Performing to a jam-packed house at the Appalachian Summer Festival in Boone, showbiz veteran Keb’ Mo’ and his band of virtuoso musicians thrilled with a perfectly programmed evening of Delta and country blues and...
Read MoreAn Appalachian Summer Festival, App State’s award-winning month-long celebration of the arts, opened its 2023 season Saturday night with a charming evening of song by Leslie Odom Jr. Best known for originating the role of...
Read MoreAmythyst Kiah and Alexa Rose Return to the Stage for PineCone
Among the first in-person concerts held this year at the Duke Energy Performing Arts Center, PineCone’s presentation of Amythyst Kiah with Alexa Rose at Fletcher Opera Theater was a lovely return to the concert hall for...
Read MoreOur Own Nina Simone’s Only Major Celebration in Raleigh this Season
The Nina Simone weekend series, “Home Made Me” kicked off last night at the North Carolina Museum of Art. As the room buzzed with excitement and guests found their seats, Simone’s version of “Here Comes...
Read MoreAt the Hayti Center: Nina Simone’s Only Local Appearance this Season
Yolanda Rabun has invested a substantial portion of her artistic life to keeping alive the memory and legacy of Nina Simone, the Tryon-NC-born pianist, singer, and Civil Rights icon who flashed like a slow-burning, persistent...
Read MoreThe Cary Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. presented an evening of jazz at the Cary Theater, featuring vocalist Connie McCoy and the band Mo’ Jazz. Proceeds from the gala contributed directly toward the...
Read MoreThe Cary Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. presented an evening of jazz at the Cary Theater, featuring vocalist Connie McCoy and the band Mo’ Jazz. Proceeds from the gala contributed directly toward the...
Read MoreThe Campbell Brothers Meet Coltrane with A Love Supreme
Wednesday night Kicking off the Bull Durham Blues Festival, the Campbell Brothers made the first of three Durham appearances at the Pinhook on September 3 as DJ and recording engineer Dave Tilley took the stage with the steel...
Read MoreAnyone reading this will most likely remember news footage of devastating floods throughout the Midwest during the spring and summer of both 2010 and 1993. As disruptive and destructive as those were to millions of Americans,...
Read MoreOn John Mayall’s 1966 seminal Lp Bluesbreakers, featuring the 21 year-old Eric Clapton, there was a song called “Parchman Farm.” Despite being a great blues song, it is doubtful that many of us knew what the...
Read MoreThe ageless band with the odd moniker Hot Tuna played the Carolina Theatre this evening to a sell-out crowd that was eager to hear the hard-rockin’ blues that is the group’s trademark. Dividing the evening into two...
Read MoreAlthough unintended, there was more than a little irony in Otis Taylor’s statement, “It’s so quiet in here, it sounds like church.” Taylor, jointly presented by Maxx Music, the Visulite Theatre, and the...
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