Music critic and journalist David Menconi will be on the campus of Louisgurg College on Thursday, March 21 to discuss North Carolina's substantial role in popular music.
The 2019 Piedmont Laureate, Menconi is a journalist and author in Raleigh.
He spent 34 years writing for daily newspapers, 28 of those years at the Raleigh News & Observer. Before that, he spent five years at the Boulder (CO) Daily Camera.