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28752
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Raleigh’s BJ Barham, founder and frontman of the band American Aquarium, talks about the ups and downs of the band, their fans, and perseverance.
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28794
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The local Triangle music scene was active in 2016 amidst North Carolina politics and civil rights issues. In response to House Bill Two, music festivals and musicians used their shows as platforms for protest and fundraisers for organizations like Equality NC and the Human Rights Campaign.
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29032
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Matt Douglas, a Raleigh musician, became known in the Triangle area for his saxophone work with the Chris Boerner Quartet and his own band, The Proclivities. Douglas is now playing with two instrumental jazz bands known as The Hot at Nights, and the Mountain Goats. The Hot at Night has a new record, Three Kids, features music influenced by local musicians and diverse musical styles.
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29087
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Patrick Darius Mix Jr., also known as P.A.T. Junior, is a Raleigh rapper using his music to spread messages about personal growth, faith, forming connections among the Triangle’s expanding hip-hop scene. Mix is known for engaging with the crowd, and treats his voice as an instrument that is part of an ensemble. This approach has translated to a broad and multicultural appeal for local audiences.
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29629
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Caroline Dare is a sixteen-year-old singer-songwriter from Greenville, North Carolina. Dare released her first record, “Me,” in April. She wrote or co-wrote all six songs with her guitar teacher, Eric Halbig.
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34608
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The North Carolina native band, the Bowerbirds, based many of their songs off of the work they completed while helping the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The main guitarist and vocalist spent time together working to track the Swainson’s warbler for the museum, and as a result, created poems and songs based on what they experienced in nature.
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35489
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The Testore String Quartet shared their love for classical music across the East, for audiences ranging from public school students to constituents of ECU’s campus community. Just as renowned, though, was how this group of professionally trained musicians gets to gigs: via Volkswagen nicknamed “Thing.”
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35814
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This article focuses on the band the Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, in hopes of illustrating some of the more important qualities which characterize old-time music as they play and perceive it, not only in the terms of the music sound and techniques in producing it, but also in terms of the tradition which surrounds it.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 28 Issue 2, Nov 1980,
p67-78
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38063
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Bringing musical ingenuity to world famous guitarists is a man from Siler City who aspired to reach their heights of fame. How Terry McInturff reached fame through guitars, albeit by building them, is offering this skill to renowned strummers like Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. How his success can also be measured: orders always pre-sold; guitars built exceeding 3600; prices starting at $6000.00; wood from places like East Indies part of his six stringed products.
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42720
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Beaufort County Traditional Music Association is keeping traditional music alive in eastern North Carolina. Brief sketches of several noted members including Rob Cuthrell, Sidney and Delores Moore, Lina Boyer and Duane Harris are included.
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Washington the Magazine
(NoCar F264.W3 W37), Vol. 9 Issue 2, March-April 2020,
p42-45
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42810
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On September 26, 2020,trumpeter Willie Bradley's recording "It's On Now" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Smooth Jazz chart. Bradley was a former music instructor in the Cumberland County and Fort Bragg School systems.
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43570
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Born in Bethel, North Carolina, David Lee Jones, has gained massive popularity in the country music world. After winning Best Male Artist in 2022, Jones has become a 3x winner of the Carolina Music Awards. While currently living in Washington, NC, David travels and performs across the U.S. with his wife, Amy, and three children.
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Washington the Magazine
(NoCar F264.W3 W37), Vol. 11 Issue 5, September/October 2022,
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