Bellarmine News
Event commemorates 50th anniversary of Grateful Dead's show in Knights Hall
February 18, 2019

Fifty years after the Grateful Dead played Knights Hall at what was then Bellarmine-Ursuline
College, a communication professor is organizing an event to celebrate the show. On
Wednesday, February 27, Dr. Kyle Barnett will host DJ and music writer for a conversation about the December 7, 1968, show. The event is at 6 p.m. in Hilary鈥檚,
on the middle level of Centro. [campus map] They鈥檒l play and be joined by some Dead fans who were in Knights Hall that night. Attendees will
receive a limited
quantity reissue of the original concert poster. "We want to use it to open up a larger
conversation about Bellarmine and Louisville鈥檚 cultural scene in the late 1960s,鈥�
said Barnett. 鈥淚 think that the show and the era, even with its excesses, can point
to what else we might do as
a campus and a city. What haven鈥檛 we imagined? What could we be? The show stands as
a kind of a surprise in Bellarmine鈥檚 own history that reminds us that are these bits
of our own history that allow us to imagine a different Bellarmine,
a different Louisville moving forward.鈥� Jarnow is a music writer who hosts a program
on WFMU, an independent radio station broadcasting in New York. His work has appeared
in The London Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, and other publications. He鈥檚 the author
of 鈥淗eads: A Biography of Psychedelic
America.鈥�
Ashlie Stevens, WFPL-FM's arts and culture reporter - and a 2014 Bellarmine graduate
- .