North Carolina Music Hall of Fame Greenville, North Carolina rapper Petey Pablo is one of six inductees into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. The inauguration ceremony will be held in Kannapolis on October 17th.
It’s time for the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame’s Class of 2024 to take its place at the state’s major record companies.
Five North Carolinians and one company will be interred at the Charles Mack Civic Center in Mooresville on October 17th. The ceremony, which includes performances by the award winners, is part of the hall’s 30th anniversary celebrations.
The gala includes dinner and a show featuring performances by Petey Pablo, Anthony Hamilton, the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, HC McEntire, Kendrick Williams, and David Johnson & Bobby Denton. The ceremony begins at 7 p.m., with red carpet appearances at 6 p.m.
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Here are the Hall of Fame inductees and their hometowns:
-Clarence Avant (Greensboro). For half a century, Avant has been a quiet powerhouse of music and entertainment. His ability to mentor America’s biggest music artists and presidents from Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama earned him the nickname “The Black Godfather."
Avant, who received his doctorate from Morehouse College and North Carolina A&T State University, has also received the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award from the NAACP, the Recording Academy Board of Trustees Award, an award from the Jazz Foundation of America, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. did. Gained fame with the Ahmet Ertegun Award. He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
-Mary Cardwell Dawson (Madison). Founder of the National Negro Opera Company, the first black-led opera company in the United States in 1941, Dawson trained students to sing opera and performed in theaters in Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Washington DC, Newark, and New Jersey. , started a guild in New York. .
She was appointed to the National Music Commission by President John Kennedy in 1961.
• Tommy Fail (Charlotte). A songwriter, bassist, vocalist, and broadcast personality, Feil is best known for writing the 1967 hit “Phantom 309” and recording “The Legend of Brown Mountain Lights."
Feil started with Hired Hands in 1949 and joined Arthur Smith & the Crackerjacks in 1951. In 1969, he started “The Tommy Fail Show” on WBTV.
-Bobby Hicks (Newton). Hicks, a 10-time Grammy Award-winning fiddler, is an inductee into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and the Fiddlers Hall of Fame.
Hicks’ five decades of contributions include more than 50 albums and collaborations with stars such as Bill Monroe, Porter Wagoner, Jesse McReynolds, Carlton Haney, and Jim Eanes. Hicks spent 23 years as a fiddler with the bluegrass group Ricky Skaggs and the Kentucky Thunder.
• Petey Pablo (Greenville). The Grammy-nominated rapper is best known for the anthem “Raise Up.” The platinum recording artist’s other hits include “Freek-A-Leek” and “Carolina Colors.”
Pablo’s musical collaborations with Timbaland, Black Rob, Busta Rhymes, Lil Wayne, and Ciara have topped the Billboard charts and been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
• Merge Records (Durham). An independent record label founded in 1989 by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance to promote the music of their own band, Superchunk, and friends.
From assembling 7-inch singles in Valance’s bedroom, Merge has become one of the world’s leading independent music labels, publishing works by artists such as Magnetic Fields, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lambchop, Mountain Goats, and Caribou. has grown into
