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The Knights on WCQS!

The Knights, a critically acclaimed orchestral collective, will be featured on WCQS on February 22 and 23. WCQS Music Director Dick Kowal will interview members of the group Monday at 1 p.m. The ensemble will also be featured on The State of Things on Tuesday, February 23 at Noon.

The Knights are an orchestra of friends from a broad spectrum of the New York music world who are deeply committed to creating original, engaging musical experiences. The Knights will kick off the inaugural concert for Free Range Asheville at Diana Wortham Theatre February 23 at 7 pm.  WCQS will record the February 23 concert for later broadcast. Free Range Asheville is a new arts organizations established as a platform for research and discourse where artists can engage and collaborate in performance and laboratory settings with other artists and organization.

Michelle Keenan is the Associate Director of Development at Blue Ridge Public Radio. She began volunteering for the station in 1996 and has been a full-time staff member since 1998.