Jean Luc Leroux & Co. and The Grass Strings Live at The ArtsCenter

Jean Luc Leroux

Eclectic French musician Jean Luc Leroux, joined by NC natives The Grass Strings, will perform at The ArtsCenter on Wednesday, July 17th at 8:00pm.

Tickets are $9 General Admission, $5 for Friends of The ArtsCenter, and $13 Day of Show.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit http://artscenterlive.org/event/performance/2351 or call the Box Office at (919) 929-2787. The ArtsCenter is located at 300-G East Main Street in Carrboro.

Art Menius, Executive Director at The ArtsCenter, says of Jean Luc: ?Jean Luc Leroux is a Frenchman living in the South Pacific in New Caledonia who is consumed with country and bluegrass music. He brings his passionate sound to Carrboro on the latest of his now regular American tours. He will be accompanied by members of North Carolina?s own Grass Strings.?

Jean Luc Leroux, a Frenchman living in New Caledonia, traveled to Nashville to record Country Lagoon, a pleasant, Gallic take on country rock with strong swing and bluegrass influences. One has a hard time listening to Country Lagoon without a smile. The album concludes with a rousing, Dawg-inflected bluegrass romp powered by Jean-Luc?s mandolin, ?Croquettes Danse.? Most of Country Lagoon warmly reminds a listener of certain ago of the time when artists like the Eagles, Emmylou Harris, Sundance, and J.D. Crowe & the New South seemed to be erasing the barriers among bluegrass, swing, country, and rock.

The Grass Strings is a bluegrass band from Kannapolis NC that formed in 1976 by Bob Hatley of Albemarle NC. Two of the original members still tour with the band, which has played as far south as Lake Okeechobee, Florida, and as far north as Kalamazoo, Michigan. Using traditional songs and instrumentation, The Grass Strings have a different flavor of music, that often exceeds the bluegrass imagination. Hatley passed away in July of 1995, but the guys in the band thought that The Grass Strings should carry on and keep the band going on in his memory. So since 1995 people have seen Jim Burris and Jeff Russell continuing to sing together side by side the same as they did back in 1976.

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Programs at The ArtsCenter are supported in part by Brooks Pierce, Chapel Hill Restaurant Group, Giorgios Hospitality Group, The North Carolina Arts Council, The Orange County Arts Commission, Tony Hall and Associates, and Vimala?s Curryblossom Cafe.

The ArtsCenter is a non-profit teaching and presenting organization founded in 1974. The largest employer of artists in Orange County, NC, it serves more than 80,000 people annually, through classes, studios, concerts, theatre, spoken word, gallery displays, more than 80 school shows, and more. The ArtsCenter exerts a local economic impact exceeding $3,200,000 which generates the equivalent of 103 full time jobs and $301,000 in state and local tax revenue.

Source: http://triangleartsandentertainment.org/event/jean-luc-leroux-co-and-the-grass-strings-live-at-the-artscenter/

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