
COLTRANE TRIBUTE
First Friday, September 7 6–9 p.m. NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh
This event isn’t easy to find on the museum website. It doesn’t appear on their calendar, or their Google Calendar but it could be worthwhile. Coltrane deserves more recognition from the State of NC. Look at that man! Look at those clothes! Coltrane is, bar none, the most important cultural figure to emerge from the Carolinas. From the museum site: “We celebrate the birth month of jazz giant and North Carolina native, John Coltrane. A quartet will play an extended set, along with the usual First Friday fare, Natural Horror Picture Show, exhibit discount and Nature Art Gallery.”
This looks to be a wonderful event and we will be there. To fill out your First Friday itinerary, don’t miss Ellen Gamble’s paintings at Crocker’s lawn mower shop on Morgan St. I personally cannot miss seeing fine art at a lawn mower shop.
Also worth seeing: Starmount (including Greg Elkins on pedal steel) at Rebus Works, just across the Boylan bridge.