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Hunter MacDermut’s The Tourist
If Hunter MacDermut has to be put under a microscope, he’d rather it be beneath warm stage lights, not the bright fluorescence of this frighteningly clean kitchen. MacDermut doesn’t like to talk about the solo acoustic music he makes as The Tourist. He just likes to play it. “Classical thinkers analyze everything. I’m more of […]
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Dorkfest? Cool! Or not…
Scotty Irving isn’t worried about his big Durham set this weekend as Clang Quartet. In fact, he’s confident in his status as one of the six acts on the second annual Dorkfest, a convocation of bands that do something a bit differently. “I am Scotty Irving. My show is Clang Quartet. I think in most […]
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Charles Latham and friends turn the Triangle toward antifolk
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Jason Fagg probably has band practice tonight
The Water Callers (with Randy Whitt & the Grits and Puritan Rodeo Show)Friday, Nov. 17, 10 p.m. Wetlands, Chapel Hill Saturday, Dec. 9 Broad Street Cafe, Durham When Jason Fagg first played a church with his acoustic duo The Water Callers, he says he feared he would “burst into flames.” The Water CallersFagg and Bart […]
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Seriously funny
A washboard hangs on the wall. There’s a saw nearby, sitting among vintage amps, a drum set, congas, a piano, a saxophone, a trumpet, a trombone, guitars and ukuleles. There’s a stand-up bass leaning against a wall, a gift from a grandmother, close to a banjo rescued from a dumpster. “Most of this stuff was […]
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It’s Got That Swing
Even with the frantic pace of teaching and performing, internationally known jazz drummer and vocalist Grady Tate makes time to come back to his alma mater. This weekend, the North Carolina Central University alumnus returns for the annual NCCU Jazz Festival that bears his name. Along with Tate, the excellent bill includes newly settled Durhamite […]
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