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Alan Jabbour was a folklorist and musician who contributed greatly to the world of folkloristic studies from when he started up to his death.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 64 Issue 1 & 2, 2017,
p98-102, por, bibl
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Joshua Messick found his love for the hammered dulcimer at a young age. Messick became a full time musician in his late twenties, and has since had his music featured in films as well as producing several albums.
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27036
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Oak City Sessions is Raleigh’s pilot live music show featuring local musicians. The broadcast gives one band per month free publicity and a professionally captured performance that could then be shared for promotion and booking. The first episode featured the pop-duo group Season & Snare.
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Wu Man plays the pipa, a four-stringed lute with an ancient Chinese lineage. Though she often plays traditional Chinese music, Man likes to add the pipa to unconventional settings such as bluegrass and the banjo. Man will play at Duke’s Baldwin Auditorium on April 8 in Durham.
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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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Grimes, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Mykki Blanco are three modern Moogfest artists who wrestle with the memory of nostalgic nineties music and modern-day sounds. These musicians remix mid-nineties rap, grunge rock, and pop to create new forms of electronica music.
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Daniel Hart is a musician who lived in Chapel Hill from 2002-2009, crafting gorgeous songs with his band The Physics of Meaning. His more recent work has included composing music for ads and short films, but this year Hart wrote the score for Disney’s remake of the 1977 movie Pete’s Dragon. This is Hart’s biggest project featuring the largest orchestral ensemble with which he has ever recorded.
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Shelby, located in Cleveland County, is home to country musicians Don Gibson and Earl Scruggs. Recently, museums were opened in the two’s honor thanks to a project called Destination Cleveland County. The project was successful, and the two museums give Shelby some tourism.
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27465
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One More Wish, a boy band of the 1990s, has rebranded themselves as 1MW. The band is reforming to do a tour of North Carolina venues when other bands are pulling out because of House Bill 2.
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Rodney Finch and Zenaida Reyes are notable electronic musicians in the Triangle who have propelled their reputations into a new music scene. The two musicians integrate hip-hop and bass music to form a signature sound.
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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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23953
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Hussey examines the inspirations for Carrboro-area musician Michael Rank's new album, Horsehair.
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24831
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The Charming Youngsters band began in Greenville’s underground music scene back in 2007. Now, the band is based in Durham, but the members and their musical style has matured. This article highlights the band’s history, their current plans, and their uncertain future.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 50, December 2015,
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27060
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Dex Romweber and Cool John Ferguson are musicians with fresh takes on old sounds such as Jimi Hendrix and Durham’s Roy House. The music duo has a style that combines blues, jazz, and psychedelic rock. They will be playing in Chapel Hill and Durham in January.
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23870
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Ben Lovett is a rock 'n' roll filmmaker who left Hollywood for Asheville, North Carolina. He spends his time filming videos, writing and recording music, and scoring films.
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WNC Magazine
(NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 8 Issue 4, July/August 2014,
p38-43, il, por
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