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Posted on 05/16/2026 4:12:31 AM PDT by Libloather
Country music star Eric Church earned praise for delivering the “greatest” commencement speech with his now-viral address to University of North Carolina graduates — after working on the piece for nearly a year.
Church – armed with a Tar Heel-emblazoned guitar – invoked family and faith as he dedicated his oration by giving a lesson on the instrument, explaining what each of the “six strings” means at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill on May 9.
“Six strings. When all six are in tune, the chords they make can stop a conversation cold, carry a broken person through the worst night of their life, or make a room full of strangers feel for three minutes like they’ve known each other forever,” Church told the crowd. “And if even one is off, the whole chord unravels. Not gradually, not politely, the moment you strike it, you know.”
The 49-year-old Grammy-nominated singer started with the “low E” string of the guitar, the thickest, lowest note on the instrument.
“Your faith is the low E of your life. The thing that sits at the very bottom of you,” he said. “The people who tend to their faith in ordinary seasons do not come undone in extraordinary ones.”
“The world will try to untune this string. Through busyness, through slow accumulation of a full schedule, a full inbox, a full life. Listen to me. Tend to your faith. Not just when you’re broken, but when you’re whole,” he said.
Church turned to the “A” string, comparing it to family and pointing the Class of 2026 to the stands and their loved ones, who “loved you longer than you’ve been easy to love.”
“And the A string is where the music starts to get warm."
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I watched him interviewed on Fox yesterday...i had no clue who he was but he was good...here’s the full speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSYEDc7-Ah0
I’m afraid much of what he said will be lost on the Chapel Hill crowd.
Yep. My wife’s side of the family are libtards from Chapel Hill. I have a rabid leftist nephew who went to SCAD. You know, the type that would cheer on any harm given to a Republican.
Same thing with my wife’s cousins. They all took positions in the family businesses.
That was excellent! What a great analogy. I love the sign language person too, she was really getting into it, LOL.
I saw a short clip of his speech last night on Newsmax. I was impressed.
How does it hold up when compared to Harrison Ford’s line of spewed pap? LOL!
“I’m afraid much of what he said will be lost on the Chapel Hill crowd.”
I totally agree. I live in Chapel Hill. As Jesse Helms once said, “If North Carolina wants a state zoo, all they need to do is put a fence around Chapel Hill.”
It’s like being in a foreign country. I’m grateful for the treatment I’ve received at the cancer hospital, but it is a strange place. They are so sensitive. Like children.
I’m surprised the University of North Korea here even allowed Eric Church on campus, let alone on stage.
He did an excellent job.
Guitar Ping! :-)
They will set the class record for going out and buying a guitar.
And a capo too.
That way they only have to learn four chords.
(For the Record, I don’t allow my students to use a capo.)
That was very good... thanks for posting the link.
Is Duke any better?
LOL...
The student population at Duke is the cream of the crop, while UNC is a public university. Two totally different environments.
Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is a Duke Grad. So was Richard Nixon. Duke tends to be old money with higher academic requirements.
Having been a professor for many years at both public and private universities, I can say that the public universities have students as good as the best at the private universities, just that the public have a more diverse spectrum of abilities.
I have many friends and family members at both Duke and UNC faculties. UNC is far more liberal.
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