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Grand Ledge Opera House hosts unique concert
Audience members that will attend the concert Thursday at the Grand Ledge Opera House should expect healing of mind, body and soul. John Two-Hawks and Manach, both previously solo artists, are healing souls internationally with their debut album “Traditions,” which is an album inspired by Celtic and American Indian music. Two-Hawks, a mid-Michigan native, and Manach, an Ireland resident, finished there album in two months after meeting each other. “We really got down to business,” said Two-Hawks. With 15 years of music experience between them, the two accent each other’s music with a freestyle form.
Earth Day Fest brings speakers, bands
Earth Day Fest invaded Ann Street Plaza on Sunday to raise environmental consciousness in the East Lansing community. E-day, in its ninth year, was sponsored by the East Lansing PRIDE Team and East Lansing merchants. It raised an awareness of environmental concerns that generally are overlooked, showcased gadgets to improve health and materials on the proper way to recycle. Teri Parks, owner of Bohemian Barber, 223 M.A.C.
Students celebrate higher temperatures
At a time when students’ heads should be in the books, many have them in the clouds. Three weeks before final exams, students are celebrating the return of higher temperatures in sunglasses and tank tops while playing recreational sports outside.To commemorate Wednesday’s 58-degree weather, Krysten McCully, a pre-vet junior, was just one of the guys.
Greeks get funky for fund-raiser
Eleven greek teams contributed their creativity, sweat and the rhythmic ability for the fourth annual MTV Fundraiser Night, at the Auditorium on Monday night. About 2,000 people attended the first fund-raising event of Greek Week 2002 to raise funds for Sparrow Hospital’s pediatric emergency room.
Concert unites family of artist India.Arie
India.Arie’s performance Saturday proved to be a family reunion and a reflection of her emergence from timid girl to self-assured “queen.” As the audience took to their seats, her family swarmed backstage and greeted each other with hugs, kisses and screams of “I haven’t seen you in years.” About 100 of the seven-time Grammy-nominated artist’s relatives attended the event, to be serenaded at the beginning with “Intro” as well as “Brown Skin” and her hit single “Video” from her platinum album, “Acoustic Soul.” India also added an impromptu duet with her mother Joyce Simpson, honoring her grandmother Ernestine McMullen, a Lansing resident. “My mom told (my grandmother) to come up there and I was like, ‘Come on,’” India told The State News. But that moment was something special for her family. “The fact that I sung to my mom, (India) sung to her mom - it’s like the stars aligned,” Joyce Simpson said.
