Catch a free performance by master blues musician Scott Ainslie on Sunday, June 14, at 3 p.m. at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. With his fiery guitar picking and slide work and a voice filled with power, Ainslie honors the African and American roots of the blues tradition. PineCone
co-sponsors the program, part of the museum’s Music of the Carolinas series.
Ainslie’s music is distinguishable by his deep blues voice and his picking and slide work on a 1931 National steel guitar. In 2000 at the National Slide Guitar Festival, he received the Living Heritage Award for his contributions to slide and acoustic blues. Ainslie wrote the best-selling book Robert Johnson: At the Crossroads, and he has released four CDs.
For more information, call 919-807-7900 or access ncmuseumofhistory.org. The museum is located at 5 E. Edenton St., across from the State Capitol. Parking is available in the lot across Wilmington Street.
The N.C. Museum of History’s hours are Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free. The museum is part of the Division of State History Museums, Office of Archives and History, an agency of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. The department’s Web site is www.ncculture.com.