Thank you SO much for your support by purchasing our Blues Cruise Raffle Tickets! Music Maker Next Generation Artist Cary Morin was in the office today and helped us draw the lucky winner this afternoon at 2:30pm – and the winner is: (drumroll) Glenn Martin of Durham! Glenn, expect a call or email from […]

Dom Flemons was in the Music Maker offices in 2006 when Boo Hanks came in to connect with us. Ever since, the two have had a special partnership, which led to the 2012 release “Buffalo Junction,” which they toured together to promote. Check out Dom’s memories of hanging out with Boo on our latest blog […]

  My favorite memory of being on tour with Boo Hanks was when he told me about the time he went to see Louis Jordan as a young man.  I’ve known Boo since 2006 and in my mind he is a Virginia songster who has stayed in his community since he was born and played […]

Yesterday, Music Maker Artist Services Coordinator Aaron Greenhood and Program Associate Rebecca (B) Parsons met with the Sunrise Preservation Group in Southern Pines, NC. They met to plan for the annual Blues Crawl, and this is the first year that Music Maker is the exclusive booking source for the event. Blues Crawl venues include the […]

Listen: God Don’t Like It I first heard of Elder Anderson Johnson when I was interning at Music Maker last spring. My task was to transcribe an interview that Tim and Axel Kustner recorded back in the ’90s and to write a biography of Elder Anderson and his relationship to sacred steel. Listening to the recordings, […]