On a nondescript April afternoon last year at the Durham home of Letha Rodman Melchior and her husband, Dan, the couple’s parakeet, Glen, was holding court. Avocado green with a canary-yellow head, he ...

Buy Dan’s album The Backward Path from Northern Spy. Last September, Dan Melchior, a fabled British-born garage and art-rock musician living in Durham for the last six years, gathered his live band on ...

Musician and artist Letha Rodman Melchior lost her battle with cancer two weeks ago at age 55. Her husband, Dan Melchoir, wrote: I am heartbroken to report that my dear, sweet wife Letha Rodman ...

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Letha was born on September 11, 1928 in Holyoke, Colorado, the daughter of Elof and Rena Larson. She died peacefully in her sleep at home on January 27, 2016. As a child, she attended a one-room ...