Keep it tuned to WKNC all week long for your chance to win tickets to any of these great shows below! Just be the correct caller when the DJ asks for it, and you and a friend could be hitting up some of the coolest local acts around!
Wednesday, March 26 – Okkervil River with Hundred Visions @ Cat’s Cradle
Friday, March 28 – Twelve Thousand Armies with The Human Eyes and See Gulls @ Kings Barcade
Friday, March 28 – I Was Totally Destroying It with Blanko Basnet @ Cat’s Cradle Back Room
Saturday, March 29 – Waxahatchee with Radiator Hospital @ Pinhook
Sunday, March 30 – Colin Stetson with Justin Walter @ Kings Barcade
The Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance will hold its 12th annual spring festival from Thursday, April 17 to Sunday, April 20, 2014. The festival will feature more than 50 bands and performers on two big outdoor stages, a large Dance Tent, and an intimate Cabaret Tent. Located on 72 beautiful farmland acres at 1439 Henderson Tanyard Road in Silk Hope, North Carolina, just down the road from Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Durham, Burlington, and Greensboro. The festival also features local crafts, delicious food, various children’s activities, healing arts practitioners, dancing and music workshops, environmental sustainability forums, and much more in a family-friendly setting.
Other great acts on the bill: Richie Stearns & Rosie Newton, Afrobeta,DJ Bill Kelly, Freewheelin’ Mamas, Home Remedy, DJ Richard McVay, Luv2Act, Rooster Logic, The Healing Force, Elkland Arts Center Puppets, Shakori Hills Vinyl Lounge & more…
WKNC 88.1 FM is serving up a new type of show with its specialty music program: “Arroz con Pollo.”
Arroz con Pollo, or rice with chicken, is a typical Puerto Rican dish. It is also the name chosen by two WKNC students to represent their effort to reach the growing Latino community in the Raleigh-Durham area. “Arroz con Pollo” hosts Diego Cancel and Kairsten Fay, known as DJ Cancel and DJ Candela to listeners, wanted to play music in a genre that was not represented on WKNC.
Fay fell in love with Hispanic culture during an alternative spring break trip to Nicaragua, and has been learning Spanish ever since. “I love to dance salsa music, but I also enjoy bachata, pop, and Chicano rock,” Fay said.
Cancel was born and raised in Puerto Rico, and credits his music taste to reggaeton and the music his father and grandfathers would play around him growing up.
Fay and Cancel’s mission is to run an all-Spanish broadcast for Hispanics at N.C. State and in the Triangle, switching between a variety of genres and countries of origin for their show.
Despite a more than 100 percent increase in North Carolina’s Hispanic population from 2000 to 2010, according to the U.S. Census, WKNC has not offered any Spanish music programs since 2008.
“Arroz con Pollo” will debut Saturday, March 22 and will focus on music from Puerto Rico, featuring artists such as Don Omar, Ivy Queen, Hector Lavoe, Ednita Nasario, Calle 13 and Victor Manuelle. The one-hour program will air Saturdays at 5 p.m. on 88.1 FM and online at wknc.org/listen. Follow @ArrozConPolloNC on Twitter and Facebook for more information.
DRUMSTRONG ANNOUNCES PERFORMER LINEUP FOR 3-DAY RHYTHM & ARTS FESTIVAL
DRUMSTRONG Rhythm & Arts festival, an annual 3-day event in the rolling pastures of Misty Meadows Farm in Weddington, N.C., has confirmed its performer lineup for May 16-18. This yearʼs acts include:
Railroad Earth, Felice Brothers, Kopecky Family Band, Chatham County Line, American Aquarium, Yo Mamaʼs Big Fat Booty Band, Dom Flemons (Formerly of Carolina Chocolate Drops), Joe Pug, HRVRD, Lost in the Trees, The Mantras, The New Familiars, The Love Language, Marley Carroll, Bombadil, Overmountain Men, Junior Astronomers, Dirty Drummer, Elonzo, Ancient Cities, Super Ape, Grown Up Avenger Stuff, Of Good Nature, Replicas, Sinners and Saints, Time Sawyer, Pullman Strike, The Business People, Cairo Fire, Miami Dice and more to be announced
Located just 4 miles south of Charlotte in Weddington, NC, festivities start Friday evening, May 16 with outrageous stage sets, art & food vendors, a craft beer garden, yoga, KidzFun and some “warm-up” drum circle activity. We have on-site drum and yoga instruction, health expo, vendors with drums, food, and unique souvenirs. Come out and play, drum, learn, dance, eat, camp and show your support.
About Drumstrong
DRUMSTRONG events raise awareness and funds for cancer organizations globally through family friendly rhythm gatherings. Since the first 25-hour drum session at Misty Meadows Farm in 2007, DRUMSTRONG has expanded to over 70 cities in 25 countries to help local cancer initiatives.
About CLTure
Founded in 2012, CLTure is a cooperative business collaborative that utilizes the most artistic and creative minds in the area to produce superior media, print, video and web content. As a full service boutique marketing, advertising and entertainment company, CLTure helps businesses market their products through creative interaction with their target market by utilizing their exclusive network of creators. The company is proud to advocate for independent business, music, arts and culture.
WKNC is excited to announce that we have partnered with Moogfest to give away a pair of tickets to this incredible festival. Moogfest has been an elite gathering of electronic musicians since 2004 and, in 2014, Moogfest is expanding its vision by becoming a 5-Day event dedicated to the synthesis of technology, art, and music. This year’s festival includes both an experimental line up of daytime conference programming and landmark nightly performances including artists such as Kraftwerk, Flying Lotus, M.I.A., Giorgio Moroder, and many more! Moogfest takes place April 23-27th in downtown Asheville, NC.
Stay tuned to WKNC all week long for your chance to enter into a drawing for this pair of passes. We will be announcing the winner one week from today, March 26th!
We are back again for the Spring semester to bring FREE music, food, and prizes as part of Fridays on the Lawn! This Friday, March 21, 2014 our first edition of Fridays on the Lawn will take place at 5 PM on Harris Field in front of Witherspoon Student Center on the corner of Dan Allen Drive and Cates Avenue. Parking is available in Dan Allen Deck and all spots marked “C” at and after 5 PM.
This week we have TOW3RS and The White Cascade!
TOW3RS is the local one-man project of Derek Torres who consistently delivers a highly energetic and engaging performance.
His sound can be described as a super eclectic mix of psychedelic sounds with folk inspirations.
TOW3RS performed at our first night of Double Barrel Benefit 11 at Cat’s Cradle just last month.
You can also watch TOW3RS perform the song “The Situation” in our online video series, The Lounge.
The White Cascade is a local band from Raleigh. They performed for WKNC just last month as part of our weekly Local Band Local Beer.
The band describes themselves as having an ambient, dream-pop, experimental, shoe-gaze sound. They provide a great post rock show.
Our very own Double Barrel Benefit artist and North Carolina natives, Future Islands, had a string of great performances at this year’s SXSW. This is one of WKNC’s favorite local bands and they made us so proud down in Austin.
