Featured photo by Daniel Coston By David Menconi It’s been well over a century since the late great Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten was born in what is now Carrboro, but you can still find traces of the Piedmont blues legend’s wonder years in her old hometown. A bike trail bears her name, and there’s a historical… Read More →
Down on Copperline
Down on Copperline: Kirk Ross
By David Menconi Chapel Hill musician Kirk Ross leads something of a double life, political reporter by day and rock star by night – except, of course, for those times when the legislature’s session runs into late-night hours, or a storm is coming. Covering calamities from 2016’s infamous HB2 “Bathroom Bill” to this year’s Hurricane… Read More →
Down on Copperline: Michael Galinsky
By David Menconi Thirty years ago, Chapel Hill’s Michael Galinsky was taking a photography class at New York University. Partly for a class project and partly on a whim, he started shooting pictures at shopping malls across the country. The resulting photographs added up to a composite of a moment in time – 1989, just… Read More →
Down on Copperline: Celebrating Rocktober with Wes Collins
By David Menconi If you ever find yourself at Pittsboro’s Chatham Community Library and come face to face with librarian Wes Collins, don’t worry if he has a far-away look in the eyes – he’s probably just writing another song. The Chapel Hill resident is one of the best songwriters in the Triangle’s vital Americana… Read More →
Down on Copperline: Carrboro Music Festival
By David Menconi For such a definitively local Orange County institution, the annual Carrboro Music Festival has some origins that qualify as downright worldly. The festival began more than two decades ago, in 1998 as the local branch of a larger international festival called Fete de La Musique. It happened around the summer solstice in… Read More →