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...part of Harvard’s Arts First Celebration last spring, he performed a show as a one-man band entitled “The Concert for Dogs.” Gillespie, who plays piano and harmonica and sings, says he wears a robe whenever he writes music and that all of his songs are dedicated to Pallas Athena. His songs range from “A song about a dragon under investigation by the FBI for grand arson to a song about being in love with Julie Andrews...
...Waiting for the Sunrise He was born Lester Polsfuss (the family soon simplified the name to Polfus) in Waukesha, Wis., 18 miles west of Milwaukee. Encouraged by his mother, he learned piano, guitar and harmonica. His curiosity led him to all sorts of precocious experiments, like poking new holes in player-piano music to make new melodies, or, at 13, disconnecting a console-radio speaker and attaching a phonograph pickup. He bought his first Gibson guitar, an L-5 acoustic, which he promptly electrified. In local performances, he wired his guitar to radios stage right and left - voilà, stereo...
...Billing himself as Rhubarb Red, Paul soon had a country-music act out of Chicago. He played harmonica and guitar and, between numbers, peddled rube humor. By the early '30s he was making $1,000 a week at the country stuff, but in the bustling Chicago music scene, there was so much more to hear and play. In the morning he was hillbilly, and at night he was playing jazz with Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Nat Cole and Art Tatum. He cut his first records in 1936, backing blues singer-pianist Georgia White as she belted out Andy Razaf...
...began a set contribution to Arts First this afternoon from Charles F. Gillespie '10. Clad in a breezy plaid shirt with red suspenders, 'Chas' played the keyboard and alternated between tooting on a harmonica or belting out puzzling lyrics, never once giving his poor diaphragm a break...
...performed tomorrow at their multimedia event “Your Favorite Stars” in the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub. The Rod Stewart Tribute Band features Anna J. Murphy ’12 on keyboard, Julene V. Paul ’12 on harmonica, and Ruthe J. Foushee ’12 on ukulele, with all three sharing vocal duties. The band’s origins are attributable in part to common dorm and in part to common interest. “It kind of came out of an online karaoke program and a six dollar keyboard...