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The Commons Festival Weekend

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Commons is a new initiative devoted to supporting performance artists and fostering local creative community and discourse in and around the Triangle, in partnership with UNC Summer Arts, UNC Department of Communication, and INDY WEEK. Three performing artists/artist groups were selected for proposals that particularly challenged performance conventions, invited audience co-creation, took artistic risks,... Read More →

$5

The Singing OUT Tour 2019 with Crys Matthews and Heather Mae featuring JJ Jones and Joe Stevens.

The ArtsCenter 300-G E Main St, Carrboro, NC, United States

Ask anyone about the new generation of social justice music-makers and they’ll mention either Heather Mae or Crys Matthews. Mae, a powerhouse performer and earthshaking vocalist, has turned her personal struggle with mental health and body image into an empowering message of self-love, a universal light force that shines for every audience member. Matthews is... Read More →

$20

Freight Train Blues Music Series – Eastern NC Gospel Jubilee

Carrboro Town Commons 301 W Main St, Carrboro

Music Maker Relief Foundation partners with the Carrboro Recreation & Parks Department and WUNC to present the Freight Train Blues Music Series at Carrboro Town Commons (Farmer’s Market). Beginning on May 24th, the four-part series will feature performances from blues, gospel, and folk musicians on Fridays at 6:30pm. The music series, which highlights blues and... Read More →

ATTENTION HORSE COMEDY PRESENTS: THE ROAST OF THANOS

Join Attention Horse Comedy for the roast of everyone's favorite Mad Titan, THANOS! Comedians will take on the roles of The Avengers and hilariously insult Thanos in a Friars Club-style roast that's guaranteed to make you laugh! Will the PIT Chapel Hill still stand after Earth's Mightiest Heroes have burned and zinged (zung?) Thanos and... Read More →

$5

Freight Train Blues Music Series – Cool John Ferguson | Pat “Mother Blues” Cohen | Cookie McGee

Carrboro Town Commons 301 W Main St, Carrboro

Music Maker Relief Foundation partners with the Carrboro Recreation & Parks Department and WUNC to present the Freight Train Blues Music Series at Carrboro Town Commons (Farmer’s Market). Beginning on May 24th, the four-part series will feature performances from blues, gospel, and folk musicians on Fridays at 6:30pm. The music series, which highlights blues and... Read More →

Songs from the Circle 11

The ArtsCenter 300-G E Main St, Carrboro, NC, United States

The ArtsCenter’s annual Songs from the Circle shows are a celebration of the best in classic American Folk and Bluegrass. In spring 2012 local guitarist Danny Gotham organized a memorable benefit concert involving a live presentation of songs from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s iconic album of 40 years prior, Will the Circle Be Unbroken.... Read More →

$15

Music in the Galleries: Ryan Dial-Stanley

Ackland Art Museum 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join Ryan Dial-Stanley, a member of the Lumbee Tribe and a well-known flutist, performing artist, and educator, for a concert at the Ackland Art Museum, presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Way Out West." Dial-Stanley has traveled across the state of North Carolina presenting programs on the history and culture of the Lumbee Tribe. In... Read More →

Free

Recurring

Bright Star

Joan H Gillings Center for Dramatic Arts 120 Country Club Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, Chapel Hill

High school students produce the award-winning musical, “Bright Star,” written by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell.

Stoner Morning Show

Stoner Morning Show (comedy / parody) is unlike any other morning news show... because the hosts have overslept. Headlines, interviews, comedy & more through the eyes of "stoner" friends. Official Selections • 2nd Best Comedy Fest • Buffalo Infringement Festival • NYC Living Room Comedy Experience We're all about peace, love and fun.

$10

An Evening with Bettye LaVette

The ArtsCenter 300-G E Main St, Carrboro, NC, United States

Bettye LaVette is no mere singer. She is an interpreter of the highest order. Whether the song originated as country, rock, pop, or blues, when she gets through with it, it is pure R&B. She gets inside a song and shapes and twists it to convey all of the emotion that can be wrought from... Read More →

$34