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Kym Register and her band Loamlands has a new record featuring the song Sweet High Rise. Register wrote the song in protest against to the forthcoming high rise development by the Pinhook music club in Durham. Register has become one of the strongest forces standing up for the Durham community.
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UNC student Tripp Gobble and local musician Al Mask co-founded Vinyl Records to help students produce their own music. Six bands are selected from auditions to perform in a free concert on campus. After the show, students vote for their favorite bands and the top three win a record deal.
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23953
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Hussey examines the inspirations for Carrboro-area musician Michael Rank's new album, Horsehair.
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26966
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Ray Barrett devotes his energy to the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America. Barbershop harmony is a quartet group who sing with an emphasis on expanding the sound and making the harmony ring with an old fashioned sound. Barrett has been a barbershopper in the Triangle for ten years and continues to sing in the General Assembly Chorus.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 6 Issue 4, Feb 25-Mar 9 1988,
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28951
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Mary Lattimore is a harpist from western North Carolina who has collaborated with a variety of musicians on recordings and in live performances. Her recent work is a solo album called At the Dam. The album features music she wrote as she traveled around California and Texas, funded by a 2014 Pew Fellowship grant.
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Lori Napoleon, also known as Antenes, uses old telephone switchboards as instruments in her latest album The Exchange. The switchboards were converted into working modular synthesizers, and will be featured in conjunction with the art gallery The Carrack and Moogfest’s Hacking Sound Systems series in Durham.
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858
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Anson County native Fisher Hendley was a country music star of the 1930s.
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25729
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Mayron Tsong is an assistant professor of piano in the Department of Music. This year she released her first solo album and played at Carnegie Hall. Her album features the works of Russian composers Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Scriabin.
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4633
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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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4647
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From the 1920s through 1940s, Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were hotbeds for student orchestras. A number of orchestra members went on to fame during the Big Band era, including bandleaders Kay Kyser, Hal Kemp, and Johnny Long, and John Scott Trotter, who was Bing Crosby's musical director and arranger, and Skinny Ennis, who led Bob Hope's radio orchestra.
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40666
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The fifth anniversary of the opening of Isis Music Hall will have a month long celebration featuring artists who helped shape the music hall into what it is today.
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24315
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Dave Combs built a Winston-Salem based record company called Combs Music, after leaving his previous job for AT&T. This article discusses his experiences working for AT&T and what ultimately led him to pursue other interests.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 7, July 1997,
p44-48, il
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16241
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Although he started his musical career as a drummer in a rock and roll band, musician, storyteller, and photographer David Hold has been teaching, performing, and revitalizing old time Appalachian music and storytelling for more than thirty years.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 53 Issue 1, Spring-Summer 2006,
p19-25
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24095
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The Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF) sparked a non-profit organization created by Jennifer Pickering in 1995. LEAF was created as a global music festival, and because of this, Jennifer started LEAF International, an organization that encourages musicians from different countries around the world to facilitate arts programming in their own communities.
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The Laurel of Asheville
(NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 9 Issue 3, March 2012,
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39864
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Huddie Ledbetter, later known as Lead Belly, grew up in the south and eventually became part of a trio with John and Alan Lomax, a father-son team of song collectors. Lead Belly collected, wrote, and sang songs in several different styles, including Blues. He is also credited with helping to define American vernacular music in the 20th century.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 65 Issue 1 & 2, 2018,
p22-28, por
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