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Contact Information:
Please contact the
Chicago Local Planning Committee
chi.lawcha09@gmail.com
The Program
Please click here for the FINAL
version of conference schedule, including the very last minute changes that took
place at the conference. Thank you to all of you who
submitted papers and workshops! The conference was a great success.
Over 360 people came together in Chicago for four days of labor and
working-class history. We were honored to have Bettie Mae Fikes, (SNCC Freedom Singers, collaborator
with Mavis Staples) with us throughout the conference. For a sample of
Bettie Fikes' music,
click here. Bucky Halker put together a
great line-up for our Friday night
event "Class and Song," consisting of renowned folk singer and scholar Janet
Bean (Freakwater and the 11th Dream Day), Jon Langford (Mekons/Waco Bros.),
Bill Brickey (Old Town School of Folk Music, Don Stiernberg (Jethro Burns, Alice
Peacock), and Tom Pierkarski (Jon Prince and Ralph Covert). For
more about Bucky Halker, click here
and for more on a recent project that captured Illinois' rich
heritage of folk music and featured many of the musicians listed above,
click here.
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