Search results for

Photographer Daniel Coston spent many years on the road with North Carolina's The Avett Brothers. In the process, he accumulated a number of unique and heartfelt memories in pictures, on and off stage. Now many of those moments are on display with the exhibit "A Symphony For The Road: An Avett Brothers Retrospective" at The Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby. This interview first aired Feb. 4, 2022.

USA Today Network Reporter for newspapers across North Carolina, Fred Clasen Kelly took part in this interview conducted on Feb. 2, 2022. Fred's descriptions of what has been documented to have occurred at expected safe and healthy treatment locations for youth or young adults across the state may surprise you.

In 2018 Betty Ann Polaha was named, ‘Outstanding Storyteller Performer’ at ETSU and in 2019 she was named, ‘Artist in Residence’ as a bedside teller for Ballad Health. She is a member of the prestigious Jonesborough Storytelling Guild performing regularly at story slams, schools and community events. Listening to her stories will bring a smile to your face, maybe a tear in your eye-- or you might just say, “That was interesting!”Aired 3/27

Judith Kolva, Chairperson for ArtScape was guest on WNCW's Friday Feature on March 18, 2022. Founded in 2017, ArtScape is a collaboration by several art groups and corporate sponsors. Imagine driving along Main Street in Hendersonville, while viewing selected artists work as it appears on banners at various locations.

The Blue Ridge Honor Flight Program transports America's Veterans to Washington, DC to visit memorials dedicated to honor their service and sacrifices. Based in Asheville, group representative Kimberly Walker talked about the program and how there is an ongoing need for someone to serve as a guardian and assist a veteran to and from on the trip. This interview originally aired March 25, 2022.

Jay Price, with WUNC Public Radio, joined WNCW to discuss his report on The Department of Veterans Affairs Considering Closing medical centers in certain states, including North Carolina VA. Medical centers are important, from Asheville to Salisbury and on to Eastern North Carolina. Get the full details and what the future might hold. This interview originally aired March 23, 2022.

Lead Investigative Reporter for Carolina Public Press, Kate Martin was our guest to recap her story on "North Carolina Counties Struggle To Find Qualified Dept. of Social Services Workers." The discussion included unqualified individuals being hired for social services jobs and inconsistent employee pay from county to county. This conversation aired on March 30, 2022.

Larry Perlman has combined a successful 30-year career in sales, sales training and public speaking with teaching spiritual classes and acting as a Minister for Emissary Ministry. Recently Larry has performed at Tellabration, The Tarheel Teller’s Festival, Roadhouse Inn and The Old North State Storytelling Festival and placed first at the Mad Robot Storytelling Slam. www.larryperlman.comAired 4/3

In the Carolina textile mills there are many stories of practical jokes pulled on unsuspecting co-workers and supervisors. In this story Mr. Young has the Clemson University faculty behooved as to how a loom shuttle went through a small hole without breaking the glass.

Justin Golden expands the tent of what we think of as blues music by both pointing back to the Piedmont blues, fingerstyle guitar tradition of his native Virginia, and by charting a new direction of his own. As he said in our interview, one thing people tend to get wrong about blues music is thinking that it is all about electric guitar jams: “acoustic blues was about expression, you know, especially the country blues. It's not really jammable music if you don't know the song.