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Chapel Hill Superstar Musical Reunion Concert 2010
The past is about to become the present. Come see the heartthrobs of 1960s Chapel Hill reunited for a one time event at the American Legion. Flashback to the voice of Carter Minor and other legendary Chapel Hill musicians including Don Sparrow, Skip Via, Mel Jones, Bif Bream, Jay Cole, Andy Preston, and JP Mitchell. We hope the surprise guests include several members of the Taylor family who were also part of this musical fraternity. We understand at least one set will contain music of The Sands of Time band.
Chapel Hill Memories plans to have a full article on the event in the coming months.
For more details on the history of these artists and bands see:
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Comments:
betsy harris
9:54 PM Mon 7/12/2010
Is this event rescheduled and on for this weekend, Saturday, July 17? If so, what time will it begin? 7pm? Anyone know of press on this show? I've heard only by word of mouth. Any word on new additions to the January lineup? I.e. Hege V?
Mary Hall Rodman
8:29 AM Mon 5/17/2010
I hear that Janjam is rescheduled for July 17th.
Bill Nichols
10:37 AM Mon 2/1/2010
Any plans on doing JANJAM sometime in the near future? The weather was too bad to consider driving to Chapel Hill that night and I would hope that we can try to do this good thing again. I know of several "old Chapel Hill folks" that were planning to travel a good distance to come to the jam, but they couldn't get here last weekend. Way too dangerous for folks to make it to the American Legion hut.
It sounded like a Great Idea and I would have loved to see some of my old friends from the Town Hall days!
susan dail
11:26 AM Sun 1/31/2010
Did the JANJAM occur? Or was there a need to reschedule due to weather? I live in Clayton and driving to Chapel Hill wasn't advisable due to weather.
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Chapel Hill is located on a hill whose only distinguishing feature in the 18th century was a small chapel on top called New Hope Chapel. This church was built in 1752 and is currently the location of The Carolina Inn. The town was founded in 1819, and chartered in 1851.
What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well or the bell or the stone walls. or the crisp October nights. No, our love for this place is based upon the fact that it is as it was meant to be, The University of the People.
-- Charles Kuralt
Dark Side of the Hill -- Pink Floyd, the creators of the most popular album in history, Dark Side of the Moon, took the second half of their name from Floyd Council, a Chapel Hill native, and great blues singer and guitarist. He once belonged to a group called "The Chapel Hillbillies".
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There would probably be no Chapel Hill if the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees in 1793 had not chosen land across from New Hope Chapel for the location of the university. By 1800 there were about 100 people living in thirty houses surrounding the campus.
The University North Carolina's first student was Hinton James, who enrolled in February, 1795. There is now a dormitory on the campus named in his honor.
The University of North Carolina was closed from 1870 to 1875 because of lack of state funding.
William Ackland left his art collection and $1.25 million to Duke University in 1940 on the condition that he would be buried in the art museum that the University was to build with his bequest. Duke rejected this condition even though members of the Duke Family are buried in Duke Chapel. What followed was a long and acrimonious legal battle between Ackland relatives who now wanted the inheritance, Rollins College, and the University of North Carolina, each attempting to receive the funds. The case went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, and in 1949 UNC was awarded the money for the museum. Ackland is buried near the museum's entrance. When the museum first opened, in the early sixties, there were rumors that his remains were leaking out of the mausoleum.
The official name of the Arboretum on the University of North Carolina campus is the Coker Arboretum. It is named after Dr. William Cocker, the University's first botany professor. It occupies a little more than five acres. It was founded in 1903.
Chapel Hill's main street has always been called Franklin Street. It was named after Benjamin Franklin in the early 1790s.
Chapel Hill High School and Chapel Hill Junior High were on Franklin Street in the same location as University Square until the mid 1960s.
The Colonial Drug Store at 450 West Franklin Street was owned and operated by John Carswell. It was famous for a fresh-squeezed carbonated orange beverage called a "Big O". In the early 1970s, I managed the Record and Tape Center next door, and must have had over 100 of those drinks. The Colonial Drug Store closed in 1996.
Sutton's Drugstore, which opened in 1923, has one of the last soda fountains in the South. It is one of the few businesses remaining on Franklin Street that was in operation when I was growing up in the 1950s.
Future President Gerald Ford lived in Chapel Hill twice. First when he was 24, in 1938, he took a law couse in summer school at UNC. He lived in the Carr Building, which was a law school dormitory. At the same time, Richard Nixon, the man he served under as Vice President, was attending law school at Duke. In 1942, Ford returned to Chapel Hill to attend the U.S. Navy's Pre-Flight School training program. He lived in a rental house on Hidden Hills Drive.
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SunJam 2010 - JanJam Revisited
Type: Party - Reunion
Date: Saturday, July 17, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: American Legion, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
SUNJAM 2010
(the resurrection of snowed out JanJam 2010)
Sat. July 17
6-10pm
$10 per person cash only, please!
Featuring
Mel Jones & Tin Can Alley * Bif Bream * Don Sparrow * JP Mitchell * Jay Cole
* Carter Minor * Skip Via * Andy Preston * and others
American Legion Post
1714 Legion Rd.
Chapel Hill, NC
BYOB and cups! ice available
Bring your own food if you like!
**NO GLASSWARE, PLEASE!
Organizer: Andy Preston
SunJam2010 Hotel Update!
SunJam Rates
Both almost right across the street from the American Legion Post!
Sheraton Chapel Hill
One Europa Dr.
$69/night - JUST LOWERED PRICE!
www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/sunjam
Call the hotel directly @ 919-968-4900
and ask for the SunJam Bock
Hampton Inn
1740 Fordham Blvd
$69/night
www.hamptoninn.com/hi/chapelhill
Call the hotel directly @ 919-968-3000,
provide group code SUJ (all caps) and dates.
Offer expires June 30.