RTP-area local music and culture

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The performance is in the Pleasants Room on the 2nd floor of Wilson
Library on UNC's campus.  It is directly on your left if you enter
through the front grand entrance with all the columns and such.

It is free and it is bizarre that Greil Marcus is moderating a
discussion but he loves them apparently.  The SFC occasionally has
hosted concerts and speakers and the occasional conference on
hillbilly music and/or the politics and practices of cultural
conservation.  All have been free and open to the public, although the
conferences maybe required some registration.

here is a link to the sfc
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/

The Southern Folklife Collection is located on the 4th floor of Wilson
Library, housed with the Southern Historical Collection and UNC
Archives, the North Carolina Collection is on the 3rd floor.
The SFC has well over 160,000 recordings and lots of other things,
video, film, posters, print media, song folio, personal collections
and all the stuff archives have.

Music from the SFC can be heard every Sunday on WXYC at 1pm on the
Hell or High Water Program, and Back Porch Music also features music
from the collection occasionally.  I believe a podcast from the
collection itself is in the works.

There are often exhibits of interest in the Manuscripts Dept., the
last was about protests in the 1960s in Chapel Hill and got a lot of
visitors (some teachers must have assigned it) and it was excellent.
Currently is a random collection of items "discovered" in the stacks
by library staff.  Also quite good. a bad ass Monterrey Pops poster, a
Ron Liberti and Casey Burns as well, some historical documents about
properties in Hillsborough, some letters and stuff from Dean Smith,
and some even better stuff but you should go yourself.  hours (open
9-6 M-F, 9-1 on Sat).

hope that helps.