Phil Cook, Mipso, Dom Flemons & more playing Music in the Gardens 2015

Duke Performances has announced the lineup of its annual Music in the Gardens series at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University and this year's lineup features a very hefty dose of blues and folk.

Things will kick off with Mipso on June 3. The Music Maker Revue holds three spots on the schedule, June 10, July 15 and July 29 featuring Cool John Ferguson, Boo Hanks, Pat "Mother Blues" Cohen and others. The Dom Flemons Trio will play June 17.

Dom Flemons, Holy Ghost Tent Revival, more to celebrate Record Store Day at Schoolkids

Record Store Day is just a week away, on Saturday, April 18, and while we've already mentioned the big bash at Chaz's Bull City Records in Durham, Schoolkids Records in Raleigh will be in the mix as usual with a bunch of performers stopping by during the day for in-store performances and signings. The store will open its doors at 8 a.m. that morning and then the festivities will begin at 2 p.m.

All Time Low will start things off with a signing a 2 p.m. before heading to The Ritz for a big show that night.

Next up at 3 p.m. will be a performance from singer-songwriter Dom Flemons, formerly of the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

Dom Flemons announces new solo album 'Prospect Hill'

Former Carolina Chocolate Drop Dom Flemons is back this summer with a new full-length solo album titled Prospect Hill. The album will be out on July 22 via the Music Maker Relief Foundation. Check out the full album track list below. According to a press release, the album reportedly "finds Flemons digging deeply into ragtime, Piedmont blues, spirituals, southern folk music, string band music, jug band music, fife and drum music, and ballads."

Flemons will play the Charlie Poole Music Festival in Eden on Friday, June 13.

Check out a video of Flemons performing the song "Po' Black Sheep" with his new touring trio below.

Carolina Chocolate Drops to lose another founding member

Grammy winning Triangle string band Carolina Chocolate Drops will take another blow at the start of the new year when they will lose another founding member, leaving just one.

Dom Flemons will take his leave at the end of the year to pursue solo projects and other collaborations. He follows Justin Robinson, who left the group in 2011. Rhiannon Giddens will be left to carry on the Carolina Chocolate Drops with new players, cellist Malcolm Parson and multi-instrumentalist Rowan Corbett, who will join her in the new year.

Sadly the group has no Triangle dates on the books before the end of the year, so if you want to see the Drops one more time with Flemons, you'll have to head west to Charlotte, Asheville or Knoxville or south to Atlanta. Check out the dates below.