Casey Burns Collection, 1997-2006

Collection Number: 20415

Collection Title: Casey Burns Collection, 1997-2006

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Size	42 items
Abstract	Casey Burns was born in 1975 in Hendersonville, N.C. He studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1993 to 1998, receiving a degree in journalism. During these years, he began to be involved in the independent rock music scene in Chapel Hill as a poster artist and musician. In 2006, Burns relocated to Portland, Ore., where he continued to create poster art. The collection contains posters designed and printed by poster artist and illustrator Casey Burns. The posters are primarily announcements for rock concerts in the Chapel Hill, N.C., area at venues such as Cat's Cradle, Local 506, and Go! Some of the musical acts featured on the posters are Tift Merritt, Bettie Serveert, Richard Buckner, Southern Culture on the Skids, Mogwai, Gang of Four, Joan Baez, Super Furry Animals, Crooked Fingers, Breeders, Lucinda Williams, Built to Spill, and Dashboard Confessional.
Creator	Burns, Casey, 1975-
Curatorial Unit	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Language	English

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Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the Casey Burns Collection #20415, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information: Received from Casey Burns of Portland, Ore., in October 2006 (Acc. 100523). Website harvested using Archive-It, beginning in October 2013 (Acc. 101944).

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Processed by: Robin Chen, November 2006

Encoded by: Robin Chen, November 2006

Finding aid updated by Amanda Loeb in February 2014 because of addition.

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Casey Burns was born in 1975 in Hendersonville, N.C. He studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1993 to 1998, receiving a degree in journalism. During these years, he began to be involved in the independent rock music scene in Chapel Hill, desiging and printing posters for rock concerts at local music venues including Cat's Cradle, Local 506 and Go! In addition to posters, he created art for several books, comic books, and t-shirts for musicians such as Led Zeppelin, Tift Merritt, and the Sex Pistols. From 2002 to 2006, Burns played bass guitar and toured extensively with local rock band the Nein. In 2006, Burns relocated to Portland, Ore., where he continued to create poster art for music venues as well as illustrations for commercial enterprises such as Dr. Martens and Toyota.

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The collection contains posters designed and printed by poster artist and illustrator Casey Burns. The posters are primarily announcements for rock concerts in the Chapel Hill, N.C. area at venues such as Cat's Cradle, Local 506, and Go! Some of the musical acts featured on the posters are Tift Merritt, Bettie Serveert, Richard Buckner, Southern Culture on the Skids, Mogwai, Gang of Four, Joan Baez, Super Furry Animals, Crooked Fingers, Breeders, Lucinda Williams, Built to Spill, and Dashboard Confessional.

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1. Posters, 1997-2006.
Addition of February 2014: Casey Burns Website.

Expand/collapse Series 1. Posters, 1997-2006.

42 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Oversize Paper OP-20415/1	Five Eight, Emmet Swimming at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 1 May 1997.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/2	The Sea and Cake, Trans Am, Tractor Hips at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 4 May 1997.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/3	Timinaction, Trackrabbits, Soundtrack at Go!, Carrboro, N.C., 2 January 1999.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/4	Starpoint Electric, Jennyanykind, the Causey Way at Local 506, Chapel Hill, N.C., 17 September 1999.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/5	Bettie Serveert at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 19 September 1999.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/6	The Mayflies U.S.A., Fin Fang Foom, the Comas, Panzer, Milemarker at Go!, Carrboro, N.C., 11 December 1999.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/7	Jorma Kaukonen, Jon Shain at the Artscenter, Carrboro, N.C., 19 February 2000.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/8	Fu Manchu, Supagroup, Step Kings at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 22 March 2000.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/9	The Tom Collins at Local 506, Chapel Hill, N.C., 20 May 2000.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/10	Milemarker, Oxes, Malabaster at Go!, Carrboro, N.C., 21 August 2000.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/11	Richard Buckner, Shannon Lyon at Go! Room 4, Carrboro, N.C., 17 September 2000.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/12	Burning Spear, Rolly Gray, Sunfire at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 31 October 2000.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/13	Leonard Skinnard, Never Mind the Bollocks, Garmonbozia at Local 506, Chapel Hill, N.C., 31 October 2000.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/14	Blake Babies, Starlight Mints at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 13 March 2001.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/15	Crooked Fingers, Azure Ray at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 20 April 2001.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/16	Unwound, Mecca Normal, Thrones at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 16 September 2001.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/17	Richard Buckner, Anders Parker, the Crooked Jades at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 28 September 2001.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/18	"A Holiday Celebration": Hobex, Johnny Irion & Sara Lee Guthrie, Thad Cockerell, Caitlin Cary, and friends at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 21 December 2001.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/19	Fin Fang Foom, Texture, Structure, and the Condition of Moods album release announcement, Lovitt Records, Arlington, Va., 2001.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/20	Don Dixon, Shalini at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 1 February, 2002.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/21	The Breeders, the Comas at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 6 February 2002.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/22	Dashboard Confessional, the Anniversary, Seafood, Ben Kweller at the Ritz, Raleigh, N.C., 13 April 2002.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/23	Super Furry Animals, Dead Meadow at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 27 September 2002.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/24	"A Benefit for WXYC": The Cherry Valence, Spatula, Portastatic, the Comas, Lud at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 5 October 2002.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/25	North Elementary, Gerty, Pleasant at Go! Room 4, Carrboro, N.C., 6 June 2003.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/26	The Fall, Jett Rink, Piedmont Charisma at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 11 July 2003.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/27	Dashboard Confessional, MXPX, Brand New, Vendetta Red at Disco Rodeo, Raleigh, N.C., 9 September 2003.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/28	Lucinda Williams, the Jayhawks at Disco Rodeo, Raleigh, N.C., 25 September 2003.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/29	Built To Spill, Solace Bros., the Delusions at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 6 October 2003.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/30	Joan Baez, Eastmountainsouth at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 7 October 2003.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/31	The Nein, Cold Sides, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea at Bernie's Distillery, Columbus, Ohio, 11 July 2003.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/32	Tift Merritt, Sarah Lee Guthrie, Johnny Irion at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 3 April 2004.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/33	Two Dollar Pistols, Barn Burning, David Childers and the Modern Don Juans at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 21 May 2004.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/34	The Vandermark 5, Atomic at Go!, Carrboro, N.C., 25 June 2004.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/35	The Chris Stamey Experience, Hotel Lights at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 26 June 2004.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/36	Tift Merritt Tambourine CD release party: Tift Merritt, Sarah Lee Guthrie, Johnny Gary Louris at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 27-28 August 2004.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/37	The Melvins, Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 20 September 2004.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/38	Bettie Serveert, Schooner at Local 506, Chapel Hill, N.C., 9 March 2005.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/39	Gang of Four, Morningwood, Men Women & Children at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 6 October 2005.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/40	Southern Culture on the Skids, the Moaners at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 10 December 2005.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/41	Mogwai, Growing at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, N.C., 8 March 2006.
Oversize Paper OP-20415/42	"Vans Warped Tour" 18 Visions, AFI, Aiden, the Academy Is, Adair, Adelyn, Against Me!, Amber Pacific, Anti Flag, Armor For Sleep, ASG, Billy Talent, the Black Out Pact, the Bled, Bouncing Souls, Bullet For My Valentine, Buzzcocks, Cartel, the Casualties, Class of Zero, Code 4-15, Danny Diablo, Die Hunns, Dork, Down To Earth Approach, Dropping Daylight, Dynamite 8, the Early November, Eight Fingers Down, Emanuel, Emery, Evaline, Every Time I Die, the Fall of Troy, Flashlight Brown, From Autumn to Ashes, From First to Last, the Fully Down, Gatsbys American Dream, the Germs, Greeley Estates, Gym Class Heroes, Hellogoodbye, Helmet, Illscarlett, I Am Ghost, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Less Than Jake, Left Alone, the Living End, Lorene Drive, Mastema, Moneen, Motion City Soundtrack, Mute Math, My American Heart, NOFX, Outernational, Over It, Paramore, the Pink Spiders, Pistolita, Plain White T's, Protest the Hero, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Reggie & the Full Effect, Rise Against, Riverboat Gamblers, Saosin, Saves the Day, Senses Fail, Shiragirl, Side 67, Silverstein, Skint, the Smashup, the Sounds, State Radio, Stretch Arm Strong, the Spill Canvas, Spitalfield, Split Fifty, the Sunstreak, Thursday, Underoath, Valient Thorr, Vaux, Voltera, We Are the Fury, Wheels on the Bus, Zeb, 2006.

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1 item.

"Casey Burns · Illustration and Design," website and news feed of artist Casey Burns. Includes examples of artwork, biographical information about Burns, news and press coverage of Burns, and artwork available for purchase.

Digital Item DI-20415/1

Website (caseyburns.com)

Harvested using Archive-It, beginning in October 2013.

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Collection Number: 20415 Collection Title: Casey Burns Collection, 1997-2006