Public Programs
2008, Spring Semester
| February 25, 2008 |
The Brock McGuire Band The finest in Irish Traditional Music Presented by The Center for Popular Music and the Distinguished Lecture Committee at MTSU |
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The Brock McGuire Band, one of Ireland’s top traditional groups, will perform a free concert on Monday, Feb. 25. Leaders of the band, button accordionist Paul Brock and fiddler Manus McGuire, are two of Ireland’s most celebrated traditional musicians. In the afternoon prior to the concert, Paul Brock will present a lecture, "Irish Traditional Music in America – The Golden Era," in which he will discuss the early history of the recording of Irish American music. Brock will illustrate his lecture with recorded examples and with live performances of his own and by other members of the Brock McGuire Band. |
- Lecture: "Irish Traditional Music in America – The Golden Era" (illustrated with live performances)
- 3:00 p.m.
- State Farm Lecture Hall, Business and Aerospace Building (BAS)
- Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
- Concert:
- 7:30 p.m.
- State Farm Lecture Hall, Business and Aerospace Building (BAS)
- Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
- For maps and directions, visit:
- http://www.mtsu.edu/maps.shtml
| April 4-5, 2008 | "Farther Along": A Conference on the Southern Gospel Convention-Singing Tradition |
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The Center for Popular Music is proud to present the first academic conference devoted to the Southern Gospel Convention-Singing tradition. |