Destination Champaign - The Roots and Routes of Farm Aid
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Spurlock Museum
- Location
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
- Date
- Nov 6, 2025 4:30 pm
- Views
- 27
- Originating Calendar
- History Department Public Events
- This talk will trace the journeys of the artists and activists who converged at Memorial Stadium in September 1985 to make the inaugural Farm Aid concert a landmark event in the history of popular music.Speaker: Dan Gilbert is Associate Professor of History and Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and faculty curator of Spurlock's Songs of Solidarity exhibit.