If RIT President David Munson has his way, the performing arts will be on par with science and engineering on campus.
Jeff Spevak
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Caroline Vreeland’s an open book, and it ain’t the Bible
“Notes on Sex and Wine,” the new album from singer, actress, and model Caroline Vreeland, doesn’t heed many rules. Vreeland plays a sold-out show at Three Heads Brewing with Roses and Revolutions on March 6.
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The Dady Brothers, four others get their Rochester Music Hall of Fame call
There was never any doubt that the Rochester Music Hall of Fame Class of 2020 would include traditional folk duo The Dady Brothers.
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Two Rochester musicians take part in February Album Writing Month
We’re in the midst of FAWM: February Album Writing Month, in which participants are tasked with writing 14 songs in the 29-day span. Rochester musicians Kelly Izzo Shapiro and Sarah Eide are up to the challenge.
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Joe Pug, middle-class troubadour
Joe Pug writes narrative songs with what a kind of “rough-hewn poetry.” He’ll play Good Luck on Monday, February 17.
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South Australia benefit show adds up to New Math reunion
Deb Jones has lived in Rochester for two decades, but is a native of Australia, where the landscape has been ravaged by fires since late July. She’s assembled “Songs for South Australia Bushfire Relief”; the January 31 show at Lovin’ Cup features the reunion of New Math.
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Sunday’s Grammy winners included works featuring RPO, super-producer Bob Ludwig
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Ward Stare, and Eastman School of Music graduate and sound engineer Bob Ludwig, were a part of two winners at Sunday’s 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.
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Joywave: satirical and sci-fi
Joywave is a rock band that embraces bounding, life-affirming electronic beats — with a self-awareness that sometimes approaches self-parody. The Rochester product plays the ROC Dome Arena on Friday, January 24.
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Fifty years of Garth Fagan Dance: Music. Healing. Love.
At 80 years old, and 50 years after creating his namesake dance company, Garth Fagan reflects on the highs and lows of his life and career.
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The soothsayer
Singer-songwriter Eric Andersen is a kind of folk music prophet, whose music has been performed by Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt, and Pete Seeger.
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Same title, different songs
January is Jeff Riales’s month. He’s in the midst of a month-long residencyat Abilene Bar & Lounge, and Friday night at Hochstein Performance Hall, he returns to the event that he inadvertently helped to create, “If All Rochester Wrote the Same Song.”
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Eastman Museum reveals ambitious renovation plans
The museum broke ground on Monday for renovations that will include a shimmering glass entryway situated closer to the parking lot, a new visitor’s center, gift shop and café, repairs to structures in the gardens, and more.
