Back Porch Music - Picks for 2012 and Looking Back
WUNC's Back Porch Music hosts, Keith Weston and Freddy Jenkins, join Eric Hodge to chat about this past year's memorable acoustic and roots music releases and to remember some of the important...
View ArticleTimeless Tunes and Toe Tappers: Best of Back Porch Music Vol 15 CD
With 57 minutes and 52 seconds of goodness from Back Porch Music, here's a sampling of our Best of BPM CD offered during the WUNC fund drives.
View ArticleCelebrating The Man Who Recorded The World
Alan Lomax dedicated seven decades of his life to recording and distributing the sound of as much of the globe as he could reach. Beginning as a 17-year-old from Austin, Texas, Alan traveled with his...
View ArticleAppalachian Music With Old Fashioned Stage Effects
While many popular musicians today seek out the newest digital technology to enhance their performances, there’s a young musical duo from rural Virginia who are moving in the opposite direction. Anna...
View ArticleMartin Hayes & Dennis Cahill: Tiny Desk Concert
You're about to watch one of the best fiddlers on the planet and a subtle guitar master work their magic. For too many of us, Irish music is something that merely gets trotted out around this time of...
View ArticleEmmylou Harris And Rodney Crowell: Harmonizing To That 'Old Yellow Moon'
Emmylou Harris' first solo album, "Pieces of the Sky," was released in 1975 after the death of her singing partner, Gram Parsons. The opening track on the album is a song called "Bluebird Wine," by a...
View ArticleJohnny Cash's Columbia Catalog Out Now — As A 64-Disc Box Set
In 1955, John R. Cash was a sometime auto mechanic, sometime appliance salesman who liked to play the guitar and sing, mostly gospel songs. The "R" in his name didn't stand for anything — and, in fact,...
View ArticleFour Concerts Scheduled In Expanded, Larger Back Porch Music Series In Durham
The Celtic powerhouse band Solas will kick off the 2013 Back Porch Music concert series in Durham. Bluegrass, local blues, and much more will be a part of the four Back Porch concerts scheduled...
View ArticleDoc Watson Remembered Fondly As MerleFest Continues Without Him
If you’re searching for the who’s who among bluegrass, Americana, folk, and traditional country musicians, MerleFest is a good place to start. The annual four-day festival kicks off today in...
View ArticleHang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley
On June 18, 1866, the body of 21-year-old Laura Foster was found in a shallow grave in Wilkes County, NC. Thomas C. Dula (Tom Dooley), a veteran of the Civil War, was tried, convicted and hanged on May...
View ArticleWhat Ricky Skaggs Considers Music To His Ears
Ricky Skaggs is a musical icon in the state of North Carolina. He's won multiple Grammys in country music and bluegrass. He began his career with a TV appearance as a seven-year-old playing with...
View ArticleN.C. Musicians Among This Year's Bluegrass Award Nominees
The International Bluegrass Music Association's 2013 award ceremony isn't coming to Raleigh until mid-September, but the excitement has already made it to town. Fans gathered at three viewing parties...
View ArticleBluegrass Broadcast From IBMA On WUNC
Later this month bluegrass musicians toting their banjos, mandolins and fiddles will flock to Raleigh for the International Bluegrass Musician Association's 24th annual awards event and conference....
View ArticleAoife O'Donovan & Dave Alvin At Next BPM Concert
Friday night WUNC, Yep Roc Records, and American Tobacco present the next Back Porch Music Center Stage Concert at Diamond View Park in Durham. The free event starts at 6 p.m. and runs for three hours...
View ArticleHistoric Marker Dedicated To Elizabeth Cotten
In the early 1900s in Carrboro, a young Elizabeth Cotten took her brother's handmade guitar from under his bed.
View ArticleWUNC Coverage Of "World Of Bluegrass" In Raleigh
The number of banjos, mandolins and fiddles has skyrocketed in Raleigh this week as the IBMA bluegrass conference and musical event comes to town. The "World of Bluegrass" is an annual business...
View ArticleAn Evening Of Bluegrass Live From Raleigh
Last night a few hours after the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences had closed for the evening, a series of banjos, fiddles and mandolins paraded past the smiling security officers into an area...
View ArticleCarolina Chocolate Drops Co-Founder To Leave Band
Dom Flemons, a co-founder of North Carolina-based Grammy award winning string band The Carolina Chocolate Drops, will leave the band in mid-December following a series of concert dates. He will be...
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