My favorite thing about concerts in small venues (and simultaneously my least favorite thing) is that awkward semi-circle of vacant space that sometimes materializes in front of the stage. It’s like a bubble of audience hesitation, a buffer that persists until the opening band is finished wooing—although sometimes it isn’t until the next band comes […]

How on earth are you supposed to communicate an experience with writing anyway? In a neat list of events, chronologically ordered? In one-word sentences and eclectic artsy sentence fragments? In a rapid series of photo captions and hash tags? Personally, I prefer the anecdote. We were looking for a fire to warm ourselves on Friday, […]

It’s astounding how rapidly a kind of casual but close community comes together and coalesce naturally around an event like the Eno River Music Festival.

It’s a lazy Sunday on Franklin Street that is oddly quiet, taken up with an impressive reverent silence only interrupted by the occasional…

They have the harmonic and rhythmic precision of Mumford & Sons and a lyrical complexity approaching that of the Decemberists or Sufjan Stevens.

Josh Ritter is constantly in awe. His face lights up with joy and surprise every time he can tell the audience knows his lyrics.