6pm – 8pm Fridays in June! Village Green in Southern Village, Chapel Hill (Aberdeen and Market Streets) Rain Location: Christ United Methodist Church 800 Market St, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 Music Maker Relief Foundation’s popular Roots and Leaves Series: Celebrating the Legacy of Libba Cotten, will embark on it’s third year starting Friday, June 6th.  […]

Our We Are the Music Makers! exhibit has been a year and change in the making. Really, the idea has been ruminating for all the years I have been a part of the Music Maker team, but began to take real shape last spring, as we planned out our 20th Anniversary year. “Wouldn’t it be […]

In October 2012, Simon Arcache and Raphaël Evrard, students from the prestigious Toulouse University, a business school, convinced their professors to allow them to spend a year of college credit interning with the Music Maker Relief Foundation. The day they arrived we took them to the Music Maker studio where they met Ironing Board Sam […]

Music Maker Homecoming Events We hope you can join us, buy your tickets here! October 3rd 3pm – Panel Discussion with Music Maker Artists and Folk Scholars The ArtsCenter, 300 E. Main St, Carrboro, NC 7pm Exhibit Opening and Blues Revue Performance The ArtsCenter, 300 E. Main St, Carrboro, NC October 4th 2pm – 8pm Music […]

“The blues tell you the truth,” the woman on the screen said with conviction. Even though I was watching Precious Bryant’s nearly twenty year-old interview on a giant iMac screen, it felt as if she was speaking directly to me. I’ll admit– up until this summer, I had not considered myself much of a blues […]