David Brower

Four Concerts Scheduled In Expanded, Larger Back Porch Music Series In Durham

Keith Weston, David Brower and Freddy Jenkins — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:41:38 +0000

The Celtic powerhouse band Solas will kick off the 2013 Back Porch Music concert series in Durham. Bluegrass, local blues, and much more will be a part of the four Back Porch concerts scheduled between May and October.

Back Porch Music - Picks for 2012 and Looking Back

Keith Weston, David Brower and Eric Hodge — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:15:00 +0000

WUNC's Back Porch Music hosts, Keith Weston and Freddy Jenkins, join Eric Hodge to chat about this past year's memorable acoustic and roots music releases and to remember some of the important musicians who left us this year.

Pop-Up Music Club: Kevin Roughton

David Brower and David Bro — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Last Saturday, we launched an experiment we’re calling WUNC’s Pop-Up Music Club. It’s a series made possible by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council – a statewide non-profit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Pop-Up Music Club: Tshombe Selby

David Brower and David Schulman — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:00:00 +0000

This weekend and next, we’re trying something new here at WUNC. We’re calling it the Pop-Up Music Club. It’s a kind of mobile performance adventure, where we hit the road to hear from working North Carolina musicians — up-close and in their element.

We’ll hear them play impromptu gigs on their home turf. We’ll hear the stories they tell in church, and at the bar. And we’ll hear how the culture of the places they call home shapes their music.

Pop-Up Music Club: Tshombe Selby

David Brower and David Schulman — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:27:55 +0000

Youth Radio Institute: Fontezia Walker

David Brower — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Our series from the WUNC Youth Radio Institute concludes this morning with a story from Fontezia Walker. She's 19 and had a number of setbacks while working towards her high school diploma. As you'll hear in this report, she and her sister struck out on their own -- by deciding to stay home.

Fontezia Walker: I live in a 3-room apartment in North Durham. Our home is filled with squeaky stairways, and the sounds of noisy neighbors. I live with my older sister, her son - and the memory of my mother.

Youth Radio Institute: Akib Khan

David Brower — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:40:00 +0000

On Fridays we've been listening to a series produced by young people involved in WUNC's first ever Summer Youth Radio Institute. This week 15-year-old Akib Khan tells the story of his sister, who decided to start wearing the hijab, the traditional Islamic headscarf, when the family immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh. As our youth reporter tells us it's a decision that was met with some skepticism.

Vince Gill Looking Forward To Playing Bluegrass In NC

Eric Hodge and David Brower — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:58:00 +0000

Country legend Vince Gill plays the Durham Performing Arts Center this Sunday night. After nearly 20 records, 14 Grammys and a truckload of Country Music Association Awards, he's back playing bluegrass again. And Gill tells WUNC's Eric Hodge it feels right to be doing it in North Carolina.

American Graduate: Poetic Justice Part 2 - Graduation Day

David Brower and Eric Hodge — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:32:00 +0000

WUNC is a part of the American Graduate Project. It's a public media initiative looking at the drop out crisis across the country. As a part of this project we commissioned slam poets Kane Smego and Will McInnerney to teach a writing workshop at Northern High School in Durham. Over the last 10 weeks, Kane and Will taught a group of students how to use poetry to tell their own stories. Today is graduation day at Northern and three of the students from our workshop will be receiving their diplomas.

The dB's Are Back

David Brower and Eric Hodge — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:15:00 +0000

The dB's are back. This week, the legendary band releases Falling off the Sky. It's their first studio album in more than 30 years. The dBs began life in the late 70s in New York after growing up in Winston Salem. After several critically acclaimed records, members of the band went their separate ways -- but the music they recorded continued to influence fellow musicians.