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1.Carolina Chocolate Drops A Rare Find by van Vleck, Philip Metro Magazine Vol. 8 Issue 9, Sept 2007
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The Carolina Chocolate Drops is a group of three young musicians--Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson, Dom Flemons. The group has rediscovered and is keeping alive the traditions of African American string bands of the Piedmont. The group's name derives from a string band of the 1920s, \"The Tennessee Chocolate Drops.\"
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Kinston native Clyde Mattocks is a versatile musician who has been making music up and down the East Coast for over forty years. He has spent his lifetime entertaining in a variety of venues, including bars, honky-tonks, and the musical stage. In 1974, he formed the Super Grit Cowboy Band, a group still performing today.
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Southern Culture on the Skids (SCOTS) is a Chapel Hill- based rock band. Although critics have attached various labels to the band's sound, the group has developed over the last fifteen years a style that labels cannot adequately portray. One point that most agree on is the SCOTS is one of the greatest bar bands in the history of bars and bands.
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Jazz has had its ups and downs, in terms of fan support, in the last 80 years, though it remains one of America's great contributions to the world of music. In North Carolina, Duke University has taken steps to ensure the future of the Duke Jazz Ensemble by hiring jazz artist John Brown.
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In seeking to upgrade its student orchestra program, Duke University sought the services of conductor and educator Harry Davidson, who arrived at Duke in 1999. Since the, Davidson, has indeed become a maestro of the Duke Symphony, turning around a program that was adrift.
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One of Nashville's most prolific songwriters is Jim Lauderdale, a North Carolina native. He released his first album in 1991 and has released seven more since 1998, including two with bluegrass legends Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys. van Vleck discusses songwriting and performing with Lauderdale.
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Susan Newberry, Executive Director of PineCone, the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music, and co-worker, Sarah Beth Woodruff, promote and present traditional musicians. PineCone, headquartered in Raleigh, brings touring acts to the Triangle and showcases local and regional musicians. Van Vleck discusses the origin and goals of the organization.
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Durham resident Nnenna Freelon has had a distinguished, ten-year jazz career. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award five times and has received the Billie Holliday Award and Eubie Blake Award. She made her film debut in a Mel Gibson film. Freelon discusses her life and her work in this METRO interview.
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About 30,000 adules and children in the US suffer from cystic fibrosis, a condition that most frequently causes infection, inflammation and obstruction of the lungs and digestive system. John Plymale is a dues-paid member of the Triangle music scene, and one of his daughters has been diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. The friends and connections Plymale has made during this musical adventures recently paid another dividend in the form of SONGS FOR SIXTY-FIVE ROSES, an album recently released an intended to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
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Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, the most popular band in North Carolina was Arrogance. Although it never created a national audience, the band is credited with pumping life into Raleigh's rock music scene. Van Vleck describes the band's two 30th anniversary concerts held in June 2000.
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Van Vleck discusses the musical gifts of singer/songwriter Allyson Light, of Chapel Hill. Light is presently a sophomore at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She began writing her own tunes at the age of fourteen. Her most recent album, \"Looking Glass Conversations,\" reveals an artist who's coming into her own as a composer and performer. Light plans on staying with her music activities for “the foreseeable future.â€
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Van Vleck looks at the extraordinary year for North Carolina musicians that was 2002, providing a list of the best albums by North Carolina musicians.
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North Carolina native Riley Baugus is a fine old-time musician who reveres the music of the Southern Appalachians. The first instrument he mastered was the fiddle, followed by the guitar and banjo. Baugus was one of the artists who had an important role in recreating the 19th-century music heard on the soundtrack of the movie, COLD MOUNTAIN.
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Raleigh native Jim Crew, a well-known keyboard player among Triangle jazz and salsa fans, has discovered that composing music for the virtual world can be a rewarding gig. Crew has been working for the software developer Random Games, located in Morrisville, for six years, composing music for their various computer game projects.
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Shanachie Records has just released a CD compilation of Reverend Gary Davis' music. Rev. Gary Davis, a major figure in the history of Piedmont Blues, is of particular importance to North Carolina, having spent a good deal of his life in the Tar Heel State.
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