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David Menconi presents, “From the Mountains to the Sea – A Brief Overview of North Carolina (and Durham) Music”

David Menconi presents, “From the Mountains to the Sea – A Brief Overview of North Carolina (and Durham) Music”

Date:
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time:
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Main Auditorium
Location:
Main Library (300 N. Roxboro St)
Audience:
  Adult     Emerging Adult: 18-24 Year Olds     High School     Intergenerational     Senior Citizen  
Categories:
  Humanities     Library Fest     Music     North Carolina Collection  
Registrations open at 3:00pm Saturday, February 15, 2025

Join us for this special Library Fest event where we'll trace some of the currents of North Carolina’s incredibly influential music history, which includes key contributions to the evolution of jazz, blues, country, bluegrass, rock and more.

The 2019 Piedmont Laureate, David Menconi is an author, critic and journalist in Raleigh, North Carolina. He spent 34 years writing for daily newspapers, 28 of them at the Raleigh News & Observer, and has also written for Rolling Stone, Billboard, The Bluegrass Situation and the New York Times. His most recent book, 2023's "Oh, Didn't They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music," features a foreword written by Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Robert Plant. It won a Certificate of Merit from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections.

Event Organizer

Lauren Panny