Come Hear NC | CHNC Music Office

 Musicians from North Carolina have made brilliant, groundbreaking contributions to many of America’s most important musical genres: John Coltrane, Nina Simone, and Thelonious Monk in jazz; Charlie Poole, Earl Scruggs, and Doc Watson in bluegrass; Elizabeth Cotten, Blind Boy Fuller, and Etta Baker in Piedmont blues; Reverend Faircloth Barnes and Shirley Caesar in gospel; Maceo and Melvin Parker, Nat Jones and George Clinton in funk; and Link Wray, Roberta Flack, James Taylor, and Don Gibson in rock, R&B, pop and country. Today new generations of North Carolina musicians are building on this rich legacy by making their own mark on the state's musical landscape.