Adia Victoria and Shirlette Ammons collaborate to explore emergent sounds, blur genre lines and redefine southern music.

Kyshona, Grace Givertz and Sam Rise sing the music of freedom movements and pay tribute to the storytelling, oral traditions and civil rights icons.

Fiddler extraordinaire Brian Farrow, singer-songwriter Dusky Waters and local musicians cook up an energetically acoustic musical gumbo.

Lumbee-Tuscarora singer-songwriter Charly Lowry plays electrifying originals and explores indigenous contributions to roots music.

Blue Cactus, Kym Register and Kamara Thomas trace their country-rock lineages, paying tribute to rock inventors

Softly powerful vocals layered over captivating and skillful guitar playing are the defining characteristics of XOXOK’s “atmospheric soul music” – an expansive blend of soul and jazz. This soulscape is ...

Hailed as an “Americana wunderkind” by Rolling Stone when he burst onto the music scene in 2017, Christian Lopez is now a prolific and mature artist, set to release his ...

Rebekah Todd’s “Cosmic Soul Rock” is an eclectic blend of blues, folk, rock, and soul music guaranteed to get the 2023 Music in the Gardens series off to an unforgettable ...

Nebraska-born vocalist-bassist Melissa Carper started her music career at age 12 in her family band. Now, after a nearly four-decade career, Carper has suddenly found herself thrust onto the national ...

Back by popular demand, two-time Grammy Award winner Terrance Simien returns to Music in the Gardens to lead his 5-piece Zydeco Experience band in an exhilarating celebration of zydeco music, ...

Weston Estate may call itself “your aunty’s favorite boy band,” but the original, homespun alt-pop sound of this Cary-based group isn’t anything you’ll hear from the Backstreet Boys or BTS.  ...

MUSIC IN THE GARDENS LOCATION UPDATE: Due to inclement weather, tonight’s event featuring IAMDYNAMITE will take place at 7 PM at Motorco Music Hall in Downtown Durham. Existing reservations will ...

“Y’allternative,” “cowpunk,” “alt-country” – critics can’t settle on a way to describe Sarah Shook’s boundary-pushing take on country traditions, but they ultimately all agree – it’s great music. Hailing from ...

We’re proud to present Hiss Golden Messenger as a part of Music in Your Gardens, a free eight-week online concert series showcasing nationally renowned artists who call Durham and the ...

We’re proud to present Skylar Gudasz 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 ...

We’re proud to present Kamara Thomas 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 ...

We’re proud to present Joe Troop 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 ...

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 ...

We’re proud to present Shirlette Ammons 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 ...

We’re proud to present Rissi Palmer 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 ...

We’re proud to present Young Bull 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 ...

Part of an outstanding multi-generational musical birthright that includes his father Calvin Jackson and genre-pioneering grandfather R. L. Burnside, Cedric Burnside literally grew up in the blues. Living in his ...

The son of a prominent folklorist, Jake Xerxes Fussell learned the music of his home region firsthand at his father’s side, building up a vast knowledge base about the sounds ...

Drawing on as well as contributing to a rich folk music tradition, Azniv Korkejian brings a diasporic knowingness to the rich and rewarding songs recorded under her Bedouine moniker. Though ...

First cultivating a national profile with 2014’s exemplary Electric Ursa, Joan Shelley continues to lure listeners into her musical world. Imbued with secrets and tells, the Kentucky singer’s songcraft culls ...

Due to the threat of rain, Duke Performances’ presentation of H.C. McEntire at Music in the Gardens on Wednesday, June 12 has been re-scheduled to Thursday, June 13 at 7 ...

East Los Angeles band, Las Cafeteras, play Duke Performances Music in the Gardens on Wednesday, July 25.

Appalachian balladeers Anna & Elizabeth play Duke Performances Music in the Gardens on Wednesday, July 18.

Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba make the hometown release for their new album, 'Routes', at Duke Performances Music in the Gardens on Wednesday, July 11.

Roots-rock luminaries The Sadies play Duke Performances Music in the Gardens on Wednesday, June 27.

Galax, Virginia native singer/songwriter Dori Freeman kicks-off Duke Performances Music in the Gardens on Wednesday, June 13.

Ohio-reared, North Carolina-based singer/songwriter Lydia Loveless plays Duke Performances Music in the Gardens on Wednesday, June 20.

Winston-Salem singer, songwriter, and bandleader Caleb Caudle spent years shaping and sharpening his approach to country music before arriving, last year, at a triumph called Carolina Ghost.

Asheville’s River Whyless has emerged from the mountain city’s bustling scene as one of the state’s most instantly likable bands.

Kelsey Waldon sings it like she means it. The western Kentucky native doles out tough realizations about heartbreak and cheating, hard luck and lying (and battling back against it all) in a delightful monotone that says she’s seen and lived it all one too many times.

You’ve been warned: Birds of Chicago have been known to inspire romantic jealousy.

Loamlands’ leader Kym Register runs The Pinhook, the spiritual center of Durham’s music scene.

Even the stylistically broad label “alt-country” has been too slim to contain Robbie Fulks, “a wordier, more musically elastic, American Nick Lowe,” according to The New York Times. A graduate ...

Robert Finley is a legend waiting to be shared. At the age of eleven, in Louisiana, he used his shoe-buying allowance to snag his first guitar, and it, in turn, ensnared him in a lifelong love affair.

"If You See Me, Say Yes" is Jenn Wasner's her solo debut as Flock of Dimes and her first full-length since relocating to Durham.

ALERT: Moving Black Twig Pickers at Music in the Gardens Indoors to Motorco Music Hall. Heavy lightning & thunderstorms are forecast for tonight at showtime. As a result, we have ...

“This rootsy North Carolinian may be the most buzzed-about new songwriter in folkdom,” wrote The Boston Globe about Carrboro’s Jonathan Byrd. “He displays John Prine’s gift for stark little songs that ...

William Tyler is the guitarist every musician wants in their band: he’s played with everyone from Lambchop to Silver Jews to Hiss Golden Messenger. He’s also released two singular instrumental ...

Following cancellation due to rain on Wednesday, June 29, Duke Performances’ presentation of Mount Moriah has been re-scheduled for Thursday, July 7 at 7 PM. All ticket holders will be ...

Bluegrass mandolinist and singer Sierra Hull’s breakout album Weighted Mind went right to the top of Billboard’s bluegrass charts at the start of this year. The Chicago Tribune praised Hull’s “crystalline ...

Please note: Since heavy lightning and thunderstorms are anticipated for Wednesday, June 15 (80% probability), we have moved the concert with Skylar Gudasz out of the Duke Gardens and over to Motorco Music ...

After a stint in the GRAMMY-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, singer and cellist Leyla McCalla has developed a sound all her own on two acclaimed solo records: her Langston Hughes tribute ...

The No BS! Brass Band draws from all over the American brass tradition. One minute, they sound like a New Orleans second line, the next like Mingus-style free jazz, the ...

Greensboro musician Laurelyn Dossett, co-founded the roots country outfit Polecat Creek, and she’s recently been on the road as part of Rhiannon Giddens’ touring band. Laurelyn has collaborated with the ...

Fifty years into her career, bluegrass icon and longtime Durham resident Alice Gerrard’s voice has only become more clear and haunting. “Plaintive, yet as dignified as a rugged old oak, ...

Note: John Dee Holeman, previously scheduled to perform, will miss this concert for medical reasons. A full recovery is anticipated. Piedmont Blues guitarist Lightnin’ Wells will fill in for Holeman. More info ...

Kaira Ba’s music is inspired both by West African griot culture and the tradition of dance bands that emerged from that part of the world in 1970s (see: The Rail ...

Music Maker Relief Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Hillsborough, NC, dedicated to helping the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of the blues gain recognition and meet their day-to-day ...

Durham-based Americana music savant Phil Cook is poised to launch a fruitful solo career after more than a decade playing with bands DeYarmond Edison, Megafaun, and the Shouting Matches — during ...

Durham-based Americana music savant Phil Cook is poised to launch a fruitful solo career after more than a decade playing with bands DeYarmond Edison, Megafaun, and the Shouting Matches — during ...

Durham-based Americana music savant Phil Cook is poised to launch a fruitful solo career after more than a decade playing with bands DeYarmond Edison, Megafaun, and the Shouting Matches — during ...