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Singer/songwriter Eller to present ‘Historically Based Songs of Southern Ƶ’

February 28, 2008
ISU Marketing and Communications

Singer/Songwriter Gary Eller of Nampa, Ƶ to give presentation on “Historically Based Songs of Southern Ƶ” at 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 19, in the Ƶ Pond Student Union Building Salmon River Room.

Eller’s presentation will feature fellow musician and Ƶ Falls elementary school principal, Marv Quinton, who has played American roots music in several southern Ƶ bands. Eller and Quinton will invite audience members to share songs; so audience members are encouraged to bring their songs and instruments.

Under a grant from the Ƶ Humanities Council, Eller has collected about 1000 songs, 200 of which are historically based and 100 predate 1910. The songs are entertaining and provide insight of local culture at the time they were written.

This presentation is sponsored by the Ƶ Humanities Council and the ISU American Studies Program, History Department and the Department of English and Philosophy. Admission is free to the public.

For more information regarding Eller’s presentation, contact Jennifer Attebery at 282-2531 or Kevin Marsh at 282-2877.


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