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Sharing the South 

April 2011 

Greetings! 

 

Big Fish Dog
  Original drawing by Daniel Wallace.

As the academic year draws to a close, we would like to share a few interesting statistics from our website, e-newsletter and video channel. The Center's website has been viewed in over 42 countries, and over 21,000 visitors during the past year, with 64% of them new visitors. There were over 2,600 visitors in the month of March alone. This e-newsletter goes out to over 3,000 subscribers. And our video channel on Vimeo has seen more than 4,000 visitors from over 26 countries since we first started uploading videos in January.  

 

March 31st brings a Grammy winner to Music on the Porch; April 6th a New York Times columnist for the Charleston Lecture; April 12th award-winning author Daniel Wallace in conversation after a screening of the film, Big Fish, based upon his novel; and April 28th a cellist, bassist, and violinist exploring the music of the south at Music on the Porch.

 

See below for more details and please check our website for the most up-to-date information as an event draws closer. We hope to see you soon!


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Charleston Lecture with

John T. Edge

April 6 at 6 p.m.  

Charleston Sign  

John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, monthly food columnist for the New York Times and a contributing editor at Garden & Gun, will be giving the 2010-11 Charleston Lecture on April 6th at 6 p.m. in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room at Wilson Library. 

 

He will be talking about the idea of bbq pitmasters and how the use of that honorific has changed our idea about bbq and trace the history of bbq in the South through the stories of individual pitmasters across the region.

 


Quick Links

Thursday, March 31

Music on the Porch with Jon Shain, Rhiannon Giddens, and Steve Kruger (moderated by Peter Holsapple

5 p.m. | The Pleasants Family Room at Wilson Library   

Free and Open to the Public 

 

Jon Shain small Jon Shain is the rare folkie who truly brings the "chops" to his songs along with the lyrics. From learning Piedmont Blues at the side of Big Boy Henry to his solo career, Shain always weaves a variety of roots music influences into his songwriting.


small Rhiannon Giddens The life story of Rhiannon Giddens, a member of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, reads like a postmodern novel with overlapping plots. It's the training of opera overflowing into the unchained world of old-time music.


small Steve KrugerSteve Kruger
picked up the guitar, fiddle and banjo as a teenager, and then spent the next 9 years playing in living rooms, dance halls and fiddler's conventions. He is currently a graduate student in the University of North Carolina's Folklore Program and studies music, memory and land-use issues. 

 

 

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Tuesday, April 5
Hutchins Lecture with Barbara Ellen Smith

The Politics of Place 

4 p.m. | The Royall Room in the UNC Alumni Center 

Free and Open to the Public   

 

barbara ellen smith

This lecture will illuminate the theoretical meanings of place as a political resource in the U.S. South. What understandings of place contribute to divergent political agendas (e.g., the "southern way of life" vs. progressive global connections)? What are the limitations and insights of these varying perspectives?

 

 

Barbara Ellen Smith is the Director of Women's and Gender Studies and professor of Sociology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

 

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Tuesday, April 12

Big Fish on the Big Screen with the Big Guy

5:30 p.m. | Varsity Theater on Franklin Street
Free for UNC OneCard holders and $3 General Public

Big Fish DogThe Center invites you to a screening of Big Fish at the Varsity Theater on April 12th at 5:30 p.m.. After the screening there will be a talk with Big Fish author and Chapel Hill resident Daniel Wallace, and Senior Associate Director of the Center Bill Ferris. Immediately following the discussion there will be a reception at Hyde Hall.

 

Tickets are available at the Varsity Theater box office, which is open Tue-Fri 6:30-9:30 p.m. , Sat 2:00-9:30 p.m. and Sun 4:30-7:30 p.m..   

 

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Thursday,  April 28

Music on the Porch with Shana Tucker, Gabriel Pelli, and Jane Francis.  Moderated by Andrew Magill

5 p.m. | The Center for the Study of the American South   

Free and Open to the Public  

 

Shana Tucker studied at Howard University and the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music with Marion Feldman. Her commissioned works include Nexxus and Savannah, both of which were composed for The Washington Ballet (with Maritri Garrett, co-writer) and premiered at The Kennedy Center. Savannah was also chosen to debut at the Joyce Theatre-NYC and also at the Witts Theater in Johannesburg, South Africa.


Classically trained, Gabriel Pelli is a fiddle player of all genres, with Stuff Smith and Stefane Grapelli being most inspirational. He played for years in his own Gypsy Jazz group, Europa Jazz, and more recently plays with the newly regrouped Squirrel Nut Zippers. When not playing jazz, he rocks the violin with The Old Ceremony.


Jane Francis is a songwriter, music teacher and multi-instrumentalist.  She continually experiments with the timeless blending of British folk-rock and blues, and offsets traditional forms with quirky pop balladry and refined lyrics. She is a recent member of the Chapel Hill Philharmonia and Cary's RTOOT Orchestra on the upright bass, an instrument she plans to feature in her upcoming CD.