RTP-area local music and culture

[ansmithers AT yahoo.com]

probably something like 3:00 PM, or maybe, and I mean maybe, 5:00-7 PM
or something like that.  Don't worry, I am sure the information will
become available.  It is more likely it will be during the day, sucks
for working folks, as Wilson Library has hardcore security due to all
the special collections, also, although open and inviting to the
general public, as a part of UNC as an academic institution, I would
imagine that funding for such events consider it important that
University community have access.  On the other hand, events like this
are designed specifically for community outreach and enrichment
outside the university, and to promote interest in and knowledge about
the archives.  The building locks up at 6, like don't get caught in
the stairwell or you have to call the cops locks up.  They do have
some speaker based events that start at 6 though on occasion.

There is probably no info on the website because no one told the
person who handles such things to do so, and while it is a special
event, the focus of the library is research and preservation.

There never have been tickets issued before so I doubt there will be
this time, that is way too much bureaucracy, plus, while they will be
on a stage (a quite lovely miniature stage that I think will frame and
suit the music Mr. and Mrs. Sparks nicely), the Pleasants Room is a
lecture room essentially. I imagine it will be packed though, and
people will be turned away.  Marcus could probably draw 180 from
campus alone, and the Handsome Family as well for that matter.

Sorry I can't be more helpful, although I do work at the SFC on
specific projects and have nothing to do with this kind of stuff and,
as seems to be common in deep and dark archives that I have worked in,
I don't see other people too often.  I can say, information will be
forthcoming I have no doubt, newspaper stories and the like.  The last
few music conferences have had articles in the Indy and the N and O so
I don't think this will be any different.

On Jul 15, 3:53 pm, MattHedt <DONT_SPAM_MEmfh... AT mindspring.com>
wrote:
> Any idea what time? Is it general admission with no tickets issued?
>
> I wonder why there's no info on the website...
>
> -Matt
>
> ansmith... 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.