This summer marks a milestone for the Music Maker Foundation. For the first time, we will have three exhibitions on view at three different museums around the South. “Our Living Past” is already [...]
As it did for every touring musician, the pandemic changed everything for Dom Flemons, a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a 15-year friend of the Music Maker Foundation, and a [...]
By Gabi Mendick Ring up Benjamin Tehoval and you might be taken aback by the thick, jovial French accent on the other end of the line. When you listen to Benjamin’s one-man-band take on the [...]
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By Scott Zuppardo “People say I was born with the blues,” Willie Farmer says. “The blues is in me.” There’s a loneliness that goes with growing up in the rural South. Willie Farmer has embraced [...]
Music Maker lost a dear friend and partner artist, Sam Frazier Jr., on March 23. I first heard of Sam when a package arrived at our office in 2015. One of Sam’s nieces had filled a manila [...]
LIVESTREAM MUSIC SERIES HONORING PIEDMONT BLUESWOMAN ELIZABETH ‘LIBBA’ COTTEN PERFORMANCES BY AMYTHYST KIAH, JOHNNY RAY DANIELS, THE HAMILTONES, ALEXA ROSE, AND HARVEY DALTON ARNOLD [...]
