Mississippi River in Music: A Musical History Tour

When

March 6, 2015    
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Where

National Eagle Center
50 Pembroke Ave, Wabasha, MN

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Join us for the opening weekend of the SOAR with the Eagles festival celebrating our national bird and the great work of the National Eagle Center. I’ll be presenting at 6. Here’s a summary of the talk:

There are hundreds of songs about the Mississippi River. What on earth are all those people writing about? And what do those songs tell us about what we think of the river? Join Dean Klinkenberg for a musical float trip through the history of the Mississippi River as he talks about river towns, river transportation, monsters, and flooding, mixing clips from songs about the river with stories of the people and places of the Mississippi Valley.