Saturday, May 18, 2024

Music

FEATURES

Mac’s bar brings alternative tunes

South Carolina-based band All Get Out will continue their nationwide tour at 9:30 p.m. Thursday at Mac’s Bar, 2700 Michigan Ave., in Lansing. Self-described as “loud and personal,” band members Nathan Hussey, Mel Washington and Mike Rogers all contribute to vocals.

FEATURES

Music, youth join to support green jobs

They spoke their message. They rallied their message. They chanted, volunteered, wore, drew and sang their message. From Oct. 9-11, 400 high school and college students gathered together for Power Shift Michigan 2009 at the Lansing Center, 333 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing. The conference included workshops, keynote speakers, volunteer service projects around Lansing, musical performances and a fashion show, and finished Sunday with a march to the Capitol Building.

FEATURES

Mighty Medicine rocks MSU

She is a young, undergraduate student at MSU brought up in a family of singers. He is an older man who has played the guitar in a variety of bands throughout the years and spent nine years as a high school teacher.

NEWS

Musical relief

The MSU Community Music School’s expansion into Detroit is music to Kimberly Whitsett’s ears. Whitsett, who lives in Detroit, enrolled her 13-year-old daughter Erinn in a youth jazz band program offered at the new location after she read about it in a flier.

MICHIGAN

Web exclusive: MSU Community Music School hosts instrument petting zoo

The MSU Community Music School showcased the importance of music in the community and in education Sunday during its public open house. The event, held from 3-5 p.m. at the school, 841-B Timberlane St., had a variety of activities offered to all age groups, including performances by children’s choirs and the New Horizons Band, as well as an instrument petting zoo.

MSU

RHA hosts hip-hop concert Saturday feat Mich. artists

Almost two hours before Saturday’s Fall Welcome Concert began, MSU special education sophomore Grace Rzepkowski showed up with a group of friends, clad in concert T-shirts signed by the artists they were about to see, to claim the first few spots in line.

FEATURES

Band's latest CD 'psychadelic'

Listen closely. Trickling down the music stream, slowly and quietly, is Cotton Jones (formerly known as Cotton Jones Basket Ride). With its eclectic folksy vibe and velvet-soaked mood, there’s something psychedelic about the band’s new record. Yesterday marked the release of the third in a series of handmade art-book EP’s from the group, entitled “Rio Ranger EP.”