Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Tuesday night, while most Harvard students were reading, writing, studying or indulging in some form of procrastination, a group of about 40 students assembled in the Dunster House Junior Common Room (JCR) for the weekly musical offering at the 'Dunster Cafe.' This week's performer, W. Pierce Woodward '99, played acoustic guitar while singing his clever, sometimes poignant lyrics. "Isn't this great?" enthused audience members whispered to one another. They were thrilled by both the performer and the atmosphere--the Dunster JCR, had the vibe of...uh, well...a cafe...
...Dunster Cafe is a student-organized weekly performance time featuring the talents of undergraduate musicians and offering coffee and study-break snacks as an added enticement. "There are two parts to it," says Michelle Chen '99, the event's current organizer. "I want to provide a relaxed atmosphere for musicians to perform and also to provide something for the House, a place where people can chill, take a study break, and hear good music...
According to Chen the Dunster Cafe tradition originated three or four years ago when a bunch of Dunster residents who liked to play jazz together made it into something of a House institution. Last winter, after a period of Cafe inactivity, Chen took over from Daniel A. Horwitz '98, the previous organizer...
...When I got here as a sophomore they had the Cafe nights really regularly and it was the thing that made me really love Dunster; to me it distinguished the House from the others," Chen says. "When I saw [Horwitz] struggling with it, I thought Cafe night was such a cool thing that I had to keep it going...
...needed a few months to cultivate that meandering "international" accent of hers; without any paparazzi hunting your new baby, you probably won't need to take as long. Once you've done that, invite some friends out to a vegan dinner to discuss meditation and chanting. For dessert, visit Cafe Algiers and sip mango tea in between puffs from a hookah...