Wellin opens doors to fresh, funky jazz quintet

The Hamilton Department of Music’s Spring Performing Arts Series will continue this Friday, Feburary 17 with a performance from Jazz Urbane, a combination of students and professors from Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Once only a supporting act, Irglova takes center stage

Marketa Irglova met fame for the first time at a relatively young age, but she never truly felt like she had earned it by herself.

She was 19 when the world came to know her as the quiet, timid and pensive Czech pianist in the film Once, for which she (along with collaborating Irish rocker Glen Hansard) earned an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

WHCL Corner

Eleanor Roosevelt opera to visit Wellin Hall

Blakeman stumbles, Obeidallah amuses at standup

Last Thursday night, the Events Barn was filled with roughly 50 people searching for a few evening laughs. Scott
Blakerman, a middle-aged Jewish man, and Dean Obeidallah, a young Palestinian, took the stage and joked about being
the only Jewish-Palestinian friendship in existence.

Artist Spotlight: DownBeat Keys

We interviewed Andrew Root ’09, the bassist of DownBeat Keys, a band that originated at Hamilton. DBK has begun to gain more attention from people as they have opened for Talib Kweli, Soulive and Matt&Kim. They are alos currently working with Jeff Franzel, who has worked with top recording artists such as N’Sync, Clay Aiken and Josh Groban. To download their newest album, Summer on Saturn, for free go to the band’s site at www.downbeatkeys.com.

Acclaimed Writer-in-Residence to Read from Work

Terrance Hayes is a thought-provoking poet skilled in verbal agility, eloquent imagery and captivating humor. Hayes is the author of four poetry collections, his most recent collection being LightHead. Through this innovative collection, Hayes investigates how we create experience, presenting “the light-headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time.”

College Choir Prepares for Lady in the Dark

“This is not a musical where characters randomly break into song,” said Andrea Wrobel ’13, who is set to play the leading role of Liza Elliot in the upcoming College Choir production of Kurt Weill’s Lady in the Dark. 

Dinner Theater Celebrates Legacy of MLK

In American historical memory, Klan violence in the deep South rightfully receives the greatest share of the blame for the perpetuation of lynching well into the twentieth century. The statistics are impossible to refute; most lynchings took place in the Jim Crow South. But Klan hatred, however prevalent, didn’t happen in a vacuum.