The Carolina Chocolate Drops

By Shawn Wen,

Published February 5, 2013 at 9:29 AM EST

The Carolina Chocolate Drops have come a long way from their days of busking on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. They’ve already won one Grammy, and now they’re up for another.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FVIaiADsyYo

The group is playing Memorial Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this Friday, but first host Frank Stasio talks to Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

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Shawn Wen

Shawn Wen joined the staff of The State of Things in March 2012 and served as associate producer until February 2014.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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