SMF: Piedmont Blues: Gerald Clayton and the Assembly ft. René Marie
When: Fri., April 7, 8 p.m. 2017
Co-commissioned by SMF, this rare music and multimedia presentation explores an important era and region in the history of southern music. Piedmont Blues is a live concert project inspired by the musical style that grew up around the tobacco factories and warehouses of Durham, North Carolina in the 1920s and 30s, when the Bull City was the largest cigarette manufacturer in the world.