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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  
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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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