Mark and Maggie O'Connor
The Charlotte is Creative Podcast
"A national treasure." -Wynton Marsalis "The best musician on the planet." -Vince Gill "A supreme master at what he does." -Yo-Yo Ma "He is to music what Muhammad Ali is to boxing." -James Taylor Imagine how good Mark O'Connor must be if these are the words his peers have said about him. Mark's musical DNA includes American folk tradition as well as classical music, and even jazz -- which makes sense when you consider that his creative journey began at the feet of a pair of musical giants: folk fiddler Benny Thomasson (who created the modern era of American fiddling) and French jazz...
info_outline
Charlotte Poet Laureate Jay Ward
The Charlotte is Creative Podcast
Charlotte is Creative's Matt Olin sits doen with Charlotte Poet Laureate Jay Ward, to learn more about how one becomes a Poet Laureate, and why he hid his talent for many years.
info_outline
LEADING OTHERS TO SANCTUARY
The Charlotte is Creative Podcast
At our first CreativeMornings/Charlotte event of 2023, we met three people committed to helping others find their Sanctuary: Liliana Jaramillo (Mexico), Yeferline Gomez (Dominican Republic), and Sadaf Alemi (Afghanistan). They all work at , a local nonprofit whose mission is to foster the education, acculturation, and resilience of newly arrived and first generation children and their families. In this episode of the Charlotte Is Creative Podcast, Matt and Tim sit down with Liliana, Yeferline and Sadaf to learn more about their own...
info_outline
The World Should Know: Mattie Marshall
The Charlotte is Creative Podcast
Mattie Marshall is a Charlottean. Like so many in Charlotte, she wasn’t born here. But, she’s made it her home. While she’s lived in several neighborhoods since moving here, it’s the historic Washington Heights community - one of Charlotte’s original Black suburbs, named after Booker T. Washington. For more than 30 years, Ms. Marshall has been the president of the Historic Washington Heights Neighborhood Association. As she says, she may have come for the tree-lined streets, but she stayed for the history of the community. She remained to walk in the steps of its...
info_outline
The World Should Know: Tommie Robinson
The Charlotte is Creative Podcast
Tommie Robinson is an artist. He’s been among our most celebrated in Charlotte, NC for some time. But it wasn’t always that way. As a black man who wanted to paint for a living in post-World War II South, there wasn’t a road map for him. But, he had talent. He had passion. And – as he says – he had a hard head. So he succeeded and still paints today. Welcome to this episode of “The World Should Know …” a special podcast series developed by Charlotte Is Creative in partnership with Tom Hanchett and Winston Robinson and sponsored by the North Carolina Humanities Council. Hear an...
info_outline
The World Should Know: Rudean Harris
The Charlotte is Creative Podcast
Rudean Harris didn’t learn how to smile until she was a teenager. After the death of Rudean’s mother, her father moved she and her siblings to Charlotte where, her extended family could help raise them. Fighting through poverty and bigotry, the family stayed together, but there was little to smile about. But, through the kindness of those in her community, Ms. Harris learned to smile. She opened a restaurant in her mid-teens. And, for 60 years, she opened her doors, her heart and – often – her kitchen to show love to those who walked in the doors of “Rudean’s” morning,...
info_outline
Who Built Me: Ricky Singh
The Charlotte is Creative Podcast
Ricky Singh is an educator, artist and father of four, so he knows what it takes to help build individuals and communities. He put much of that knowledge and passion to work this summer after the Black Lives Matter protests, painting several murals on and around Beatties Ford Road. On today's Who Built Me segment, producer Andy Goh talks to Ricky about about the people he credits for building him: his four boys. Despite a difference in almost 12 years between the oldest and youngest, Ricky says they share many similarities. Ricky speaks about what he's learned from that range of...
info_outline
Creative Mornings Rewind: Josh Jacobson
The Charlotte is Creative Podcast
Whether you know it or not, Josh Jacobson of Next Stage and his work have likely touched your life. Josh and his team work with many of the most impactful non-profit organizations in Charlotte, and he continues to be one of the most sought-after voices in the community. In today's episode of Creative Mornings Rewind, Tim Miner sits down with Josh to talk about his career, which began in New York City learning from some of the world's largest non-profits, his transition to Charlotte and establishing his practice, where he sees his work now and in the future, and why he decided to drop the term...
info_outline
A New Home for Charlotte Art League
The Charlotte is Creative Podcast
"The vision is a community arts hub - visual, performing arts, hyper-local ... we anticipate that this 4237 community arts hub will be that now and for at least the next 15, 20, 30 years and maybe forever ..." - Tony Kuhn, Flywheel Group, LLC Something interesting is taking place off E. Sugar Creek Rd. -- the creation of an arts cluster intended to be the foundation of a new development blending cultural organizations and businesses with future retail, office and residential space along the light rail ling just north of NoDa. This interaction of business and creativity was the perfect...
info_outline
Nao Tsurumaki of Children's Theatre of Charlotte
The Charlotte is Creative Podcast
Children's Theatre of Charlotte has long been revered by Charlotteans, but especially Head Biscuit Baker Matt Olin. Having spent much of his creative formative years working with CTC, Matt credits them for having made a profound impact on him and his creative work today. Last month, CTC hired Nao Tsurumaki to fill the vacant Managing Director position. Nao comes to Charlotte after having spent many years working in the performing arts in Washington DC, New York, and most recently, the Winter Garden Theatre in Orlando. In today's Onboarding segment of the Biscuit CLT podcast, Matt Olin...
info_outlineOn today’s episode of the Biscuit, we’re taking you inside Camp North End for a Friday night full of creativity. We’ll check in on the Charlotte Podcast live show, Talking Walls’ Battle Walls and the CLT DJ Battle. You’ll also get to hear part of DOMii’s set, which ended up winning the night. Kara, a member of the CLT Avengers, will lead you through a busy night in the Boileryard.
We’ll also wrap up our three part discussion series with Johnathan McFadden and Levine Museum of the New South historian Dr. Willie Griffin. The discussion will look at the role of developers, the potential to shift the narrative, and what can still be done to preserve historic neighborhoods.
Finally, stick around until the end for some of the voices of Creative Mornings Charlotte attendees.
The Biscuit Podcast is produced by Tim Miner, Matt Olin and Andy Goh. Music by Harvey Cummings.