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If you’d like us to send you/your group an Artist Questionnaire, message ncmusic@dncr.nc.gov

As the forward-facing arm of The North Carolina Music Office, Come Hear NC wants to share delight in all things music within our state. To this end, we’ve sent a Come Hear NC Artist Questionnaire to a host of musicians from the mountains to the coast. On a rolling basis, we’ll be publishing their responses so you can get to know the many talented artists of North Carolina who are not yet household names.

If you’d like us to send you/your group an Artist Questionnaire, message ncmusic@dncr.nc.gov

Capsule summary-style, describe your band(s) (its members, home, history)

If you’d like us to send you/your group an Artist Questionnaire, message ncmusic@dncr.nc.gov

Up today, Moonshine State.

Capsule summary-style, describe your band(s) (its members, home, history)

If you’d like us to send you/your group an Artist Questionnaire, message ncmusic@dncr.nc.gov

SLUICE A-to-Z

Indie rock powerhouses Superchunk are up next for PBS NC's SHAPED BY SOUND, with their episode airing on Thursday, February 20th at 9:30 PM. Over the course of twelve LPs and countless EPs and singles, the band’s mapped out a sound and ethos for alt rock in North Carolina and beyond. Superchunk and Merge Records’ hooky, frenetic form of indie remains influential and vital today.

Africa Unplugged, led by djembe master Atiba Rorie, are next up on the docket for the Come Hear NC Artist Profile treatment. A compelling fusion of West African rhythm with R&B and jazz song structures, the group is known for putting on barn burning live performances in the Triad, Triangle and beyond.

Skylar Gudasz has a classic voice. From the moment you hear it, you know you’re in musical good hands – it won’t falter, and will be strong enough to carry what it promises to completion.

Winston-Salem’s Sonny Miles has a seemingly effortless ability to blend and mix musics. In a way that harkens back to greats like Stevie Wonder and to contemporaries like Frank Ocean, Miles beautifully weds genres (R&B, hip-hop, jazz and soul to name a few), production styles (lo-, mid- and hi-fidelity, analog and digital), and instrumentation (drum machines and acoustic guitars, live vocals and samples).