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North Carolina has a rich musical heritage. There is definitely something for everybody. Symphonic music is heard in smaller towns as well as larger ones. Seven opera companies perform across the state. Composers, such as Robert Ward, create new compositions. Lovers of the blues can hear the music of Scott Ainslee, Etta Baker, and George Higgs. Bluegrass lovers can find a wealth of musicians playing across the state including bands like Molasses Creek and the Shady Grove Band.
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Traditional music, which includes ballads, gospel music, and string-bands, is music that is not only shaped by a community, but also varies from place to place. String-band music, played on the fiddle, banjo, guitar, and other stringed instruments, is one of North Carolina's best-known music styles. Through CDs and the Internet, traditional music has gained a wider audience of listeners.
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The North Carolina Folk Heritage Award recognizes those individuals whose work preserves the cultural traditions of families and communities. Winners for the year 2000 are Reverend F. C. Barnes, Marvin Gaster, Melvin L. Owens, Bobby McMillon, Amanda Crowe, and James Allen Rose.
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On February 21, 2001, the North Carolina Symphony will play a grand-opening gala concert in the new 1700-seat Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh. For the first time in its 68-year history, the symphony will have its own performance hall, designed strictly with musicians in mind. Prior to this, the orchestra played in Memorial Auditorium, a venue shared by a variety of performing groups.
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Called by some the world's greatest dance festival, the American Dance Festival performs for seven straight weeks in June and July at Duke University. Here the world's leading modern dance companies come to introduce new works and showcase older modern works. Some festival performances have grown too large for Page Auditorium at Duke, and a new and larger venue is being sought.
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The 2002 North Carolina Folk Heritage Award honors North Carolinians who keep the state's cherished traditions alive through their music, stories, and artistry. The 2002 winners include Jerry Wolfe, Oscar \"Red\" Wilson, the Cole sisters, The Briarhoppers, Bishop Dready Manning, and Emmett Jones.
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The Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, formerly St. John's Museum of Art, underwent a massive expansion recently and reopened in April 2002, with a new 42,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility that allows the museum to fully display its stored works. It is the only museum in the country whose \"primary purpose is collecting, archiving and displaying the art of North Carolina.\"
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Robroy Farquhar discovered Flat Rock in 1940, and soon moved his theater troupe, the Vagabond Players, from New York City to the North Carolina mountains. Sauls discusses the development of the Flat Rock Playhouse, which the North Carolina General Assembly designated in 1961 as the "State Theater of North Carolina" and which is rated today as one of the nation's top ten summer theaters.
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The Mountain Dance and Folk Festival is the nation's oldest folk festival. Founded in 1928 in Asheville by famed folklorist Bascom Lamar Lunsford, the festival is held the first weekend in August in Asheville and draws old-time and bluegrass musicians, balladeers, storytellers, and dancers.
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The North Carolina Award is the highest civilian honor given by the state for a lifetime of achievement in the fields of public service, fine arts, science, and literature. The award has been presented annually since 1964. The award winners for 2003 are Etta Baker, musician; Jaki Shelton Green, author; Frank Borden Hanes, benefactor; James Baxter Hunt, Jr., governor; Mary Ann Scheer, artisan; and William E. Thornton, medicine.
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Music Maker Relief Foundation is celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2004. The organization was founded by Tim Duffy who was distressed “over the living conditions of the living legends he was meeting in the early 1990s as he explored the world of blues musicians.†The organization focuses on helping down-and-out blues musicians overcome destitution and in so doing help them to rediscover their voices and perform again.
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Ruth Russell Williams of Henderson relies on her memory of a rural upbringing as the source and inspiration for her paintings. Williams, who never had any formal art instruction, began painting some thirty years ago “as a way to try something new.†Her work has been compared by some to that of Grandma Moses. Williams's work is much in demand, and large originals can sell for $6,000. Television shows buy prints to use on their sets; a Mazda commercial featured one; and a recently published book, FORTY ACRES AND A MULE, will feature a painting on the cover.
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The North Carolina Symphony celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary this season. In a tribute to the symphony, six of the state's composers contributed works to a new series entitled POSTCARDS FROM NORTH CAROLINA. The composers--Paul Elwood, Kenneth Frazelle, the late Roger Hannay, Stephen Jaffe, Anthony Kelley, and Robert Ward--were commissioned to write four-to-six minute pieces that convey what the North Carolina experience means to them. Sauls discusses the compositions.
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The South has a rich legacy of playwrights. When Gary Cole moved from Portland, Oregon to Raleigh, he realized that North Carolina did not have a festival that highlighted Southern playwrights. Having been an active member of the theatre community in Portland, he set out to see what he could do. Sauls discusses how a mixture of one fan of Southern playwrights with a magical old theatre in Wilson's Edna Boykin Cultural Center and a supportive local community resulted in the Theatre of the American South Festival. The festival debuted in May 2006.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 12, May 2007,
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Sauls describes things to see and do, where to stay and where to eat during a weekend visit to Durham.
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