From stadiums to clubs, here are the top shows to put on your calendar. The fall concert season in the Triangle and beyond includes Beyonce and Jay-Z, Joan Baez, Billy Joel, Leon Bridges and more.
J. Cole’s Dreamville Festival, Hopscotch Music Festival, World of Bluegrass and Art of Cool are all on the Triangle’s music festival schedule for the same month, September. Is there room for everybody?
This fall, Grammy-winning Joshua Bell returns to the Triangle to play with the NC Symphony while Carolina Performing Arts and Duke Performances showcase period pieces.
The gospel Aretha Franklin sang can come true if Americans come together against racism, systemic poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and the distorted moral narrative of Christian nationalism.
As tributes pour in to remember Aretha Franklin, we recall when she last performed in the Triangle. It was May 19, 2016 at the Durham Performing Arts Center.
South Carolina band NEEDTOBREATHE is bringing their tour to Red Hat Amphitheater on Aug. 22. The band released “Forever On Your Side (Niles City Sound Sessions)“ with “Acoustic Live Vol. 1,” coming this fall.
J. Cole is behind Dreamville Festival, a daylong event that will be the first major concert event at Raleigh’s Dorothea Dix Park. Cole is a rapper from Fayetteville who has been hugely successful with five straight No. 1 albums, including this year’s “KOD.”
Sam Bush, Michael Cleveland, Rhiannon Giddens and other familiar faces will be back for World of Bluegrass this year. A handful of young new North Carolina acts are up for awards, too.
Carrie Underwood is bringing her ‘Cry Pretty 360 Tour’ to Raleigh’s PNC Arena on Sept. 30, 2019, with Maddie & Tae and Runaway June. She also announced she is expecting her second child.
The FCC approved Shaw’s sale of WSHA-FM to Educational Media Foundation and the 88.9 frequency is officially K-Love, playing contemporary Christian music. Triangle jazz fans still have NC Central’s WNCU station at 90.7.
Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Sometimes Just the Sky Tour lands onstage at Durham’s Carolina Theatre Aug. 3, offering plenty for fans of her old music and her new.
In the 1970s and early ‘80s, Raleigh’s Cameron Village Underground was where national and local stars played. R.E.M., Go-Go’s, Doc Watson and others played there. A City of Raleigh Museum photo exhibit documents the era.
R.E.M., the Go-Go’s and Raleigh’s top local bands played Cameron Village Underground during the 1970s and 1980s before it closed. There are plans to open a new club there.
Country music star and Garner, NC, native Scotty McCreery debuts his “This Is It” music video on TheKnot.com debut. It was filmed on his June 16 wedding day, when he married his wife, Gabi Dugal.
IBMA announces the nominees for the International Bluegrass Music Awards, and fiddler Becky Buller and guitarist Molly Tuttle lead the field with six each.
Ryan Adams and his band Whiskeytown formed in Raleigh, and his on-stage antics became the stuff of legends. Tour manager Thomas O’Keefe was the band manager, and his tales from the road are in the new book, “Waiting to Derail: Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown, Alt-Country’s Brilliant Wreck.”
Evanescence and electronic violinist Lindsey Stirling team up for a co-headlining tour complete with a full orchestra. It’s the perfect arrangement. They’ll be in Raleigh July 21.
Janelle Monáe will bring her Dirty Computer tour to Raleigh July 23. Like her mentors, Monáe creates a world of her own through music. The tour is in support of her latest album, “Dirty Computer.”
Arcade Fire, the Grammy-winning Montreal band that started out recording for Triangle label Merge Records, puts on one of the best and most ambitious shows on the road today
