The Music Maker Minute was created using interviews from the Music Maker Relief Foundation Archive. Each episode features a Music Maker partner artist and their personal experience with race in America to celebrate Black History Month. Music Maker Relief Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to helping the true pioneers of American music by directly […]

In “Our Living Past,” Timothy Duffy immortalizes dozens of Southern Blues icons that he’s met over the course of his 35-year career as an artist and activist. Duffy is the founder and executive director of the Music Maker Relief Foundation, a nonprofit organization that aims to preserve the musical traditions of the South by directly […]

We’re doing Mardi Gras in Durham style – Boom Unit Brass Band and Paperhand Puppet Intervention kick off with a second line at 8pm from the downtown Bull statue to the Bullpen. March to the Bullpen for a big, brassy, Boom Unit party at 8:30. 8:00 Second Line starts at downtown CCB Plaza Bull statue, […]

Vari-Colored Songs by Leyla McCalla From her Langston Hughes inspired album “Vari-Colored Songs” Leyla McCalla describes a racist southern setting with melancholic acoustic melodies in her track titled “Song for a Dark Girl”. McCalla tells a sad love story of her lover getting abused then lynched while her heart breaks. As a result she is […]

Last year we talked about New Orleans artist Guitar Lightnin’ Lee’s need for new floors and other repairs in his home. Lee has been recovering from a tough bout with cancer and was unable to play shows for a while. Music Maker’s sustenance support helped Lee through those trying times, but the old shotgun house […]