Music Section :: Page 25

• 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.

• Red Priest pays visit to Mills Lawn School

  By Matt MindeNovember 2, 2010

  

  Mills Lawn School students got an ear- and eyeful of baroque music madness when the world-class ensemble Red Priest performed.

• A change of key for the chorus

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 14, 2010

  

  Over the past 31 years, the name Ruth Bent has become synonymous with the Yellow Springs Community Chorus. And it was no small concern for Bent, when her eyesight began to fail, that the chorus continue with a strong and dedicated leader.

• New creative cycle for musician

  By Sehvilla Mann

  

  With a couple of old projects winding up and several new ones budding, local musician Carl Schumacher says he finds himself at the beginning of a “new creative cycle.” Interest is building in his recently-formed band New Schu, a “new configuration” of the previous Carl Schumacher Band.

• New band Kuan defies labels

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 30, 2010

  

  Kuan’s brand of experimental instrumental rock music breaks all the rules. More art than entertainment, the local band’s addition to the already-diverse Yellow Springs music scene is rock that’s both highly composed and free jazz-inspired. Recently returned from a 32-day, 30-city nationwide tour and with a new EP album,“Colors”…

• I’ve got the Blues

  By Aaron ZaremskySeptember 12, 2010

  

  The AACW Blues Fest went off without a hitch last weekend at the Antioch Amphitheater.

• Gospel Fest draws appreciative crowd

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 9, 2010

  

  Central Chapel AME Church hosted the 13th annual Gospel Fest on Wednesday, Sept. 8. The event kicked off the annual AACW Blues Fest.

• Blues, jazz energize village at Fest

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 2, 2010

  

  The mighty influence of African Americans in American music — from blues, jazz and rock-and-roll to hip-hop and R&B — is annually celebrated at the Blues and Jazz Fest put on by African-American Cross-Cultural Works, or AACW, each fall.