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Tift Merritt
Trouble Over Me
Neighborhood
Diamond Shoes
When I Cross Over
Imagine the Rolling Stones recording a country album in Muscle Shoals with Dusty Springfield singing lead. Now imagine a young artist from North Carolina whose ambition not only measures itself against such classic compari.
more »sons, but shows the promise to transcend them. Tift Merritt s major-label debut finds such promise fulfilled on Sunday, the six-minute centerpiece in which the sweet sensuality of her upper register floats over an organ bedrock and vocal chorus that are pure Southern church. Even when other cuts sound like they could have been preserved in a 70s time capsule the generic country-rock of Diamond Shoes and the very Stonesy Neighborhood her vocals have a seductive intimacy that freshens the familiar. The lead guitar of producer Ethan Johns and the keyboards of Benmont Tench (on loan from Tom Petty s Heartbreakers) augment Merritt s band on arrangements that give the m
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Rolling Stone Menu Mavis Staples, Melissa Etheridge to Perform at MerleFest 2021
Eclectic multi-day event to return to Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in September
By AP Photo/Wade Payne
After being forced to take a year off due to the Covid-19 pandemic, MerleFest will return in Fall 2021. The annual eclectic musical fest will take place September 16th to 19th in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, with a first round of performers that includes Melissa Etheridge, Mavis Staples, and LeAnn Rimes.
Held over the course of three days at Wilkes Community College, the event includes appearances by Tedeschi Trucks composed of bandleaders and partners Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks Donna the Buffalo, Scythian, and the Waybacks. Additional artists will be announced in the coming weeks and tickets will go on sale June 10th.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Registration for this event closes at 12 PM EDT on Thursday, May 6, 2021.
Available on-demand for all ticketholders for 72 hours, beginning on May 6,
Join us for the seventh episode of
The Spark with Tift Merritt, featuring
Robin Frohardt
: award-winning artist, puppet designer, and 2017/2018 Carolina Performing Arts/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation DisTIL artist-in-residence.
In this livestreamed series, Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter and UNC alumna Tift Merritt returns to Carolina Performing Arts to take us behind the scenes in artist-to-artist video interviews that delve deep into the creative process.
On May 6, Tift will sit down with Frohardt for a livestreamed conversation about her boundary-pushing creations, her residency at CPA, the evolution of her work, and more. An innovator in every sense of the word, Frohardt takes everyday items and experiences, adds her creativity and unique sense