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North Carolina author David Joy has been touted by critics and other writers for his deep understanding of Appalachia.

“The Line That Held Us,” his latest book, is described as a “novel of Appalachian noir,” according to his publisher, G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

This story unfolds when Darl Moody accidentally kills a man instead of a “monster buck.” But Moody doesn’t want to face the retribution of the man’s family so he asks a friend to help him hide the murder.

The book was published Aug. 14, and Joy had several book events scheduled in North Carolina.

Joy, who lives in Jackson County, explains he’s not writing about a region so much as about flawed people whose stories should resonate with people anywhere.

Joy writes in a 2017 essay, “Digging in the Trash,” that outsiders observe that Joy’s landscape is dotted with churches and trailers.

“What I hope they see too, though, is that this is a place sopping wet with raw emotion, a landscape drenched

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with humanity,” he writes in the essay published by The Bitter Southerner. “It is all I know, and it is beautiful.”

Joy, 34, who received his bachelor’s degree in literature at Western Carolina University, keeps his prose close to home. All of his work is set in his home of Jackson County, including his novels, “Where All Light Tends to Go,” and “The Weight of This World” and the memoir, “Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman’s Journey.”

In 2015, Joy received the North Carolina Arts Council grant in the prose category. Joy’s debut novel, “Where All Light Tends to Go,” was a finalist for the Edgar, Macavity, and SIBA Book Awards and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.

Joy took a few minutes between hiking and his book tour to talk about Appalachia, Jackson County and humanity.

Q: What defines your Appalachia?

A: I set all of my books here but I’ve made it pretty clear I’m not trying to write books about Appalachia. I’m writing these amped-up tragedies in the same way Donald Ray Pollock is. If you read Donald Ray Pollock, I don’t think he’s trying to present southern Ohio. He’s telling an exciting

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North Carolina author David Joy’s newest book, “The Line That Held Us,” is described as a “novel of Appalachian noir.” He says he’s not writing just about a region, but about the people who live there. Ashley T. Evans story in a place that he knows. That’s what I’m doing… I’ve written primarily about working-class local people tied to this place for generations. And in the background of these novels, that’s where you see the reality of the area I live.

You see local people displaced by gentrification.

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When you hear Black Violin, forget what you know Ed Condran for Triangle Today

shocked. ‘Really?,’ is the reaction I often receive. The other thing is that people view playing the violin as akin to being a rocket scientist. It’s not that but you have to work at it to be good.”

Painting the Camino de Santiago Oil Paintings by Sonia Kane Cary Town Hall, 316 N. Academy St., Cary Exhibition runs through Aug. 25 In the summer of 2016, Sonia Kane embarked on a long-awaited, two-week, 150 mile pilgrimage.

Beginning in southwest France and hiking through the Pyrenees into northern Spain, her journey was a reminder of the richness of traveling “at the speed of life”, receiving each day as it unfolds, and being grateful for its many gifts. Come experience the beauty and peace of this pilgrimage through the eyes of an artist as she shares her journey of paintings into the Camino de Santiago.

Rah-Rah! A Collection of Original Paintings from Haiti Gallery C, 540 N. Blount St., Raleigh Exhibition runs through Aug. 31 A mix of African memory, a history of slavery and independence, voodoo traditions, and the joi de vivre of an island paradise, Painting traditions from Haiti remain uncontaminated by Western precedents. Initially labeled “naïve,” “folk” and “primitive,” today Haitian art is highly respected in the cultural consciousness of the international art establishment and is often compared by critics to the work of artists like Gauguin and Rousseau.

Director’s Legacy: Larry Wheeler at the NCMA, 1994-2018 NC Museum of Art, Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh Exhibition runs through Nov. 4 When Lawrence J. Wheeler took the helm of the North Carolina Museum of Art, he recognized that the NCMA could offer the people of North Carolina more, in his words, than “mute art” on the wall. Wheeler accomplished an ambitious program that culminated in the milestones represented in the exhibition. Although many acknowledge West Building as the crown of his achievements, few are familiar with just how far he expanded the contemporary photography collection.

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Black Violin is working on a new album, which is expected to be released in early 2019. Colin Brennan When Kevin Sylvester revealed to his mother that he intended to become a professional musician 15 years ago, she cried.

“She broke down when I told her that I was going to do this,” said Sylvester, known as Kev Marcus, calling from his home in Miami.

“She said, ‘I thought that you were just going to study music in college,’” he recalled, saying she had hoped he would pursue medicine.

But he wouldn’t have earned a scholarship if he didn’t study music. Today, his mother is crying happy tears when she watches her son perform as part of Black Violin with his partner Wilner Baptiste, aka Wil B. The duo, mixing jazz, hip-hop, funk and classical music, performed at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary Aug. 18.

“I never dreamed that it would reach this point but it’s amazing how well we’re doing,” Sylvester says. “I think part of it is due to the fact that no one else is doing what we’re doing.”

Black Violin has covered balladeer Sam Smith’s hit “Stay With Me” and recorded a mash-up of Cardi B and Mozart with the National Symphony Orchestra.

The act’s latest album was dubbed “Stereotypes,” referring to how Sylvester says he has been perceived.

“When I was looking for a house in my neighborhood not long ago, the Realtor asked if I played for the Miami Dolphins,” Sylvester says. “The reason is because of how I look.” The musician is 6’2” and 280 pounds.

“So when you see someone like me, I must play football, right? When I tell people that I’m a violinist, they’re

Removing this shock may be one of the reasons Black Violin likes to partner with youth organizations while on tour, exposing more young people to the art form.

During the Aug. 18 performance, the duo performed the grand finale with the Philharmonic Association’s Triangle Youth Music orchestra, a group that teaches classical and jazz music to young musicians.

Parental influence Sylvester’s mother is the reason that he picked up a violin. “I didn’t want to be the kid in the neighborhood who played violin but I’m so glad I was pushed,” Sylvester says. “I was dedicated to the violin and I have my career. I put in my time with classical.”

But hip-hop was always there for Sylvester. “I grew up listening to hip-hop produced by Timbaland and Pharrell Williams,” Sylvester says. “ I loved those beats.

That’s part of what has made Black Violin. I look back on that and when I played Drake and Beyoncé songs on the violin. I didn’t know that was the future for me.

If I didn’t practice violin and listen to hip-hop, there’s no Black Violin.”

Will Sylvester, who has three daughters, ages 9, 11 and 13, push them to master an instrument like his mother did with him?

“No, I want them to choose what they want to do and be happy,” Sylvester says. “I want them to go to college and pick what works for them. I want them to each put in their 10,000 hours and focus on their passion. They see what I do. If it inspires them, well, great.”

Black Violin is working on a new album, expected to be released in early 2019.

“We have a lot of work to do but it’s the best work imaginable,” Sylvester says. “I’m a musician. If my mother had her way, I would be working in a doctor’s office but that’s not my passion. All of those violin lessons, which I was less than crazy about taking, paid off. I have the greatest job in the world. Who else can say that?”

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Bluegrass Festival announces more performers David Menconi for Triangle Today It wouldn’t be World of Bluegrass without mandolin icon Sam Bush, so it’s a good thing he’s coming back this year.

Bush recently spoke to The News & Observer before an Aug. 11 concert at the Cat’s Cradle.

He said he has been impressed with Raleigh as a host city for the event.

Bush will join the Wide Open Bluegrass closing event. The late addition was announced Monday. He and former Doobie Brother John Cowan will join Colorado jam band Leftover Salmon for the “Wide Open Jam,” Sept. 29 at downtown Raleigh’s Red Hat Amphitheater.

“The first time I came to Raleigh for IBMA, it was obvious that the town was doing way more for IBMA,” he said. “The accommodation of the city and the way it’s an open festival downtown and you can walk to different stages, Raleigh just celebrates IBMA. In that way, it’s very successful and it’s obviously working. I really appreciate the way Raleigh does accommodate all the music.”

Bush, a festival staple, plays the International Bluegrass Music Association’s annual shindig just about every year — including 2017, when he organized a well-received tribute to heritage bluegrass band the Country Gentlemen. But he had not turned up on the 2018 schedule until this announcement.

Also joining the Wide Open Bluegrass lineup is Michael Cleveland, 10-time IBMA fiddle player of the year. The complete Red Hat schedule is below. The free street-festival schedule will be announced later.

World of Bluegrass is Sept. 25-29 in Raleigh and includes the IBMA business convention, the IBMA Awards (hosted this year by Hot Rize) and a free weekend street festival.

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Sam Bush, left, plays with the Infamous Stringdusters during the 2017 Wide Open Bluegrass Jam. He was just announced for the 2018 Wide Open Jam, Scott Sharpe

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