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Nick B. Sylvester ’04 has come a long way from his high school days, when his main contribution to the musical world came from his jazz trumpet at the occasional bar and bat mitzvah. A year after passing one last time through Johnston Gate, Sylvester is now well on his way to becoming a gatekeeper himself for the underground music community...
...having Expressions host its own dance competition and inviting groups from other schools. I also want to see Expressions do a serious and meaningful piece during the Black Arts Festival: a chronicle of the history of dance as it relates to African-Americans. I want people to understand where jazz, hip hop, and pop-and-lock actually come from. I also plan to start an after-school program at my church back in New York that fuses dance with many of the subjects learned in class. For example, the importance of formations in many types of dance can easily...
Performances include anything imaginable, like jazz, singer-songwriter, poetry, klezmer, classical, dance, indie-rock, performance art, vaudeville cabaret, “guitar mysticism” and even live re-enactments of old radio dramas. The schedule is incredibly packed, with multiple performances most days of the week...
...changing same.” The Beats of the 20th century—William S. Burroughs “cut-up” technique, Jack Kerouac’s “school of disembodied poetics,” Amiri Baraka’s “jazz aesthetics”—become the beats of the 21st century. And like Martha Stewart says, ahem, “that’s a good thing...
Passim’s upcoming calendar is a lively one, and includes some wildly unique musicians. On March 25, the rising neo-bluegrass outfit Crooked Still brings a mix of jazz, Irish flare, and traditional American folk music to the club. Rushad Eggleston, the band’s Grammy-nominated fiddler, plays with his solo project The Wild Band of Snee this Sunday, March 6. On Thursday, April 7, the club will host Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, an American folk singer who influenced and occasionally played with Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, and Pete Seeger...