Bluegrass Icon Larry Sparks Plays at Feed and Seed
Larry Sparks admits that he has a little black book filled with the phone numbers of potential sidemen, just in case his backing band,…
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From France to Frenchtown (NJ): Kate Grom plays Black Bear
Rising Americana songwriter Kate Grom has been compared to Gillian Welch, but with her abundance of tresses and luminous good looks, she more aptly…
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Southern Gothic and the Devil’s Instrument: Scott Bianchi and Crosby Cofod
Dip away from the Tryon Beer Festival on Saturday, November 4, to check out some local music influenced by dark-holler moonshine — atmospherically speaking…
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Getting It Done
Growing up in Awendaw, a fishing village in Charleston County, trumpet player/vocalist Charlton Singleton says Gullah culture was so woven into the fabric of…
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From Hardship to Hip-Hop
Rock Williams and director Javier Garcia, the founders of Soul Street Dance, were motivated to make their Houston-based hip-hop collective something truly remarkable. “We…
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Brand Leader
Led by singer/songwriter Amanda Anne Platt, WNC-based Americana/country band the Honeycutters are a popular draw on the concert and festival circuit. The group recently…
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A Thousand Paths to Mountain Music
Carol Rifkin is an expert on mountain music from many angles. She sings and plays it, she writes about it, and she’s the host…
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Up-Tempo, Down River
Jordan Okrend manages to have it both ways. He’s a pop artist, but one who incorporates more ambitious forms into his original music without…
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Smoking the Blues Scene
Cigar-box guitars are very much in vogue now; it’s not at all unusual to see a nationally touring act take the stage with a…
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Glam Dynamics
Led by husband and wife Tony Tyler (guitar, vocals) and Dani Jaye (violin, vocals), St. Petersburg, Florida-based Come Back Alice evokes the arena-rock party…
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