GrindING!

During Ardon's senior year at the UW, he was the UW concert coordinator. He would organize the all the concerts and shows, and make sure all the artists were well catered to. Today in an interesting turn of events, Ardon got to be the artist that was being taken care of!

Today was the UW grand finale of the school year concert--the annual Concert on the Lawn. One of the performers today was the rap duo Clipse. I know them best for their rapping in Justin Timberlake's first solo single, "Like I Love You." (I was a Justin Timberlake FANATIC back in the day.) Clipse also has quite a bit of popular work on their own, like the song from a couple of years ago called "Grindin." Anyway, they were set to perform today. However, their DJ missed his flight and couldn't get to Seattle in time for the show, so the UW called up Ardon and asked if he could spin on stage with Clipse.

So, at 2:15 today Ardon and Clipse hit the stage in front of hundreds, if not thousands, of people. The sun was shining, the audience was feeling it, and the music was bumpin (and I got to munch on snacks backstage). Not a bad way to spend a sunny Saturday.

So many people during their performance. It was such a nice day.

If you click on the picture, you get a clearer view of the stage. There's Ardon on the left behind the big speaker. For a last minute gig and not having used the software before, he was pretty solid.