GRACE AND CANDOR: Shelby Smoak shares his life in prose and song

***EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS SHOW HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO HURRICANE DORIAN*** To call Shelby Smoak’s life story “compelling” would be inadequate. The memoirist and songwriter fronts an indie-rock outfit Bleeder, which will open for Team Player at Satellite on the 6. But in 1990, as an 18-year-old preparing to start his freshman year at UNCW, Smoak’s parents told him he had contracted HIV when he … Continue reading GRACE AND CANDOR: Shelby Smoak shares his life in prose and song