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Music at Peel: “Rock N Talk: Music as Public Humanities with Florence Dore”
September 8, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
featuring Florence Dore, Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Join CPH’s Joanna Sierks Smith and singer-songwriter & UNC English Professor, Florence Dore for “Rock N Talk: Music as Public Humanities.” at Peel Gallery on Sept. 8th. She’ll be playing songs off her acclaimed new album, “Highways and Rocketships” and discussing the importance of music and humanities in today’s world.
Florence Dore is a Nashville-born, North Carolina-based independent musical artist putting out a new record, Highways and Rocketships. The road from her first LP Perfect City (Slewfoot 2001) to Highways and Rocketships has been anything but straight—and that’s not even counting the pandemic delays. She has spent a lot of that time between then and now riding around on Steve Earle’s tour bus, catching up with her Dukes-drumming husband Will Rigby. She also wrote a book, put on a conference at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and took a seat on the board at the Bob Dylan Institute. Somewhere along the way she and Will had a kid too. Back in 1994, her song “Christmas” was included on a 1994 Geffen compilation, Just Say Noel, while Florence was making her way in the music scenes of Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Cleveland. Florence and her ace band— Will, Peter Holsapple (the dB’s; Steve Earle & the Dukes), Mark Spencer (Son Volt), and Jeremy Chatzky (Bruce Springsteen)—recorded Highways and Rocketships with Don Dixon and Mitch Easter (REM, etc.), and the record came out JUNE 10, 2022. Visit https://www.florencedoremusic.com/ for more information.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online (https://register.humanities.unc.edu), by calling 919-962-1544, or at the door.
Peel Gallery is located at 708 W Rosemary St, Carrboro, NC 27510. Parking is available at the parking deck attached to the Hampton Inn.