A monthly arts, music and literature publication MILLof the carrboro citizen vol. 1 + no. 6 + march 2008
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2 carrborocitizen.com/mill + MARCH 2008 MILL MILL w o r k S S CASEY BURNS MILL Robert Dickson, iPubl sher [email protected] Kirk Ross, ei d tor [email protected] Liz Holm, art director [email protected] conti r butors T aylor Sisk, Jack Carley, Phil Blank, Lucy Butcher, Emily Burns and Michelle Langston Published Monthly CONTACT US The Carrboro Citzen Box 248 Carrboro, NC 27510 Telephone: 919-942-2100
Artist Casey Burns’ amazing work is familiar to regulars of Cats Cradle. A selec- tion of his efforts along with works by fellow rock show poster artist Ron Liberti make up “Paper Trail,” a new exhibition at Wilson Library present- ed by the Southern Folklife Collection The exhibit opens Monday, March 17 with a reception in the Manuscripts Department and a panel discussion on the cover featuring the artists and Cradle owner Frank Heath “Amy” by Casey Burns at 5:45 in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room. PHOTO BY Naheed Simjee The talk will be followed by a rock show. “Spring is just around the corner.” hat’s the phrase I utter each year on the after spending a few months in a state that for Carrboro’s Original first day of winter, before repairing to some of us borders on actual hibernation. my den for the season. But who can sleep with all the racket being Lunch Box Concert Here in the Piedmont, winter has made by the birds and bugs and bud burst- a lot less bite and it can seem that, ings? Time to wander out. Series is Back! Tweather-wise at least, spring is already here. Fortunately, you’ll find that spring, a But it’s the light that makes it spring, both the period of vast creativity in the natural cycle return of the sun to a higher angle and that it of things, is when this area’s arts and music lingers a little longer above the horizon each really gins up. Club schedules are packed and $0## $0## day. Brings out the color in things. art openings and events many. So turn off the Like every other living thing in the north- digital hearth, brush off the winter’s dust and !-$$## *'4# ern hemisphere, the human species, is in the take in a little culture. Provided by process of shaking off the winter doldrums, — Kirk Ross Open Eye Café +31'! Century Center Hall • 100 N. Greensboro St. Thursdays 12 noon - 1:00 p.m. March 6 - Worthington Over the past five years Michael and John have been playing an acoustic duo, putting their harmonica, guitar and vocal together on a variety of home blues and country songs. Their mix of tunes by Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed and Hank Williams is just the thing for a lunch time break. Bring Your Lunch & Love of Great Music! Carrboro Recreation and Parks Department
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Carrboro Nested FedEx Global 118-B E. Main St. , 338-8023 Education Center The ArtsCenter nestedhome.com 301 Pittsboro St. 300-G East Main Street 962-2435 929-2787 Dawn Rozzo: A Spring Botanical international.unc.edu/GEC.html artscenterlive.org Open Eye Café Expressions of life, love and Archer Graphics 101 S. Greensboro St. faith through paintings and 968-9410 206 E. Main St. openeyecafe.com pottery — works by Judith Ernst. 929-7522 Opening reception Thursday, archergraphics.net Sight Unseen — photography by Feb. 28, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Show- Call for details. local, legally blind photographer ing through May 30. Tim O’Brien. Artist’s reception The Beehive Salon Friday, March 14, 6-9 p.m. Turning Point Gallery 102 E. Weaver St. University Mall, 932-4483 Panzanella S. Estes Drive thebeehive-salon.com Carr Mill Mall, E. Weaver St 967-0402 & N. Greensboro St., harmonyfineart.com Mixed media by Chief — a trib- 929-6626 ute to the artist’s new daughter. panzanella.com Nancy Jacobsohn’s “Thirteen Showing through March. Horses—The Journey” — a “Controlled Chaos” — contem- collection of pieces reflective Century Center porary acrylics by Catharine of the artist’s journey from a 100 N. Greensboro St. Carter. Showing through career as an art educator and Efflorescence: A Spring Botanical opening at Nested. by dawn rozzo 918-7385 March 31. townofcarrboro.com/rp/cc.htm museum administrator to a full-time artist. Artist’s recep- Collaborative works by Tori Weaver Street Realty 116 E. Main St. , 929-5658 tion Friday, March 14, 6-9 p.m. S Ralston & Community Indepen- n o t es weaverstreetrealty.com ART dent School students. Showing u So thern Village March 3 through April 1. Images from Chatham County — photography by Dwain Blo o m Community Art Project Carrboro Town Hall 708 Market St. , 942-9880 Ritchie. Showing through the “Elements” is the theme for this year’s Community Art Project, which will 301 W. Main St. first week of April. bloomnc.com 942-8541 feature works by local artists on display throughout Carrboro and Chapel Hill in Oil paintings by North Carolina townofcarrboro.com Wootini April and May. The project’s sponsor, the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission, artists Sam Shelby and Tracy Bolin Creek and Woodlands: historic carr mill invites anyone to create an artwork based on the theme. Submission guidelines and 200 n. greensboro st. Bell. Showing through March. more information can be found at the arts commission website at www.chapel- Natural Treasures Photography 933-6061 Bagwell, Holt, Smith, hillarts.org. by Dave Otto. Showing through wootini.com March. Tillman & Jones, PA “I Will Miss You When I’m 400 Market St., Suite 103 Seymour Center Bids DeWitt Law, PLLC Gone”— A collection of new 932-2225 The Orange County Arts Commission is sponsoring a public art project at the 118 E. Main St. work by Dustin Hostetler, aka bhspa.com new Robert and Pearl Seymour Center at 2551 Homestead Road (Southern Hu- Suite A UPSO starting March 14th and 338-8200 Paintings by Cat Moleski man Services Campus) in Chapel Hill. This project is open to all artists working showing through April 8th. dewitt-law.com – bright, insightful and contem- in any media and currently living in North Carolina. Artist teams are eligible to plative oil paintings. Showing apply, including teams of artists from multiple disciplines. Artists living in Orange Fifth Season Chapel Hill through April. County are encouraged to apply. Works in a variety of media and forms will be Gardening Co. Acn kla d Art Museum considered. 106 S. Greensboro St. - South Columbia St. and ill H sborough 932-7600 Franklin St. The budget for the project is $10,000 in public and private money. fifthseasongardening.com Chapel Hill, 966-5736 Hill sborough Gallery The official request for qualifications is available on the arts commission website of Arts at www.artsorange.org. Call for details. ackland.org 121 N. Churton St., Suite 1-D Picturing the World: Carolina’s 732-5001 Fleet Feet Gallery Art Auction Benefit 406 E. Main St. Celebrated Photojournalists; hillsboroughgallery.com 942-3102 Showing through April 6. Look B4U Leap — new work by An art auction to benefit Family Violence and Rape Crisis Center and the Chatham County Arts Council will be held Sunday, March 9 at the Fearrington fleetfeetcarrboro.com Perspectives on Public Justice. the Gallery’s member artists. Barn from 2 to 5 p.m. Works by Fleet & Sherry Wood- Showing through May 4. Opening reception Friday Feb. ley — oil paintings, drawings, 29, 6-9 p.m. Show runs through The event, aimed at highlighting the good works by both agencies, also features photography, mixed media & Animation and Fine Art March 22. food and live music by Trilogy (Brooksie Edwards, Richard Edwards, Sheila University Mall, haiku. Through March. Fleming Warner) and by classically trained guitarist Josh Drye. Individual tickets S. Estes Drive, 968-8008 itt P sboro are $20 and can be purchased at Second Bloom and Chatham Arts and The Blue NC Crafts Gallery animationandfineart.com House in Pittsboro and at Blue Birds & Hollyhocks in Fearrington Village. Chaam th County Arts 212 W. Main St. Imaginary Portraits — works by The Art auction and silent preview will begin at 2 p.m. with a live auction start- Council 942-4048 Pablo Picasso. Showing through ing at 3:30 p.m. nccraftsgallery.com 115 Hillsboro St., March 13. 542-0394 The benefit also includes the announcement of the winners of the Empowering “Primary Colors” — watercolor Originals by Salvado Dalí. chathamarts.org and Transforming Poetry Contest followed by a reading of works. and acrylic paintings by Chapel Showing March 14 through A prize of $25 will be awarded to winners in the senior division (19 years and Hill artist Miriam Sagasti. April 10. The Joyful Jewel older open to all adults), high school division and youth division. The contest is 45 West St. Showing March 1-31. sponsored by EPIC Center a local nonprofit. Caffé Driade 545-6863 Annual Wood Show — turned 1215-A E. Franklin St. “Seed Bead Therapy” — eclectic bowls, vessels and wooden cre- 942-2333 & fun jewelry by Jody Jameson. ations by the Gallery’s favorite caffedriade.com Opening reception Sunday, wood artists. Showing March Mixed media by Nevton Diniz. March 2, noon to 5 p.m. 1-31. 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MILL MARCH 2008 + carrborocitizen.com/mill 5 m ar ch shows & op e n i n g s
3/1 MILLSFJazz Collective 31 Memorial Hall: All star jazz ensemble performs. 8pm. Tickets online or at 843-3333.
3/1 Kerbi lok Local 506: With Hundred Air and Auxes. 10pm. $5
3/2 m“A erican Politics after Returning from Syria” The ArtsCenter: History professor Sarah Shields gives a lecture. 11am. Free!
3/4 Th e English Beat Cat’s Cradle: With RX black lips 3/16 local 506 Bandits. Doors at 7: 30. 3/16 $20, $17 advance. Blk ac Lips 3/5 Local 506: With Quintron Axu iliary House & Miss Pussycat and The Gondoliers. 9: 30pm. $10 Nightlight: With Sweater Weather and These United 3/17 States. 9pm. $5 PRAPE TRAIL: THE POSTER 3/6 through 3/9 ART OF CASEY BURNS Lee smith 3/9 horace williams house AND RON LIBERTI A New Brain 4th Floor, Wilson Library: 3/9 3/15 The ArtsCenter: A musical 5pm: Reception, exhibit, panel about a composer’s recovery O n Agate Hill Freas k discussion and live music. Free! from a brain tumor. 8pm, Horace Williams House: Carrboro Century Center: 3pm on Sunday. $12 Author Lee Smith discusses Century Center Cinema 3/17 her book On Agate Hill. 3pm presents the 1932 filmFreaks Green Wine Dinner 3/7 with a premiere showing of Panzanella: Dinner and 3/15 tCha ham County Line the short filmNightLife by tasting of wines made with Cat’s Cradle: With Skeeter Brandon local filmmaker Nic Beery. green practices. 7pm. $45, Everybodyfields. Doors at The Cave: NC Blues musician Starting at 7pm. $4 reservation required. 8: 30. $15, $12 advance. performs around 10. $10 greg brown 3/22 the artscenter
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6 carrborocitizen.com/mill + FEBRUARY 2008 MILL 3/24 B rother Ali Cat’s Cradle: Performing with Abstract Rude, Toki Wright and BK-One. Doors at 8: 30. $12, $10 advance.
3/27 - 3/30 Lat in Festival on the Hill Latin America joining forces with UNC artists and scholars for this series of concerts, workshops and lectures. For more info and tickets, call 843-3333.
3/27 through 4/6 llSti …Life Memorial Hall: A performance looking at the Death Penalty in North Carolina using interviews with people from across the state whose lives it has affected. 8pm, 2pm Sunday. Tickets online or at 843-3333.
3/28 Seane Cost llo Blue Bayou Club: The up- and-coming blues guitarist performs at 9: 30pm. jennifer curtis 3/27 latin festival on the hill
3/28 WXYC 80’s Dance Cat’s Cradle: Starting at 9pm.
3/29 Violet Vector & The Lovely Lovelies Local 506: Performing at their CD Release party with Un Deux Trois and The Curtains paper trail: the poster art of casey burns & ron liberti 3/17 wilson library of Night. Time/price TBA.
3/18 3/19 3/22 3/29 Love Lived on Death Row Solas G reg Brown Sabado Sonidero Hanes Art Center Auditorium: The ArtsCenter: Irish The ArtsCenter: Grammy The ArtsCenter: Mexican DJ Showing of a documentary film folk music, part of The nominated songwriter performs. and dancing at 9pm. Panel about a family with a father ArtsCenter’s Celtic Concert Opening are Sarah Lee Guthrie discussion of international music from 6-8pm. Free! sentenced to die for the murder Series. 8: 30pm. $24 and Johnny Irion. 8: 30pm. sean costello 3/28 blue bayou club of the mother. 7pm. Free! Tickets $ 30, $28 advance.
MILL FEBRUARY 2008 + carrborocitizen.com/mill 7 S A poet not resting POETRY ince being selected most famous blues singers, I never cared to hear those Carrboro’s poet Blind Boy Fuller. The poem Blind Man’s Song damned owls, never cared laureate last October, profiles Fuller’s loss of sight to hold that eeriness in my heart, Neal McTighe has during his 20s and his career as Blindness, hold me captive, yet I saw those black cats prowl connected deeply with a musician. I’m shipwrecked; like shells on pumice across my soul; so I Sthe history of Carrboro and McTighe said he aims to boards. Gulls wisp mercifully above, become an active promoter of write more Carrboro-focused sold that soul; upward, cresting waves the Devil, I did! the arts in the community. poetry to help residents connect that bathe The New Jersey native now with their community’s history. But, then, one Sunday morning, in that calls Carrboro his true home. He He’s also the first poet lau- my feet weighing down has spent the last several months reate with a doctorate related Sun upon pools of water, dripping, exploring the community’s past to the subject. He recently beside that dull Cheshire moon. I called out: “Hermes, and developing poems that graduated from UNC with a Aging like grapes, I sift can You make me blind? Then I chronicle both the places and doctorate in Italian. His dis- through some words of some shall, at last, hear song? people unique to the area. sertation was on 16th-century fine book, and see my image Can You make this music at once my One of McTighe’s goals Italian philosopher and poet scattered page upon page sight, then guide me to that place?” in this position is compiling Giordano Bruno. upon page; I leave, He answered, cumulous cloud, a collection of poems about McTighe said he most McTighe lived in Bologna, alone, hollow; I instill no feeling, Carrboro’s history. His first enjoys writing fiction – par- Italy for three years before cornered in a Ray of Godliness, moving to Carrboro. no sorrow, no sound a descendent of Mother: published poem, “Black and ticularly poetry – to which he in that White,” earned him his selec- has been dedicated from an photo courtesy neal mctighe “Son, I shall let you hear land of logos tion as poet laureate. early age. the Hiss of Serpent, “I look for little pieces “I was brought up in an afternoon of lunch and coffee. before I left Egypt, blended with the Scent of Magi’s Myrrh; of hidden Carrboro history environment where my parents A poetry open-mic night is before I came to, if you, Son, and try to bring them out,” and teachers made me feel held at the Open Eye Café one this blind state, sing my Song to the Crea- Tuesday night a month. he said. Further inspira- comfortable about experiencing of being, I tuned my ears—rhyme, tures; if you close your eyes, McTighe is an academic at tion comes from Carrboro and talking about art,” he said, counterpoint—I wrote you shall hear them crying.” landmarks as well as from the adding that he wants other kids heart and said he sees himself four quartets; without ever a note; three years he spent in Italy. to feel the same way. potentially ending up in teach- I wrote those pretty little dots, — NEAL McTG I HE ing. For now, he wants to use One poem, “Gone to McTighe has started work- which traverse time, mold space. Poet Laureate of Carrboro Sleep,” is about the life and ing with the Carrboro Recre- his position as Carrboro’s poet death of renowned Carrboro ation and Parks Department to laureate to foster the love of the artist Elizabeth Cotten. She plan public poetry readings to arts already present in the town. was a traditional blues and folk generate interest among young “To have something like singer who started performing people, including a youth the poet laureate of a town in the 1950s. Cotten played poetry contest with submissions — wow,” McTighe said. “It the guitar with a signature from different age groups (see embodies so much of what the alternating bass style now details this page). 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Coming Soon! SECOND ANNUAL Center Gallery El Sur Comes South: Pedro Lasch Exhibition CELTIC CONCERT SERIES with Los Artistas and local sonideros Reception: March 14, 6-9 p.m. Sonidero/DJ Party: March 29, 10 p.m.
East End Gallery Kardelen: Turkish - American Artists Celebrate International Women’s Month Artist Reception: March 14, 6-9 p.m.
A New Brain March 6-9, Thursday – Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m. $12, $10 Members, $7 Students DERVISH Dervish March 11, 8:30 p.m., $24, $22 Tuesday, March 11, 8:30 p.m. $24, $22 ArtsCenter Members SOLAS If You Give a Pig a Party presented by March 19, 8:30 p.m., $24, $22 Tarradiddle Players (SuperFun Show) Friday, March 14, 7 p.m. $7 All (2 and under free) GRADA Cris Williamson and Friends March 21, 8:30 p.m., $16, $14 Saturday, March 15, 8:30 p.m. $39, $37 ArtsCenter Friends BATTLEFIELD David Wilcox Sunday, March 16, 8:30 p.m. $20 adv, $23 day-of-show BAND March 28, 8:30 p.m., $21, $19 Solas Wednesday, March 19, 8:30 p.m. $24, $22 ArtsCenter Friends
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MILL MARCH 2008 + carrborocitizen.com/mill 9 PERFORMANCE n o t e s S THEATER & COMEDY Summer Conservancy For the 40 young actors selected swing dance 8 from 8 to 11p.m. A dance lesson calendar S The ArtsCenter and PlayMak- for The Music Man cast, five weeks The Hot House Hefftones, at 7:30 is included with admission. ers Repertory Company have of intensive training and rehearsal Charlotte’s jazzy/lounge swing band Admission is $9 for members, $11 the aRTSCENTER announced their second collabora- begin on June 23, from 1:00 to 5:00 plays the Carrboro Century Center for non-members. Student admission A New Brain tive Summer Youth Conservatory p.m., Monday-Friday. Rehears- for the monthly Swing Dance, price is $5 for members and $7 for March 6 – 9, 8pm, 3pm Sunday $12, $7 students program for actors aged 9 to18. This als will culminate in four public presented by the Triangle Swing non-members. Information at www. year’s conservatory will present the performances, July 24-27. Tuition is Dance Society. The dance is March TriangleSwingDance.org. The Nightingale musical The Music Man by Meredith $1,100 per actor, with scholarships March 14, 10am, Grades 4-7, Tickets 929-2787 x204 Wilson. Beginning June 23, a cast available based on financial need. of 40 young actors will have the More information and an ap- I f You Give a Pig a Party March 14, 7pm, PreK- 3rd grade, $7 opportunity to rehearse and perform plication form are available on the on the PlayMakers’ Mainstage at ArtsCenter website at www.artscen- Ch arlotte’s Web UNC’s Paul Green Theatre. terlive.org. March 20, Grades 1-5, Tick- ets 929-2787 x204 The production will be cast by audition only and is open to both celtic concert series Deep Dish Theater conservatory and non-conservatory This month The ArtsCenter State of the Union students. hosts the 2nd Annual Celtic Concert Through March 8, Wednesday, Thursday 7:30pm, Friday, Saturday PlayMakers and The ArtsCen- Series. The high-energy Irish group 8pm, Sunday 2pm, Tickets $16, ter particularly encourage young Dervish performs on Tuesday, March $14 seniors, $12 students actors with passion and skill, aged 11. Celtic supergroup Solas follows 14 to 18, to audition for the lead on Wednesday, March 19. Tickets DSI characters, Professor Harold Hill for both groups are $24. On Friday, Standup Comedy, Cagematch, Harold Night and Marian Paroo, as well as other March 21 the Dublin-based Gráda Thursdays 8pm $10 leading roles. performs. Closing out the series on Mit s er Diplomat Los Angles-based director Tom Friday, March 28 is Battlefield Band, F ridays 9:30pm $12 Quaintance will direct. Quaintance performing Scottish music with helmed last summer’s Conservatory traditional instruments. Admission Cod me ySportz4Kidz, ComedySportz, Best production of Oliver! and returned is $21. All shows begin at 8:30 p.m. Show Ever to the Triangle to direct PlayMakers’ Tickets are $2 off for friends of The SOLAS 3/19 the artscenter Saturdays at 5, 7:30, hit holiday show The Little Prince. ArtsCenter. 9:30pm $10-12 going native
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10 carrborocitizen.com/mill + MARCH 2008 MILL S MUSIC ca l e n d ar the tipsheet s Winter draws to a close we can of NightLife by local filmmaker Nic Beery. reflect on how warm it really was and The Cave will host “Skeeter” Brandon, a hope that the impending Summer soulful and unique blues singer the same night. does not find our county completely It’s the later show so show up around ten with Aparched. And with that unpleasant thought well $10 in your pocket. (More if you want beer.) behind us we shall turn to diversions, and March Sunday may be the Lord’s day but Sunday certainly has some good ones! night is for rocking out! Go to the Local 506 Starting off the month on the first, see the on the 16th for the Black Lips, Quintron & Miss SFJazz Collective at UNC’s Memorial Hall. The Pussycat and The Gondoliers! Show is at 9:30 group features some of the most talented jazz and will set you back ten bucks. musicians around with new and creative ar- Do you like wine? And do you like the envi- rangements. Show at 8, tickets online or at the ronment? Then consider shelling out $45 for a box office: 843-3333. wine tasting at Panzanella on the 17th featuring Alright, so it isn’t all diversion: for some wines made with various green practices – and education see Professor Sarah Shield’s lecture food, too! 7 p.m. ON ENSEMBLE 2/29 THE ARTSCENTER “American Politics After Returning From Syria” And for some more high-brow entertain- The ArtsCenter Stationary Set, The Binary Marketing Show at The ArtsCenter on the second at 11 in the ment, see Solas at the ArtsCenter on the 19th. morning. Free knowledge! Irish music at its finest at 8:30, for $24. Dervish (3/11) Cris Williamson & Friends (3/8) Bells, Sightings, Hazerai (3/11) The Nev- On the seventh, Chatham County Line will Orange County has got the Blues: Sean (3/15) David Wilcox (3/16) George Winston er, Parachute Musical, Mount Weather (3/13) release their newest album and perform at the Costello performs at the Blue Bayou Club in (3/17) Solas (3/19) Grada (3/21) Greg Brown, Cantwell, Gomez, and Jordan, United States, Cradle with Everybodyfields. Dig string music? Hillsborough on the 28th at 9:30 p.m. Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion (3/22) Woman, A New Dawn Fades (3/15) New Town Go! Doors open at 8:30. Tickets are $15 or And if that’s not for you, relive the 80’s Battlefield Band (3/28) Sabado Sonidero Drunks, Geva Avalon, Paris Falls (3/18) Your three bucks if you buy them in advance. at the WXYC 80’s Dance at the Cradle. (3/29) Musica Latina in Carolina (3/30) Favorite Assassin, Smooch and the Big Hug, Stuntditch (3/19) Icarus Himself, The Noth- Local author Lee Smith will discuss The dancing starts at 9 and lasts until 2 t Ca ’s Cradle ing Noise, The Men (3/20) Samara Lubelski, her book about the postwar South: On in the morning. Lam Lam Band, Courtney Brown (3/21) Agate Hill with the Chapel Hill Preser- Violet Vector & The Lovely Lovelies SUNDAY SHOWCASE: Jimmy Magoo, Baron Von vation Society at 3 p.m. at the Horace are oh-so lovely and release their new Rumblebuss and Redd Zeppelin, Old 86, Buddha Wolverines, Whitman (3/22) Domer Beats, Crash, Metermaids, Bisc 1 (3/25) Remora, M Williams House. Enlightening! disc on the 29th at the 506. Check it! Cat, Velvet, The Allen Boys, Dirty Little Heaters, Carrboro doesn’t have a mov- Closing out the month The Opening Flower Happy Bird, Midtown Dickens, Coast, Diplomat (3/27) Caltrop, Tiger Bear Wolf (3/28) 5 Year Anniversary Party (3/29) ie theater, but that doesn’t ArtsCenter hosts some free Snuzz, Tom Maxwell (3/1) Matt Pond PA (3/3) mean we don’t do movies. dancing with Mexican- The English Beat, RX Bandits (3/4) Matt Costa, alLoc 506 Century Center Cinema inspired DJ Sabada Johnathan Rice (3/6) Chatham County Line, returns on the 15th with Sonidero, starting at 9pm. Everybodyfields (3/7) Written In Red, Hadwynn, Kerbloki, Hundred Air, Auxes (3/1) Mikey Powell skeeter 3/15 & The Villains Trust (3/2) Dr. Dog, A.A. Bondy a showing of the film Free dancing? Flowers for Faye, The Moonatiks (3/8) Mesheell Freaks and a premiere brandon the cave Yes please! Ndegeocello, Trixie Whitley (3/10) Hobex, Great (3/4) Parts & Labor, Ecstatic Sunshine (3/5) Big Gone, Lynn Blakey and Ecki Heins (3/14) DJ Say Hi, The Big Sleep (3/6) Born Ruffians, Forge Dance Party (3/15) Unseen, A Wilhelm Cadence Weapon, Hammer No More The Scream, Luchagors (3/17) Sons And Daughters, Fingers (3/7) Men, Hey Willpower (3/8) Dirty Bodies of Water (3/18) Ingrid Michaelson, Bob South Revolutionaries, Oppressed Logic, Head On Collision, K.I.F.F. (3/12) Pulsop- Schneider, Cary Brothers, Joshua Radin, AM, 3/1 SAT KERBLOKI / HUNDRED AIR / AUXES Chris Denny (3/20) Cherry Bomb, Cuntry Kings, tional, Phon, Craig Hilton (3/13) Max Indian 3/2 SUN MIKEY POWELL & THE VILLAINS TRUST Miss Mary Wanna, Rachel Riot (3/22) Brother (3/14) KAZE, The Rawkus 50 (3/15) Black NINE PM TRAFFIC / PHILLIP PLEDGER Ali, Abstract Rude, Toki Wright, BK-One (3/24) Lips, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, The Gondo- 3/3 MON 506 Free For All: BELOVED BINGE / EBERHARDT liers (3/16) Tilly & The Wall, Capgun Coup, 3/4 TUE DR. DOG / A. A. BONDY Badfish, Scotty Don’t (3/27) WXYC 80’s Dance 3/5 WED PARTS & LABOR / ECSTATIC SUNSHINE (3/28) Mike Doughty’s Band, The Panderers (3/31) Midtown Dickens (3/17) Holy F, A Place To IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG Bury Strangers, Red Collar (3/18) Le Loup, 3/6 THU SAY HI / THE BIG SLEEP / THE NOTHING NOISE The Cave The Ruby Suns (3/19) Dub Trio, Foreign 3/7 FRI BORN RUFFIANS / CADENCE WEAPON HAMMER NO MORE THE FINGERS Barton Carroll, Simple, Reid Johnson, Betty & The Islands (3/20) Acid Mothers Temple, Danava 3/8 SAT Pinky Swear Presents MEN (JD & JO of Le Tigre) Boys (3/1) Puddin’ Tang, The Curtains of Night (3/21) Nicole Atkins & The Sea, Parlor Mob HEY WILLPOWER / EX-MEMBERS (3/22) Blitzen Trapper, Fleet Foxes, Auxil- 3/9 SUN GAY BLADES / PHOEBE’S CAROUSEL (3/3) Songwriters’ Open-Mic (3/4) Spoken-Mic, 8VggWdgdÉh JOHNNYDIRTYSHOES iary House (3/23) Sally Anthony (3/26) The Lowry (3/5) Brandon Herndon, John Pardue, 3/10 MON 506 Free For All! TEN PENNY / LONESOME DEPARTED Moontaxi (3/6) Edsel 500 (3/7) Andrew Gregory, Moaners (3/27) Delta Spirit, Port O’Brien (Longwave has cancelled) Kenny Roby (3/8) Audrey Ryan, Dent May, John (3/27) Violet Vector & The Lovely Lovelies, 3/11 TUE 506 Free For All! ALIAS SMITH & JONES / SPINDALE 7Zhi 3/12 WED Cyco Logic Presents DIRTY SOUTH REVOLUTIONAIRES Un Deux Trois, The Curtains Of Nights (3/29) Barrett (3/9) Reid Johnson, Jen Richelson, OPPRESSED LOGIC / HEAD ON COLLISION / K.I.F.F. Ponieheart (3/10) The Common World Collective 3/13 THU PULSOPTIONAL / PHON / CRAIG HILTON (3/11) Shawnee Boyeeee (3/12) Davis Stillson, 3/14 FRI FAN-TAN / MAX INDIAN / THE LOVE LANGUAGE 8]VeZa 3/15 SAT Rawkus Records presents KAZE feat.The RAWKUS 50 Town Mountain (3/13) New River Rock Skippers, 3/16 SUN Cat’s Cradle Presents BLACK LIPS Eric Sommer (3/14) Chris Schultz (3/14) Chris QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT / THE GONDOLIERS Schultz & Steph Hayes, Skeeter Brandon (3/15) 3/17 MON Cat’s Cradle Presents TILLY & THE WALL =^aa CAPGUN COUP / MIDTOWN DICKENS The Zou (3/16) The Shamrockers (3/17) The Blue 3/18 TUE HOLY FUCK / A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Moon Revue (3/18) Instant Jones, Western Civ RED COLLAR (3/19) The Woos, Hege V, Hwyl (3/20) Ashley 3/19 WED LE LOUP / THE RUBY SUNS / THE BUSY WORLD Atkins Band, Southpaw, Kelley & The Cowboys 7Vg (Bodies of Water are no longer playing) 3/20 THU DUB TRIO / FOREIGN ISLANDS (3/21) Rodie Ray, Luego, Trances Arc (3/22) 3/21 FRI ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE / DANAVA 3 Dollar Hostage (3/23) Robert Griffin & Stu 3/22 SAT NICOLE ATKINS & THE SEA / PARLOR MOB Cole (3/24) Johnny Cook, McCauliffe Broth- DeZcBdc#"Hjc# 3/23 SUN BLITZEN TRAPPER / FLEET FOXES / AUXILIARY HOUSE ers (3/25) Mark Cool, Blain Ziglar (3/26) Shame 3/24 MON NEW MODEL ARMY '/(%e#b#"'V#b# 3/25 TUE MMC Records Showcase with JASON ADAMO BAND Train, Atlantic Crossing (3/27) The T.U.R.D.S., TAIN COLLINS BAND / UPHONIK Eric Sommer (3/28) Pagan Hellcats, Sleepsound, 3/26 WED SALLY ANTHONY Stella by Starlight (3/29) Ben & Marty (4/2) 3/27 THU The Carolina Women’s Center presents THE MOANERS ) * '& $ 'L#; g Vc` a ^cHi# BELLAFEA / BIBIS ELLISON 3/28 FRI DELTA SPIRIT / PORT O’BRIEN i N ghtlight 8]VeZa=^aa 3/29 SAT VIOLET VECTOR & THE LOVELY LOVELIES CD Release FrequeNC Records Night (3/1) Auxiliary House, Party with UN DEUX TROIS / THE CURTAINS OF NIGHT Sweater Weather, These United States (3/5) Mi- .&.".+-".(%- 506 W. Franklin St. • Chapel Hill crokingdom (3/7) The Swimmers, A is Jump, the 942-5506 • www.local506.com
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ingrid michaelson bombadil FR 3/14-($10/$12)** bob schneider, cary brothers, joshua radin sa 4/26 who’s bad?! STRIKE ANYWHERE (michael jackson tribute) am & chris denny** w/RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS su 4/27 destroyer fr 3/21 del the funky BLEND (CHAPEL HILL): W/andre ethier**($12) homosapien TH 3/6 JESSE MALIN mo 4/28 meat beat W/bukue one** w/de novo daho, richard bacchus manifesto**($15/$18) fr 3/21 cherry bomb, memorial hall we 4/30 josh cuntry kings (unc-CHAPEL HILL): W/miss mary wanna, ritter**($15/$17) FEATURING ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS tu 4/15-($23/$25)** rachel riot**($10/$12) fr 5/2 pressure boys iron and wine mo 3/24 truth is here tour: reunion show!!** GLEN HANSARD brother ali su 5/4 man man w/califone W/bk one, abstrakt rude, w/yeasayer** & MARKETA IRGLOVA meymandi concert hall toki wright**($10/$12) tu 5/6 british sea THURSDAY, MaY 15 (Raleigh): th 3/27 th 5/15 - ($35/$30) badfish: a power/rosebuds** tribute to sublime Tix via Ticketmaster and at the Progress Energy Center box office. the swell season W/scotty don’t and high and sa 5/10 polvo**($10) 7pm DOORS 8pm SHOWTIME RESERVED SEATING $35 / $30 tickets via ticketmaster or mighties**($15/$18) mo 5/26clinic**($13/$15) meymandi box office
catscradle.com M 919.967.9053 M 300 E. Main Street, carrboro **Asterisks denote advance tickets @ schoolkids records in chapel hill & raleigh, cd alley in chapel hill, bull city records in durham M order tickets online at etix.com M we serve carolina brewery beer on tap! M we are a non-smoking club
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