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August 8, 2023

Go See This: Phil Wiggins, Hubby Jenkins, and Women in Old-Time Music at The Hoppin’ John Fiddlers Convention

A highlight of this year’s Hoppin’ John will be performances by esteemed guest artists, Phil Wiggins and Hubby Jenkins.

By Heather O'Shaughnessy | Filed Under: Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Bluegrass, blues, fiddle, Hoppin John, old time, Recipients - Grassroots Arts Grants, Shakori Hills, traditional music

December 9, 2022

Larger-Than-Life Art, Larger-Than-Life Bubbles, Larger-Than-Life Fun!

The sun streamed across Love’s Creek a few weeks ago, as performers and volunteers gathered for our season’s first Truck-and-Trailer Roving Performance. Cars stopped. People waved and called out, excited… Read More →

By Andrea Akin | Filed Under: Arts for Resilient Kids, Arts in Education, Events, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: arts parade, geoffrey the bubble guy, joe troop, larry & joe, larry bellorin, Love's Creek, Paperhand Puppet Intervention, Siler City, truck-and-trailer, Truck-and-trailer roving performance

June 13, 2021

Jim Roberts Percussion

By Jim Roberts | |

October 28, 2018

Agony Aunt Studios

By Emmett Davenport | |

July 17, 2018

Chatham Rabbits

By Sarah McCombie | |

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

March 16, 2017

Meet This Artist: Bluegrass icon Tony Williamson overcomes pain, finds purpose on his farm

  Born into a multi-generational family of musicians, Tony Williamson and his brother Gary quickly earned the title of “child sensations” on the national bluegrass stage. Back home at their… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, Meet this Artist | Tagged With: banjo, Bill Monroe, Bluegrass, Chatham County, Chatham County Council on Aging, country music, festivals, fiddle, Galax, icon, legend, mandolin, old time, Rocky River, Tony Williamson, Union Grove, Williamson Brothers

June 2, 2016

Meet This Artist: Leandra Strope is empowering girls to find their voices

While other toddlers were smearing yogurt in their hair and coloring on the walls with crayons, Leandra Strope at age two was learning to play the violin. “My mother was… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist | Tagged With: auditions, choir, Chorus, Community, concert, ensemble, girls, Music, performance, Recipients - Grassroots Arts Grants, Sisters' Voices, summer camp

May 2, 2016

Go See This: Shakori Hills Stimulates the Senses

For four days in the fall and spring, the bucolic Chatham County community of Silk Hope is enhanced with an event that awakens all the senses. Celebrating its fourteenth year, the Shakori Festival of… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Events, Go See This, Resources for Artists, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Community, Creative Culture, Creative Economy, Cultural Events, dance, Go See This, Music, Silk Hope, Tourism

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