If you build it, they will come—or so hopes HandMade in America’s Jenny Moore. The associate director of the Western North Carolina nonprofit, which promotes area culture, crafts and crafters, Moore says there’s a mixture of artistic styles in the mountains. Some artists are doing very traditional work, while others focus on contemporary styles. Contemporary […]

No story about Ahleuchatistas would be complete without drawing a comparison between their inimitable name and indefinable sound. Even in the Midst: After a half-decade together, the Ahleuchatistas have finally found a foothold in the experimental-music world. Photo By Joshua Hoffman But for a band that began with a classified ad seeking players to make […]

Thirty years ago, music listeners didn’t have to wait long for their next shot at bombast. Every artist worth their mettle felt as if they had another Sergeant Pepper’s in them—a genre-breaking, grandiose, epic album just waiting to be brought forth. But for every Dark Side of the Moon, there are at least three albums […]

In 1968, then-unknown writing and composing duo Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber decided to follow up their rock-music-meets-musical-theater experiment Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with something a little bigger. Updating biblical themes was an interesting challenge, so the duo opted to take on what has been called “the greatest story ever told.” The […]

Erica Livingston is a long way from home. Sort of. She grew up in the North Carolina town of Ramseur (population 1,589), but for most of the past decade she’s hung her hat in New York City—the right home base for an up-and-coming actress. However, the roles Livingston lands reflect not the urbanized woman she’s […]

Aspiring toward a future on the stage, Nedelle Torrisi started her first band at age 11. Accompanied by a Casio keyboard and modeled on R&B acts like En Vogue, the group sang of finding, and getting respect from, the perfect man. A mere two years later, her hopes of a Broadway career were dashed when […]

Two years since the release of their last album, the Weaverville-based Biscuit Burners have a new album, new influences evident in their music and a new band-family member. Biscuit Burners Mary Lucey and Billy Cardine had a son about six months ago. Smoke on the horizon: Weaverville’s Biscuit Burners are back with a new album. […]

Innovation can take many forms. For the local dance collective Moving Women, innovation is less a matter of advancing any particular form and more about presenting a fresh social and personal perspective through movement. Together forever: Moving Women present a unique tale of conjoined twins in Thin Walls. Photo By Julie Becton-Gillum In their upcoming […]