“Quakerpalooza” Will Bring Quaker Voices to Guilford Nov. 16

Four Quaker authors and musicians will perform at “Quakerpalooza,” a song- and spoken-word concert to benefit Guilford’s Friends Center, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 16, in Dana Auditorium. Singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer will join writers Scott Russell Sanders, Philip Gulley and J. Brent Bill, who will give readings of their work.

Newcomer, a Rounder Records recording artist, has released 10 albums of rock-tinged contemporary folk music. She has shared the stage with such artists as Bonnie Raitt and Mary Chapin Carpenter. The band Nickel Creek covered her song "I Should’ve Known Better" on their 2003 Grammy Award-winning and Gold CD "This Side," produced by Alison Krauss.

Sanders is the author of 19 books of fiction, non-fiction and stories for children, including A Private History of Awe and Force of Spirit. His fiction and essays have appeared in Audubon, Harper’s, North American Review and the Norton Reader, and his work has won numerous awards. Sanders is a Distinguished Professor at Indiana University, where he has taught since 1971.

Gulley is a Quaker minister and the author of the three-book non-fiction series Front Porch Tales, Home Town Tales and For Everything a Season, and a series of novels set in the fictional town of Harmony, Ind., as well as If Grace Is True and If God Is Love, co-authored with James Mulholland. He hosts "Porch Talk with Phil Gulley" on the Indiana PBS affiliate WFYI television's flagship show Across Indiana, for which he won a 2007 Emmy Award in the Editorial Commentary category.

Bill is also a recorded minister in the Religious Society of Friends, and the author of Mind the Light: Learning to See with Spiritual Eyes, Imagination and Spirit: A Contemporary Quaker Reader and Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality. He is currently the executive vice president of the Indianapolis Center for Congregations in Indiana.

Doors will open at 6:45, and Guilford sophomore Brittany Varner will open the concert at 7:15.

Tickets are free to Guilford students, faculty and staff, and a $10 donation to Friends Center for all others. For more information, visit www.guilford.edu or call 336-316-2342.

Friends Center is the primary Quaker resource for the southeast, providing speakers and fielding media inquiries, in addition to developing programs to strengthen the presence of Quakerism on the Guilford campus. The center marked its 25th anniversary in October.

Nov. 16, 2007