“Howdy, I'm Bolo. I like to play country music and make things cute here at Country Soul Songbook. (Admit it, you love me).”
UPCOMING EVENTS:
CSSB & NORTH STAR PRESENT:
COMMUNITY READ-ALOUD & BIG SING!
MONDAY - JAN 20
Martin Luther King Day
12 - 4 PM
Come fill your cup! CSSB will be holding space at North Star Church of the Arts on MLK day! We’ll be singing from the Civil Rights Songbook and reading aloud from the canon of the many courageous people who built and continue to build the movement for freedom— including MLK, James Baldwin, Pauli Murray, bell hooks, Angela Davis, YOU, US and more…
Won’t you join us?
Drop in at North Star Church of the Arts for a minute or more to have a snack, sit, sing and soak in the sustenance of the Word.
Sign up to read aloud from the canon for a few minutes… bring something that’s important to you, or we’ll have readings on hand for voicing.
Watch/Listen virtually via the Northstar Facebook livestream!
Listen to CSSB’s Civil Rights Songbook playlist — feel free to email us with anything we should include!
QUEER COUNTRY NIGHT W/ LINE DANCING + COUNTRY KARAOKE @ The Pinhook - Durham, NC
All Ages
1st TUESDAYS of the month!
Doors: 7pm Show: 8pm
Suggested Donation $5 - $10
All Aboard the Sea Change…
Country Soul Songbook was created by artists, for artists. We are a curation and production team that presents performances and facilitates collaborations, in-depth conversations and cultural offerings rooted in our mission to amplify historically marginalized voices (BIPOC/LGBTQIA+) in American roots music— specifically country, Americana, folk and rock.
We cultivate the integration and intersectionality of the American roots music community, including the musicians onstage and the audiences who come to see them. We produce content and media documenting the work of an ever-growing community of musicians, scholars and culture creators. Through community collaborations, we generate cultural criticism, re-interpretations of the music canon, tributes to under-recognized artists and other projects that repair the forgotten histories of the queer, brown, indigenous and “other-ed” folks who have contributed to and who continue to generate into the landscape of American roots music.
Our team is based in Durham, NC, but our music community spans from Nashville to New York to Los Angeles to Canada and many places between. As a community we endeavor to paint a fuller picture of the American story, generating an easily accessible archive that celebrates the past, present, and future of these musical lineages through underrepresented voices.
CSSB organizes and gathers community in a myriad of ways in order to cultivate the sharing of ideas among an ecosystem of passionate artists, scholars, advocates, activists and creatives who create and care about equity and reparative storytelling in American roots music and culture.