Last month T-Bone Burnett called up Rhiannon Giddens and asked her to be part of a special concert at The Town Hall in NYC to be filmed by Joel and Ethan Coen that will be aired on Showtime in December. This concert special is in support of their incredible film “Inside Llewyn Davis.” I had […]

Rhiannon Giddens, an MMRF Next Generation Artist, performed Sunday night at the “Another Day, Another Time” concert at Town Hall in NYC, among other artists such as Joan Baez, Mumford and Sons, the Avett Brothers, Gillian Welch and others. The concert was a spinoff of “Inside Llewyn Davis,” a film by Joel and Ethan Coen, […]

While in the grocery store the other day, my husband and I had an encounter that wasn’t extraordinary, but to me further solidified the impact Music Maker has on our artists and on the outside world. We had just gotten back into town from vacation, and realized we literally had no food in our house. Normally […]

Listen: Crooked World Blues Lakota John and Kin (that’s Momma Tonya, Papa John and Sister Layla) live in Pembroke, NC. They are members of the Lumbee Indian tribe, the largest tribe East of the Mississippi. Lumbee are named after the Cypress lined Lumber, a blackwater  river that slowly meanders through North Carolina’s Coastal Plain. The […]

It’s been a busy month for us here at Music Maker – then again, any given month is a busy month. A couple of weeks ago, we were pleased to hold an extremely successful benefit show at The Hamilton in Washington, DC.  The Carolina Chocolate Drops and Ironing Board Sam packed the house full and […]