The Creative Aging Network North Carolina (formerly the Center for Creative Aging) in Greensboro is a non-profit that’s doing outstanding work throughout Our State by increasing older adults' access to creative programming. Artists work in community with aging service providers, and they offer a wide array of classes including, dancing, singing, poetry, writing, storytelling and painting. The Creative Aging Network enables older North Carolinians to create works that honor their life history and creative vision. One of those proud North Carolinians is octogenarian lawyer turned full-time painter Leigh Rodenbough. He spoke with David from WFDD’s Greensboro studio.
Triad Arts Up Close @ 1 p.m.
It’s a battle of the bands today on Triad Arts Up Close, with an eclectic mix of music from Indie Rock and World Music to Blues and Country.
Jews and Catholics are guitarist, vocalist, composer (and WFDD's own) Eddie Garcia, bassist Alanna Meltzer, and drummer Tyler Reeder. The high energy Indie Rock trio will be performing live at The Garage in Winston-Salem on August 25.
Songs of Water, the uplifting, world-music influenced band is tough to pigeon hold, but you can let your ears be the judge August 9 in beautiful Beech Mountain, North Carolina, during Gnarnia the Festival. Multi-instrumentalist and Songs of Water founder Stephen Roach dropped by WFDD to talk about their 2010 release The Sea Has Spoken.
It's time to get in touch with our Piedmont roots next with a young band that may just surprise you. Fiddler Samantha Snyder and her brother Zeb have been turning heads in the bluegrass world for nearly a decade, and that's saying a lot given that they're still teenagers. You can hear them and their dad, bass player Bud Snyder July 14, at the Music Fest 'n Sugar Grove, NC, and on August 4, 2012 they'll be pickin and grinning in the South Mecklenburg Presbyterian Church in Charlotte. The whole family dropped by WFDD just after the release of their album Comin on Strong.
Once again pianist and Wake Forest University professor of music Peter Kairoff returns to the keyboard to help us better understand Classical music. It’s Domenico Scarlatti with Kairoff at the Keyboard.
Guitarist/organist Hound Dog Baskerville and singer/song-writer/bassist, Queen Bee Zamagni. They are The King Bees, and you can hear them live Saturday, July 14, from 1-5 at the WestBend Vineyards in Lewisville.
The New Familiars are back on the road again and you can catch them in concert on Saturday, July 14 in Richfield, North Carolina at the July Jam. On August 25 they’ll be at the Common Ground Music and Arts Festival in Charlotte.
Singer songwriter Crystal Bright leads Crystal Bright and The Silver Hands. Her latest CD is Illuminating and Transcending the Shadows. This weekend she’s just a short road trip away tonight, Jul 6, she’ll be at Helme Calfee's House in Decatur, GA, and tomorrow night July 7, she’ll hop across town to The Solarium @ Old Scottish Rite in Decatur. Then on Sunday, July 8, Crystal returns to the Carolinas where she’ll be performing at The Velo Fellow in Greenville, South Carolina.
This year’s Forsyth County Entertainment Awards Country Music Artist of the Year is Sean Mettler. He’ll be at The Claddagh in High Point on Wednesday, July 11, the Muddy Creek Café in W-S on July 13 and the Floatin Party Barge in King on Saturday July 14.
Do It To Julia is on the road and headed to a venue closer and closer to you. The fresh sounding Indie/roots/bluegrassy band will be in Charleston, SC, at the Mill on Friday, July 13. The following night they’ll perform in Charlotte with Little Tybee. On the 15th they’ll be in Asheville at The Lab, and then it’s on to the Boone Saloon in Boone, North Carolina.
