In November 2018 the Oxford American launched its North Carolina Music Issue with a series of concerts across the state.
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Caroline Shaw masterfully stitches together sound, ideas, and genres.
In 2018, Jaki Shelton Green made history as North Carolina’s first African American poet laureate.
Lately, Rhiannon Giddens has been telling her kids to enjoy being bored. The quiet, idle moments of her own childhood on Grand Oaks Drive in McLeansville, N.C.
Jaki Shelton Green and her poetry are both deeply rooted in the North Carolina experience. As our state’s first African American poet laureate, her words soar while keeping us close to the earth: the touch, the smell and the sound of the everyday are made holy in Green’s writing.
Carolina Shaw | Photo by Kait Moreno.
In the world of classical music, bricolage is the name of the game.
As a little girl who grew up playing house in tree forts while also staging living room concerts with a hairbrush as a microphone, I was taught by the world around me that these two paths were mutually exclusive.
Sister Lena Mae Perry says music is like medicine. She would know. At 80-years-old, Sister Perry has helmed the Branchettes, a celebrated gospel group from Johnston County, North Carolina, for decades.