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Farm Aid Exhibit Curator Talk: Destination Champaign - The Roots and Routes

Nov 6, 2025   4:30 pm  
Spurlock Museum
Lecture
Sponsor
Spurlock Museum
Contact
Nicole Frydman
E-Mail
nfrydman@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

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.

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