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The Marshall Depot Bluegrass Jam connects community through music.
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The new performance runs through May 19 at the Tina McGuire Theater in the Wortham Center.
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A new partnership between BPR and the Foxfire Museum is collecting oral histories about the experiences of Appalachian women. The partnership is in conjunction with a new book – “The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South.”Foxfire Museum curator and director of education Kami Ahrens edited the book. The final chapter features Kaye Carver Collins, a resident of Rabun County, Georgia whom Ahrens said is emblematic of Foxfire.
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Blue Ridge Public Radio is partnering with Foxfire Mountain Heritage Museum to launch a campaign to collect oral histories about women in Appalachia. The effort coincides with the release of a new book, "The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South."
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Ada Limón is the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate and first Latina to hold the title. She visits UNC Asheville campus for an evening of poetry on Monday.BPR’s Helen Chickering caught up with her by phone last week at her home in Lexington.
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BPR's Laura Blackley catches up with celebrated singer/songwriter Tom Rush before his WNC concert.
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Jackson's autobiographical one-woman show, “Rising of the Necessary Diva," is a mix of music and storytelling.
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Pack Square Plaza has a winding, checkered history. City planners want to center the coming redesign around the stories and concerns of Black residents.
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Erin Hallagan Clare opened Story Parlor last spring as a handful of other venues closed, fulfilling a longtime dream—opening a dependable co-op space dedicated to storytelling.
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"Where is Our Prague Spring?” is a sensory tour of Runyon’s lived experiences in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
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Fairview writer Lee Stockdale recounts several decades of memories in his new collection of poetry, titled "Gorilla.”
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On and around the former Vance Monument’s pedestal are sculpture, video projection, and fragments of audio interviews with people who are or have been without housing.