Back Porch Music Is Back On The Lawn: 8 Free Concerts In 2014
WUNC's Back Porch Music on the Lawn series back on the lawn under the Lucky Strike tower in the heart of the American Tobacco Campus . The free concerts are on Thursday nights from May to September....
View ArticleHip Hop Summit Promises 30 Acts, 4 Venues, And To Explain What D.U.R.M....
Emcees, rappers, DJs and beat producers are headed to Durham Saturday for the third annual DURM Hip Hop Summit. The day-long festival will highlight talent in the area's hip hop scene. Kurrell Rice is...
View ArticleBig Star's Third: An All-Star Celebration Of A Hugely Influential Band
What music critics have said for years about The Velvet Underground could easily apply to Big Star, too: they were much more influential on later bands than the sum total of all the records they sold....
View ArticleThe IBMAs Are 'Living In Raleigh Now'
The world's premier bluegrass music event is all this week in Raleigh. The International Bluegrass Music Association's annual gathering and Festival used to be in Nashville but moved to Raleigh a year...
View ArticleSlain Young Woman Yusor Abu-Salha Told Teacher 'We're All One'
One of the victims of the shooting in Chapel Hill this week recorded an interview at the StoryCorps Mobile Booth in Durham, N.C. last summer. Yusor Abu-Salha brought her former elementary school...
View Article'Saddened But Grateful': Chapel Hill Mayor Speaks Out On FBI Inquiry, Public...
The FBI announced last night that it will open its own inquiry into the Chapel Hill shootings this week that left three young people dead. Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt told WUNC's Eric Hodge...
View ArticleThe Chapel Hill Shootings Resonate In Poetry
It's been a month since news broke that three young Muslims were shot to death in Chapel Hill. For poet Will McInerney , it hit especially hard. He’s from Chapel Hill, knew the victims through friends,...
View ArticleDentist On Syrian Border 'Will Not Forget' Yusor Abu-Salha, Deah Barakat
On February 10, Razan Abu-Salha, her sister Yusor Abu-Salha and Yusor's husband Deah Barakat were shot and killed in their home in Chapel Hill. Deah and Yusor were both preparing to be dentists and...
View ArticleFans Reach Out To Blues Man Captain Luke In Hospice Care
Legendary Blues Musician Captain Luke has entered hospice care and is now resting at his home in Winston-Salem. He was born in 1927 and grew up driving mules, working the land and singing with family....
View ArticleIBMA Has A New Leader, Announces New Festival Headliners
The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the lineup of artists that will play the World of Bluegrass festival this fall. Allison Krauss and Union Station Featuring Jerry Douglas will...
View ArticleCriminal: The 'Secret People' Of Carville
There was a time in our history when leprosy was believed to be a highly contagious disease — so contagious that patients were moved into forced isolation from the general population. About 450 of them...
View ArticleNAACP To Memorialize Chapel Hill Toddler On New Year's Day
The Chapel Hill NAACP is holding a prayer service in honor of Maleah Williams, the 1-year-old who was shot on Christmas Day, and died of her injuries.
View ArticleWUNC's Localore: Finding America Hears Durham's Stories
WUNC is one of 15 stations across the country chosen to be a part of an innovative public media project called Localore: Finding America . The project is being put together by the Association of...
View ArticleWUNC Launches New Podcast 'Stories With A Heartbeat' on iTunes and Google Play
Stories with a Heartbeat is a new WUNC podcast about the human condition in conflict. Host Will McInerney is an award-winning poet who travels the globe exploring conflict and what it says about us as...
View ArticleMeet Dom Flemons: American Songster Radio Podcast Episode 0
Welcome to WUNC's new podcast called American Songster Radio. Every month host Dom Flemons , a.k.a. The American Songster, will present a new take on traditional music. Dom, a co-founder of the Grammy...
View ArticleKetch Secor: American Songster Radio Podcast Episode 1
American Songster Radio is a monthly look at the roots of American Popular music. It’s hosted by world renowned musician and folklorist Dom Flemons who playfully refers to himself as The American...
View Article3 Songs With Bill Ferris: American Songster Radio Podcast Episode 2
Bill Ferris is an author and scholar and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Currently, he's Senior Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the American South ,...
View ArticleWUNC Launches New Radio Station
North Carolina Public Radio has launched a new radio station. WUNC Music can now be found online and on your phone at wuncmusic.org and on HD2 in the Triangle area. Morning Edition Host Eric Hodge...
View ArticleCatch Dom Flemons on CMT's New Show 'Sun Records'
Dom Flemons, the host of WUNC’s American Songster Radio Podcast , has a role in the new CMT TV series Sun Records , which premieres tonight (Thursday 2/23) at 10 PM on CMT.
View ArticleVeterans Day Special From WUNC’s American Homefront
On Veterans Day, WUNC presents stories recorded during a live storytelling event at the Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville, NC. The hour long broadcast is hosted by Eric Hodge ....
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