Resource Roundup #78

For the week of June 24th.

We’re ONE WEEK out from Good Folk Fest at the Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw, North Carolina! Learn more about the artists playing, get your tickets, and join us here.

Thanks to Paul Langan of Durham Cool for featuring us and Good Folk Fest— check out his interview with myself and Sol Ramirez of 1,2,3 Puppetry.

Thanks also to Wayne Leonard and WHUP Radio for their feature of the festival— you can listen to Sol and I’s conversation with Wayne about it here.

Read the transcript of our most recent podcast episode with KB Brookins here— and get your copy of their new book, Freedom House, out from Deep Vellum now.

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Speaking of KB, I loved this interview they did with Erica Abbott for Chill Subs. Read it here.

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Tre. Charles

Tre. Charles on Instagram: ”@npr @nprmusic 🖤✨
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I’d beyond honored and proud to say I am a featured artist on not only the @npr newsletter above the big homie @therealtank but my live sessions with the homies at @wnrnradio has been added to the official @nprmusic website. This has been a full circle moment for me ever since I was a kid my pops played NPR throughout my nomadic childhood on the road and it opened up my mind to what was going on in the rest of the world and to be apart of this now in my adult life just puts me in my feels and nostalgia. @tinydesk you next, let’s get coffee and discuss homie.
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📸: @serendibcreative 🌻🖤”

June 20, 2023

Shout out to Triangle-based musician Tre. Charles for the NPR feature this week! You can catch Tre. at Good Folk Fest this weekend, and listen to his gorgeous live session here.

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I’m dying to get my hands on a copy of Stacy Jane Grover’s new essay collection, Tar Hollow Trans, out now from University Press of Kentucky. Loved this interview with Stacy in Poets & Writers.

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Poetry from Ada Limon, always:

I think of that walk in the valley where
J said, You don’t believe in God? And I said,
No. I believe in this connection we all have
to nature, to each other, to the universe.
And she said, Yeah, God. And how we stood there,
low beasts among the white oaks, Spanish moss,
and spider webs, obsidian shards stuck in our pockets,
woodpecker flurry, and I refused to call it so.

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Photo by Michael O. Snyder

Rae Garringer for the VQR on the Queens of Queen City: Drag Culture in small town Appalachia.

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How Southern prisons shaped American music, via Scalawag.

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