- Friday, March 27, 2015
- 3:15 PM–4:00 PM
- CFAC Recital Hall
A conversation between music journalist Jewly Hight and Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards
The creation of Smith College graduate, Merrill Garbus, tUnE-yArDs creates highly danceable, world-influenced music that resists classification. Layering the ukulele over drum loops, with electric base help from Nate Brenner, they have gained a reputation as one of the most original and energizing live acts currently on tour. Additionally, Garbus contributes to a conversation about why music matters, using her life and music to pursue social change.
Interviewer Bio:
Jewly Hight is a freelance music journalist and critic based in Nashville. She’s contributed to NPR/NPR Music, Billboard, Rolling Stone Country, Wondering Sound, CMT Edge, The Nashville Scene, The Oxford American and numerous other outlets and been a talking head on PBS, CMT and On Point with Tom Ashbrook. She published her first book, Right By Their Roots: Americana Women and Their Songs, in 2011, has a Master of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School and teaches Entertainment Reporting and Writing at Middle Tennessee State University.
