Across the nation, thousands of people are stepping up to solve the crisis that is afflicting our heroic frontline health workers and first responders. As hospitals struggle to find safe and reliable supplies, companies, organizations, and individuals are joining forces to get health care workers the personal protective equipment and lifesaving medical devices they need. No single organization can do this alone. In fact, the proliferation of organizations in this space has made it incredibly challenging to navigate.

National PPE Coalition’s goal is to aid that process by enabling connections. We’re working to bring crucial partners – state governments, corporations, manufacturers, non profits, and individuals – together in order to build an efficient, unified supply chain.

By coordinating all emergency PPE crisis efforts, we not only minimize the risk of misdirecting critical supplies to places that may need them less urgently, but increase their individual power exponentially. Working together, the PPE Coalition members are working together to ensure that every shipment of PPE sent is a life-saving shipment.

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Many farms across North and South Carolina have added on-farm pickups, home delivery & online pre-orders to accommodate for social distancing in light of the COVID-19 outbreak. Please see the listings below for more information, and check out our interactive Google Map for farm locations near you!

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As more festivals, performances and concerts are canceled due to the coronavirus shutdown, musicians of all stripes and sizes are taking to social and streaming platforms to play live for their fans.

NPR Music is compiling a list of live audio and video streams from around the world, categorized by date and genre, with links out to streaming platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Some will require registration or a subscription, but most will be free, often with digital tip jars and opportunities to directly support artists by buying music and merchandise.

April 15

classical

The Metropolitan Opera: Puccini’s La Rondine
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
Link: Met Opera

jazz

Lincoln Center at Home: Jazz at Lincoln Center from the Vault
Time: 4 p.m. ET
Link: Lincoln Center / YouTube

country / americana

Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell
Time: 5 p.m. ET
Link: YouTube

Americana Highways: TJ George, George Ensle, Satin Nickel, Betty Soo
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook

folk

Brian Dunne
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Link: YouTube

rock

Jack Garratt
Time: 12:30 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook

World

Pickathon Presents A Concert A Day: DakhaBrakha
Time: 4 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook / Twitch / YouTube

Lincoln Center at Home: Rahim Alhaj Trio
Time: 4 p.m. ET
Link: Lincoln Center / Facebook

pop

Cavetown
Time: 1 p.m. ET
Link: Instagram

electronic

Lost Frequencies
Time: 2 p.m. ET
Link: Twitch

R&B / Soul

The Dip
Time: 5 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook

experimental

Niccolo Seligmann
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook

children’s music

Lincoln Center at Home: Gustafer Yellowgold
Time: 4 p.m. ET
Link: Lincoln Center

Trout Fishing in Amierca
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook

FREE Video Course by Wild Abundance

Discover delicacies growing right outside your door.

Your guide through this course is seasoned Wild Abundance instructor Luke Cannon, who has practiced wild food foraging for over two decades. More than a botanist, Luke is a long-time pursuer and teacher of the magic and medicine of plants. An avid naturalist, Luke draws from a diverse pool of knowledge, combining his natural history studies with his life experience in organic farming, natural building, permaculture, nature-based mentoring, and rural homesteading.

As more festivals, performances and concerts are canceled due to the coronavirus shutdown, musicians of all stripes and sizes are taking to social and streaming platforms to play live for their fans.

NPR Music is compiling a list of live audio and video streams from around the world, categorized by date and genre, with links out to streaming platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Some will require registration or a subscription, but most will be free, often with digital tip jars and opportunities to directly support artists by buying music and merchandise.

April 16

classical

The Metropolitan Opera: Rossini’s Le Comte Ory
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
Link: Met Opera

Live with Carnegie Hall: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Time: 2 p.m. ET
Link: Carnegie Hall

New York Philharmonic
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook

Detroit Symphony Orchestra: With Violinist Jennifer Koh
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook

Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra: BeethovenNOW
Time: 8 p.m. ET
Link: Philadelphia Orchestra

multi-genre

Sound Mind: A Covid-19 Mental Health Benefit Concert: Chad Urmston of Dispatch, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, Foy Vance, Langhorne Slim, Jade Bird, Ballroom Thieves and more
Time: 8 – 11 p.m. ET
Link: YouTube

R&B / Soul

Allen Stone
Time: 4 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook

Lincoln Center at Home: J. Hoard
Time: 4 p.m. ET
Link: Lincoln Center / Facebook

country / americana

Americana Highways: Jaimee Harris, Silver Lake, Corey Grubb, Dallas Burrow
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook

Caribbean

Kobo Town
Time: 4 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook

rock

Pickathon Presents A Concert A Day: Heartless Bastards
Time: 4 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook / Twitch / YouTube

Low Cut Connie
Time: 6 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook

The Weeks
Time: 6 p.m. ET
Link: YouTube

Across the nation, thousands of people are stepping up to solve the crisis that is afflicting our heroic frontline health workers and first responders. As hospitals struggle to find safe and reliable supplies, companies, organizations, and individuals are joining forces to get health care workers the personal protective equipment and lifesaving medical devices they need. No single organization can do this alone. In fact, the proliferation of organizations in this space has made it incredibly challenging to navigate.

National PPE Coalition’s goal is to aid that process by enabling connections. We’re working to bring crucial partners – state governments, corporations, manufacturers, non profits, and individuals – together in order to build an efficient, unified supply chain.

By coordinating all emergency PPE crisis efforts, we not only minimize the risk of misdirecting critical supplies to places that may need them less urgently, but increase their individual power exponentially. Working together, the PPE Coalition members are working together to ensure that every shipment of PPE sent is a life-saving shipment.

Tickets: $25 – $55 (plus applicable fees)
Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM
The descent into darkness is a trope we find time again across history, literature, and film a protagonist plunging further and further into the depths. But there is also an abyss above. There is a winding white staircase that goes ever upward into the great unknown each step, each turn, requiring a greater boldness and confidence than the one before. This is the journey on which we find Angel Olsen. Olsen’s flight is both upward and inward. Olsen’s artistic beginnings as a collaborator shifted seamlessly to her magnificent, cryptic-to-cosmic solo work, and then she formed bands to play her songs, and her stages and audiences grew exponentially. But all along, Olsen was more concerned with a different kind of path, and on her vulnerable, Big Mood new album, All Mirrors, we can see her taking an introspective deep dive towards internal destinations and revelations. In the process of making this album, she found a new sound and voice, a blast of fury mixed with hard-won self-acceptance.“I guess you could say some bold and unexpected things have happened in my life” Olsen said. “It feels like part of my writing has come back from the past, and another part of it was waiting to exist.”All Mirrors gets its claws into you on both micro and macro levels. Of course, there’s that singular vibrato, always so very close seemingly simple, cooed phrases expand into massive ideas about the inability to love and universal loneliness. And then suddenly huge string arrangements and four horsemen bellowing synth swells emerge, propelling the apocalyptic tenor. Throughout All Mirrors, Angel fully lets in the goth tones that always lurked at the ends of her songcraft.“In every way from the making of it, to the words, to how I feel moving forward this record is about owning up to your darkest side,” Olsen said. “Finding the capacity for new love and trusting change, even when you feel like a stranger. This is a record about facing yourself and learning to forgive what you see. It is about losing empathy, trust, love for destructive people. It is about walking away from the noise and realizing that you can have solitude and peace in your own thoughts, that your thoughts alone can be just as valid, if not more.”The first step of All Mirrors was conceiving a back-to-basics solo record, which she recorded with producer Michael Harris in Anacortes, Washington. Soon after that was completed, a more ambitious version of the album began to percolate in her mind. This second, more maximalist version of All Mirrors evolved slowly with producer John Congleton, arranger Jherek Bischoff, Swiss Army Knife musician/arranger Ben Babbitt, and a 14 piece orchestra.“I was determined to keep it bare bones in order to contrast with the not yet recorded full-band record,” Olsen said. “I wanted to have versions of these songs that are completely raw and real in the way some of my earlier recordings are, so that I could have the choice to play alone or with a band.”While remaking the album with full production and new collaborators, Olsen developed a new relationship with control. And in that process, she developed an even clearer vision of herself as an artist.“It’s scary to be your own compass, to trust new faces, to be a stranger but sometimes that’s the only way forward,” she said. “When you’ve been in a repetitive cycle so long it’s difficult for anyone to see you as someone who could come out of it. When you’ve made an example of yourself that people expect, some voices remind you of that example even when you know in your heart you’ve made changes.”“As I see it, in order for an artist to survive some kind of change, change needs to be a constant. For myself, that constant change means having some kind of epiphany or clarity expressed in song. I don’t know if it’s something I inspire or attract, or if it’s just in the way I’m looking at my surroundings, but drama is something that surrounds my world and always has. I’m at least happy that I’ve learned to write it down.”
Tickets go on sale Friday 11/22 at 10am!

FREE Video Course by Wild Abundance

Discover delicacies growing right outside your door.

Your guide through this course is seasoned Wild Abundance instructor Luke Cannon, who has practiced wild food foraging for over two decades. More than a botanist, Luke is a long-time pursuer and teacher of the magic and medicine of plants. An avid naturalist, Luke draws from a diverse pool of knowledge, combining his natural history studies with his life experience in organic farming, natural building, permaculture, nature-based mentoring, and rural homesteading.