The Town of Carrboro, N.C., proudly presents the Music Maker Foundation’s Freight Train Blues series of live concerts every Friday evening between May 16 and June 13, 2025, at the Carrboro Town Commons, 301 W. Main Street.

Bring your picnic, lawn chairs and blankets for a free evening of live music on the lawn. Public parking is available and free in downtown Carrboro.

Freight Train Blues celebrates the life and legacy of Piedmont blues legend and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2022 Inductee, Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten, born in 1893 in Carrboro, NC.

Music Maker Foundation honors Cotten’s legacy in the world of roots music by emphasizing the cultural diversity, complexity, and vitality of her music and the music of many other artists local to her community and all over the country.

May 16: Jimbo Mathus & The Creatures of the Southern Wild feat. The Crimestoppers

May 23: Charly Lowry and Thomas Rhyant Jr.

May 30: Dedicated Men of Zion and Faith & Harmony

June 6: Conjunto Breve

June 13: Gail Ceasar and Lakota John Locklear

The series is a collaboration among Music Maker Foundation; the Town of Carrboro, WUNC 91.5 FM, and The Forests at Duke.