Merlefest Wilkes Community College North Wilkesboro, North Carolina Thursday, April 28, 2016—Sunday, May 1, 2016 Thursday night at Merlefest is generally the most difficult portion to attend. If you are not committed to camping for the full four days, it doesn’t make much sense to come for an abbreviated day. But as the festival grew […]
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Video: The Mountain Goats and Loamlands Say F U to HB 2 in Durham
The Mountain Goats, Loamlands The Pinhook, Durham Thursday, May 12, 2016 Last week, the Mountain Goats teamed up with Loamlands for FU HB 2, a sold-out benefit for the Southern Vision Alliance. The Pinhook was packed with a noticeably younger crowd. Between songs, Kym Register—who runs Loamlands as well as The Pinhook—advocated for the full […]
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Video: Shooter Jennings Revives Classics and More at Motorco
Shooter Jennings & Waymore’s Outlaws Motorco Music Hall, Durham Wednesday, May 4, 2016 The crowd that arrived at Motorco early on May 4 were treated to a forty-five minute set from Waylon Jennings’s former backing band, Waymore’s Outlaws. Tommy Townsend provided lead vocals, though the group was actually anchored by longtime Waylon confidant and drummer […]
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Tony Williamson, Mandolin Master, Talks This Weekend’s Mando Mania at MerleFest
Raleigh resident Tony Williamson has been a fixture at the Wilkes County bluegrass festival Merlefest since 1995. Each year, his “Mando Mania” serves as a must-see event. The hour-long program brings the best mandolinsts on the festival grounds together to sing songs, pick, and discuss their love for the instrument. Outside of being an accomplished […]
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Video: Hank, Pattie & The Current Make Their Debut at Kings
Hank, Pattie & The Current Kings, Raleigh Friday, April 22, 2016 On a Tuesday night at the erstwhile Tir Na Nog, Hank Smith was performing his weekly hosting duties at the Beer & Banjos series (which has since moved to Raleigh Times) when he came across an interesting pair of musicians called The Reckless Brothers. […]
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Weed Is Legal in Dinwiddie! The Dinwiddies Wish You a Happy 4/20!
In mid-March, a mere week before the passage of House Bill 2 prompted bands to start canceling their plans to play North Carolina, Raleigh welcomed two very special musical guests from out-of-the-way locales. The Snails, from a shoebox, headlined Kings on a Friday night. For openers, they invited the special human guests of The Dinwiddies—of […]
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Live: At Duke, Joan Baez Calls Trump a Troglodyte, Wows With Guthrie and Cotten
Joan Baez Duke’s Page Auditorium, Durham Sunday, March 20, 2016 Joan Baez pulled no punches when she visited Duke University’s Page Auditorium Sunday. She played the same room in the mid-sixties. Just as she spoke out then against the troubles facing the country, she did it again now. After walking on stage by herself, met […]
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Video: Peter Rowan Holds Court at Duke’s Baldwin Auditorium
Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band Duke’s Baldwin Auditorium, Durham Friday, March 4, 2016 Earlier this month, the bluegrass stalwart Peter Rowan stopped in Durham for a performance at Duke. The show paired one of the more pristine, recognizable voices in bluegrass with one of the more acoustically sound venues in the region, the Baldwin Auditorium. Rowan […]
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Video: Humanize Visits the New Sadlands in Carrboro
Humanize, Teardrop Canyon Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016 Humanize (formerly, Human Eyes) have long seemed to fly just below the Triangle’s collective musical radar. Three years after the quiet release of the great Guiding Eyes For The Blind, the group changed its name and issued Sadlands early this month. With Thomas […]
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Video: Peter Yarrow Goes Beyond “Puff The Magic Dragon” in Raleigh
Peter Yarrow Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016 Last month, seventy-seven-year-old folk singer Peter Yarrow hosted a career-spanning concert at Raleigh’s Fletcher Opera Theater. It stretched well beyond three hours, as it should have. Yarrow has been everywhere, it seems, so he has many interesting stories to share from his fifty-year career. He […]