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The North Carolina Symphony and state Department of Natural and Cultural Resources are asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit from three former Symphony musicians.
Published: Tuesday, March 19th, 2024 @ 9:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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"Slumber my Darling" is a classic /traditional melody written by American songwriter Stephen Foster, published in 1862, and now, a century and some tens of years later, is reprised by a number of outstanding musicians.
Published: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 11:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act Tuesday in a bizarre ceremony attended by Washington elites, activist musicians, and drag queens.
Published: Wednesday, December 21st, 2022 @ 7:29 am
By: Daily Wire
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Alison Krause is one of the most talented performers of our time. It's time for Allison, and a host of assorted talented musicians, such as Yo-Yo Ma to take their turn in our Yuletide section.
Published: Tuesday, December 20th, 2022 @ 2:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As I grow older, I am reverting back to my years of listening to music.
Published: Monday, November 14th, 2022 @ 9:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Young musicians from around the country have converged on East Carolina University's campus for an intense week of master classes with some of the world's best pianists at the East Carolina Piano Festival.
Published: Sunday, July 3rd, 2022 @ 2:00 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Polish immigrant Leonard Chess wanted a better life, and he built it on the talented backs of some pretty good musicians, like Muddy Waters, Etta James, Howl'n Wolfe, Willie Dixon and Chuck Berry.
Published: Monday, January 24th, 2022 @ 3:13 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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I recently heard that Neil Diamond is retiring from touring due to a Parkinson's diagnosis.
Published: Friday, January 21st, 2022 @ 5:27 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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I always like the old tunes of my youth, but I also like to see or hear contemporary musicians singing the old standards
Published: Wednesday, December 9th, 2020 @ 3:29 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Will Easter is a promising N.C. musician. A career just starting to take off.
Published: Friday, September 11th, 2020 @ 6:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Jens and Uwe Kruger, with bandmate Joel Landsberg, are three of the best string musicians on the planet.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2020 @ 5:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In celebration of Black History Month, Governor Roy Cooper and First Lady Kristin Cooper will honor African American musicians and artists from North Carolina at a reception at the Executive Mansion beginning at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2019 @ 2:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The National Football League is having a very difficult time finding acts to play the halftime show for the league's annual Super Bowl - and musicians are beginning to call the prime time performance slot the "least-wanted gig" in music.
Published: Wednesday, December 26th, 2018 @ 10:02 am
By: Daily Wire
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Operation Gratitude takes over the Veteran's Day Freeboot Friday. The November 10th event will welcome Greenville musicians, Built for Comfort, to close out the last event of Freeboot's 18th season
Published: Wednesday, November 8th, 2017 @ 6:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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There are singers and there are musicians. Occasionally you find some of both. Buddy Greco was an accomplished musician as well as a great stylist of the Vegas Style of performing arts.
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2017 @ 1:04 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Operation Gratitude takes over the Veteran's Day Freeboot Friday. The November 11th event will welcome Greenville musicians, Dauntless, to close out the last event of its 17th season
Published: Saturday, November 5th, 2016 @ 7:46 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Long before I got old and started living in the past, I was making memories rather than recalling them. One local group of musicians has been weaving into and out of my life since 1972.
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 5:24 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Formerly known as the Chicago Transit Authority but had to drop the CTA due to the city's complaints. Chicago combined great musicians with great lyrics and a rousing beat that could wake up the dead. Or at least that is what I felt like after a long night on the stools.
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 2:54 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Since at least the 1920s, America has done a fine job of nurturing its budding classical musicians within a large and well-funded network of conservatories that function either as independent institutions or else as colleges within larger universities. The grand venture of transplanting the...
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2015 @ 6:30 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Jazz is a form of music, which starts with laying down a basic track, then adding different layers of interpretation. Often it includes multiple instruments weaving and bobbing around the basic melody. Great jazz is when several musicians take off on an uncharted journey through the basic chords u
Published: Saturday, October 10th, 2015 @ 11:55 am
By: Bobby Tony
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After The Kingston Trio prepared the world for the folk era a group from New York extended the folk craze with their incredibly good instrumentation and harmony. They were highly produced and more accomplished as musicians than the Trio.
Published: Sunday, October 4th, 2015 @ 8:51 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Eleven-year-old Ross Pennington came to East Carolina University with no experience but was playing the guitar by the end of his first class at the annual summer Guitar Festival and Workshop.
Published: Monday, July 27th, 2015 @ 1:46 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Cellists, pianists, violinists and violists from around the world have converged at East Carolina University for its first-ever Winter Workshop.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 10:49 pm
By: ECU News Services
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focus on human rights will bring together musicians from around the world to perform in a free concert at Beaufort County Community College at noon on Thursday, Sept. 18, outside the lower level of Building 5.
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 5:39 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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Hartford, along with numerous other musicians and historians, believed that Earl Scruggs was the true reason behind bluegrass music and the banjo's popularity and resonance.
Published: Friday, December 27th, 2013 @ 5:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Musicians across the region are performing on a higher scale thanks to a new outreach initiative offered through the East Carolina University School of Music Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2013 @ 2:46 pm
By: ECU News Services
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This show, by this ensemble of consummate musicians, is part of the Sunday in the Park Outdoor Concert Series, brought to the public by the Greenville Parks and Recreation. The price of admission to the public to hear The Barefoot Movement is no charge.
Published: Saturday, July 28th, 2012 @ 1:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This is the 3rd Music in the Streets for Washington North Carolina. It is an exposition told in pictures, which provides an historic account of that evening.
Published: Sunday, June 19th, 2011 @ 3:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This article concerns itself with the second, 2011, edition of Music in the Streets. It is an exposition told in pictures, which, on its own merit, provides an historic account of that evening.
Published: Monday, May 23rd, 2011 @ 2:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is the evening of Music In The Streets, a monthly, community-based arts event that allows local musicians and performing artists to showcase their talents
Published: Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 @ 11:39 pm
By: Stanhope Deatherage
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