Here are a couple of late additions to the upcoming show schedule, both worth making time for. First, the great singer/songwriter Gillian Welch plays at Cat's Cradle next Tuesday (yes, six days from now). Tickets go on sale at noon Thursday.

Then on Wednesday, April 28, St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark, of Sufjan Stevens and Polyphonic Spree fame) plays UNC-Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall with local favorites The Love Language opening. UNC began giving out free tickets to students this week, but public tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday.

And in other show-schedule news, Concord's Avett Brothers STILL don't have a Triangle performance booked -- but they're playing Merlefest on May 2. It's being billed as their "only spring/summer North Carolina appearance in 2010." Which means they won't be here until fall at the earliest. Great...

For those of us in the Triangle, the latest bundle of Avett Brothers news is a mixed bag. On the good side, the Concord group's "Austin City Limits" performance will air on Jan. 23; they'll be playing Merlefest in Wilkesboro on May 2; and there's this nifty new video for "Slight Figure of Speech," an anarchic parody of a low-rent shopping network with a vaguely pornographic vibe.

On the downside, the Avetts' latest round of tour dates still doesn't have a show in the Triangle. Their last show here was an opening-act set for Dave Matthews Band at Walnut Creek back in April -- and they've not played a headline show of their own around these parts since July 2008, when they sold out Booth Amphitheatre in Cary. Which means that it might be close to two years between proper Avetts shows here.

C'mon, guys, where's the love? Don't you like us no more?...

"MerleFest Moments" features fan-favorite highlights from 2007's 20th anniversary Merlefest bluegrass event. The popular festival takes place each April in Wilkesboro, N.C. 

Tonight you can watch full length performances by Donna the Buffalo, Blue Highway, The Waybacks, Steep Canyon Rangers (pictured), Pam Tillis, Uncle Earl, and John Cowan.

The show airs tonight at 9pm and again on July 26 at 5pm and 9pm, and also July 27 at 2am. Each broadcast is on UNC-NC, a UNC-TV digital channel dedicated to North Carolina programming.

For more information, read about MerleFest Moments at UNC-TV.

Merelefest photo by Gabe Nelson.