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27659
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The bluegrass festival is fast becoming Raleigh’s signature annual event. The World of Bluegrass conference and the Wide Open Bluegrass festival are being supported by the city like no event in the past. Some question whether the festival will be as successful in its second year, but increased growth and excitement surrounding this year’s festival, suggest it may stay in Raleigh for years to come.
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27660
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Raleigh resident Joe Newberry is an award winning songwriter and will perform at this year’s Wide Open Bluegrass festival. Newberry serves as the director of communications for the North Carolina Symphony. Newberry’s songs have won several awards as performed by artists such as the Gibson Brothers and he has performed together with Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion several times.
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28358
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North Carolina’s musicians who play a modern version of traditional music are top sellers nationwide this year. The music’s timeless quality and enduring appeal is a reminder to listeners of their personal connections with music. This music connects families and multiple generations and the universities in the state frequently fund study of folk and bluegrass music. Finally, the state’s reputation for producing quality traditional music and the high likelihood that it will be heard anywhere people go contributes to the music’s recent and lasting success.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 51, December 2007,
p36-37
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28964
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Dom Flemons, Kaia Kater, and Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton are among a handful of people of color who are asserting their rightful place in folk, bluegrass, and old-time music. The three musicians recognize the centuries-long impact of racial discrimination in music. Their performance in Raleigh will spotlight the African roots of the banjo, and feature music and songs which use rhetoric as a way to break barriers and open minds.
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36253
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Sites such as The History Museum of Burke County and Benjamin May-Lewis House offer information about North Carolina’s history. An experience of the state’s beautiful landscapes can be found in areas such as WRAL Azalea Gardens and Wiseman’s View. Entertainment and dining can be found at businesses such as Drexel Barber Shop and Chapel Hill’s Sup Dogs.
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Burke County--History; Farmville--History; Pitt County--History--Towns--Farmville; Wilson--Description and travel; Linville Gorge; Bluegrass music; Cathedrals--Raleigh; Alexander County--History; Kinston--Economic development; Hiddenite--Description and travel; Taylorsville; Benjamin May-Lewis House; Sup Dogs--Chapel Hill
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36332
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Reviewing the past nominations for the Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award, the author spent time with some of the nominations, Jennings Chestnut and the Faulks. Chestnut is the owner of Chestnut Mandolin, a handmade string instrument store. Guy and Tina Faulk are folk musicians and the owners of Guy and Tina’s Bluegrass Pickin’ Parlor, a hub for local bluegrass music.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 48 Issue 1-2, 2001,
p59-67
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36408
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Ralph Lewis was an amateur folk musician and his sons, Marty and Don, formed a band featuring their father. Their music is high-energy and based on a family-based collaboration of bluegrass tradition passed between two generations of the Lewis family.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 51 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2004,
p35-54
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36502
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JC Kemp represents the large scale musical transformation that took place during the 1950s in the central Appalachians. He combined old time fiddle music and gospel singing, contributing to the bluegrass sound.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 53 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2006,
p36-48
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39661
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Leroy Smith began making a name for himself in the bluegrass music scene in the mid-1960s and has continued to perform and compose music since then.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 64 Issue 1 & 2, 2017,
p25-27
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43626
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Dr. John Cockman and his family have a long history with the love of music. As a professor of physics at Appalachian State University in Boone, Dr. Cockman spends much of his time instructing students and playing bluegrass music with his wife and six children. During the summer, John and his family even teach local friends and students the art of playing guitar, fiddling, singing and dancing for free.
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