Steep Canyon Rangers, a Grammy Award-winning bluegrass band based in Asheville, started as a group of friends at UNC during the 1990s. The band recently produced an album on its own, and the experience went so well that the members plan to do so again in the future.
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“2021 has without a doubt been an extraordinarily challenging year for our community and for artists across the board,” Chris Pendergrass said. “The season finale is significant for us in that it gives us a way to reconnect around arts experiences and artists that have had a significant local impact in Chapel Hill in a time when that has been, in many ways, not possible.”
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Inspired by the “Celebrate the Women of Tracks" playlist by Kat Harding and by Women's History Month, The Daily Tar Heel is profiling four local women featured on the track list.
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The documentary “Framing Britney Spears," released last month on Hulu, has sparked a discussion among viewers, including UNC students and staff, about Spears's conservatorship and its online portrayal.
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The 2021 Grammys proved that loud and proud females were inspiring a new generation of girls to demand equality while pumping out society-shattering tunes – literally.
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“They really had this artistic collaboration once they came together, once the composers got to see the story, once the animators got to hear the composition, to sort of craft the two things together to create the final animations,” N.C. State associate professor Marc Russo said.
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The playlists each cover a certain vibe or mood specific to UNC student life, Campbell said. Examples include “POV: You’re on a Wellness Day” or “Crossing the Quad.”
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“John is someone who I’ve really admired,” Felton said. “On one hand, he’s got this light, very open, very relaxed approach to life and art and music, and on the other hand, he has one of the most rock solid work ethics and senses of how to do things that I've ever seen.”
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With the funds raised from sponsors and donations for "Big Night In for the Arts," Triangle arts councils aim to be in a position to better support the artists and organizations they work with while shedding light on the struggles arts communities are facing across the country.
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“With all this time in quarantine, I feel like these draining interactions with people is something I’ve thought about a lot personally,” UNC alumna Faith Jones said. “I’m just trying to make other people happy, and sometimes, it’s at my own detriment. And I think this song really reflects that.”
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Inspired by "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez, Hargreaves hopes her solo fiddle album, "Soledad," reaches students, faculty and beyond.
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“I Care a Lot” is an entertaining dark comedy, but feels shallow and overstuffed enough to keep the experience from being truly satisfying. (5/10)
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“I think one of the best things we can do as performers is to perform the music by these composers,” Pratt said.
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“It really just depends on what you’re looking for,” Gilbert said. “Spotify is better if you’re looking to discover new music, but if you have music that you already like, I feel like Apple Music has a better library and is easier to navigate.”
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“The whole approach that we take to music is something that we call ‘song first,’” David Joseph, owner and general manager of SORCH, said. “It’s teaching our students how to play music and play as a band before getting into all of the theory of music and learning how to read sheet music.”
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