Music: Lamont to play his music Thurs., Nov. 5, at 8 PM

Lamont aka Lamont Hiebert plays Best Video Performance space on Thursday, Nov. 5. The tunes start at 8 PM and the cover is $5.

Lamont is a seasoned singer/songwriter and human rights veteran. As the lead singer of his former band, Ten Shekel Shirt, he had a #1 radio song (Ocean 2001) and toured nationally. The music video for his song Fragile has over 1.5M views online.

In the middle of his career he co-founded Love146 and helped direct the anti-trafficking organization for 10 years. As an activist/musician he has opened up for Dave Matthews Band, John Legend, Natasha Bedingfield and more at social action events. He is currently working on two new albums – one as a part of a duet, the other as a solo artist.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• Wednesday, Oct. 28. CLASSICAL: HAVEN STRING QUARTET

• Thursday, Oct. 29. SYNTH POP/ROCK: MISSION ZERO

• Friday, Oct. 30. HALLOWEEN SILENT FILM SCREENING WITH LIVE SCORE: LIGHT UPON BLIGHT

• Monday, Nov. 2. FILM SCREENING: “ABOVE AND BEYOND”

• Wednesday, Nov. 4. OLD TIMEY/SWING: THE ZuZAZZ STRING ORKESTRA

• Thursday, Nov. 5. INDIE POP: LAMONT/PLAYFIGHT

• Friday, Nov. 6. RAGTIME/BLUES: THE RED HOTS

• Friday, Nov. 13. BRAZILIAN MUSIC: SAMBELEZA

• Wednesday, Nov. 18. FILM SCREENING: THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)

• Thursday, Nov. 19. DARK FOLK: ELISA FLYNN; SOUL PUNK: AN HISTORIC

• Friday, Nov. 20. SINGER-SONGWRITER: SABRINA TRUEHEART

• Sunday, Nov. 22. FILM SCREENING/BLACK LIVES MATTER BENEFIT: “ANNE BRADEN: SOUTHERN PATRIOT”

• Thursday, Dec. 3. ELECTRONIC: AVMUS