Tess Mangum Ocaña, the concerts director who created the American Roots Series and other musical programming at the ArtsCenter, was laid off this week after a little more than 10 years with the venue.
Oh, to be in the room with Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins at Sun Records. It only happened once, captured visually in a newspaper photograph noting their million-dollar jam session. The Broadway tour of the musical “Million Dollar Quartet” is on stage at the Durham Performing Arts Center through Sunday. It gives audiences a chance to feel what it must have been like to be there among the talent that was playing a new sound and gathering so much popular steam.
Mallarmé Chamber Players has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts that will help support a new music festival early next year. The $10,000 grant will support the North Carolina HIP Music Festival, to be held Jan. 27-Feb. 3.