by David Menconi As you would expect, music will play a major role in Hip Hop South Festival, which Carolina Performing Arts is putting on April 22-23 in Chapel Hill… Read More →
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Big Night In for the Arts: Headliner Round-up
by David Menconi If nothing else, the March 10 “Big Night In for the Arts” fundraising telethon on WRAL-TV will serve as a local-music primer – and a reminder of… Read More →
Sarah Shook and the Disarmers release “It Doesn’t Change Anything”
by David Menconi “It Doesn’t Change Anything,” the most recent single and video from the new album from Chapel Hill’s Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, is a heavy song that… Read More →
Soteria Shepperson-A genuinely indefatigable “artivist”
–Article by David Menconi If you have yet to encounter Soteria Shepperson, it’s certainly not because she hasn’t been out and about. A genuinely indefatigable “artivist,” Shepperson claims to identify… Read More →
From Venezuela to Hillsborough, by way of Brooklyn: Meet Mango Martinez
–Article by David Menconi An itinerant artist and musician, Orlando “Mango” Martinez has lived, toured and worked all over the world while making art and music. Nowadays he lives in… Read More →





