Chapel Hill bar owners have turned to methods such as livestreaming and GoFundMe to provide entertainment and generate revenue as state restrictions have kept their businesses closed.
UNC alumnus and North Carolina artist Kevin “Kaze” Thomas, who goes by Kaze4letters in the music community, hopes his seventh and most recent project, “A Thousand Shades of Black,” will reintroduce people to his music while also celebrating diversity.
If the Save the Music series is successful, the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership hopes for it to continue into November and potentially into the holiday months. The series encourages people to check out local musicians spread across downtown while they eat, shop or stroll.
With public health safety risks causing classes to move online for the semester, many UNC music ensembles have taken an online format to continue creating music together. With the shift, musicians have also had to adapt to new challenges and learn new skills.
Local guitarists are reminiscing on how Eddie Van Halen not only changed music for them but for the music community as a whole.
In an effort to keep musical spirit alive, the annual Carrboro Music Festival adapted to the pandemic by hosting both live and prerecorded shows last weekend. Presented via Facebook, YouTube and the local radio, the festival featured over 100 total bands and solo artists from a variety of different genres and backgrounds.
Every student has their go-to Spotify or Apple Music playlist for studying or driving, but that feeling you get when you find an album you enjoy from front to back is unparalleled.
The internet is obsessed with the year 2016. The eventful year, filled with record-breaking music, the Olympics and Pokèmon Go is considered by many as one of the greatest years of our generation.
Meet Mike Ferry, a 42-year-old UNC alumnus and fiddler.
UNC students, along with other college students around the nation, are raving about the new tasty collaboration between McDonald's and Travis Scott.
Although the spring 2020 Jubilee concert was postponed due to COVID-19, the show must still go on—virtually. The Carolina Union Activities Board will host rapper Rico Nasty and singer DaniLeigh in the first ever virtual Jubilee concert this Saturday.
Just weeks after they arrived, the members of Gum Box — along with thousands of other students — were moving off campus again. Instead of having impromptu jam sessions in their hallway or doing homework to the sound of a saxophone solo, the group is now facing a semester of Zoom calls and carefully planned recording meet-ups. “We’re all super stoked about the prospect of creating some original content together,” guitarist Harrington Shaw said. The band members are spread from Wilmington to Apex, but they’re prepared for the challenges of distance. In some ways, the distance could even have its benefits. The band is making plans to meet for its first recording session, in preparation for its first livestream performance.
While a global pandemic may have stalled their plans, local band "Toothsome" has released two songs: “Shark Eggs/Pirouette.”
“Personally I would love for this band to be a career for all of us,” lead guitarist and lyricist Sam Gatlin said. “I’d say it's definitely more than just a hobby for me. I would love to do this, exactly, for the rest of my life.
Faculty and staff of the UNC Department of Music reference the benefits of learning to play instruments as a contributing factor in their new initiative, which offers instrumental music lessons for inexperienced students.
With concerts and large audiences out of the question, these musicians are finding creative new ways to produce new music.
The arts is one of the industries most impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak. Here's how the arts community in Orange County, including longstanding music venue Cat's Cradle, are trying to get by during a difficult time with no end in sight.
About three years ago, Torin Alston, Danlee Gildersleeve, Todd Davis and Sean Meehan came together to form JULIA., a Chapel Hill-based alternative blues-rock band turned "funk foursome." The band just finished recording their latest album in Asheville. Staff writer Ben McEntire sat down with Davis and Meehan to talk funk, flow and the evolution of the group.
The inclusive, communal event will consist of two bands along with several other local musicians.
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