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...Lungs @ The Palmer Room DJ Oggy @ Blue Moon Les Blanks, Amateurs, The Voyeurs, The Well Digger's Banquet @ Old Towne Pub Carolina Chocolate Drops @ Beckman Auditorium The Martini Kings @ The Americana Legion of Disco 2 w/ Andy butler (Hercules & love affair),...
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The Carolina Chocolate Drops live at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA on Valentine's Day, 2009
Taken Jan. 20 at the Citadel, Charleston, SC.
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...in the Piedmont blues of the North Carolina hill country, the Carolina Chocolate Drops' members breathe new life into the African-American string-band tradition. The group's three members — Rhiannon Giddens, Dom Flemons and Justin Robinson — share vocal duties...
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Carolina Chocolate Drops were in Minneapolis, MN in January 2008 to play 2 shows at The Cedar Cultural Center. This performance is from a workshop on 1/20/08 in the lobby of the MacPhail Center For Music. from left to right: Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson For more information on Carolina Chocolate Drops please visit www.carolinachocolatedrops.com
Carolina Chocolate Drops were in Minneapolis, MN in January 2008 to play 2 shows at The Cedar Cultural Center. This performance is from a workshop on 1/20/08 in the lobby of the MacPhail Center For Music. from left to right: Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson For more information on Carolina Chocolate Drops please visit www.carolinachocolatedrops.com
Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion ~ A solid show by the Carolina Chocolate Drops closed out this years show.
Amazing performance by Rhiannon Giddens of Carolina Chocolate Drops at the Pickin' In the Pines Bluegrass Festival in Flagstaff, AZ, Sep 2008.
Carolina Chocolate Drops "Hi Ho Fiddle I Day" Pickin' in the Pines, 2008 Flagstaff, AZ
Carolina Chocolate Drops "Cornbread and Butter Beans" Pickin' in the Pines, 2008 Flagstaff, AZ
The Carolina Chocolate Drops played at the Q-bus on the 20th of March, 2008. In this particular song you can see Rhiannon playing 2 kazoo's, one being the kazoo of one of our cameramen.
Sun Music Hall - Floyd, VA - 06/21/08
Sun Music Hall - Floyd, VA - 06/22/08
Free concert in Black Mountain NC
Carolina Chocolate Drops performing "Memphis Shakedown" atWDVX's Blue Plate Special. For more information on Carolina Chocolate Drops please visit www.carolinachocolatedrops.com. For more information on WDVX's Blue Plate Special please visit www.wdvx.com.For more Blue Plate Special videos please visit www.knoxnews.com/blueplatespecial
Carolina Chocolate Drops performing "Cornbread and Butterbeans" atWDVX's Blue Plate Special. For more information on Carolina Chocolate Drops please visit www.carolinachocolatedrops.com. For more information on WDVX's Blue Plate Special please visit www.wdvx.com.For more Blue Plate Special videos please visit www.knoxnews.com/blueplatespecial
Carolina Chocolate Drops performing "Hit' Em Up Style" atWDVX's Blue Plate Special. For more information on Carolina Chocolate Drops please visit www.carolinachocolatedrops.com. For more information on WDVX's Blue Plate Special please visit www.wdvx.com.For more Blue Plate Special videos please visit www.knoxnews.com/blueplatespecial. Video by Talid Magdy/Knoxnews.com
The Carolina Chocolate Drops perform "Short Life of Trouble" at the Bear on the Square festival in Dahlonega, Georgia on April 20, 2008.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops perform "Memphis Shakedown" at the Bear on the Square Festival in Dahlonega, Georgia on April 20, 2008.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops perform "Will Adam's Breakdown" at the Bear on the Square Festival in Dahlonega, Georgia on April 20, 2008.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops cover Blue Cantrell's "Hit em up Style" on the Americana Stage at Merlefest 2008.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops perform a Memphis Jug Band song from 1934 at the Will Shade Gravestone Benefit.
Carolina Chocolate Drops live sur le TNT Show de Direct8, présenté par Laurie Cholewa
Carolina Chocolate Drops Sourwood Mountain United Methodist Church Granville, OH 4-13-08
Carolina Chocolate Drops Old Rattler United Methodist Church Granville, OH 4-13-08
Carolina Chocolate Drops Don't Get Trouble In Your Mind United Methodist Church Granville, OH 4-13-08
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...Thompson, followed quickly by Etta Baker and Algia Mae Hinton. Flemons, Giddens and Robinson eventually became the Carolina Chocolate Drops, while Thompson, Baker and Hinton influenced and furthered the already-substantial musical education of the three. There’s...
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Video courtesy of Steve Kimbrell and Michigan Television • WFUM TV-28 • Flint, MI 48502 • michigantelevision.org
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...That's a connection that's important to make." Tomorrow, we will have an opportunity to make a connection with The Carolina Chocolate Drops, and with a rich musical tradition. Moreover, by doing so we can be party to that tradition's rebirth. "That's something...
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The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a group of African-American musicians from Durham, NC. CCD consists of Rhiannon Giddens (fiddle, banjo), Justin Robinson (fiddle, banjo, jug) and Dom Flemons (guitar, jug, harmonica, percussion, banjo, bones). You can purchase their music from MusicMaker.org or iTunes. Support these fine musicians! This episode was filmed at Hideaway BBQ in Raleigh, NC. If you like BBQ, you've got to eat there sometime!
The Carolina Chocolate Drops from the Dreaming Creek stage at Floyd Fest 6, Jul. 27, 2007.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops from the Dreaming Creek stage at Floyd Fest 6, Jul. 27, 2007.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops on Sept. 21, 2007 at Watermelon Park Fest in Berryville, VA.
Also known as the Drunkard's Hiccups. The Carolina Chocolate Drops on Sept. 21, 2007 at Watermelon Park Fest in Berryville, VA.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops on Sept. 21, 2007 at Watermelon Park Fest in Berryville, VA.
Think of traditional African-American music, and gospel, blues, and jazz come to mind. Few people think of old-time string-band music. But the combination of banjo and fiddle was a deeply rooted custom in most black rural communities in the antebellum South. These young and talented musicians breathe new life into this venerable musical tradition, performing on guitar, banjo, fiddle, harmonica, and jug. Octogenarian fiddler Joe Thompson, one of the last black traditional string-band players ...
Carolina Chocolate Drops at Joshua Tree Music Festival October 20th, 2007.
Carolina Chocolate Drops Sourwood Mountain part 1 at The Oldham County Schools Arts Center 10-14-2007. CCD's will play MerleFest 2008. Get em while dere hot!
carolina chocolate drops sing 'hit em up style' at the berea college convocation oct. 18, 2007
Newport Folk Fest - 5 August 2007
Great Lakes Folk Festival - August, 2007
Great Lakes Folk Festival - August, 2007
Some cornbread and butterbeans -
Filmed at the Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance, April 21 2007.
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Festival of American Fiddle Tunes. The chocolate drops with 88 year old fiddler Joe Thomspon doing the song"John Henry" in a small un-amplified showcase concert. July 2007
http://www.centrum.org The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes at Fort Worden features this Africa-American string band with music from North and South Carolina.
With fiddles, banjos and even a jug, the Durham-based Carolina Chocolate drops played Thursday to a crowd of more than 100 at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. The concert was the first in the Summer Music in the Gardens series.
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If these guy's don't become your new favorite string band you're nuts! My Vote for the Best Band at MerleFest 2007...
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