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Eric Church is pulling on everyone’s heartstrings with his commencement speech about six strings. In a season filled with celebrity speeches to 2026 college graduates, the country music star’s “six ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. “I want to start with a sound.” That’s how country singer Eric Church began his commencement address at UNC-Chapel Hill. He compared ...

Country music star Eric Church delivered the 2026 Spring Commencement address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this weekend, giving the graduates a heartfelt message about life after ...

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J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Every now and then, music gets a guitar hero—a player who makes the instrument sound like something other than itself. Jeff Beck transformed it into something like the human voice singing; Jimi ...