Southern author Frye Gaillard and award-winning Nashville recording artist Anne E. DeChant team up for an evening of stories and songs. As author and storyteller, Gaillard will offer readings from his award-winning book, “A Hard Rain” (NPR Great Read of 2018), chronicling American life in the 60’s—from civil rights, MLK and Malcolm X to the Kennedy brothers, Janis Joplin and Rachel Carson, setting the context for an acoustic performance of original songs by DeChant. Gaillard maintains that great songwriters like DeChant explore the depths of the human condition with all the subtlety and feeling of our finest novelists and poets, raising issues of empathy, compassion and justice. Gaillard and DeChant will be joined by special musical guest, DeWitt Crosby.

A 6 p.m. community potluck precedes the concert—please bring a labeled dish to share! Tell us what you’re bringing here

Saturday, July 13 at 7 p.m. in the Sanctuary.

Tickets: $15 (with no one turned away.)  Click here to buy tickets now.

For more information, contact John Herrick at john@uuccharlotte.org or 980-207-6037.