Downtown Raleigh’s annual Hopscotch Music Festival, now two weeks away from its Sept. 5—7 run, has announced a full slate of day parties to accompany its evening showcases, along with a few changes to the original festival schedule. Late adds to the lineup include D.C. Virginia DJ duo Gents & Jawns, New Hampshire metal band […]
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Hopscotch announces day panels, art projects
Raleigh’s upcoming Hopscotch Music Festival has announced the topics and participants for its annual series of day panels Sept. 5—7 at the City of Raleigh Museum. The panels include many of the musicians performing at the festival, held at a dozen venues in downtown Raleigh. Each discussion runs from 3—5 p.m., and admission is free. […]
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Hopscotch adds A-Trak and Holy Ghost!, announces Big Boi makeup date
Hopscotch Music Festival has announced a Sept. 21 makeup date at Raleigh’s Memorial Auditorium to replace hip-hop artist Big Boi’s cancellation of his originally-scheduled Sept. 6 appearance at City Plaza during the festival, which runs Sept. 5-7 in downtown Raleigh. The festival also announced former Kanye West tour DJ A-Trak and Brooklyn synth-pop duo Holy […]
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Headliner Big Boi cancels Hopscotch date
Atlanta hip-hop star Big Boi, who was scheduled to headline a Sept. 6 show at Raleigh’s City Plaza as part of the Hopscotch Music Festival, will no longer perform as part of the festival, Hopscotch co-directors Greg Lowenhagen and Grayson Currin confirmed Friday afternoon. [Disclosure: Currin is also music editor of INDY Week, which no […]
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George Holt’s vision allows the NCMA’s amphitheater to shine
George Holt remembers the phone call that almost changed his life. It was from his mentor in Washington, D.C., and it went something like this: “George, why don’t you come up to D.C. and be the director of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival?” This was 30 years ago, recalls Holt, director of performing arts and film […]
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Video: Brett Harris moves forward with new songs
I first became aware of Brett Harris two summers ago, when I went to see Chapel Hill pop mastermind Chris Stamey play a Tuesday-evening acoustic show at West End Wine Bar on Franklin Street and Harris appeared as an unbilled opener. Between sets, Stamey spoke so highly of Harris’ work that it seemed mandatory to […]
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With or without a band, Jason Kutchma’s dual new albums depend on him
JKutchma & the Five Fifths Wednesday, June 5, 7 p.m. $10–$12 Duke Gardens Last Chance Records, the Arkansas imprint that will release new music by Durham songwriter Jason Kutchma this month, recently asked the musician to write a brief autobiographythe sort of thing that labels send to music critics and radio stations to help sell […]
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Birds and Arrows, but no cello (tonight at Casbah)
Photo by Bill Hudson for Birds and ArrowsBack to basics Birds and Arrows’ recent guest spot on WUNC-FM’s “The State of Things” found husband-and-wife Pete and Andrea Connolly joined on banjo by Kyra Moore—but notably without longtime cellist Josh Starmer, who recently departed the band after four years. Starmer joined Birds and Arrows in 2009 […]
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The Third Expression will roll tape at Marsh Woodwinds
Photo courtesy of the bandThe Third Expression Concerts at Marsh Woodwinds are too few and far between, given that it’s the best listening room in Raleigh. You can forgive owner Rodney Marsh for the infrequency: His priority is the instrument sales and repair store downstairs, so the shows in his second-floor space—lovingly decorated with a […]
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Stillhouse’s The Great Reprise
Stillhouse Thursday, May 2 Kings 10 p.m., $8-$10 Sunday, May 5 Cat’s Cradle 9 p.m., free Although guitarist Dave Wilson and multi-instrumentalist Greg Readling earn their living with Raleigh bluegrass/Americana outfit Chatham County Line, it wouldn’t be accurate to classify Stillhouse as a side project; it existed before Chatham County Line formed more than a […]
