Chocolate Drops at The Birchmere near DC May 10!

Carolina Chocolate Drops will play the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA on May 10th! Come out for a show full of foot-stomping energy as the Drops play songs new and old. The show will be in the Bandstand, which means there is room to dance! Tickets are $25 and you can purchase | Read More»

Eddie Tigner playing 4/18 with MM supporter Doria Roberts!

Atlanta based Singer/Songwriter and co-owner of Urban Cannibals Bodega + Bites Doria Roberts will be celebrating the release of her Odetta tribute project “Blackeyed Susan” at Eddie’s Attic on Wednesday, April 18. MM Artist Eddie Tigner will be playing with her, so don’t miss it! Tickets are $15 at the | Read More»

Dr. Burt featured on BBC News!

MMRF Artist Dr. Burt was interviewed for the BBC News and it appeared online this week! Learn more about Dr. Burt’s life, his involvement with the civil rights movement, and his career since meeting Music Maker. Dr. Burt also explains why the “rough side, not the slick side of | Read More»

Cary Morin’s Sing It Louder Available Now!

“Sing It Louder” is MMRF Next Generation Artist Cary Morin’s first release on the MMRF label. It features pared-down acoustic Native Americana blues, and highlights Morin’s deft fingerstyle guitar talents and distinctive songwriting style. Buy Sing It Louder HERE! | Read More»

Going Up

By Cliff Bellamy cbellamy@heraldsun.com; 419-6744 CHAPEL HILL – Samuel Moore, better known as Ironing Board Sam, takes a notepad from a reporter and draws a diagram of a keyboard he created years ago, after his Hammond B3 burned up in a fire. Over coffee, Sam explains how he took | Read More»

Captain Luke and Big Ron’s Music Featured at VFMA!

Earlier this summer, MMRF Artists Captain Luke and Big Ron composed music for an art installation at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The original composition was created for the lyrics of Rene Balcer’s poem “Backbone” and will be accompanying the art piece “Tobacco Project.” The piece explores the | Read More»

Herald Sun Features Tap the Blues!

MMRF is collaborating with the NC Youth Tap Ensemble to present “Tap the Blues” on November 11th, an event featuring legends of the blues and the future of tap dancing together in a night of live dancing and music. MMRF artists have been collaborating with the youth tap dancers to | Read More»

Alabama Slim and Little Freddie King’s Music Featured in “Redemption Road”

In Mario Van Peebles’ new film “Redemption Road,” two seemingly different men (Academy Award Nominee Michael Clarke Duncan, Morgan Simpson) embark on a music-steeped journey through the American South, learning along the way that life isn’t about where you end up - it’s how you get there that | Read More»

MMRF Supporter Passes Away

It is with great sadness we bid farewell to Music Maker friend and fishermen Don Delavergne of West Hampton, NY. Don was an enthusiastic music lover and an ardent sportsman. He won the Most Sailfish Award at our 2010 Fishin’ Blues Tournament in Guatemala. He was a terrific, true friend to | Read More»

Welcome Matt!

Every summer Music Maker hosts several college and graduate student interns to help us with our programs, and this year we have a wonderful group! Matt Dailey is a graduate student in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studies | Read More»