?UESTLOVE & 9TH WONDER moderated BY PROF. ANTHONY NEAL
In Conversation:
HIP-HOP SAMPLING SOUL
Wednesday, 2/20/08, 7 pm
UPDATED: DATE CHANGED FROM FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Auditorium at the Nasher Museum of Art
Free
Tickets to the talk are sold-out, but we will also have a simulcast of the talk in the Great Hall at Nasher. Those without tickets to the talk are welcome to come to the simulcast and don't need tickets for that. After the talk, everyone (from the talk and simulcast) can go to the DJ Performance & Dance Party.
DJ PERFORMANCE & DANCE PARTY
Wednesday, 2/20/08, 9 pm, Great Hall at the Nasher Museum of Art
Free
?uestlove
Ahmir ?uestlove Thompson is the best known drummer in hip-hop, a founding member of the trailblazing band The Roots, and a producer whose credits include work with Common, D’Angelo, Joss Stone, Al Green and scores of other hip-hop and soul heavies. His father, Lee Andrews (b. 1938, Goldsboro, NC), fronted the great 50’s doo-wop group, Lee Andrews & the Hearts, and his grandfather, Beechie Thompson, sang with the Dixie Hummingbirds.
9th Wonder
9th Wonder was born in Winston-Salem, brought up in Raleigh, and began his career in Durham producing the hip-hop group Little Brother. He has since laid tracks for such hip-hop and soul luminaries as Jay Z, Mary J. Blige, Nas, Talib Kweli, and Erykah Badu.