“Nourishing Community From North Carolina to Africa” runs from 6-9 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14, at the Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw. Admission is on a sliding scale from $10 to $100. In 2009, when Senegalese kora player and griot singer Diali Keba Cissokho married Hilary Stewart, a Pittsboro native, the two had a big […]
Sylvia Pfeiffenberger
Bio: Sylvia Pfeiffenberger lives in Durham and hosts a weekly Latin music show on WXDU.
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The five members of Peter Lamb’s Wolves stretch their techniques—and the boundaries of their jazz
Peter Lamb and The Wolves play Motorco’s free brunch every Sunday in June at 1 p.m. Their residency at Humble Pie continues, first and third Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. At first glance, one might suspect a jazz quintet like Peter Lamb and The Wolveswell-dressed men playing superficially familiar jazz in low-lit Triangle hauntsof aiming for […]
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Shana Tucker’s Shine
Shana Tucker plays the UNC Center for the Study of the American South on Thursday, April 28, at 5 p.m., followed by a 9:30 p.m. show at Deep South the Bar. She also plays Friday, April 29, at Irregardless Cafe in Raleigh. Shine, the lush, chamber-soul debut from Durham singer-songwriter Shana Tucker, is an earful. […]
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Durham filmmakers Josh Gibson and Rodrigo Dorfman return to the festival
Kudzu Vine plays Friday at 4:40 p.m. in Cinema 1; One Night in Kernersville plays Saturday at 10:10 p.m. in Cinema 3. Two short films with strong ties to Duke have their world debut at Full Frame this year: Kudzu Vine, by Josh Gibson, and One Night in Kernersville, by Rodrigo Dorfman. Gibson, on the […]
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Emeline Michel’s rich Haitian fusion
Emeline Michel performs at North Carolina State University’s Stewart Theatre Saturday, April 16, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $24–$28. The nickname “Queen of Haitian Song” doesn’t sit well with Emeline Michel. The daughter of a Baptist pastor of modest means from Gonaives, Michel rose to become a teen singing sensation in the mid-1980s. Thanks to […]
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Via Romen explains—and reinvigorates—Romany music
In Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Romany, the words for counting from 1 to 4 are identical. Romany, an Indic language, has nothing to do with Romania, or Rome: It belongs to the Romany nation (often referred to as Gypsy), people whose ancestors traveled out of South Asia through the Middle East and into Europe, starting […]
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Eddie Palmieri continues to reinvent his pioneering Latin jazz
Eddie Palmieri performs at UNC’s Memorial Hall Friday, Feb. 18, as part of the 34th Carolina Jazz Festival, which runs Feb. 16-26. Tickets are $10-$55 for the 8 p.m. show. For more about the show, visit Carolina Performing Arts. For more about the Carolina Jazz Festival, visit The Department of Music at UNC. To read […]
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Greensboro’s The Brand New Life communicates with its notes
Brand New Life joins Diali Cissokho and The Lizzy Ross Band Friday, Feb. 11, at Nightlight. Tickets are $5; doors are at 9, show is at 9:30 p.m. When Seth Barden, the 24-year-old bass player in Greensboro’s The Brand New Life, says that “music is the universal language,” he’s not just repeating niceties. During a […]
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Orquesta GarDel’s Lo Que Tú Querías
Orquesta GarDel celebrates Lo Que Tú Querías Saturday, Jan. 29, at 9 p.m. at Motorco, with Dark Water Rising. Tickets are $6. Last year, the Triangle’s largest salsa orchestra, Orquesta GarDel, encountered a crossroads: produce their first CD, or else be consigned to history as another functional regional salsa band that never left a permanent […]
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Interview with Buika
Concha Buika ravishes with her singing voice, but even in spoken conversation, the sweetly rasping flamenco singer provokes goosebumps, pouring out her ideas in poetic cadences. Her artististic principles are at one with her outlook on life: an open bisexual, a child of African immigrants, a one-time Tina Turner impersonater, an aspiring electronica programmer—nothing’s a […]
