Past Event

Carolina Chocolate Drops with Luminescent Orchestrii

Carolina Performing Arts

Carolina Performing Arts presents Carolina Chocolate Drops, with special guests Luminescent Orchestrii. All about innovation and serious fun, the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops are widely credited with reviving the rich sounds of black string band music from the Piedmont region. Comprising vocals, banjo, fiddle, guitar, and even kazoo and a human beat-box, this is ensemble performs interpretations of songs that are familiar and original; they are a link between past and future, exploring generations-old songs with a modern touch. They collaborate here with New York gypsy punk band Luminescent Orchestrii in an unprecedented mix of vocal innovation, jazz, string-band, Balkan and beat-box inventiveness.

    Accompanying: Dom Flemons, banjo, guitar; Hubby Jenkins, banjo, guitar; Adam Matta, human beatbox; Rima Fand, violin; Skip Shirey, guitar; Benjy Fox Rosen, bass; Sarah Alden, fiddle; Rhiannon Giddens, banjo, fiddle, kazoo; Leyla McCall, cello

    Soloists

      Vocalists Dom Flemons & Rhiannon Giddens

      Note: As part of our series African American Legacies in the Performing Arts: Then and Now, UNC history professor Jerma Jackson will discuss the influence of black string music of the Carolina Piedmont region. 7PM, in Gerrard Hall, nearby on UNC's campus.
When
  • Friday, February 3, 2012 , 8:00 - 10:00 PM

Where
    Memorial Hall, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
    Cameron Avenue
    Chapel Hill, NC 27599
    (handicapped accessible)

    Venue Notes

      Located on Cameron Avenue between South Columbia and Raleigh Streets, on the UNC campus.

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Admission/Contact Information
    Ticket prices: Tickets starting at $29. UNC student tickets available for $10.

    Ticket availability: online, by phone, or in person at the UNC Memorial Hall Box Office on Cameron Avenue.

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