Wrap up Staff Appreciation Week with a lunchtime concert Friday, Aug. 7 featuring Soundclub Superstar. Lunch will be available with Chartwells grilling hamburgers ($2) and hot dogs ($1). Chips, ice cream sandwiches and lemonade will also be available for $1 each. The finale of the 2009 Greg Johnston Summer Concert series gets underway at noon near the Betty Sabo Modern Art Sculpture located southeast of the SUB and south of the Student Health Center.
Photo: Soundclub Superstar
Soundclub Superstar is a group of all-star musicians and artists from the Land of Enchantment. Albuquerque native Justin Hood, a recent UNM graduate, launched the project in March when he connected with producer and electro-DJ Dizzy at the South by Southwest interactive music festival in Austin, Texas. Since then, the hometown boys have been hard at work, providing a unique sound-clash of music in genres ranging from electronic to hip hop to show tunes to live, instrumental ensembles.
The duo has performed across the Southwest, from skate and snowboard events to graduation parties to film screenings. Hood and Dizzy are on occasion known to perform with a live, four-piece band to enhance the mash-up of music and creativity. Stay tuned, Soundclub Superstar has a special mix in mind to celebrate UNM staff.
The concerts were renamed the Greg Johnston Summer Concerts, in honor and recognition for Johnston’s work as founder of the concerts on behalf of the Staff Council Work+Life committee. The concerts are intended to provide a noon hour respite for UNM employees and students.
Johnston, who worked in the University Communication and Marketing Department as a Sr. Communications Specialist, died in February 2007 after a brief battle with cancer. The concerts are sponsored and supported by the UNM Staff Council and its Work+Life Committee and the Division of Student Affairs.
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