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Upcoming Dates

701 Harris Rd Wake Forest NC
Price: Free

The Piedmont Council for Traditional Music (PineCone) and the Town of Wake Forest presents Big Medicine for this free concert in Wake Forest’s new E Carroll Joyner Park. Located at 701 Harris Road, this 117 acre E Carroll Joyner Park includes a 1000 lawn seat amphitheatre, a performance area, the Walker garden, restored farm buildings and pecan grove, restrooms, pond, and approximately three miles of walking trails.

Blowing Rock NC

Details TBA

Stokesdale NC

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420 Willa Rd Neward DE 19711

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Past Dates

1009 South Columbia Street Chapel Hill NC 27514 (919) 942-4897
Price: $12/$15

The show will be on the outdoor stage, weather permitting. In case of inclement weather, the show will be moved indoors. Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 the day of the show.

Merritt’s has been a loved and respected landmark in the Chapel Hill area since its inception in 1929. It has had some renovations but continues the reputation of southern hospitality with the spirit of an old corner store.


2110 Blue Ridge Rd Raleigh NC 27601 US 919 839 6262
Price: Free

Free outdoor concert in connection with the opening of a new trail on the NCMOA's beautiful grounds.

Morganton NC

By invitation only.

Durham NC
8003 Regency Pkwy Cary NC 27518
Price: varies, see below

Coming to you this week from the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, North Carolina, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, old-time string band Big Medicine, flatpicker Adam Granger and fiddler Anni Spring, good friends Robin and Linda Williams, and vocalists Aoife O'Donovan and Heather Masse. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Fred NewmanThe Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

Ticket Prices:
$59.50 for Reserved or Table Seats
$39.50 for General Admission Lawn Seats. Lawn prices will increase to $45 the day of the show

Event Times:
Gates will open at approximately 4:30pm. Guests must be seated and settled for 6pm Live Broadcast.

Saxapahaw NC
Price: FREE
10 Learned Place Durham NC 27705 919-490-1558
Price: $30

Learned Place House Concerts represent a cooperative approach to sharing outstanding live music and building friendships nourished by this common interest. Our focus is deliberately on Southern regional music, the heritage we share and celebrate whether native or newcomer to the South. 

7251 50th Avenue Remus MI 49340 US (517) 967-8879
7251 50th Avenue Remus MI 49340 US (517) 967-8879
Tourist Park Marquette MI

The Hiawatha Festival is the only event of its size and scope in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Each year's event features traditional-music styles that include bluegrass, old-time, Cajun, Celtic, acoustic blues and folk - including singer/songwriters - and dance. Main stage acts include nationally known performers as well as regional and local favorites. Big Medicine will be there for all three days (July 16-18) doing concert sets, a dance, and workshops!

Tourist Park Marquette MI

The Hiawatha Festival is the only event of its size and scope in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Each year's event features traditional-music styles that include bluegrass, old-time, Cajun, Celtic, acoustic blues and folk - including singer/songwriters - and dance. Main stage acts include nationally known performers as well as regional and local favorites. Big Medicine will be there for all three days (July 16-18) doing concert sets, a dance, and workshops!

Tourist Park Marquette MI

The Hiawatha Festival is the only event of its size and scope in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Each year's event features traditional-music styles that include bluegrass, old-time, Cajun, Celtic, acoustic blues and folk - including singer/songwriters - and dance. Main stage acts include nationally known performers as well as regional and local favorites. Big Medicine will be there for all three days (July 16-18) doing concert sets, a dance, and workshops!

Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts Raleigh NC 27601 US (919)831-6060

Branford Marsalis presents an evening of unforgettable performances from across the musical spectrum, June 8. The Grammy Award-winning saxophonist joins forces with jazz pianist Joey Calderazzo, old-time string band Big Medicine, gospel vocalist Tina Morris-Anderson, a North Carolina Symphony string quartet and other amazing talents for a one-of-a-kind concert to benefit the North Carolina Symphony’s statewide service and education programs. 

Tickets go on sale Monday, April 19, at 10:00 a.m. at ncsymphony.org and by phone at 919.733.2750. They can also be purchased at ticketmaster.com, 800.745.3000. 

For more information, visit the North Carolina Symphony Web site at ncsymphony.org or call 919.733.2750.

Rochester MN 55901 US
Price: FREE

The Rosemary and Meredith Willson Harmony for Mayo Program is a program of the Mayo Center for Humanities in Medicine, and is administered by the Choral Arts Ensemble. Free weekly concerts are performed on Mondays from 12:10 to 1:00 p.m. on the Mayo Clinic campus, featuring a variety of artists ranging from classical to jazz, country to pop music. Concerts are open to patients, visitors, staff, and the general public.

Lanesboro MN

Four day event, May 20-23, 2010 taking place at various locations in beautiful Lanesboro, Minnesota. Concerts, dances, workshops with Big Medicine, Dwight Lamb, Rafe & Clelia Stefanini, Phil Jamison, and Meghan Dudle.

Laurinburg NC 28352 US
Price: FREE

Also appearing: Debbie McClatchy and Lisa Null. More info at http://www.sapc.edu/PDF/2010/040510folkmusic.php

5 East Edenton Street Raleigh NC 27601-1011
Price: FREE
Upper Marlboro MD
Newark DE
Price: $17 public; $14 seniors; $12 mem

The Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music (“BFOTM”) was founded in 1972 with the goal of helping to preserve traditional American music by presenting live performances of Bluegrass and old time music in Northern Delaware and the surrounding areas of Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and encouraging local traditional musicians. From the outset, it has been an all volunteer, nonprofit organization.

1040 Buck Jones Rd Raleigh NC 27606
Price: $8
Durham NC
Price: $8

Our gatherings feature the social dances and straight-up hard-driving banjo and fiddle music that have been a part of our regional culture for over a century.

Beginners are always welcome and you don't need to bring a partner, so come on out and socialize while listening to some of the greatest traditional music in the South. Let's rock the frolic, y'all!