RTP-area local music and culture

[MattHedt <DONT_SPAM_MEmfhedt AT mindspring.com>]

Any idea what time? Is it general admission with no tickets issued?

I wonder why there's no info on the website...

-Matt



ansmithers AT yahoo.com wrote:
> 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 Ron Liberti and Casey Burns as well, some historical documents about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.
>