Nov 6, 2025 4:30 pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
- Sponsor
- Spurlock Museum
- Speaker
- Dan Gilbert
- Views
- 18
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.