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January 29, 2025

Wayne Goins to be featured speaker at Libraries Lectures Series

Submitted by Ashley Nietfeld

Wayne Goins, university distinguished professor and director of jazz studies in the School of Music, Theater, and Dance, will highlight ways in which K-State faculty aim to leave a meaningful and impactful career for university students, faculty, administration and the Manhattan community as part of the 2025 K-State Libraries Lecture Series

Goins will present "Begin With the End in Mind: Creating a Legacy You Can Live With" at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, in the Hemisphere Room, Room 581, of Hale Library.

The lecture is open to the public, and a wine and appetizer reception will immediately follow in the fifth-floor gallery. Sign up online to attend

Goins conducts big bands and teaches combos, private guitar lessons, jazz theory and jazz improvisation courses. Goins owns Little Apple Records, on which he has published six albums under his own name: "West Coast Swing," "Standard Fare," "Bluesin' With the B3," "Smokin' at the Oak Bar," "Home Cookin'" and "Chronicles of Carmela."

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