PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Contact: Chasyah L Scott Marketing Director o: 984-500-5253 cscott@artscenterlive.org
The ArtsCenter Announces New 2022 Live Concert Partnership with Tess Mangum and Sonic Pie Productions!
(Carrboro, NC) It’s a match made in paradise! Tess Mangum is back! The ArtsCenter announces a new partnership with Mangum, working with The ArtsCenter to curate 12 concerts at The ArtsCenter, this spring, summer and fall.
Known for welcoming performers such as Mavis Staples, Rickie Lee Jones, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Tinariwen and Les Nubians to The ArtsCenter, she served as Concerts Director & Facility Rental Coordinator of The ArtsCenter, from 2002-2012. Eclectic curation with a mission of representing rich, artistic diversity and, at times bringing artists rarely seen in the southeast earned Tess an Indy Arts Award from Indy Week in 2012. “Tess Mangum makes The ArtsCenter a national, and local, destination” – Indy Week.
Mangum, a seventh-generation North Carolinian, earned a B.A. in Public Relations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and M.A. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Limerick, Ireland. February 14, 2013, Mangum founded Sonic Pie Productions, LLC, a concert production and curation company based in Durham, NC. In the past nine years, she and her team have worked with artists such as Anderson .Paak, Van Hunt, Gabriel Garzon-Montano, Les Filles de Illighadad, Valerie June and author and COO of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg.
So, who’s coming to Carrboro? The ArtsCenter, in partnership with Sonic Pie Productions, presents Blues/Folk/Punk songwriter and guitarist Sunny War Friday, June 10. Thursday, June 2: Tuareg band, Bombino. Call The ArtsCenter at 919-929-2787 to purchase tickets, $15, or purchase online at www.artscenterlive.org. Local beer and wine is available for purchase starting one hour before curtain. In addition to wearing masks, proof of vaccination is required for all attendees of in-person performances. More exciting concerts to be announced soon!
For more information about Sonic Pie Productions, visit www.sonicpieproductions.com.
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The ArtsCenter is a 501(c)(3) Arts Education non-profit located in Carrboro, North Carolina. It is the single largest employer of artists in Orange County and serves more than 100,000 patrons each year, including K-12 students.
Durham, North Carolina-based Sonic Pie Productions, founded in 2013, creates community and commerce via curated concert bookings, consultation and sound production services.
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With a name like Sonic Pie Productions, you might hope to find a bakery, rather than a sound production company, but there is a pie connection. Choosing a name when incorporating a business is harder than it seems. It’s got to somehow represent a worldview, mission and purpose. It should be easy to remember, timeless–and you must research beforehand that it’s not already in use. The last thing you want, three years into your branding and brand awareness is a cease and desist letter. So, here’s our story behind the name Sonic Pie Productions.
Sonic alludes to the importance of one of our five sense: sound.
Productions: we curate and produce concerts and events.
But why Pie? The way we figure, anything inside flaky dough is good. Peach pie, Jamaican beef patties, samosas, empanadas…they’re all good. When you go with Sonic Pie Productions, your pie might have some jazz in it–some soul–or rock and roll. Maybe you need help producing a street fair, vintage motorcycle rally or literary event. Your pie is going to be great!
Pictured above is a pie Sonic Pie Productions CEO Tess Mangum made today, in her beloved grandmother Kate’s 50(?) year old pie and biscuit pan. If the house was burning down, she’d grab the kids, the dog and this pan.
Need something UPLIFTING? How would you feel, performing in front of more than 1000 people? These kids did just that, June 28, uunder Al Strong‘s wing, using Sonic Pie Productions’ gear, staging and crew at Durham Central Park. LISTEN to the ravishingly talented Ricardo Diquez, so generous of spirit, talk about how great they are, opening for him. UNC-TV, The Art of Cool Project, you rock. This is why sponsorships and grants are so needed.
This camp jazzes up summer for kids in Durham
The StArt of Cool makes jazz, well, cool for youth. ?This special summer camp, spun off the The Art of Cool Project, teaches elementary, middle and high school students the fundamentals of jazz. The week-long session culminates with the student ensemble performing as the opening act for the Friday night concert series in Durham Central Park.
Posted by UNC-TV on Thursday, September 26, 2019
Sonic Pie Productions’ CEO Tess Mangum Ocaña is featured in the new issue of Durham Magazine!
Jarlath Henderson is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and doctor. Hailing from County Armagh, Ireland, Jarlath Henderson is the first Irish solo artist to win the prestigious BBC Young Folk Musician of the Year Award, which has led to performances at festivals throughout Europe and to GlobalFest in New York City. Jarlath combines modern, rhythmically intense, percussive electronics to his traditional singing style to create a signature sound that is all his own. He is a masterful balladeer, three times ‘All-Ireland Champion’ Uilleann Piper, a teacher both in Ireland and Scotland and has featured in numerous BBC television programs on piping and music. A talented and versatile multi-instrumentalist, Jarlath also plays whistle, flute and cittern.
See them live at Rhythms Live Music Hall, in Lakewood’s Reuse Arts District, between The Scrap Exchange and Scrap Thrift Store. (Tons of free parking.) This is a seated, all-ages evening presented by Sonic Pie Productions. Tickets: $15 adv, $18 day of show
