Bland Simpson to Deliver Coates Lecture about Tar Heel Tunes
Thursday, April 19
Reception at 5 p.m.; Program at 5:45 p.m.
Wicker Classroom, School of Government
Free and open to the public
Information: (919) 962-1172
Free parking after 5 p.m. in Knapp-Sanders deck
Musician and author Bland Simpson will provide a wide-ranging look at songs and music related to Carolina and Chapel Hill in a lecture on April 19.
The free public lecture "Keeping Time: Two Centuries (and Counting) of Tar Heel Tunes and Songs from the Southern Part of Heaven" will begin at 5:45 p.m. in the Wicker Classroom of the School of Government in the Knapp-Sanders Building. The talk will follow a 5 p.m. reception. Parking is available after 5 p.m. in the Knapp-Sanders deck at no charge.
Simpson, a member of the Red Clay Ramblers music group and director of the creative writing program at UNC, described his talk as "light-hearted and hardly encyclopedic." In addition to speaking, Simpson will include vocal and piano performance of several songs that he wrote with fellow Rambler Jack Herrick for the 1994 musical "Tar Heel Voices," commemorating the bicentennial of the university.
Simpson's lecture will be the fourth Gladys Coates University History Lecture sponsored by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library. The series honors the late Coates, an avid university historian who died in 2002. She and her husband, Albert Coates, founded UNC's Institute of Government, which is now part of the School of Government.
For information about the lecture, contact Bob Anthony in the North Carolina Collection at (919) 962-1172.
