Art+Music
Featured
-
The Bolo Queen
When Mackenzie Palladino started Semplice Designs, she did so at the urging of friends. Palladino had been making jewelry for many of them for years, and they convinced her it was time to make it official by opening her own business. Read more
-
Labor of lust
When it comes to bluegrass banjo, you’d be hard-pressed to find as vivacious and voracious a picker-n-grinner than Kyle Tuttle. Read more
-
The Little Gallery That Could
Tria Turrou is living her best life. Not only does the talented ceramic artist get to sell her whimsy-inspired work at Toe River Crafts in rural Celo, North Carolina, she’s also the co-op gallery’s president. Read more
New Lost Ages
At the core of any great singer-songwriter lies this inherent trait of stage presence, one where an entire room, no matter the size, is pulled in by this lyrical tractor beam—all eyes, emotions and energies aimed in one direction at a single voice. Read more
Mar 25, 2024
Photo by Platt Architecture PA
Mountain Melodies
As James Christian Pfohl walked through an overgrown field in Brevard, North Carolina, briars tugged at his shirt sleeves and sweat dripped from his brow. It was 1943, and he was about to establish the Brevard Music Center. Read more
Mar 25, 2024
Good times around the bend
A potent blend of rock, bluegrass and folk, The String Cheese Incident remains an innovative, intriguing force of nature and melody within the American musical landscape. Read more
Jan 20, 2024
Travelin’ this Lonesome Road
With its acclaimed 2021 album, “A Tribute to Bill Monroe,” The Infamous Stringdusters paid homage to the long gone yet dearly beloved “Father of Bluegrass” himself. Read more
Nov 25, 2023
A Writer's Life
On the campus of Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, in a building within earshot of the football stadium, there’s a small, unassuming office at the end of a quiet, dead-end hallway. Read more
Nov 25, 2023
“I feel that way, too”
With its latest concept album, “iTopia,” Asheville-based indie-rockers The Get Right Band have offered up food for thought on where we currently stand as a society—this juxtaposition of humanity and technology in the emerging 21st century. Read more
Oct 1, 2023
Choices and Changes
At just 31 years old, Sierra Hull is already a legend in the bluegrass world. With her signature songbird vocals and mandolin virtuosity, the Tennessee native has also taken home “Mandolin Player of the Year” at the IMBA awards five times. Read more
Jul 30, 2023
A Musical Journey for a Banjo Champ
When Gary Davis was 10, his father Alvin took him to a Friday night bluegrass gathering at a local Masonic Lodge in Red Bank, Tennessee. It was there he first saw and heard the live sounds and the hand actions of musicians playing five-string banjo. Read more
Jul 30, 2023
