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June 26, 2018

Go See This: Hot & Blue Folk and Roots Revue

The 2nd Annual Hot & Blue Folk and Roots Revue and Spicy Wing Cook-off at the City Tap in Pittsboro on Sunday, July 15 promises to be much more than… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: benefit, blues, Community, competition, culinary, Music, performance

June 11, 2018

Go See This: Music by Shiloh Hill

Shiloh Hill is a band that not only understands their roots but also understands how to create music that’s continuously evolving and fully unique. This is a project that focuses… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Go See This | Tagged With: banjo, Bynum, Bynum Front Porch, Community, folk music, mandolin

May 25, 2018

Artists-in-Schools: EbzB Productions Helps Moncure School’s Fifth Graders Rewind to the 1700s

If you ever doubted that fifth graders could deliver a performance aimed to educate you on an historical time period – you would have been happily wrong this spring. In… Read More →

By April Starling | Filed Under: Artists-in-Schools, Arts in Education, ChathamArts News, County Happenings | Tagged With: Arts education, Arts in Education, Chatham County, Collaboration, Creative Process

May 10, 2018

Go See This: Pittsboro Youth Theater

Written by guest blogger, Selbe Bartlett. Did you know that Chatham County had a public theater? In downtown Pittsboro, the county’s seat, is a delightful space called the Sweet Bee Theater…. Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: County Happenings, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Chatham County, Collaboration, Community, Creative Culture, Creative Process, Go See This, performance, Pittsboro, theater

April 17, 2018

Meet This Artist: Mike Wiley—The Busiest Man in Show Business

This month’s “Meet This Artist” is written by guest blogger Elisabeth Lewis Corley.  Multiple hyphenate Mike Wiley, an actor-playwright- director-arts educator, came to Pittsboro because he and his wife, Jodi… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: actor, Arts education, books, Chatham County, Community, memoir, Music, non-fiction, performance, Pittsboro, theater

March 27, 2018

Meet This Artist: Antonio Lynn is Drumming to the Sound of Success

Antonio Lynn, it seems, was born with a drumbeat in his soul. He remembers playing drums at the early age of two. When he was three, his grandparents, Albert and… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Chatham Charter, Chatham County, church, concert band, drumline, drumming, drums, First Missionary Baptist Church, marching band, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Siller City

March 21, 2018

Go See This: ClydeFEST for Kids is Saturday, April 14!

Pop Quiz! Does your little one like to run around in open spaces? Do your kids love to get messy? Make crafts? Play games? Does listening to live music put… Read More →

By April Starling | Filed Under: ClydeFEST, Go See This | Tagged With: Bynum, Clyde Jones, clydeFEST, Folk Art

March 17, 2018

Meet This Artist: Writer Michele Tracy Berger Celebrates Community in Speculative Fiction

This month’s “Meet This Artist” is written by guest blogger Elisabeth Lewis Corley.  Michele Tracy Berger describes herself as a writer, professor, and pug-lover. Reenu-You, Michele’s sci-fi novella, was published… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: authors, books, Chatham County, Community, feminism, gender studies, Literary Arts, Meet This Artist, non-fiction, Pittsboro, Poetry, speculative fiction, Writing

November 10, 2017

Meet This Artist: Experience Bluegrass with bass fiddler Snuffy Smith

Thomas Lee “Snuffy” Smith, bass fiddler with the Bluegrass Experience, grew up on a one-horse tobacco farm in rural Lee County listening to his father play guitar in a square… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: antiques, artifacts, bass, bass fiddle, Bluegrass, Bluegrass Experience, Chatham County, concert, cultural event, Cultural Events, Fearrington Barn, Fearrington Village, folk music, live music, McIntyre's Books, Music, musician, performance, Pittsboro, traditional music

September 19, 2017

Go See This: Chatham Artists Guild 25th Anniversary Exhibit

Written by Jon Spoon, Chatham Arts Council Board member. For as long as I can remember, the Chatham Artists Guild has been a cultural force in my life, and I’m… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: ChathamArts News, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Chatham Artists Guild, Community, Creative Culture, Creative Economy, Cultural Events, Pittsboro, Visual Arts & Crafts

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