Local Music

The Poetry Café, a long-running showcase for poets and spoken word artists, is coming to WUNC for a weekly show beginning Sunday at 6 p.m.

The Truckers will play two shows in Saxapahaw's Haw River Ballroom on April 24 and 25, then return to North Carolina in mid-May to play a pair of shows in Asheville.

The event is being held on the Wilkes Community College campus in Wilkesboro April 27-30 and will celebrate its 35th anniversary and the 100th birthday of Doc Watson.

Her new record, “Deeper Sleeper,” is out Friday, April 7, and Rich joined WUNC recently to talk about it.

Tianna Esperanza Chats With WUNC Music

The drummer and harmony vocalist in Ben Folds Five is back with his third studio album. He performs in Durham in April.

Jenny O. says her new record is about her experience with connectivity and an expression of her love for others, self and nature.

Greensboro native Rhiannon Giddens is a Grammy-award-winning musician. She returned to North Carolina recently with an opera that she co-composed about the life of Omar ibn Said, a Muslim man who was enslaved in the state in the 1800s.

H.C. McEntire's record is out Friday and there are upcoming shows at various venues across North Carolina, including Motorco in Durham in March.

Scivic Rivers self-titled debut is out on February 16th.