Teach your children well: Crosby, Nash to address CWA

Singer-songwriters slated for close of Conference on World Affairs

David Crosby and Graham Nash are scheduled to deliver the closing plenary address, titled "Life Matters," at this year's Conference on World Affairs (CWA).

Their appearance is set for 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 8, in the University of Colorado Boulder's Macky Auditorium. Bret Saunders of KBCO-FM will introduce the duo.

This event, along with all of several hundred sessions at the 63rd annual CWA, is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Crosby and Nash have been performing and recording together for more than 40 years, most often as part of the iconic folk/rock supergroups CSN and CSNY, which also feature Stephen Stills and Neil Young.

"Our students are thrilled about Crosby and Nash speaking at the Conference on World Affairs," said Bryan New, CWA media liaison. "Boulder is identified with social awareness and activism, and these two have inspired so many in that realm, alongside their enduring influence on music and culture."

The CWA was originally founded in 1948 as a forum on international affairs but rapidly expanded to become, as veteran participant Roger Ebert has dubbed it, "the conference on everything conceivable." Conference sessions encompass everything from music and literature to the environment and science, journalism, visual arts, diplomacy, technology, film, politics, business, medicine, human rights and more.

The conference hosts 100 speakers and performers representing a wide range of backgrounds and interests from all over the country and globe for five days of what The New York Times calls "a weeklong extravaganza of discussion and debate" on approximately 200 nonacademic, cross-disciplinary panels, plenary sessions and performances.

A list of participants confirmed to date is available at www.colorado.edu/cwa; a full schedule of events will be posted by the third week of March.