Listen: My New Next Door Neighbor I never had the pleasure of meeting Jerry “Boogie” McCain but I spoke with him on the phone many times in order to set him up to receive digital royalties. Jerry McCain’s ruthless amplified harmonica style coupled with some raunchy lyrics. In this tune, “My New Next Door […]

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 […]