Carrboro Recreation & Parks is bringing in local artists from the Triangle for a live performance every Thursday during January and February from noon to 1 p.m. in the Carrboro Century Center.
Rah Trost, recreation supervisor for Carrboro Recreations & Parks, picked the artists for the shows, and while the format of the concerts might be the same, the musicians vary from week to week. The lineup is comprised of local musicians from genres like bossa nova — a type of Brazilian music — and Celtic rock to bluegrass and folk.
Trost said the town is devoted to supporting the arts and creating a climate for artists of all types.
Open Eye Cafe provides free coffee during the event, which owner Scott Conary said is just one of the ways he tries to give back to the community.
“This is our town. We want it to be fun and interesting, and this is just one example of how we try to do that.”
While he said it’s not the first time Open Eye Cafe has hosted live musicians, Conary said the Lunchbox series is particularly exciting because the concerts are in the middle of the day. The cafe has been working with Trost since the beginning of the series.
“It’s just one that we really enjoy because it incorporates a bunch of things we like to do — coffee and music,” Conary said.
Not all of the artists are newcomers to the town’s art scene. Musicians like Eric Bannan, who performed on Jan. 8 in the first performance of the 2015 series, was playing in the Carrboro Music Festival in September when Trost recruited him for the series.
