Thurs. 9/5 10a: Former President of the Music Guild of New Mexico, Jackie McGehee, joins Spencer Beckwith to talk about a benefit concert on September 12 at Sandia Prep in Albuquerque. The concert supports a competition for young pianists and string players that Jackie McGehee founded in 1994, the Jackie McGehee Young Artists' Competition. Performing on September 12 will be Santa Fe pianist Doug Montgomery and two previous winners of the competition, Maria Vigil and Gabriel Landstedt.
Spencer Beckwith reports on the arts for KUNM. For ten years, until March of 2014, Spencer was the producer and host of KUNM's "Performance New Mexico," a weekday morning arts program that included interviews with musicians, writers and performers. Spencer is a graduate of the acting program at the Juilliard School, and, before moving to New Mexico in 2002, was for many years a professional actor based in New York City.