By CLTure May 23, 2023 Update from NCMA (7/27): “Due to unforeseen circumstances, this Saturday’s Afrofuturism concert has been cancelled.” The North Carolina Museum of Art has announced a spectacular concert event that will feature performances by multi-genre jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, Sun Ra Arkestra...
By Cameron Lee May 19, 2023 (updated) Hopscotch Music Festival will make a rousing return to Raleigh with its most expansive lineup in recent years. Going back to their roots as a multi-venue walkable city street festival, 2023 will see the return of several downtown...
By Grant Golden May 16, 2023 Melancholy Angel by David Childers David Childers is one of those “your favorite songwriter’s favorite songwriter” kind of musicians. His decades of sardonic, existential songwriting have made him a favorite of roots rock staples like The Avett Brothers, and...
By CLTure May 16, 2023 Photo: Scott Legato / Music Midtown Music Midtown, the Atlanta-based music festival originally started in 1994, has announced a colossal 2023 music lineup following last year’s cancellation “due to circumstances beyond our control,” widely reported as a result of Georgia’s...
By CLTure May 12, 2023 Photo: David Simchock Beech Mountain Resort has announced a monster music lineup for their 2023 Summer Concert Series in the small North Carolina tourist town of Beech Mountain. Recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Sheryl Crow, My Morning...
By Cameron Lee May 4, 2023 It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Shaky Knees first started in Atlanta. In its inaugural year back in 2013, the festival founded by former Masquerade promoter Tim Sweetwood, boasted a lineup featuring Dr. Dog, Gary Clark...
By Cameron Lee May 1, 2023 The community of Ballantyne has long been known as an area of Charlotte focused mostly on work and commerce. The roughly 2,000 acres of land surrounded by suburban towns like Pineville, Matthews, Fort Mill, Indian Land, and Weddington, was...
By Zach Goins April 29, 2023 Photo: Blue Amber / CLTure If the standstill traffic didn’t give it away, then maybe the Swifties clad in light pink, purple, sparkles, and cowboy boots did. If not that, then certainly the billboards around Atlanta marking the city’s...
By Shirley Griffith April 29, 2023 Lofidels Monday, May 1 at Snug Harbor at 9 p.m. Tickets: $15 plus Lofidels is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Lenny Muckle, who you may recognize from Patois Counselors or Pretty Baby. The artful quartet makes thoughtful, lingering synth-heavy, experimental post...
By Grant Golden April 21, 2023 Celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, Wilkesboro’s MerleFest is one of the longest running, and most attended roots music festivals in the country. Founded in 1988 in memory of Merle Watson, the son of legendary bluegrass guitarist Doc Watson,...