Music Section :: Page 23

• “Funky spy punk” Show grows

  By Megan BachmanJuly 28, 2011

  

  “The Show will grow,” the slogan of the Yellow Springs-based three-piece indie band The Show, is prophetic. The band, which dabbles in psychedelic and garage rock while never straying far from its British punk roots, is rapidly becoming a local favorite.

• VIDEO: Local band The Show performs at YSAC

  By Megan BachmanJuly 22, 2011

  

  The Show performed at the Oten Gallery as part of last weekend’s Yellow Springs experience. See a video from the event.

• A piazza for dance, and community

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 30, 2011

  

  Bringing people together to dance under an open sky resonates on many levels for Judith Wolert-Maldonado, who’s organized outdoor Dance Piazzas in the village every other Saturday night this summer.

• Kids’ music pioneer performs at MLS

  By Lauren HeatonJune 2, 2011

  Behind all of today’s fun and inspiring music for youth, is one African-American woman who set out with a conga drum in the cafés of Chicago in the 1950s and humbly started a wave of change that, six decades later, she and others are still riding.

• Wheels debuts homegrown sound

  By Megan Bachman

  

  One may not believe that this group of teenagers, Wheels, have played their instruments for just a few years. Now the quintessential homegrown four-piece band has a full-length album to its name.

• VIDEO: Wheels performs “Sit Down” from their debut album

  By Megan BachmanMay 21, 2011

  

  Local band Wheels performs the song “Sit Down” from their debut album Fields on Fire.

• World-class musicians play at FMC benefit

  By Diane ChiddisterDecember 29, 2010

  

  Friends Music Camp staff and campers will present a benefit concert for the camp’s scholarship fund on Wednesday, Dec. 29, at 7:30 p.m. at the Friends Care Community.

• A little brass in your stocking

  By Aaron ZaremskyDecember 12, 2010

  

  The Yellow Springs Brass! performed their tenth annual Christmas Carol benefit last Saturday afternoon outside the Underdog Cafe. The street concert was to raise money for the Yellow Springs Emergency Welfare Fund. Click here to listen to “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”

• Dave Greer band and guest pay tribute to Beiderbecke

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 12, 2010

  

  Dave Greer’s Classic Jazz Stompers will perform with Chicago cornetist Andy Schumm at Gilly’s in downtown Dayton on Friday night, Nov. 12, beginning at 8:30 p.m.

• Mandolins to play Garcia piece

  By Megan BachmanNovember 4, 2010

  

  In the early 20th century, mandolin orchestras sprung up in Dayton and elsewhere, playing rags, marches, light classical and waltzes with the energetic ting of the uniquely American flatback mandolin. Today the mandolin craze is back, including in Yellow Springs, now home for the six-year-old Dayton Mandolin Orchestra.