{"id":49058,"date":"2026-05-21T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=49058"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:56:04","slug":"49058","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/05\/49058\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Church Delivers Commencement Speech At UNC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Eric Church<\/strong>\u00a0delivered\u00a0the commencement address at the University of North Carolina last weekend.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He compared each string on his guitar to a pillar in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;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 roomful of strangers feel for three minutes like they&#8217;ve known each other forever.\u00a0If one is off, the whole chord unravels . . . I believe your life runs on this principle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric also talked about not comparing yourself to others online, and then he ended the speech by singing his song\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Carolina&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric was born and raised in North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honestly was not expecting Eric Church to give one of the best commencement speeches of all time.<br><br>Chief CRUSHED this \ud83e\udee1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UGDq5yaJcv\">pic.twitter.com\/UGDq5yaJcv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; J.P. Hovey (@jhovey34) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jhovey34\/status\/2054236546887266605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Church\u00a0delivered\u00a0the commencement address at the University of North Carolina last weekend.\u00a0 He compared each string on his guitar to a pillar in life. &#8220;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 roomful of","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":37965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[7354,59,7355],"class_list":["post-49058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-commencement-speech","tag-eric-church","tag-university-of-noth-carolina"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 14:05:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/05\/49058\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49060,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49058\/revisions\/49060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}