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Forbidden from playing music, a young Elizabeth Cotten — born in 1893 in what is now part of Carrboro — secretly borrowed her brother’s banjo and guitar. She flipped the instruments upside down to ...

Musician, family-centric and Carrboro native are all things that encompass the character of Elizabeth Cotten. The Grammy Award-winning artist was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022. To ...

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