RTP-area local music and culture

[David Menconi <dmenconi AT newsobserver.com>]

> > For several years now, the N&O has been doing an annual "8 local  
> > bands
> > to watch" feature called the Great 8. Maybe we should go back through
> > the previous years & see how prescient they've been? Maybe later.



hey -- actually, we run an update on prior year's classes every time.  
so yeah, you'll be able to scope that come Friday. I really wish we'd  
been able to do performance films of everybody from the beginning,  
but that's only been the last few years. as it is, it's still a  
darned fine archive -- our multi-media crew really outdid themselves  
again.

as to this year's lineup, sorry about the "secrecy." but you can  
probably guess why we've tried to keep that on the down-low this go- 
round.  ;>



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