Live Music

Five-time Grammy Award-winning jazz artist Samara Joy comes from a family of musicians, with her dad being a bass player and her grandparents who led a Philadelphia-based gospel group. Ahead of her show in Charlotte next week, WFAE’s Elvis Menayese spoke with the Bronx native, who only started singing Jazz a few years ago at the age of 18.

Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens brings Biscuits & Banjos, a music festival that features Black musicians on guitars, fiddles and banjos, history, dancing and more, to Durham, N.C.

Charlotte singer-songwriter Uwade talks with WFAE's Eric Teel about the release of her debut album, "Florilegium," her Charlotte upbringing, her musical influences, how she ended up singing on a Fleet Foxes album released back in 2020, and much more.

The Charlotte Symphony and another local group are bringing music to people who typically don’t get the opportunity to see live performances in a concert hall. Their goal: to use the art form as a way to help people navigate hardships.

Happening this February: Three Bone Theatre and Lee St. Theatre debut new plays; big canvases ask big questions at the Bechtler and the Gantt Center; and Charlotte gets lit at Black Trivia Night and a nostalgic hip-hop concert.

A Charlotte band, led by a husband and wife, will open and close this year's seven-day Kwanzaa Charlotte celebration. The couple has been sharing Black music and heritage for more than two decades together.

The Avett Brothers are bringing their blend of folk rock back to Charlotte on New Year’s Eve. The Concord natives performed at NPR’s Tiny Desk in 2009.

After nearly a decade, NoDa revives a neighborhood arts market this weekend where artists can display and sell their work. The event will also feature live music, an outdoor movie and a mural scavenger hunt.

Caryn Little and Rachel Orn became friends and bandmates after joining a local group called "Lady Rockstars." Their all-female band, called Obsidian Femmes, now performs around Charlotte.

The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra performs regularly outside of uptown in parks and breweries, and now it has a new venue with wheels. The symphony is hitting the road with its mobile stage — bringing its music to many long-underserved neighborhoods that make up Charlotte’s Corridors of Opportunity. A recent performance took place in east Charlotte.