The director and co-founder of NewSong, Gar Ragland, just happens to be a Winston-Salem native. He says when NewSong was ready to take the program beyond New York, his old hometown was a natural choice. This Saturday night, June 16, at 8:00pm, Gar brings the award-winning Honey Dewdrops to the Hanesbrands Theatre. Since winning the Prairie Home Companion’s talent show in 2008, their two critically acclaimed albums “If the Sun Will Shine” and “These Old Roots” have charted at the #1 and #2 positions on the Folk DJ Charts for 2010.

Gar spoke with TAUC host David Ford by phone from his NewSong office in Brooklyn.

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American landscape design was shaped early on in the 19th century by Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted's last great project was the laying out of George Vanderbilt's 120,000 acre Biltmore Estate near Asheville.

Their influence spread to the Reynolds' Family estate as well, and Reynolda House Museum of American Art celebrates that legacy in its current exhibition titled A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era. Reynolda’s video screening Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn, will be Thursday, June 14, at noon with Public Gardens and Trees, and the award-winning series continues Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon through June 28.

David visited Reynolda recently to explore Katherine Reynolds’ detailed and remarkably well-preserved landscape design archives. Director of Marketing & Communications Sarah Smith, and Director of Archives and Library Todd Crumley were his tour guides.

You can enjoy your own private tour of Reynolda on Sunday, June 17 at 2:30pm. Explore areas normally closed to the general public like the kitchens, ice-block air conditioning rooms, the squash court, and areas below the swimming pool. You can also enjoy the view across the lawn to the Lake Katharine wetlands from the former roof garden.

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Larry G. Davis is one of those rare individuals with both musical and athletic gifts that propelled him to the tops ranks in both fields. He played professional baseball for the Chicago Cubs and the Washington Senators before leaving that world behind to pursue his dream of becoming a musician. After saying goodbye to teammates like the great Ernie Banks, Larry went on to become a sought-after studio musician in Nashville, rubbing elbows with a veritable Who’s Who list of greats in that industry including Chet Atkins, the creator of the Nashville Sound.

Over the decades Larry has absorbed a variety of musical styles including classical, bluegrass, jazz, and mariachi just to name a few. You can hear Larry jump from Bach to bossa nova live in recital at the High Point Library on Saturday, June 16, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm. Larry made the trip to WFDD from his home on Ridges Mountain in Randolph County to talk with David about the music he loves, and share a few songs Live from Studio A.

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Pianist and WFU Professor of Music Peter Kairoff reveals the beauty of Bartok during Kairoff at the Keyboard: Understanding Classical Music.

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Greensboro Music Center Director Jennifer Hance talks music, community building and the virtues of getting to know your local parks better. It's a summer season preview of weekly outdoor concerts performed by some of the Triad's best-loved bands.

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Freeport has been grooving Triad audiences for eight years and they're one great single on their way to spreading their contemporary smooth jazz sound even further with the release of After the Rain. You can hear them live three Thursdays a month at Churchill's Cigar Bar in Greensboro. You can also enjoy them live (without the cigar smoke!) Live from Studio A on Triad Arts Up Close!