Opening act
Photo: Ed.gov
And now, opening for alt-country superstar Neko Case: Education Secretary Arne Duncan? That was the scene Wednesday night at the 9:30 Club, as Case played the first of two sold-out shows.
Before she began her set, she brought Duncan onstage, saying, “I wanted to introduce you to a friend of mine, because I’m really interested in education.”
Whereupon Duncan, looking very un-Cabinet-like in jeans and a dark, open-collared shirt, made a plea for members of the audience to go into education.
In a clip from the event, posted on the Ed.gov blog, Duncan asks for a round of applause for his boss, President Obama, before saying that “we need that next generation of teachers coming in.”
“So we’re going to come back in about ten minutes,” said Case, “and I want all of you to decide that you’re going to be either a teacher or a tutor in the ten minutes we’re offstage.”
