Brandy Clark performs at Brooklyn Arts Center on April 23rd.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST: A 17x Grammy-nominee, CMA Award-winner and Tony-nominee, Brandy Clark is one of her generation’s most esteemed songwriters and musicians. In the midst of yet another landmark year, Clark released her widely acclaimed self-titled album this past spring and is nominated for six awards at the upcoming 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards: Best Americana Album (Brandy Clark), Best Americana Performance (“Dear Insecurity” feat. Brandi Carlile), Best American Roots Song (“Dear Insecurity”), Best Country Song (“Buried”), Best Country Solo Performance (“Buried”) and Best Musical Theater Album (Shucked). Produced by 9x Grammy-winner Brandi Carlile, the album features Clark’s most personal songwriting to date and landed on several “Best of 2023 So Far” lists including the Los Angeles Times, The Tennessean and Variety, who praises, “one of the year’s best…further clarifies that she’s one of America’s treasures,” while Forbes calls the album “an Americana Masterpiece” and Billboard declares, “Clark continues to convey her inexorable talents as both a song-crafter and vocal interpreter.” In addition to her work as a solo artist, Clark has written songs such as “A Beautiful Noise,” the Grammy-nominated duet performed by Brandi Carlile and Alicia Keys, and Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow.” She also composed the music and lyrics for the hit musical comedy, Shucked, alongside her longtime collaborator, Shane McAnally. With the show, Clark won Outstanding Music at the 67th Drama Desk Awards, while Shucked was also nominated for nine Tony Awards earlier this year.

The Rock Orchestra by Candlelight will take place at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater on April 24th from 3pm to 5pm. This is a band of classical musicians re-imagining legendary rock and metal songs with classical music. Tickets are not on sale yet, but you can register for notice.

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Adam Carswell performs at Seven Mile Post on April 25th from 7pm to 10pm.

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Operation Culture performs at The Palm Room on April 26th at 10pm.

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Brandon Hawkins performs at Palate Bottle Shop on April 26th from 6pm to 9pm.

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Start your Friday evening off right with a performance by Wilmington’s favorite, Brandon Hawkins, at Palate!

The Band Whiplash performs at Seven Mile Post on April 26th from 7pm to 10pm.

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Spare Change performs at Seawitch Cafe & Tiki Bar on April 26th from 8pm to midnight. $5 cover.

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Spare Change, based in La Grange, NC, is one of the Carolinas most well known and respected party bands. Their diverse playlist makes them an instant crowd sensation. From rock, country, beach, funk, rap, current Top 40 hits, and classic rock, Spare Change is sure to play a favorite of all persons attending. With five singers (including a female), a rapper, a trumpet player, and even an electric violinist, their range and versatility is unmatched. They are famous for their ability to switch gears, sounding like a Nashville country band one minute, a funky groove band the next, and an 80s hairband after that, all with equal comfort and authenticity. Choreographed dances, audience participation, and non-stop motion on stage help drive an energy level that will have the crowd happily exhausted by the end of the night. Their huge Facebook following (over 14,000 fans) is both a testament to their entertainment prowess and a helpful avenue for advertising your event. Spare Change travels with a professional sound engineer and a lighting technician ensuring that the total production experience is always top notch. They play around 150 shows a year, from family festivals to professional corporate parties and elegant wedding receptions to rowdy nightclubs, so they are incredibly experienced at entertaining diverse crowds and are sure to find a way to make sure everyone has a great time they’re sure to remember for years.

Need To Breathe performs at Live Oak Bank Pavilion on Saturday, April 27th as part of their The Caves World Tour.  Special guest that night will be Judah & The Lion.

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Paige Bacon performs at Palate Bottle Shop on April 27th from 7pm to 9pm.

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Start your Saturday night off right with live music at Palate featuring the incredibly talented Paige Bacon!

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Presents

Derina Harvey Band

Saturday, April 27th, 2024

7:30pm

Derina Harvey leads the award-winning ​Celtic Rock group, the Derina Harvey Band (dHb). With a show that offers a fresh take on traditional folk songs as well as a few originals, Derina’s vibrant personality takes center stage with humour, storytelling, and, of course, her powerful vocals. dHb has been ​likened to a “rockier” version of Canada’s Great Big Sea​,​ if fronted by Adele​, and has earned a reputation as a ​high-energy live show​ that leaves many an audience out-of-breath and hollering from their seats!

​dHb concerts can be adapted to suit any venue​; whether it’s a captivating night of telling stories through song for an audience in a Performing Arts Center, or a dinner and dance in a community hall. The band has covered a fair amount of Canada via the performing arts and festival circuits and is now poised to do the same in the United States​. They were very well-received at three juried US showcases (Arts Northwest (Best in Showcase Award), Western Arts Alliance, Performing Arts Exchange) and following these, the band quickly began to make inroads from coast to coast in the US, and had finished a tour of the southeastern states just prior to the pandemic.

The group has spent the last year writing some new music and enjoying a huge wave of new online followers from across the globe via TikTok, where there was recently a sea shanty craze. dHb’s recording of Tom Lewis’s “The Last Shanty” was used in thousands of videos on the platform, introducing the band to a whole new generation of listeners.

The band is currently writing music for a third full-length album, to be released in 2023.

Ordinary Elephant performs at Live at Ted’s on April 27th from 8pm t0 10pm. Tickets are $15.

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International Folk Music Awards 2017 Artist of the Year Ordinary Elephant captivates audiences with their emotionally powerful and vulnerable songs, letting the listener know that they are not alone in this world. The collaboration of husband and wife Pete and Crystal Damore, their connection, and their influences (such as Gillian Welch, Guy Clark, Anais Mitchell) all meet on stage. “Two become one, in song… hand-in-glove harmonies surprise the listener with focused intensity and musical mastery,” says Mary Gauthier.

Website: http://www.ordinaryelephant.net/

Video: https://youtu.be/2b8qHJ3j9Ik

CineMagic: Songs from the Silver Screen takes place at Wilson Center on April 28th at 4pm.

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The Wilmington Choral Society is a local group of 90 singers. This choral group has been in Wilmington for almost 75 years! We will perform a Choral Medley of familiar songs and scores from popular movies accompanied by Piano and a Chamber Orchestra. Music from the Golden Era of Film through Blockbusters and on to the New Millennium. Experience the sounds and glamour of the movies. Songs from: Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Greatest Showman, Love Story, The Way We Were, Where the Boys Are, Mary Poppins, Easter Parade, The Little Mermaid, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and more.

This program is brought to the Wilson Center by The Wilmington Choral Society, not affiliated with Wilson Center Presents or Cape Fear Community College.

ADA Please note: Balcony and Grand Tier levels are not wheelchair-accessible. For questions about ADA and wheelchair-accessible seating, please call the Box Office at (910) 362-7999.

Some lighting used at this show may be disruptive to people who are sensitive to light.

The UNCW String Ensemble performs at Beckwith Recital Hall on April 28th at 7:30pm.

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Come check out the UNCW Symphonic Band’s first performance of the spring semester. Our program “Beyond the Pages” will include music inspired by creative tales in literature. A march by John Philip Sousa entitled Mother Goose will be followed by a beautiful work called “Acrostic Song” from Final Alice that is based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland books. Tales from Andersen will transport you into the imaginative world of Hans Christian Andersen, and our concert will close with “modern promethean tango” called Mary Shelley Meets Frankenstein! Come for the music, come for the fun, and come for the class credit (if you need it). See you there!

Kevin Daniel and Sara Jean Kelley perform at Live at Ted’s on April 28th from 4pm to 6pm. Tickets are $10.

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Raised in North Carolina, Brooklyn-based Americana crooner Kevin Daniel is set on making NYC a destination for Nashville sounds. The songwriter and multi-instrumentalist brings southern rock, gospel, and blues to barrooms of Brooklyn and beyond. But Daniel wasn’t always chasing his dreams.

In the winter of 2013, during a dinner party in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Kevin received a phone call from his sister that would change everything. His mother and stepfather, adventure-seekers and amateur pilots, had been flying back from their mountain house in western North Carolina when their plane had crashed, killing both of them. Daniel’s life was turned upside down, his family torn apart and the world forever changed. During his return to North Carolina to help with family business, and while reliving his parent’s lives through photos, essays, and family stories, Kevin wrote over a dozen songs, all fueled by the grief of losing his parents as well as the celebration of the large lives they were known for. From those songs six were chosen to record, including one written specifically for Kevin’s parent’s memorial service.

The result of those recordings was FLY, Kevin Daniel’s inaugural EP. The six-song project was recorded in 2014 in Brooklyn and embodies the depth of Daniel’s emotions during a time of supreme distress. Southern sounds of banjo and country-loving three-part harmonies were backed by rock riffs and pop lyrics, which spoke true to life and the celebration of living. “I always knew I wanted to record my own music, and a life spent being in other people’s bands had prepared me to lead my own, both in the studio and on the stage. It was losing my parents that gave me the kick in the ass to finally do it”, says Daniel. The EP is available on all digital outlets as well as on 12-inch opaque blue vinyl.

Kevin followed up his sophomore release with his first full length LP, ‘Things I Don’t See’. The 11-song album brings together some of New York state’s most talented musicians and producers, including Anthony Krizan (Spin Doctors), The Restless Age, John LeDeau (The National Reserve), and Kenny Siegel (Old Soul Studios). The album has taken Kevin all over the US and UK, touring both solo and with a full band, gaining global radio spins through tunes like “Used To Be”, “Pour Me A Drink”, and “Time To Rise”. Americana Highways Magazine says “Things I Don’t See showcases Daniel’s fluid ability as a songwriter to seamlessly incorporate bits of rock, soul, country, blues, roots, and Appalachia into his thoughtful examination of pain and awakenings, visceral and spiritual.” Kevin Daniel continues to tour, obtaining official selections from Mountain Jam, SxSW, Celebrate Fairfax, The ListeningRoom Festival, and more.

Website: https://thekevindaniel.com/home

Video: https://youtu.be/h4aTZg5mHyw

A river beneath a river with an edgy sense of humor, Sara Jean Kelley is an explorer, a rescuer, naturalist, and an active member of her creative community. Born and raised by the venerable bluegrass songwriter, Irene Kelley, Sara loves wild plants and animals and music and people and has the scars and stories to prove it. Sara’s songs are conceptual, yet relatable. Her voice is timeless, yet singularly her own. And her delivery can shift, like the weather, from dark and sultry, to light-as-a-feather.

A lover of wild things— plants, animals, people, and music— Nashville native Sara Jean Kelley crafts songs that combine upbeat, pop-inspired country hooks with thoughtful, often philosophical lyrical themes that explore our human connection to the natural world. Due to her dark sensibility and slightly melancholic sense of humor, Kelley’s particular brand of alternative country is multidimensional, with one foot firmly rooted in her Nashville Country/Americana background, another foot exploring the realms of alternative rock, rock and roll, pop, and even hip hop influences. Her voice, at times husky, dark and sultry, at times floating light-as-a-feather, has been compared to celebrated female country stars Brandi Carlisle, Patti Griffin, and Lucinda Williams. She’s opened for country music icons Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, and her songwriting reveals a clear, intuitive understanding of what makes a song work. Her latest EP Black Snake, is about life and death, transformation and rebirth, strength and resilience; all the things you experience in your early thirties that you wish you had known a decade earlier.

Website: https://www.sarajeankelley.com/home

Video: https://youtu.be/DZ6kwuXooR8

The Hirs Collective and Rid of Me perform at Reggie’s 42nd Street Tavern on April 29th beginning at 7pm.

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The HIRS Collective rely on an ethos of de-individualization. It is their strength, and their love. Through co-opting the anarchist phrase “No Gods. No cops. No masters,” as a ‘fuck you’ to the disingenuity of too much art and life of the capitalist world at large, the group introduced themselves as humanly as possible. Yes, there are individuals who make up this band/Collective/organization. Yes, the politics are in play, which a listener might likely expect from a group that comes from the leftist punk rock world that boasts community, acceptance, and radicalism. However, these are the foundations the HIRS Collective itself. As such, the Collective watched these community virtues and ideologies change through overuse and abuse and holds to them more tightly because of it.

OLLI New Horizons Band performs at Kenan Auditorium on April 29th at 7:30pm. Tickets are free.

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In cooperation with the UNCW Department of Music, the OLLI New Horizons Band provides an ensemble experience for adult brass, woodwind and percussion players interested in making music. Dominic Talanca, conductor

The band welcomes all adults who currently are playing their instruments, as well as those individuals who participated in their school music programs.. Band members participate in weekly full band rehearsals.

For more information, call the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at 910.962.3195