and scores of admirers. A few months later in Durham, a tribute concert at The Pinhook served as a sort of communal mourning for […]
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Video: Rachel Baiman Brings Her “North Carolina Album” to Durham
Rachel Baiman The Pinhook, Durham Saturday, January 27, 2018 Rachel Baiman has referred to her 2017 LP, Shame, as a “North Carolina album” because of the connections she made while recording it in Chapel Hill. The Nashville-based singer and songwriter called upon Mandolin Orange’s Andrew Marlin to produce the album, and with that came contributions […]
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Video: Bat Fangs Bite Back at the Cat’s Cradle Back Room
Bat Fangs Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro Saturday, February 3, 2018 Bat Fangs—the unstoppable duo of Laura King and Betsy Wright—brought their new self-titled album to the Cat’s Cradle Back Room for a performance that sold out well before the date came around. With Solar Halos and Pipe to open the show, the back room […]
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Video: American Aquarium Rolls Out New Songs in Raleigh
American Aquarium Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh Friday, January 26 and Saturday, January 27 2018 It was the fourth year of American Aquarium’s Roadtrip to Raleigh, the annual gathering of the group’s considerable fandom descending upon the band’s home town. Many things about the weekend have remained the same year over year: two sold-out nights at the […]
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Video: Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Deliver on Their Name
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Motorco Music Hall, Durham Sunday, November 12, 2017 It was dark and raining on the corner of Rigsbee and West Greer streets when Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real’s van, the Honeysuckle Rose, came to a stop out front of Motorco Music Hall in Durham. The iconic […]
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Video: Missed Out on IBMA Festivities? We Can Help You Catch Up.
International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass and Wide Open Bluegrass Various venues, Downtown Raleigh Tuesday, September 26–Saturday, September 30, 2017 With the fifth installment of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s (IBMA) World of Bluegrass in Raleigh, it’s easy to get fatigued by the crowds as well as the bands, some of which have repeated […]
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Live: Top-Notch Bluegrass from the Soggy Bottom Boys in O Brother Mode
Soggy Bottom Boys Carolina Theatre, Durham Wednesday, July 5, 2017 “I’ll admit we did have a few problems with the law, but since they legalized a few things in Tennessee, the Soggy Bottom Boys are back in business” exclaimed Stuart Duncan, fiddler and founding member of the group. Earlier this summer, The Soggy Bottom Boys […]
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Video: Mandolin Orange Plays to a Packed House at NCMA
Mandolin Orange North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Saturday, July 22, 2017 The heatwave sweeping the Triangle in late July continued as the gates opened to the North Carolina Museum of Art as a sold-out crowd lined up to brave the temperatures to see Mandolin Orange. Part of the museum’s twentieth season, dubbed its “homegrown […]