The Glorifying Vines Sisters are a thriving musical institution. Based in Eastern North Carolina, they’ve been tearing up the road for decades and tearing up every church they visit. But they don’t confine themselves to churches; they’re comfortable playing secular venues, too. “If we’re going to do like Jesus did,” says singer and manager Alice […]

Music Maker is proud to announce that partner artists, The Como Mamas, will be playing the Chicago Blues Festival on Sunday, June 11th on the Front Porch Stage at 12:00pm. Since partnering with Music Maker the Como Mamas have toured Europe and the US and will be releasing their second album with Daptone Records on […]

04 Apr 2017 Written By: Linda Sickler From: Do Savannah The Piedmont blues is music birthed out of suffering. In a music and multimedia presentation co-commissioned by the Savannah Music Festival, an important era and region in the history of southern music is explored. Gerald Clayton’s Piedmont Blues: A Search for Salvation, featuring René Marie, will […]

[bandcamp width=700 height=120 album=3062621808 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small track=999898445] In 2013, when Music Maker hired two interns from France, I offered to help find them housing. An area supporter had an apartment complex where Ironing Board Sam had already been living and the apartment right next to Sam had opened up. So began a […]

Tim Duffy and the Music Maker Relief Foundation work to preserve and support the music and culture of Southern blues artists BY ALEXANDRA KENNON MARCH 23, 2017 Cool John Ferguson and Captain Luke, who created a genre of music they call “Outsider Lounge,” in Guitar Heaven, Hillsboro, NC. The Music Maker Relief Foundation “wasn’t started […]