Music manager Tom Carrico will get a tuneful send-off – The Washington Post

What does a band manager do?

“Nobody knows,” said Tom Carrico, who has managed bands in Washington since 1965, when he simultaneously managed his high school band, the Showmen, and played bass in it. “It’s different for every manager and every artist.”

What does a band manager do?

“The manager does everything that no one else wants to do,” said Mark Wenner of venerable D.C. blues band the Nighthawks, which Carrico managed in the early 1970s.