Dr. John C. Akers, PhD Wofford College Educational Speaker from Newland, NC

My presentations feature music, history and literature, as I am a classical guitarist and PhD in Spanish and Latin American literature who has presented for over twenty years. There are three programs to choose from: my bread-and-butter work on Carl Sandburg, our USA poet of the people and lifelong lover of the Spanish (classical guitar); my program on guitar music of Spain and Latin America with guitar-inspired writings from the Hispanic world; a program on the Spanish classical guitar itself: its technique, history and performance. I have presented in Mexico, Switzerland and the United States, from coast-to-coast, including two appearances as a featured presenter for the Sandburg Days Festival in Galesburg, Illinois; at the Carl Sandburg Home, National Historic Site, in Flat Rock, North Carolina; the Free Library of Philadelphia; the University of Notre Dame; the North Carolina University School of the Arts; the University of South Carolina Music School; etc.