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On the Beat: David Menconi on music
News & Observer music critic David Menconi's random (and we do mean random) musings about all things related to music and culture of the "popular" variety.
The big time: Triangle jazz artists in residence at the Kennedy Center
Submitted by dmenconi on 03/31/2009 - 10:30
Two Triangle jazz musicians have been up in Washington, D.C., recently to participate in a highly prestigious gig, Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead residency at the Kennedy Center. Keyboardist Eric Hirsh (whose sister Rachel is also a keyboardist of note, in the Chapel Hill band I Was Totally Destroying It) and drummer/NC Central graduate Clifton Wallace are among the 30 members of this year's class.
They'll both be onstage at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage at 6 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday to perform. You should be able to listen to it online here.
About the blogger
David Menconi has been the News & Observer's music critic since 1991. Before that, he spent five years at the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo.; and before that, he earned a journalism masters degree from the University of Texas (on top of an English degree from Southwestern University). You can find more of his writing here.
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