Movements seeking social change have long used music and storytelling. Singers and storytellers have lent both their talents to the American Civil Rights Movement, Labor Equality, and Indigenous Rights. Music has played an essential role bolstering courage, inspiring participation, and fostering a sense of community.  Join us for a special concert with Charly Lowry. 

This program will stream on the Greensboro Public Library's Facebook Page. 

Charly Lowry is a singer-songwriter from Pembroke, NC with roots in the Union Chapel Community. Charly earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from UNC Chapel-Hill. Upon graduation, Lowry moved full-steam ahead in pursuit of a career as a professional musician.  

In 2004, Charly had the opportunity to compete on the wildly popular television show, American Idol and finished in the Top 32. For over a decade, Charly has attained regional and national success as both a solo artist and lead singer of alternative rock/soul/folk band, Dark Water Rising. In addition to performing with Dark Water Rising, The Ulali Project, and The New Mastersounds, she was most recently featured as an opening act on Rhiannon Giddens’, “There is No Other” Tour.   

Charly enjoys performing, meeting people, and educating others on the Native American experience. She served as a Lumbee Ambassador for the Lumbee people in 1997-98; traveling throughout the country to visit Tribal Nations while attending various conferences, powwows, etc.  Her reign as Jr. Miss Lumbee was the catalyst that awakened her spirit to an inherent calling as a “Culture Bearer”.  Lowry continues to work on her craft; immersing herself in the culture of American music and expanding her listening ear to various genres, all the while composing songs that give a personal account of her experience as an Indigenous woman walking in two worlds.