Eric Hodge
Host, "Morning Edition"Eric Hodge hosts WUNC’s broadcast of Morning Edition, and files reports for the North Carolina news segments of the broadcast. He started at the station in 2004 doing fill-in work on weekends and All Things Considered.
In August 2004, he took over the Morning Edition slot where he enjoys the challenge of bringing North Carolina news to listeners each weekday. Eric moved to Carrboro from New York City in 2000. He worked for the BBC and XFM radio while living in London, England. He has also run his own music marketing company, worked for major record labels in both New York and London, and worked on the Grammy Award nominated Harry Belafonte project, "The Anthology of Black Music."
Eric grew up in Michigan, trained at the Broadcast Center in St. Louis with CBS's KMOX radio and worked at a variety of stations in the Midwest and upstate New York.
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Django Haskins of Chapel Hill's The Old Ceremony joined WUNC Morning Edition host Eric Hodge to discuss the band's new record "Earthbound." -
Merge Records is celebrating their 35th anniversary this weekend with four shows at Carrboro's Cat's Cradle. -
Pioneering songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Alice Gerrard has been passing along and preserving old-time Appalachian and bluegrass music for 60 years. She's performing at her 90th birthday concert this Saturday in Raleigh. -
Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, the Durham-based duo that make up Sylvan Esso, are celebrating 10 years of making music together. -
With her latest album, "Spectacles," Shirlette Ammons talks about what it means to gaze versus being gazed at, the influence of her eastern North Carolina roots and her collaborators in Durham, paying homage to Prince and how a path to a better future is to "trouble" important issues. -
Paperhand Puppet Intervention, which has put on giant puppet shows for more than two decades, teams up with Grammy nominees Pierce and Nnenna Freelon to connect people to their ancestors and the natural world. They are performing their show, "Where Our Spirits Reside," at DPAC on Valentine's Day. -
Chatham County Line bandmates Dave Wilson and John Teer share the inspiration behind the songs on their 10th album, HIYO, out Jan. 26. -
Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno, better known as Viv & Riley, recently released "Imaginary People." The album melds bright production elements with wistful and sometimes bittersweet stories that recognize their roots on opposite sides of the country while looking ahead to an uncertain future. -
WUNC host Eric Hodge chats with Anisa Khalifa about her work on the new podcast, "The Broadside." -
Tens of thousands of bluegrass fans and musicians are converging on downtown Raleigh this weekend for the annual World of Bluegrass festival.
