One of the highlights of the summer in the Triangle is Duke University’s popular Music in the Gardens series at the beautiful Duke Gardens.
Highlights of years past include Camera Obscura, Bowerbirds, The Love Language, Alina Simone, Annuals, The Rosebuds and Max Indian, among many others.
This summer, Duke will welcome performances from Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys, Fight the Big Bull, The Parkington Sisters, Hammer No More the Fingers, Shirlette & the Dynamite Brothers, Holy Ghost Tent Revival and Lost in the Trees.
Also on slate are a couple chamber music in Kirby Horton Hall, including Bonnie Thron, Fred Jacobowitz & John Noel on July 20, as well as Ciompi Quartet’s Fred Raimi & Eric Pritchard featuring Jane Hawkins on July 27.
The summer series is set to kick-off June 1 with Grammy Award-nominated Cajun band Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys. NPR describes Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys as “sweetly melodic, danceable music with origins in French-Canadian history that dates back to the 1760s.” Tickets are $15 for the general public, $10 for Duke employees and $5 for Duke students.
The following week, on June 8, Richmond’s nine-piece avant-jazz collective Fight the Big Bull will no doubt blow the gardens away. NPR says, “When this unit is at its best it rears back and bellows, and cuts quickly to the pleasure centers of your brain.” Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for Duke employees and students.
On June 15, Cape Cod-based baroque quintet The Parkington Sisters will make their way to the Gardens. The Boston Globe explains The Parkington Sisters “buoy their Americana with lovely baroque arrangements heavy on strings.” Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for Duke employees and students.
Durham-based trio Hammer No More the Fingers will amp things up at the Gardens on June 22 behind the release of the phenomenal Black Shark. Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for Duke employees and students.
R&B siren Shirlette Ammons will be joined by the Dynamite Brothers on June 29 to celebrate the release of their first album. Shirlette & the Dynamite Brothers will be accompanied by Justin Robinson (ex-Carolina Chocolate Drops), Adrian Duke, Jeanne Jolly, Shana Tucker, Pierce Freelon (The Beast), Jocelyn Ellis, Juan Huevos, Daniel Hart (The Physics of Meaning) and YahZarah. Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for Duke employees and students.
Greensboro-based new-grass sextet Holy Ghost Tent Revival will perform on July 6. AllMusic.com says Holy Ghost Tent Revival writes “tightly crafted pop gems with timeless melodies, great harmonies, and subject matter that more often than not circles around the craziness of love.” Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for Duke employees and students.
And July 13 brings the Triangle’s own orchestral pop collective Lost in the Trees. The band is fresh off the re-release of Time Taunts Me and their ANTI- Records debut All Alone in an Empty House, which Huffington Post calls “spellbinding in its musical ambition, touching in its intimacy, and often overwhelming in its emotional honesty.” Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for Duke employees and students.
All outdoor shows will take place rain or shine at 7 p.m. on the lawn behind the Gardens’ visitor center.
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