Hopscotch Music Festival
Red Hat Amphitheater 500 S McDowell St, Raleigh, NC, United StatesCatch local artists alongside international acts at the 10th annual Hopscotch Music Festival in Downtown Raleigh.
Promoting and strengthening the artistic and cultural development of Orange County, North Carolina
Catch local artists alongside international acts at the 10th annual Hopscotch Music Festival in Downtown Raleigh.
Please join and support Black and Global Roots Concerts' first fundraising event as we celebrate music, food, and farming through our inaugural Lady Chef, Farmer, and Musician event. This event... Read More →
Victoria “V.E.” Schwab is the #1 NYT, USA, and Indie bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including Vicious, the Shades of Magic series, and This Savage Song. Her... Read More →
The Haw River Assembly is bringing the nationally recognized Wild & Scenic Film Festival to Carrboro! Join us for a night of environmental and adventure films that depict the beauty of the... Read More →
World-renowned fingerstyle guitarist Richard Smith makes his ArtsCenter debut! His repertoire includes original compositions, gypsy swing, Bach, and Beatles, not to mention classic fingerstyle guitar arrangements. Smith started playing guitar... Read More →
There is a collective energy in Nashville, one that Liz Cooper has poured herself into for the past six years. Liz remarks that the energy in Nashville today is akin to that of Greenwich Village in 1960s New York or the Laurel Canyon days in the 1960s and 1970s and is a product of a collaborative approach to music and art. This community has allowed Liz to be a part of many magically haphazard nights, where the movers and shakers of the Nashville music world, such as Okey Dokey, Becca Mancari, Rayland Baxter, Desert Noises, Morning Teleportation, Erin Rae, Brittany Howard, Cage the Elephant, Michael Nau and many more converge to make music and art and lose track of time. Her latest album is a product of that pulsating energy in Nashville that has had some of the greatest influence in her work. Window Flowers is the culmination of a year where Liz made a purposeful effort to do something creative every day. Whether it was directly related to music or not, this creative process challenged and inspired her to continually put herself in new situations and pushed her to become a better songwriter and guitar player. The tentative newcomer that is present in her early recordings was all but gone in the making of the album. Her absorption into the collaborative community is evidenced by guest appearances on Window Flowers including Will Brown (Michael Nau) on the keys, Michael and Ben Ford (Airpark) bgv’s/ guitar and songwriting, Gianni Gibson (Future Thieves) percussion, Leah Blevins on BGV’s, Emily Kohavi (Kacey Musgraves, Eminem etc.) on violin and Steve Dawson on pedal steel. Liz Cooper & The Stampede and their guests spent five days tracking Window Flowers at Welcome to 1979 in Nashville, Tennessee. TJ Elias, who co-produced the album with the band, sparked the relationship by approaching Liz one night backstage at The Ryman Auditorium after hearing her songs through a mutual friend and musician, Cody Huggins. Window Flowers is a collection of music that deals with the weight of mundanity, and politely tells it to fuck off. When listening to “Sleepyhead” you hear remembrances of her early Nashville recordings, mixed with the powerful assertion that this is Liz Cooper, a force that will continue to shape and mold her own course of creating music. Whether you see Liz Cooper & The Stampede in a dive bar or a theater venue, you feel like you are being transported to another time and place. People often remark that her music takes them back to the 60s and 70s, when rock-n-roll felt alive, and bigger than oneself. The album will be released on Sleepyhead Records via Thirty Tigers (Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell) August 10, 2018. Coming off their busiest year to-date, including playing Austin City Limits Festival for the first time in 2017, Liz Cooper & The Stampede have spent the first few months of 2018 touring with Lord Huron, Deer Tick, Rayland Baxter, Ron Gallo and Blitzen Trapper. The band will continue touring this year with Houndmouth, Tyler Childers and will play Firefly Festival and LouFest. Links: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram| SoundCloud | Spotify | YouTube
As American Ballet Theatre’s first African-American principal dancer, ballerina Misty Copeland has become renowned for breaking barriers. In this evening of conversation, she will explore her path to the ABT,... Read More →
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6th Annual Bluegrass Festival
Coordinated by the Art Student Graduate Organization of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Art and Art History and co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, Department of Classics, Department... Read More →
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