What can we say: Canvas just has to applaud the Carolina Union Activities board.
What, with this month’s fast-approaching Homecoming Concert with Passion Pit, the recently announced Old Crow Medicine Show concert in November and a smattering of other exciting stuff in the pipeline, it seems like CUAB has got its act together this year.
Tickets for the Nov. 12 OCMS show go on sale Monday at the Memorial Hall Box Office and online on their website.
“They’ve been trying to come to UNC for a while now, and the dates just haven’t worked out,” said CUAB president Adele Ricciardi. “I think the campus will really be able to unite in Memorial Hall.”
And though CUAB music chairwoman Kinsey Sullivan admitted that she was a little hesitant about inviting the country-folksters to campus, the surge of support online — more than 900 listed attendees on the Facebook event as of Sunday night — convinced her otherwise.
“I think this just shows how much we are trying to present a wide variety of genres,” Sullivan said.
CUAB’s Pop Culture Committee continues this genre adventure by bringing alternative rap artists Das Racists — pronounced with a short rather than a long ‘a’ sound — to Gerrard Hall Nov. 11 as a part of the ongoing Dollar Concert Series.
Tickets for the concert will be $1, as in keeping with the series’ mission of bringing more unusual musical artists to campus at a low cost.
CUAB pop culture committee chairman Tyler Mills spoke highly of the group, who he described as humorous in a purposeful, inside-joke type fashion.
“They are really intellectual,” Mills said. “They drop a lot of literary and cultural references…it’s an alternative white hip-hop style. They are everything we like about the internet.”
Sullivan said that she thinks that the Das Racist show will present an interesting opportunity for potential spectators.
“They will definitely bring a different element to what we might call the rap or hip-hop scene,” Sullivan said. “You can feel cool because you know who they are, and they seek to educate people through what they do.”
The Das Racist concert will be preceded by a group discussion about the artists’ work.
But CUAB is planning a larger campus discussion on the legacies of hip-hop. In December, a panel featuring “some classic figures of hip-hop” will gather to discuss the socio-political aspects of hip-hop, Sullivan said.
Due to ongoing contract discussions, CUAB couldn’t divulge the names of said hip-hop legends, but Sullivan and Ricciardi promised that the panel will surprise.
And with writer Tao Lin coming to campus on Nov. 17 and a tounge-in-cheek showing of Swedish vampire film “Let the Right One In” on Oct. 25 — complete with candy and fake vampire teeth — CUAB looks to continue its streak of good luck and better taste.
Canvas apologizes if this post seems too laudatory — CUAB told us they loved us, and we can’t help but love them back.
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