Musical Empowerment Benefit Concert Sells Out

Providing musical opportunities for underprivileged children

Musical Empowerment, an organization within the UNC Department of Music offering free weekly music lessons to underprivileged children in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area, is hosting a benefit concert tonight for the group.  Joe Kwan from national act The Avett Brothers is headlining the show, with additional performances from Mipso, the UNC Achordants, and the UNC Clef Hangers.  Tickets have sold out, but a standby line is expected to form outside of University United Methodist Church on Franklin Street.

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Featuring Joe Kwon of the Avett Brothers and other UNC acts

ConvergeNC Sponsoring Pit Performances Leading Up to Saturday

For 2014, April 3rd – 5th

Today in the Pit on UNC Campus, Ellis Dyson and The Shambles performed from 12 to 1 PM in support of the upcoming ConvergNC Southern Music Festival on campus.  ConvergeNC has been in the Pit all week, and will continue their streak of direct promotion tomorrow afternoon with live hip-hop in the Pit and also in the evening with the Clockwork Kids album release show at the Morehead Planetarium.  Mipso will be at the Cat’s Cradle on Friday, and the full festival will take place on Saturday, beginning at 3 PM.

 

Ellis Dyson and The Shambles performing for ConvergeNC