Archive From July, 2013
Double Bang! is Back!
inNewson July 11, 2013
Ironing Board Sam’s newest, most jam-packed album, Double Bang!, is officially released and available in our music shop. Sam is having an incredible year – he just returned from the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival where he was featured on the cover of the program! Check out this review of Sam’s debut single off the album […]
Aaron and Tim’s Wet Plate Photography
inUncategorizedon July 9, 2013
Aaron Greenhood and I have been working hard on photo shoots of Music Maker artists for the last couple of years. Lately, we have been learning and practicing the art of wet plate photography. We’ve written about this before, but it is most often recognized by the photographs taken in the time of the Civil […]
About the Music Maker Quick Hits
inUncategorizedon July 5, 2013
If you step into the Music Maker office on any given day, it’s usually abuzz with a million different things: phone calls for Aaron from artists or agents looking to book artists, meetings with donors being arranged, partners and donors visiting, artists being recorded or photographed, tweets being twitted (as Tim would say) and the […]
Your support did it! We met our $80,000 Goal!
inNewson July 4, 2013
Thanks to you, Music Maker received an $80,000 matching donation to close out our fiscal year. The donation, given by several generous Music Maker supporters, was made on the condition that Music Maker raise another $80,000 before June 30th. And with your support, we did! Tim Duffy, our Founder, wants to share a few words: […]
Diggin’: Preston Fulp’s “Careless Love”
inNewson July 4, 2013
Listen: Careless Love As a new intern at Music Makers, I have been introduced to so many great new artists and sounds. A graduate student in the school of social work at UNC Chapel Hill, I am also a long time musician who sings and plays the violin, viola, guitar and bass. When I was […]