- Pale Hearts’ first album runs gamut of emotions
- May 23, 2013
- Sometimes, when a certain song comes on, you don’t know whether to dance or to cry. Pale Hearts aims to give people a little something for both urges.
- Album campaign launched with special incentive
- May 12, 2013
- When Lawrence native Jordan Brown reflects on his experience in public schools, he sees a system that needs to better address educational needs of aspiring musicians. By Nadia Imafidon
- Area bands excited to play star-packed Kanrocksas
- May 12, 2013
- A group of folk-rock musicians, brothers who make music on the fly and a few beautiful bodies will be among local and area talent taking the stage this summer at the Kanrocksas Music and Arts Festival.
- 2013 Summer Arts Guide
- May 12, 2013
- Winter is finally dead (we hope) and it’s time to shed some layers. As 100-degree temperatures approach, here’s a look at some notable upcoming summer entertainment in the area to help Lawrencians have fun in the sun or beat the heat inside. By Sara Shepherd, Chance Dibben and John R. Phythyon Jr.
- KU Youth Chorus plans free performance
- May 5, 2013
- The Kansas University Youth Chorus will hold its final performance of the school year at 5 p.m. Thursday in room 328 of Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive.
- Art, crafts, music en plein air this weekend during Art in the Park
- May 2, 2013
- Art, crafts and live music will fill South Park this weekend during the 52nd annual Art in the Park event.
- A big deal
- Rapper Big Boi focuses on future, wants to break from the familiar
- May 2, 2013
- When you’re half of one of the biggest hip-hop acts of the last 20 years, scoring No. 1 hits and selling out tours, it could be easy to stick with the familiar formula. But Big Boi, half of Outkast, isn’t interested in that.
- Music a spiritual practice for hip-hop group Zion I
- May 2, 2013
- MC Zumbi, from hip hop duo Zion I, admits his expectations of unexplored Kansas are rather limited. “I know there will be some corn fields somewhere, right?”
- Lied Center announces 20th anniversary season lineup
- April 28, 2013
- The Lied Center on Saturday announced its 20th anniversary season lineup, featuring an array of performers from acrobats to award-winning concert pianists, some new and some returning to Lawrence. By Sara Shepherd
- KU’s Wakarusa Trio wins first at national music competition
- April 28, 2013
- Three Kansas University students started the fall semester as a chamber music group assigned for a class and are ending the spring semester as national champions.
- Band of brothers: Fourth of July grows Midwest fan base
- April 25, 2013
- A lot of bands spit out the old cliché that the people they play with are like family. But the guys in Fourth of July mean it. By Mike Krings
- Wind ensemble’s final season concert to feature premiere of ‘Ravenkind’
- April 21, 2013
- The Kansas University Wind Ensemble will perform its last concert of the 2012-13 season this week, with numbers including the premiere of a KU associate professor’s new work, “Ravenkind.”
- Noted jazz vocalist to perform with prison singers in concert at Baker
- April 21, 2013
- Baker University’s annual Spring Choral Concert will feature jazz vocalist Kevin Mahogany performing with the East Hill Singers, a chorus of minimum-security inmates from Lansing Correctional Facility.
- Lied Center celebrates two decades of elevating performing arts
- April 21, 2013
- It’s been 20 years since the Lied Center of Kansas opened, catapulting the performing arts scene in Lawrence. Behind it all is a woman with a vision of providing future generations with opportunities she herself never had. By Sara Shepherd
- Christina Hixson: The woman who ‘opened the door’ for the Lied Center
- April 21, 2013
- Christina Hixson isn’t afraid to admit she uses the dictionary when she does crossword puzzles. Her entire life, “self-educating” has served Hixson well. A poor tenant farmer’s daughter unable to afford college, she went on to bestow the $10 million gift that enabled the Lied Center, now celebrating its 20th anniversary at Kansas University. By Sara Shepherd
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