Blues music, food and thousands of people filled the streets of Lansing’s Old Town this weekend for the 18th annual Old Town BluesFest.
Glow sticks in hand, Andrea Nelsen made her way to the dance floor Saturday to enjoy a night of electronic music and dancing.
MSU alumni Tyrell Slappey and Marcus Edwards were tired of hearing the same repetitive songs on the radio in their days on campus. When the pair began creating their own hip-hop beats three years ago in their Hubbard Hall dorm room, they knew it was the start of something big. After graduating from MSU, Slappey and Edwards became part of a group of eight hip-hop artists called High Royalty.
LEAK Back to School Party, presented by The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing, will take place this weekend.
Author Rita Comstock hopes to highlight an MSU legend — the university’s “original music man” — with the release of her new book tomorrow.
While crowds of folk music lovers gathered throughout downtown East Lansing this weekend for the Great Lakes Folk Festival, a smaller group of folk fanatics gathered at (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St., for a more intimate performance.
On Friday, the Great Lakes Folk Festival will invade East Lansing, bringing music and different cultures together for the three-day event. The festival, — entering its 10th year of existence — will feature 17 musical groups and artists, a variety of food vendors and a Green Arts marketplace, which will showcase goods made by vendors who reuse and recycle materials.
At 7 p.m. Friday, about 100 yellow-clad performers marched onto the stage at the MSU Community Music School auditorium and launched into a rendition of “Be Our Guest,” from Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.”
Middle school and high school students from across the state are getting a hands-on crash course in three different types of media technology through summer camps held this July by MSU’s Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media. The first of three weeks of camps kicked off July 11, with high school students taking a course of their choice, geared toward either television production, music recording or video game design.
As Grammy-nominated hip-hop star Trey Songz took to the stage of the Common Ground Music Festival in Lansing on Monday, the young crowd shrieked in anticipation of the Atlantic Records artist. During his set, Songz hyped his fans with his mainstream songs and made sure more than the neighbors knew his name. “He’s like on superstar status, that’s it,” said Lansing resident Markus Brown.
Rock Camp, a week-long summer program for students ages 12-19, began Monday and will conclude with a performance at the Common Ground Music Festival in Lansing on Friday at 5:30 p.m.
The 15th Annual Muelder Summer Carillon Series began without a hitch Wednesday as more than 150 people spread blankets and lawn chairs under clear blue skies to listen to the tolling chimes of Beaumont Tower.
While fans of Irish singer Bono’s music flocked to Spartan Stadium for an anticipated U2 concert Sunday, fans of his humanitarian efforts convened in the Kellogg Center Auditorium for the Midwest Summit on African Development. MSU hosted the summit, which began Saturday, in partnership with ONE, an organization that works to fight poverty, and Bono helped create.
It’s not often that an a cappella group enjoys being booed, but the Accafellas aren’t your typical a cappella group. They’re an all-male, nine-member singing group, made up of MSU students ranging across a variety of majors.
When Rodney Whitaker set out to plan the lineup of artists at the Summer Solstice Jazz Festival, he knew he wanted a wide variety of musical talents ranging from East Lansing natives to rising international stars.
Tuesday marked the start of the 9th annual Summer Music Series at the Eastwood Towne Center, 3003 Preyde Blvd., in Lansing. The concerts run every Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. until August 16 and are free to the public.
As summer sets in, East Lansing will host a number of musical performances. The 15th annual Summer Solstice Jazz Festival will take place in East Lansing June 17-18 from 4:30-10:30 p.m.
The MSU Community Music School will be hosting its annual music therapy camp this Thursday through Saturday. Music therapy is a form of treatment that often is used to relieve patients of their physical and mental symptoms through emotional, psychological and social expression.
(SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St., will host a live concert by up-and-coming band Sons of a Battle Cry at 8:00 p.m. on June 16.
Channeling the musical grace of Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis, Carlot Dorvé closes his eyes, takes a breath and serenades the room with a passionate concerto on the trumpet. Whenever Dorvé plays the trumpet, there often is the presence of a memory from a vacation he took along the Haitian countryside — his native country — when he was 5 years old with his grandmother.