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Dreamville has helped transform a historically complex space into a festival showcasing culture and hometown pride
By Kyesha Jennings April 10, 2025 Photo: Myicha Drakeford / CLTure This past weekend, over 50,000 poured into Dix Park each day for the fifth and final Dreamville Festival. The park, once home to Indigenous communities, later became Spring Hill Plantation, where Black people were...
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Vietnamese-American indie bedroom pop-rock artist briZB crafts songs that feel like adolescent heartache and daydreams
By Cameron Lee April 10, 2025 Photo: Jaelin Hilliard The music of budding 21-year-old bedroom indie rock singer-songwriter Bri Huynh feels like the soundtrack of adolescent heartache and daydreams on an early autumn road trip. The Vietnamese-American songsmith, better known by her stage name briZB,...
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2025 Charlotte Spring Concert Guide
By CLTure March 31, 2025 (updated) An expansive concert guide covering a wide range of genres and all the shows and tours coming to Charlotte’s venues this spring. April 1 – Graham Nash at Knight Theater (Folk Rock) April 1 – MSSV and Thousand Dollar...
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Reuniting in Charlotte for the first time in nearly 25 years for the Lil Weezyana tour, Cash Money’s sound has stood the test of time
By Cameron Lee February 25, 2025 Photo: Myicha Drakeford / CLTure The last time all of the primary artists from Cash Money Records (Lil Wayne, Juvenile, Birdman, Mannie Fresh, B.G., and Turk) performed together in Charlotte was in 2000 for the Ruff Ryders/Cash Money Tour....
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After booking two Broadway shows, Charlotte native Phillip Johnson Richardson wants more
By Cameron Lee December 3, 2024 It’s been a landmark year for Northwest School of the Arts grad Phillip Johnson Richardson. The multi-talented actor and singer/rapper sits in the dressing room of the Shubert Theatre, home of the Broadway musical production, Hell’s Kitchen, while we...
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Usher brought a career-spanning performance to Charlotte with grand production, dazzling choreography and theatrics
By Cameron Lee October 23, 2024 Photo: Myicha Drakeford / CLTure When you’ve amassed over 50 Billboard-charting songs, nine No. 1 hits, six platinum-selling albums, and one Diamond-certified album (Confessions) that defined a genre, you get to have a victory lap tour. When your career spans over 30...
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Stevie Wonder has a unique connection to North Carolina, and he blessed Greensboro with his musical brilliance
By Cameron Lee October 18, 2024 One of the most decorated recording artists and musicians of our lifetimes, Stevie Wonder, has a unique relationship with North Carolina. On August 6, 1973, just three days after his album Innervisions was released, Wonder and his cousin John...
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An expansive compilation album, ‘Cardinals at the Window,’ has been released to help raise funds for Helene relief
By Cameron Lee October 9, 2024 A new compilation album, Cardinals at the Window, has been released with an astonishing list of contributing bands and artists to help raise funds for Helene relief efforts in western North Carolina. Curated and organized by journalist Grayson Haver...
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Venues, musicians, artists, and the service industry have been devastated by Helene, but there are several ways you can help
By Cameron Lee October 4, 2024 (updated) Photo: Salvage Station Asheville music venue, Salvage Station, is just one of the many local businesses that have been affected by Helene. Originally opened in 2016 in the historic River Arts District along the French Broad River as...
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Kehlani’s Crash World Tour brings latest album to life with instrumentation and dance performances
By Cameron Lee October 3, 2024 Photo: Myicha Drakeford / CLTure It was apparent early from the booming drums and distortion-heavy guitar at the beginning of Kehlani’s set, that this was not going to be your average R&B show. At times, it felt like a...
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