Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Late in the afternoon, the four members of Hootie & the Blowfish--singer Darius Rucker, guitarist Mark Bryan, bassist Dean Felber and Sonefeld--leave the small bar where they have been hiding/waiting/drinking and head to a tent behind the stage where they are scheduled to perform. The crowd begins murmuring in delight and shock as word spreads that the band is backstage. A chant builds: Hoot-ie! Hoot-ie! But just then--and, if you're a student of outdoor rock festivals, you knew this would happen--it begins to rain. Hard. Noah's ark hard. But at this point, there...
...named Hootie & the Blowfish. When the band released Cracked Rear View, in 1994, it came across as something fresh and different, in large part because it didn't try to come across as anything fresh or different. Modern rock needed some new life, figuratively and literally--Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder's misunderstood-misanthrope act got tired about five seconds after Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain's suicidally depressive lyrics turned out to be all too genuine. Hootie was embraced as an alternative to alternative, a straight-ahead zig to the posturing zag of the rest of contemporary rock...
Afterward the band is giddy with excitement, exchanging bear hugs and high-fives. But as the others celebrate, Rucker just sits smiling, his baby in his arms, looking satisfied. Who cares if some critics, after seeing a white band with a black singer out front, conclude that somebody somewhere must be selling someone out? What does it matter if some people take the band's collegiate, party-hearty Southern past to mean that its music must have as much intrinsic worth as a Confederate bank note? Every time Rucker opens his mouth and his booming baritone roars out, strong, sure...
Instead, they were treated to a full day of performances sponsored by the Shops by Harvard Yard, including a folk song tribute to singer Pete Seeger '40, this year's recipient of the Arts First Medal, as well as a cappella and dance numbers by Harvard companies...
Musical performances will cover a wide range of tastes, including gospel opera, jazz, rap, blues and classical music. Some entertainers slated to perform at the conference are the company Opera/Columbus, country blues singer and musician John Jackson and violinist Nicole Cherry, accompanied by vocalist Edward McGhee...