Stop into The Cottage during studio hours to visit our artist-in-residence, MC Taylor. View the workspace to see how the singer songwriter has been using it during his residency, discuss his methods of composition, writing, and how the setting of Westerly has influenced his work. You might even catch him playing some tunes!

MC Taylor is a singer songwriter and bandleader of Durham-based Hiss Golden Messenger. His music is at once familiar, yet impossible to categorize: Elements from the American songbook—the steady, churning acoustic guitar and mandolin, the gospel emotion, the eerie steel guitar tracings, the bobbing and weaving organ and electric piano—provide the bedrock for Taylor’s existential ruminations about parenthood, joy, hope, and loneliness—our delicate, tightrope balance of dark and light—that offer fully engaged contemporary commentary on the present. There’s nothing else quite like it.