Now 30 years old, Saxsquatch can be cagey about many of his biographical details. But a few details are known. He’s an Orange County native who attended Carrboro High School, although he claims not to have graduated because, “It’s tough for Saxsquatch to be accepted in high school.”
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You may think of town meetings as rather staid, dry affairs, but the Carrboro Town Council opens every meeting with a poem, selected by the current Carrboro poet laureate, Liza Wolff-Francis.
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The third and newest album by Katharine Whalen’s Jazz Squad is called “Let’s Get Lost: Songs Chet Sang” (Modern Harmonic Records), a homage to the late great jazzman Chet Baker, with covers of 13 songs he made famous.
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Some years back, Woody Platt was at a festival with his former band Steep Canyon Rangers. Somebody was admiring Platt’s guitar – which looked weathered, old and broken-in enough to produce its rich sonic tone – and asked how old it was.
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For Tiffney Marley, a local Hillsborough mixed-media artist who works in photography, painting, and graphic design, art is all about community and connection.
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Story via Arshia Simkin, The Underline, Orange County Arts Commission Maya Barton is now living...
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Bill Moore is barely out of his teens, but already has an artistic path figured out involving music, filmmaking and folklore.
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Hillsborough writer and musician John Claude Bemis is no stranger to the creative arts, although his latest artistic endeavor may be a surprising one: mask making.
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Just about every musician has a mentor figure, someone who introduces them to formative music, often just by having it around. For Steph Stewart, singer/co-leader of Chapel Hill’s Blue Cactus, it was her grandfather.
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Chapel Hill resident Ginny Robinson is a quiltmaker and a local middle school English teacher. In February 2024, she won QuiltCon’s most prestigious award—”Best in Show”—for her quilt titled “What We Will Use as Weapons: A List of School Supplies.”
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