The attention focuses on Emily Scott Robinson's third album and debut studio album, "Traveling Mercies," set to be released Feb. 22.
Ricky Skaggs hasn’t performed at Reynolds Auditorium since December 2002, but he remembers that concert well: He shared the stage with Doc Watson and Earl Scruggs, recording a live album and DVD released in 2003 as “The Three Pickers”
Long before airline travel became a hassle, with cramped seats, long delays and fees tacked on to every comfort, flying could feel glamorous.
Stone Temple Pilots will headline this year's Gears and Guitars Music Festival May 23-26 in Bailey Park in the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter.
WINSTON-SALEM — The Inspiration & Praise Gospel Concert, presented by R&B and gospel station WQMG, comes to the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum March 30.
The a cappella group Pentatonix will bring its concert tour to the Greensboro Coliseum on May 30, with special guest Rachel Platten.
Cello isn’t the first instrument that springs to mind when thinking about traditional Scottish music.
NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly is announcing a new tour, but it won't be in the United States.
With so many songs written about love, the musical program for a Valentine’s concert almost writes itself, especially when the genre of music is big band jazz.
When pneumonia and laryngitis silenced Radney Foster in 2015, the veteran country singer feared the worst.
In 16 years as a columnist for the Charlotte Observer, Tommy Tomlinson earned a reputation for telling the stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things — the teenagers who integrated a Charlotte high school; a college math professor breaking a code; a police recruit with disabilitie…
Singer/songwriter Chris Stapleton will continue his “All-American Road Show” through 2019, with an Oct. 19 stop at the Greensboro Coliseum.
NEW YORK (AP) — Multiple outlets have reported that Sony Music has dropped embattled R&B star R. Kelly from its roster.
The accolade has shown up over and over again: “The greatest guitarist in the world,” attributed to Eric Clapton about Albert Lee, one of Clapton’s longtime sidemen. Bill Heath of Muddy Creek Music Hall included it on a poster two years ago, the last time Lee performed there.
Alan Jackson will perform May 17 at the Joel Coliseum. Tickets go on sale at 8 a.m. Friday,
North Carolina favorites the Avett Brothers will return to MerleFest to perform on April 28. The 31st MerleFest will be April 25-28 at Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro.
If ever a man was born to play bluegrass, it’s Sammy Shelor of the Lonesome River Band.
A blues jam will kick off Lorenzo "Logie" Meachum's Jan. 12 memorial service at Guilford College's Dana Auditorium.
GREENSBORO — Last weekend hundreds of people turned out for a four-day music event to say goodbye to Somewhere Else Tavern, a live music venue that has been rocking for nearly 40 years.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Guitarist and vocalist Ray Sawyer of the rock band Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show has died at the age of 81.
WHITE CROSS — Only the low ceiling kept people from hanging off the rafters of the Kraken, a funky little roadhouse out in the country west of Chapel Hill. Jonathan Byrd stepped to the microphone, surveyed the packed crowd and reflected on his final show for 2018 of a weekly residency that b…
NEW YORK — Daryl Dragon, the cap-wearing "Captain" of "The Captain and Tennille" who teamed with then-wife Toni Tennille on such easy listening hits as "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Muskrat Love," died Wednesday at age 76.
Location. Location. Location.
Meachum, a Greensboro native who helped start the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society, died early Saturday after a battle with cancer.
Live music was alive and well in Winston-Salem in 2018, despite the sad loss of a downtown institution, The Garage, as 2017 closed out. The opening of The Ramkat couldn’t have come at a better time, and great shows carried on, from downtown’s abundant outdoor concert series to Monstercade’s …
The Fiddle and Bow Society will present Low Lily at 8 p.m. Jan. 4 at Muddy Creek Cafe and Music Hall, 5455 Bethania Road.
The Yadkin Arts Council and the Blue Ridge Music Center will present Dom Flemons and Big Ron Hunter at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 5 at Willingham Theater, Yadkin Cultural Arts Center, 226 E. Main St., Yadkinville
The Oxford American magazine devotes one issue per year to the music of a Southern state, turning the spotlight on North Carolina for the Winter 2018 edition. An accompanying CD features songs from music legends such as Nina Simone and James Taylor, as well as newer artists such as Sylvan Es…
Talk to a fan of Jump, Little Children for very long and the subject of the pink electric mandolin inevitably comes up.
Paul Brown introduces WFDD’s “Across the Blue Ridge” every week as “the great little show that nearly everybody loves,” but fans will have to say goodbye after this month.