We’re proud to present H.C. McEntire as a part of Music in Your Gardens, a free eight-week online concert series showcasing nationally renowned artists who call Durham and the surrounding area home. The series shifts Duke Performances’ longtime summer series, Music in the Gardens, normally held outdoors at Sarah P. Duke Gardens on Duke’s campus, to an online format in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On July 22 at 7 PM ET, we’ll premiere a new, specially recorded performance by H.C. online, free of charge, on our website and on our YouTube page. The film, pre-recorded in a socially-distanced manner, will be accompanied by a live YouTube chat with H.C., who will answer questions from viewers. Before sitting down to watch the performance, click here to read our chat with H.C. on her soon-to-be-released album, Eno Axis, and honoring quarantine time.

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Over the past decade, Duke Performances has presented H.C. McEntire, one of Durham’s most prominent musicians, multiple times, both as a frontperson of the alt-country trio Mount Moriah and as a solo artist. McEntire grew up in western North Carolina listening to gospel and bluegrass; on her solo debut LIONHEART, McEntire writes biblical country music in a queer dialect, by turns visceral and delicate. LIONHEART showcases her singing and playing alongside a number of other local musicians — Phil Cook, Ryan Gustafson, Daniel Hart, Allyn Love — plus the likes of Angel Olsen, William Tyler, and Mary Lattimore. Broadcasting from her home outside Durham, McEntire bares her roots.