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The R&B icon's concert in Fulton County, Ga., is scheduled to go on despite a local effort to cancel it.

A Billie Holiday tribute from James Carter; Malian story-song guitarist Habib Koite; Scottish folk electronica from Martyn Bennett; Canadian fiddle player April Verch and more.

The Juneteenth Jam Block Party is back & better than ever! In partnership with the Harvey B. Gantt Center, The Mint Museum and the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, we're taking over Uptown and cranking up the celebration! The lineup will include an explosion of artistry from FRESH2DEATH, performances by Moving with the Spirits & CLT Double Dutch Aerobics, plus a tik-tok dance battle between families called Family Dance Feud! Join us at the block party! Sounds will be provided by DJ Heff and DJ Micki Blends, along with delicious food trucks, vendors, games, and MORE! All events are FREE and open to the general public. Grab the crew and GET OUTSIDE! Two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, freedom was finally realized for all enslaved people of the United States. Juneteenth is a joyous national holiday that celebrates that historic moment. Conceived by Emmy Award-winning poet and Blumenthal Director of Creative Engagement Boris "Bluz" Rogers, Juneteenth Jam will be held at the super cool Levine Ave. Juneteenth Jam - guaranteed fun that will have the whole family jammin'!

https://www.blumenthalarts.org/events/detail/juneteenthjam

Join us for our Fall Tosco Music Party on October 14th at Knight Theater! Come experience what makes Tosco Music Parties so unique, with more than a dozen local, regional, and national acts sharing a wide variety of music genres and we will have several singalongs throughout the evening.

Performers include:

Time Sawyer

Curt Keyz

Gabby Fariñas

Mary Lou Lackey

Vadim Kolpakov & Friends

John Doll

AV Trio

Queen City Juvenile Pipes & Drums
And more performers yet to be announced!

Season subscriptions available for the entire Tosco Music season including our Tosco Music Holiday Party (12/18) and our Spring Tosco Music Party (4/20/24) as well. Mark the seasons with amazing local music for the whole family.
For tickets and more info visit us at www.toscomusic.org/events

Charlotte Blues Society’s inaugural Southern Resonance Roots Festival is Sunday Sept 7, 2025 with live music from 12-7.30 on 2 stages. This event is open to all ages and presented free of charge by CBS with Sponsorship from Bojangles.
They invite you to join them for this Live Roots and Blues music event featuring 14 of NC and SC’s finest roots musicians. At Heist Brewery & Barrel Arts 1030 Woodward Ave (Camp North End) in Charlotte, NC 28206. They will host an open blues jam in the Skyline Room after the last act.
There will be musician’s meet and greet, raffles, festival merch, artisan market, food and beverage, free parking. Donations and tips for the artists will be appreciated. Bring your own chair.
CBS is a local non-profit dedicated to the promotion and preservation of American Blues. They normally meet the First Sunday of the month from 6 to 10PM at Heist Brewery.
Vendor spots are still available. Contact CltBluesSociety@gmail.com or www.CharlotteBluesSociety.org for the full line up and more information. Follow them @cltbluessociety and @southernresonancefest

North Carolina Baroque Orchestra 
Presents
Henry Purcell’s “King Arthur” 

Vocal Soloists:
Kathryn Knauer, soprano - LaDejia Douglas, mezzo
Charles Humphries, countertenor - James Allen, tenor
Adrian Smith, bass
with
Royal Voices of Charlotte choir- Queens University, directed by Justin Smith

This charming semi-opera in English tells the story of the defeat of the invading Saxons by Arthur and his Bold Britons. The musicians of the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra will perform on Baroque period instruments and will be joined by professional vocal soloists and the Royal Voices of Charlotte choir directed by Justin Smith.

Concerts:
Friday, September 25th at 7:30pm
Belk Chapel,Queens University
287 Radcliffe Ave.
Charlotte, NC 28274
Tickets for Belk Chapel at bit.ly/ncbo_kingarthur
Information: https://www.ncbaroqueorchestra.org/
Questions: ncbaroqueorchestra@gmail.com

Walking near the senator from Kentucky and his wife, protesters spoke out about the police killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville. The situation escalated as police attempted to push them back.

The singer and self-taught musician, who recently visited NPR studios and performed songs from his new album Intimacy, talks candidly with host Michel Martin.

"It was all part of me. It was my inheritance.”

The prolific, and often risque, crooner's 14th album explores sounds from earlier eras with surprising restraint.

Tornadoes hit several states in the central U.S. on Saturday, killing dozens in a devastating path of destruction.

Representative Trey Gowdy made a surprising announcement on Wednesday. The South Carolina Republican is quitting politics and will not seek re-election to…

Barry White, the honey-voiced baritone known for his sultry, romantic songs, dies at a hospital in Los Angeles. White, 58, had been in poor health for several years and died while awaiting a kidney transplant. The soul singer became a star during the disco era, but had a resurgence in popularity in recent years. He won two Grammies for his 1999 album, "Staying Power." NPR's Scott Simon has a remembrance.

In an interview with New Yorker writer Emily Nussbaum Wednesday, NPR mistakenly characterized a segment on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as paid product placement. Both Taco Bell and Ben & Jerry's say they had nothing to do with the segment.

OPEC oil ministers meeting in Algeria pledge to cut oil production by 1 million barrels a day beginning in April. More immediately, OPEC seeks to end the so-called "cheating," or overproduction, in which member states currently surpass production quotas. Analysts estimate that practice adds as much as 1.5 million barrels a day to current limits. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

Rehearsals are under way for a version of Shakespeare's Macbeth that will use magic tricks, fright and humor on stage. Co-directors Teller (of Penn & Teller ) and Aaron Posner talk to Robert Siegel about the production.

Ruben Natal-San Miguel likes to photograph people where they live. He calls his pictures "environmental portraits." Dozens are on view in the exhibition "Expanding the Pantheon: Women R Beautiful."

Toys R Us, one of the toymaker's largest customers, filed for bankruptcy in September.

“Rich from the Sea: Florida Native Americans’ Indigenous Wrecking in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”
Dr. Peter J. Ferdinando, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The Native Americans of Florida’s east coast exploited the resources of the Atlantic Ocean for centuries before European contact. Following the arrival of Europeans, they employed those same maritime skills to acquire shipwrecked goods, castaway peoples, and even parts of the shattered ships that washed ashore. They then modified and used such materials, and also traded them with other indigenous peoples, the Spaniards of St. Augustine, and passing European ships. Through Indigenous wrecking, these coastal peoples both resisted and participated in an emerging Atlantic World.

Attend by registering at https://bit.ly/48ky80q

If you are listening while brushing your teeth, here's a story for you: Colgate-Palmolive is buying Tom's of Maine, the leading maker of natural toothpaste. It's just the latest example of a big corporation acquiring a company that succeeded by selling organic or health-oriented products.