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Digital Underground leader’s musicality to be featured in posthumous album
Gregory "Shock G" Jacobs, the late frontman of legendary Oakland hip-hop group Digital Underground, didn't immediately take to the piano when his…
The Big Bands bring jazz back to the stage at City College Garvin Theater – The Channels
The channel art pages | CRITICAL REVIEWMusic reverberated around the Garvin Theater with soft and playful tunes during the Jazz Ensemble concert on Monday November 15th.
The concert featured the big groups from City College - the Lunch…
Turkish group recycles waste into sounds
Published on: 11/18/2021 - 08:08Amended: 11/18/2021 - 07:49
Istanbul (AFP) - An empty can, the base of a lamp and some string: what sounds like rubbish to some is music to the ears of a…
Sounds pushing back restrictions. – The knight crier
Since the dawn of North Penn, school performance groups have shown the true talent of those who want to go above and beyond.
From the loud and explosive marching band, to the harmonic choirs and choirs, to the home performances across the…
Pioneer to Pioneer: Carroll Dashiell Shares Stories, Recalls Billy Taylor | Featured Columnist
Carroll Dashiell says he will always remember the sound coming from the wall.He was a child and lived in a…
Cleveland Watkiss and Django Bates: The Art and Craft of Song
Metropolitan and provincial Britain have often been seen as two separate, sometimes antagonistic, entities. . However, many residents of the capital do not view the countryside with any sense of superiority;…
Jason Rosenblatt designs the Jerusalem Harmonica Festival
Anyone can play the harmonica, right? You just have to take the inexpensive little piece of metal, with its denture-like perforations, and blow it out. I mean, people like Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, and Mick Jagger have managed…
Dayton Funk All-Stars and Philharmonic to perform together on Saturday to celebrate the city’s…
The Dayton Funk All-Stars and a few very special guests will join the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra for “Dayton Funk: A Tribute to Dayton's Funk Legacy” at the Schuster Center in Dayton on Saturday November 6th.The concert is the closing…
Local Deja Vu Group Impresses Its Baltimore Community
Let me introduce you to a Baltimore-based funk band called Deja Vu. The group is made up of five teenagers: Elek Yuhas (singer, guitarist); Isaac Chang (keyboards, trumpet, synthesizer); Roy'el Byrd (bass); Graham…
Berkeley High jazz bands return to the stage this week
Students in the Berkeley High Jazz Lab. Courtesy of Berkeley High Jazz
When in-person classes resumed in August, Sarah Cline worried about how the Berkeley High Jazz Ensemble would bounce back after 16 months without performing…