CAROLINA BLUES BENEFIT WITH LIGHTNIN’ WELLS & JOHN DEE HOLEMAN
THE LOVE HOUSE LAWN/ 410 EAST FRANKLIN STREET, CHAPEL HILL
FRIDAY, NOV. 5 – 4:00 P.M. TO 6:00 PM, RAIN OR SHINE
Free Admission / Donations Welcome – as are chairs & blankets for the lawn.
John Dee Holeman and Lightnin’ Wells perform on Friday Nov. 5 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p,m., on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus as part of Raleigh Charter’s Sustaining Roots Music Community Project. This is a collaboration with UNC’s Southern Studies program to increase awareness of North Carolina Piedmont traditions. This free benefit concert will be held on the porch of the historic Love House – 410 East Franklin Street – a picturesque location adjacent to the UNC Presidents’s house. Refreshments will be provided, but guests are encouraged to bring chairs, blankets and donations to assist SOOTS’ cause to give a hand up to elderly musicians.
This show will actually conclude a daylong event for SOOTS student leaders, who will participate in a round table discussion moderated by Raleigh Charter alum Danny Nowell on how to preserve best Piedmont blues music and North Carolina folklore. This event also inaugurates SOOTS’ relationship with area ethnographers, especially those of UNC and Duke University. To sustain roots music, SOOTS must not only raise funds, but work to raise young folklorists as well.