October 2, 2019: “Live & Local” with Skylar Gudasz (and Shakori Hills!)

This week, Aaron welcomes A Different Thread (Alicia Best and Robert Jackson) to play their latest song, "Come On Home Molly."

The duo of Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz, known as Watchhouse, teamed up with Zach Bryan on Bryan's latest single released on Friday

With a new album on the way later this year and a show at Shakori Hills this weekend, the Shoaldiggers return to the studio for Live & Local!

Join Aaron Keck Monday through Friday at 6:00 p.m. for “Live & Local,” where you’ll hear music from artists close to home, and even get the chance to listen in as local musicians talk about where they’ve been, where they’re going, and what’s happening in the local music scene.   Listen below for another session […]

Aaron Keck’s Live & Local Top 100 Countdown continues — and concludes with the best of the best! You can check out the complete series here, only on Chapelboro.com! And finally we come to the end. Our local music scene has produced thousands of phenomenal songs over the years, and dozens of them could stake a […]

Join Aaron Keck Monday through Friday at 6:00 p.m. for “Live & Local,” where you’ll hear music from artists close to home, and even get the chance to listen in as local musicians talk about where they’ve been, where they’re going, and what’s happening in the local music scene.   Listen below for another session […]

Aaron Keck’s Live & Local Top 100 Countdown continues! You can check out the complete series here, only on Chapelboro.com! If you’ve been with us all through this countdown, you already know the rules: we’re only looking at Orange, Durham, and Chatham-based artists, nobody can have more than three songs on the list, all the songs […]

Aaron Keck’s Live & Local Top 100 Countdown continues! You can check out the complete series here, only on Chapelboro.com! Now that we’re approaching the top of our list, we’re going to see more and more of the best known, most influential artists in Chapel Hill music history, including a couple with multiple songs in the […]

Aaron Keck’s Live & Local Top 100 Countdown continues! You can check out the complete series here, only on Chapelboro.com! Building 97.9 The Hill’s local-music library, I’ve listened to tens of thousands of songs – many of them by Chapel Hill’s best known artists, sure, but some of my favorites are also among the most obscure. […]

This week we move into the second half of our countdown of the top 100 local songs of all time: we’re in the top 50 now, and this is rare air. I can’t say for sure, but I’ve probably listened to about 30,000 songs while building our Live & Local music library – so all […]