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Institutions
Asheville Symphony Orchestra North Carolina Symphony Western Piedmont Symphony
Organizations
North Carolina Mountain Acoustic Music Association
Venues
Cat's Cradle Coffeehouse
Festivals
Sleazefest
State song	"The Old North State"
Other topics	Music of Chapel Hill - Piedmont blues

North Carolina is known particularly for its tradition of old-time music, and many recordings were made in the early 20th century by folk song collector Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Most influentially, North Carolina country musicians like the North Carolina Ramblers helped solidify the sound of country music in the late 1920s, while the influential bluegrass musician Doc Watson also came from North Carolina. Both North and South Carolina are a hotbed for traditional rural blues, especially the style known as the Piedmont blues.

The Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Durham area has long been a well-known center for rock and punk music. It is a college region, referred to as the Triangle. Bands from this music scene include Flat Duo Jets, Superchunk and Archers of Loaf ^[1].

The Piedmont blues is a type of blues music characterized by a unique fingerpicking method on the guitar in which a regular, alternating-thumb bass pattern supports a melody using treble strings.

Chapel Hill's music scene dates back to the 1950s, and really began to take off in the 60s, when the Cat's Cradle Coffeehouse nurtured a local folk scene. One of the first local legends, Arrogance, became a major part of the folk scene ^[1].

The Chapel Hill rock scene came of age in the 1980s, however, when bands likes Angels of Epistemology led a new wave of bands that came to include the Pressure Boys, Flat Duo Jets and Southern Culture on the Skids.

Formed in the early 1990s, Polvo was considered one of the most important bands in the math rock genre. Its band members have gone on to form other local Chapel Hill groups.

More modern bands include the quirky Squirrel Nut Zippers, the folky Ben Folds Five and the Archers of Loaf. Heavy metal band Corrosion of Conformity is based out of the Triangle area.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill was a regional center for punk rock, due to its large number of college students. including popular local band Th' Cigaretz. Later hardcore punk bands included No Labels, Colcor, UNICEF, Stillborn Christians, DAMM, Bloodmobile, Subculture, 30 Foot Beast, Mission DC, Stations of the Cross. A Number of Things, and Oral Fixation ^[2].

Main article: North Carolina hardcore

North Carolina hardcore is one of the larger hardcore scenes in the nation, with a wide array of hardcore bands based out of each of North Carolina's five metro areas.

1. ^ ^{a b} Unterberger, Richie (1999). Music USA: The Rough Guide. The Rough Guides. ISBN 1-85828-421-X. 
2. ^ Blush, Steven (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Feral House. ISBN 0-92291-571-7.