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Robert Earl Keens latest album THE ROSE HOTEL and the single of the same name recently went #1 on the Americana charts!!
When it comes to a party/concert with Robert Earl Keen, we just can't get enough...we know you love him, too. Among the large contingent of talented songwriters who emerged in Texas in the 1980s and 1990s, Robert Earl Keen struck an unusual balance between sensitive story-portraits ("Corpus Christi Bay") and raucous barroom fun ("That Buckin' Song"). These two song types in Keen's output were unified by a mordant sense of humor that strongly influenced the early practitioners of what would become known as alternative country music. Keen, the son of an oil executive father and an attorney mother, is a native of Houston. His parents enjoyed both folk and country music, and his own style would land between those genres. Keen wrote poetry while he was in high school, but it wasn't until he went to journalism school at musically fertile Texas A&M that he learned to play the guitar. He and Lyle Lovett became friends and co-wrote a song, "This Old Porch," which both later recorded.

Sons of Bill opens

Ani DiFranco has written hundreds of songs, played thousands of shows, captured the imaginations of legions of followers, and jammed with folkies, orchestras, rappers, rock and roll hall-of-famers, jazz musicians, poets, pop superstars, storytellers and a martial arts legend. Shes fixed up a few old buildings and minimized her carbon footprint before it was trendy from installing a geothermal heating and cooling system in the renovated church that her label calls home to using organic inks on all the t-shirts she sells. But nothing shes done in her 18-year career has garnered more attention than a business decision. Since Ani bucked the major label system in the early-90s, opting to release her music on her own terms, the self-described Little Folksinger has been the subject of all kinds of hyperbole. Shes been called fiercely independent (Rolling Stone), inspirational (All Music Guide), the ultimate do-it-yourself songwriter (The New York Times), etc. As the cracks in the music industry get larger and more big-name artists follow Anis lead Radiohead, Madonna and Nine Inch Nails among them maybe people will just start calling her smart.

Erin McKeown opens

Muzak Heart & Soul Foundation is about redefining music education and helping students develop a career path within the music industry. Battle of the Bands is a contest in which high school bands compete for the title of the best band. By sponsoring a Battle of the Bands, the Muzak Heart & Soul Foundation is able to benefit students interested in the music industry by giving them the opportunity to be recognized as well as raise awareness for the Foundation within the community. For more information or to register your band Register Click Here.
NOTE: Muzak Heart & Soul's Battle of the Bands event is open to all ages. However, bands participating in the competition must be comprised of at least 2 students currently enrolled in high school.

The Black Lips are a self-described "flower punk" band from Atlanta, GA. They are what you could call true visionaries of a skeptical age. Even from their very first 7" EP, you could tell they were doing their own thing on their own terms, and of course it didn't sit well, even with the dawning of the 21st century and all it promised. The fun these guys have is hard to hide either live or on record. Seriously slurred swashbucklers living out the ultimate teenage dream, yet breaking through another layer of remarkable idiocy, transcribed through hallucinations and exasperation.

Box Elders & Temperance League (formerly Bruce Hazel & the Volunteers) opens

An Horse is a two-person indie pop band from Brisbane, Australia, comprising Kate Cooper of Iron On on vocals and guitar and Damon Cox of Intercooler on drums. In 2008 they toured the United States as an opening act for Tegan and Sara, prior to the release of their first album. In August 2008, they opened for Death Cab for Cutie for their Australian tour.
"When singer-guitarist Kate Cooper one half of Aussie indie-pop duo An Horse tells her ex-love shes going to play it back in reverse, shes not kidding. With drummer Damon Cox, Cooper turns the bands debut into relationship post-mortem, rehashing a split over fuzzed-out riffs, hummable hooks and snarling beats. Postcards is a romantic nostalgia trip; Rearrange Beds pushes raggedy riffs against aches that sail like ships. The agonized detail recalls the best of Nineties alt-rock; as Cooper says, Like that good Hole album, I can live through this." ROLLING STONE Nicole Frehsee

It's A Party! **Free Event & Music** Just because we need to throw a party!
Come out and celebrate spring fever with us...we will have games, activities, live music and cheap drinks.

Festival darlings the Carolina Chocolate Drops are coming into their own and fresh from a tour of England, we are pleased to have them return to Neighborhood Theatre.

Durham black string and folk resurrectionists the Carolina Chocolate Drops recently released their third studio album Genuine Negro Jig, their first with a major studio, and are enjoying more than a major regional following, but a burgeoning international following.

Carolina Chocolate Drops Nonesuch debut, Genuine Negro Jig, is more revelation than revival. The old-time music that this trio of African-American musicians has been exploring for the last four yearswith banjo, fiddle, guitar, snare, kazoo, jugs, and bonesoffers pleasures both immediate and deep. Trouble In Your Mind and live-show favorite Cornbread and Butterbeans insist upon foot-tapping, if not a whirl around the closest dance floor, while others, like the brooding Kissin and Cussin and the more sensual Why Dont You Do Right?, invite comfortably seated rumination. But these generations-old songs, performed with both faithfulness and modernity, also represent a significant yet near-forgotten part of American musical history.

"The black string band and jug band traditions that were popular in the Carolinas in the 1920s and 1930s were probably doomed to oblivion until revivalists Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson met at a banjo convention in 2005. This album is produced by Joe Henry and blends traditional tunes, originals and old-time sounding covers of contemporary songs, including Blu Cantrells Hit Em Up Style. The urge to dance is almost irresistible." ~ Jerry Shriver, USA Today

Mike has long been a popular performer in Charlotte. Mike's one of folk music's most energetic performers - serving up a collection turbo-charged humorous songs & sensitive Ballads. He is here again by popular demand. Mike began playing guitar his junior year in college during a snow storm & now, over 20 years later, he still plays guitar - and fiddle as well - traveling coast-to-coast delighting audiences with 12-string bottleneck blues, fiery Irish jigs and a wealth of his own music and stories filled with backwoods humor characteristic of a Mark Twain or Will Rogers.

Three extraordinary voices, two founding singer-songwriters, one singular vision: The Wailin' Jennys continue to evolve into far more than the melodious sum of their individual talents five years after blowing in on a fresh acoustic breeze from Canada's mid-western heartland. The Wailin Jennys have toured three continents, and are enjoying burgeoning international acclaim and a rapidly growing fan base. They continue to garner rave reviews for their album, Firecracker, which spent over 30 weeks in the Top 5 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart, and has charted in the Top 20 on Billboard's Top Heatseakers, Top Independent Albums and Top Internet Albums. Over the past two years, The Wailin Jennys have made many appearances on Garrison Keillers A Prairie Home Companion, sharing the stage with luminaries such as Bonnie Raitt and Meryl Streep.

Perhaps more beautiful than ever, The Wailin' Jennys are the darlings of the North American roots music arena. - The Toronto Star

Neighborhood Theatre favorite returns after touring most of the northeast & southeast, we are happy to them playing here at home and look forward to their high energy roots rock with a flare of folk-americana they do so well.

A new musical combo has been touring the east coast playing honest, folk-infused rock and roll. Known as The New Familiars, these four gentlemen combine an amazing passion for harmony and collaborative songwriting with multi-instrumental talent.

The band has constantly stretched the boundaries of 'genre labels' by playing their blend of folk-infused rock'n'roll. Since their debut in late 2006, they've built a sound based upon their balance of traditional and modern instruments which takes listeners from the back porches of appalachia to the floors of underground rock clubs.

From the saloons of Telluride to the some of the most sought after venues in America, Bill Nershi has delighted countless fans as a guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and founding member of the String Cheese Incident. Bill teams up with the dynamic lead singer and mandolin player from the popular jamband Leftover Salmon and his own Drew Emmitt Band to bring us Emmitt-Nershi Band. This show will most certainly be incredible.

When the U.S. invaded Iraq, the Pentagon made THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS required viewing for all its employees. Both an adrenaline-packed action movie and a provocative political thriller, its still timely the ultimate film about insurgencies, uprisings, and nation building. A masterpiece you need to see on the big screen. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Winner of the Venice Festival. Its as fresh and suspenseful as anything before or since. CNN

There's a new breed of dark, raw, mind-blowing psych-rock crawling from the South, and its name is Dead Confederate. The Georgia group conjured the haunting sound of their debut full-length album WRECKING BALL the old-fashioned way: by making it in the tiny concrete box of a studio in Austin, Texas, where the sound effects for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were recorded. "We're kind of like a Jackson Pollock painting," explains singer/guitarist Hardy Morris, 28. "Brutally honest. There isn't some big twist or turn, it just lays it all out there. Immediate, no frills, primal, emotional.

There are certain things in life that we never stop trying to figure out. The big things, the important things: love, pain, spirituality, a bit more love, a bit more pain. You get the idea. They're the issues that inspire endless works of philosophy, art, and poetry. They're the questions that inevitably lead to more questions. The Big Ones. But sometimes someone can take these issues and remind us of their most important aspect: what we actually do understand. Nashville based singer/songwriter Dave Barnes is one of these people. His songs often manage to do something even more difficult than critical analysis. They celebrate what we can grasp. Like much of the soul and R&B that influenced him during his southern childhood, Barnes' music connects with the listener both viscerally and emotionally in such a manner that we too immediately understand where he's coming from.

Ben Rector opens

30+ artists. bands. poets. filmmakers.

The third annual Charlotte FemmeFest will be held at N. Davidson and 36th Street, in NoDa, Charlottes art district, on Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 from 5:30pm to 1am. This years host venues include The Evening Muse, The Neighborhood Theater, Dolce Vita, Smelly Cat Coffeehouse, the Outdoor Stage at Salvador Deli and the art galleries of the North Davidson Street Arts District.

Charlotte FemmeFest 2010 will feature national, regional and local music acts, filmmakers, spoken word artists, writers and visual artists. The evening will include a wide variety of genres from folk to hip hop, including Jill Andrews, Wavy Space, Amelias Mechanics, Sy Arden, Jocelyn Ellis & the Alpha Theory, The Near Misses and many more acts to be announced. Visual art will be featured in the NoDa galleries and in an emerging artist exhibit in the Neighborhood Theatre.

Celebrating women in the arts, benefiting women in the community.

This year the proceeds from Charlotte FemmeFest will benefit the women and children of CENTER OF HOPE Women & Childrens Shelter. Families who are homeless, hungry and hurting can come to The Salvation Army Center of Hope to be fed, sheltered, clothed, trained, and most importantly, loved. The Center of Hope is the largest women and children's homeless shelter in the Southeast. FemmeFest aims to reach, inspire, and strengthen our cultural community with the work of underrepresented female voices throughout the region and beyond. In addition, FemmeFest will continue to assist non-profit organizations that serve the women and children in our community.

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