Arts Across NC Podcast
1) Creativity is Medicine: A Conversation With N.C. Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green
Today, February 18, 2020, marks the one-year anniversary of the official induction of Jaki Shelton Green as North Carolina’s first African American poet laureate. In this episode of Arts Across NC, ...Show More
Creativity is Medicine: A Conversation With N.C. Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green
44:21 | Feb 18th, 2020
2) Full Of Riches - Seagrove, North Carolina's Pottery Legacy
Full of Riches takes listeners into the world of Seagrove, N.C. where TAPS students are taught the region’s celebrated pottery tradition by master artist and N.C. Heritage Award recipient Sid Luck. ...Show More
3) A Family Affair - The Haliwa-Saponi Way
Children and parents learn together at the Haliwa-Saponi Traditional Arts Program for Students (TAPS). Gathering families and intergenerational groups for tribal culture and tradition classes is impor...Show More
4) Call And Response - The Roots of the Traditional Arts Programs for Students
Call and Response chronicles the origin story of TAPS, the Traditional Arts Program for Students. The North Carolina Arts Council created TAPS, a statewide network of after school programs, in respon...Show More
Call And Response - The Roots of the Traditional Arts Programs for Students
08:13 | Oct 4th, 2019
5) Director's Cut: Lauchlin Shaw and A.C. Overton
Lauchlin Shaw was a Harnett County-based fiddler whose family was a part of the 18th and 19th century wave of Scottish immigration to North Carolina. “His great-grandfather had come from the Isle of ...Show More
6) Director's Cut: Etta Baker
Etta Baker is one of North Carolina’s most famous Piedmont blues guitarist. Born in Caldwell County, she started learning guitar from her father when she was three. Her masterful, emotive pickin’ firs...Show More
7) Director's Cut: Doug Wallin
One hundred years ago famed folk-song collectors Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles visited North Carolina and documented hundreds of ballads and folk songs that had their roots in the British Isles. The e...Show More
8) Director's Cut: The Menhaden Chanteymen
In celebration of Come Hear North Carolina, a campaign for the 2019 North Carolina Year of Music, we're back with a new music themed season of Arts Across NC called "Director's Cut." Over the next fou...Show More
9) Episode 12: Arvil Freeman
Arvil Freeman likes to say, "I can teach you to play, but how good you’ll be depends on you." He’s talking about fiddling. Arvil Freeman is one of western North Carolina’s most respected fiddlers and...Show More
10) Episode 11: Dick Knight
Dick Knight is a professional musician, retired school teacher, and 2018 North Carolina Heritage Award recipient. He's is one of several excellent soul, R&B and funk musicians with deep ties to easter...Show More