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Wharton Center earns national accolades
For Bob Hoffman, the public relations manager for Wharton Center, seeing a satisfied audience never gets old.
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The Loft, Mac's Bar and Uli's all considered top Lansing venues
Before its transformation into a music venue, Mac’s Bar was a post-football game gathering place. Started in the 1940s by Lansing resident Clare Mackenzie, bartender Craig Doepker said Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing, began hosting concerts in the ‘90s.
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Basement Shark Attack takes a bite of music scene
Since the age of 8, making music has been earth science senior Jeremy Cronk’s top priority.
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Grammy Award winner heads to Wharton
World-renowned soprano Renée Fleming will perform today at Wharton Center. Known by Billboard as “the world’s greatest living soprano,” Fleming will be a welcomed performer to MSU’s campus.
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Students, faculty awarded for diversity efforts
Graduate student Zhu Haobing, who has been away from her home in China for about five years, still tries to bridge the cultural gap between the U.S. and China through music because she said it is an universal language.
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MSU alumni-made band reaches wide demographic
Amid a management switch up and changes in the world of country music, country rock band Gunnar and the Grizzly Boys have maintained their originality.
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Spartan Dischords to play sold out Valentine's Day show
The Spartan Dischords will be performing their annual Valentine’s Day show, “Fourteen Shades of Dischords,” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday at the Pasant Theatre. Tickets sold at $8 for students and $10 for adults, but all 600 seats in the Pasant Theatre are sold out for this event.
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Married couple still in tune 40 years later
Walter Verdehr met his wife in 1968, when he was auditioning for a position at MSU and finishing his doctorate.
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I See Stars headlines at The Loft
Brent McClure recalls the first time he heard I See Stars live.
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The Specktators sign with MTV, Sony
When MSU alumnus Matt Duda of The Specktators first got an email from MTV in mid-November, he couldn’t believe it.
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Mid-Winter Singing Festival brings music, history to city
As snowflakes fell and a frigid wind blew Saturday outside the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, the city of East Lansing’s Children’s Concert Series and Mid-Winter Singing Festival brought a little bit of light to residents of East Lansing with music, laughter and dancing. The Children’s Concert Series was held earlier in the day in the banquet hall and featured music by folk singers Kim and Reggie Harris. They performed songs ranging from “Day-O” to “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” and told historical stories through songs of famed Negro League pitcher Satchel Paige and folk hero John Henry.
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Ultraviolet Hippopotamus heads to Lansing
The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing, opens its doors to musical group Ultraviolet Hippopotamus tonight for the second-consecutive year.
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MSU holds concerts to celebrate Mozart
It’s been more than 200 years since famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Austria in 1756, yet the MSU College of Music had cause for celebration.
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'BackStage Pass' keeps rolling
With its new season of “BackStage Pass,” WKAR is all about local music.
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Students, faculty await benefits of jazz donation
The MSU Jazz Studies program received a $1 million donation from the MSU Federal Credit Union, or MSUFCU, on Sunday. Students and faculty see the endowment as an opportunity to push the program to new heights.
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Almost Free takes Detroit style to Lansing
For former Lansing resident Ben Keeler, the front man of Ben Keeler and the 500 Club, Saturday’s show at The Loft in Lansing, was a reunion among old friends.
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Students create signs for community music school
The MSU Community Music School teamed up with design students to create signs for the music school’s new location on Hagadorn Road, according to a release from the music school.
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Flat, Black & Circular celebrates 35 years in E.L.
For Dave Bernath, the owner of Flat, Black & Circular, or FBC, 541 E. Grand River Ave., collecting music quickly transformed from a hobby into a full-blown career.
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Youngblood Hawke performs at The Loft
Lansing got a taste of the latest indie sensation Sunday night as Youngblood Hawke performed at The Loft, 414 E. Grand River Ave., in Lansing.