Tonight at 5:30pm, the Piedmont Council for the Arts is hosting a "Men in Music" event at the Charlottesville Community Design Center. I am sitting on a panel with Danny Shea, who books at the Jefferson Theater, cello whiz Wes Swing, Beetnik and MRC staffer Damani Harrison, plus the Invisible Hand and Borrowed Beams of Light’s Adam Brock. The Performer Exchange Project’s Sian Richards moderates.
The "Men in Music" conceit riffs on the 2010-long statewide celebration of women in the arts, as well as last spring’s discussion about the role of women in Charlottesville music. (Doesn’t seem like the questions will be gender-based, per se, but you’re free to ask whatever you’d like.) "Panelists will answer questions and discuss topics such as booking and promoting shows, finding practice and recording spaces, raising funds, negotiating the noise ordinance, and outreach opportunities for musicians."
Beverages to follow. Read more about the event here. Oh yeah—there’s gonna pizza too!
Are the men in music, or is the music in the men?