09/11/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 09/10/2024 22:02
Tuesday, Sept. 17 As part of Georgia College & State University's annual "Constitution Week," a lively production of political campaign music and a lecture will be at 6 p.m. at Georgia's Old Governor's Mansion. The concert, "All Hail for Music on the Trail: A program featuring music from U.S. Presidential Campaigns, 1840-1964," will feature campaign songs like "The Red, White, and Blue," "Wake Ye Numbers!" and "Hello Lyndon." The lecture, "Why Sing Campaign Songs? Music, Popular Democracy, and the Election of 1840," will be presented by Dr. Billy Coleman, associate director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri. Trax on the Trail, a website co-founded by faculty member Dr. Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, is hosting this event with GCSU's Constitution Week Committee. Voice faculty members will be featured: Dr. Youngmi Kim, Ms. Camilla Packroff, Dr. Chris Hendley, and Dr. Bradley Sowell. The Max Noah Singers, under the direction of Dr. Jennifer Flory, will join in with Dr. Craig Callender accompanying on guitar. This concert will also be livestreamed at www.facebook.com/GCMusicDepartment. A $5 donation is encouraged. Online donations can be made at give.gcsu.edu/g/department-of-music/. All proceeds benefit music scholarships or the GCSU Department of Music through GCSU Foundation, Inc. For more information, please email [email protected] or call 478-445-8289.