Libby Rodenbough at Appalachian Womens Museum

Thursday, October 15, 6-8 pm: Libby Rodenbough

Third Thursday’s is a free music series on the lawn of the Appalachian Women’s Museum in Dillsboro, NC. Musical performances are on the third Thursday in August, September and October from 6-8 pm. Attendees are welcome to bring a blanket, chairs and a picnic to the performances. Food will also be available for delivery from Fonda Cactus at set intervals throughout the night. The event is free to attend but donations are appreciated. The Appalachian Women’s Museum will also be open to the public during the event. 

Libby Rodenbough is from Greensboro, North Carolina and now lives in Madison County. She has played fiddle with the four-piece folk band Mipso for more than a decade. Her debut album as a solo artist, Spectacle of Love—an intimate, inventive chronicle of heartache and abjection—was released in 2020. She has also built up numerous collaborations in the tight-knit North Carolina music scene, playing with Fust, Sluice, Weirs, and a host of others in the Triangle and Asheville areas. Her second release, Between the Blades, is eight tracks long, but most songs clock in long, at around four minutes, lingering in observant, character-driven storytelling and slipping between diametrics—light and dark, cynicism and optimism, land and sea—as Between the Blades makes its way toward the aching chords of closer “Waking World.” In that song, Rodenough imagines “reaching out” through the veil between dream states and touching a loved one’s hand. Listening, it is easy to feel that you are in the same room, a hand reaching out to yours as it wades through the muck of the world we’ve been given, even as we look toward the possibility of another world.

Email any questions to museum@appwomen.org.