Grammy-Nominated Hip Hop Artist Common to be Featured Performer During Guilford's Spring Festival, Serendipity, March 30-31
Grammy-nominated hip hop artist Common will be the featured performer during Guilford ’s spring festival, Serendipity, March 30-31. He will perform Saturday, March 31, at 8 p.m. in Dana Auditorium on campus. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are $20 for the general public, Guilford employees and adult students and $10 for Guilford traditional-age students and will be sold in the first-floor library of Frank Family Science Center Friday, March 23, from 5-8 p.m. and Saturday, March 24, from Noon-4 p.m. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the door for $30.00. All seats are reserved and sales are limited to two per person.
The Chicago-based artist has recorded six albums, including the platinum-selling 2004 album “Be,” which received four Grammy nominations including Best Rap Album. In 2006, his video for the single “Testify” was nominated for Best Hip Hop Video in the MTV Video Music Awards. His seventh album, “Finding Forever,” is expected to be released this year.
Common has a burgeoning film career, having appeared as a musician in “Dave Chappelle’s Block Party” in 2006 and “Smokin’ Aces” this year. He will co-star with Denzel Washington in “American Gangster,” which is due for release later this year.
Common has written children’s books that include The Mirror and Me, I Like You But I Love Me (which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award) and M.E. (Mixed Emotions).
He also started The Common Ground Foundation, an organization dedicated to utilizing the cultural relevance of Hip-Hop to serve as an advocate for justice, education, to fight poverty, and to increase health awareness among youth in underserved communities throughout the United States.
On Friday, March 30, the Serendipity festival will include student activities on the Founders Hall lawn from 4-7 p.m. and performances by three bands at the Guilford lake from 9-11 p.m. Performing will be the indie group S. Burns, rock band Han Shot First and bluegrass group Steep Canyon Rangers.
For more information about Serendipity, contact the Office of Student Activities and Leadership at 316-2388.
March 30, 2007