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Barefoot Student Union Building, Barefoots Joe

Barefoots Joe welcomes back artists Will Gray and Gretel in concert. Will Gray, an alum of Union University, re-imagines the interplay between hip hop and folk, creating a unique, rich, and lyrically complex sound. From the artist himself: Hip-hop culture is based in the documentation of urban life; the joy, love, pressures, and misfortunes that lie therein. Folk music tells the same story, but in a different vernacular. Yet, the jargon of both worlds are translated beautifully through each other's musical mediums. So it is possible to sing haunting folk-like melodies over hip-hop beats, and to rap, and chant over folk oriented organic strings, banjos, guitars, tambourines and such. The single thing that makes the two apparently opposing genres harmonize is the greatest commonality; that we are all human. We all experience the same feelings and emotions, though there may be different things that make us feel these emotions, and we may express them in different ways. Yet, this is where the music steps in… to resolve the differences. (via www.facebook.com. Also see www.willgraymusic.com)