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(03/28/14 5:14am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Midwestern musical duo Over the Rhine will perform with opening act Lily & Madeline 8 p.m. Friday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.Over the Rhine is comprised of married couple Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist. The pair is originally from Cincinnati, but has performed and worked on several albums in Bloomington.“It holds a special place in our musical hearts,” Detweiler said. “It’s kind of a homecoming.”He said Over the Rhine will perform songs from its new album, “Meet Me at the Edge of the World.”It took more than two years for Over the Rhine to write the songs for the album, but only six days to record it, Detweiler said.“Writing is slow, recording is fast,” he said.Rebecca Stanze, associate director of the Buskirk-Chumley, said she is excited to have Over the Rhine perform in Bloomington again.“Over the Rhine do very lovely acoustical work — a charming duo,” Stanze said. “Both have unique sounds, but fit into the soothing music genre.”Detweiler and Bergquist are both very interested in harmony vocals, Detweiler said.Harmony vocals are two people singing together, but with two slightly different melodies. He believes this makes a song more surprising and interesting.This is why Over the Rhine picked Lily & Madeline as its opener. Detweiler and Bergquist had heard some of the girls’ songs, saw they had harmony vocals and thought they would fit well with their audience, Detweiler said.Over the Rhine originally came up with its name from a neighborhood in Cincinnati.“Over-the-Rhine was considered the bad part of town,” Detweiler said. “It was very colorful and magnetic to Karin and I as young writers. We would romanticize about the place.”Now, Detweiler and Bergquist are about to celebrate Over the Rhine’s 25th anniversary, since they started the band in 1989.They each write about one-third of the songs and then collaborate on the remaining third, Detweiler said.“We are a true partnership and each other’s editors,” Detweiler said.In the future, Detweiler hopes to have his own venue on his farm with Bergquist and continue making music.“Music teaches me a lot about what I care about,” he said. “Music is about learning to pay attention.”
(03/28/14 3:20am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Midwestern musical duo Over the Rhine will perform with opening act Lily & Madeline 8 p.m. Friday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.Over the Rhine is comprised of married couple Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist. The pair is originally from Cincinnati, but has performed and worked on several albums in Bloomington.“It holds a special place in our musical hearts,” Detweiler said. “It’s kind of a homecoming.”He said Over the Rhine will perform songs from its new album, “Meet Me at the Edge of the World.”It took more than two years for Over the Rhine to write the songs for the album, but only six days to record it, Detweiler said.“Writing is slow, recording is fast,” he said.Rebecca Stanze, associate director of the Buskirk-Chumley, said she is excited to have Over the Rhine perform in Bloomington again.“Over the Rhine do very lovely acoustical work — a charming duo,” Stanze said. “Both have unique sounds, but fit into the soothing music genre.”Detweiler and Bergquist are both very interested in harmony vocals, Detweiler said.Harmony vocals are two people singing together, but with two slightly different melodies. He believes this makes a song more surprising and interesting.This is why Over the Rhine picked Lily & Madeline as its opener. Detweiler and Bergquist had heard some of the girls’ songs, saw they had harmony vocals and thought they would fit well with their audience, Detweiler said.Over the Rhine originally came up with its name from a neighborhood in Cincinnati.“Over-the-Rhine was considered the bad part of town,” Detweiler said. “It was very colorful and magnetic to Karin and I as young writers. We would romanticize about the place.”Now, Detweiler and Bergquist are about to celebrate Over the Rhine’s 25th anniversary, since they started the band in 1989.They each write about one-third of the songs and then collaborate on the remaining third, Detweiler said.“We are a true partnership and each other’s editors,” Detweiler said.In the future, Detweiler hopes to have his own venue on his farm with Bergquist and continue making music.“Music teaches me a lot about what I care about,” he said. “Music is about learning to pay attention.”
(02/27/14 3:32am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Thirty plays, 60 minutes. Thirty plays will be performed at Bloomington Playwrights Project at breakneck pace as six actors rush to finish before the timer hits zero. “The Blizzard: Game Show Edition” is a fast-paced comedic routine that is impossible to predict, BPP director Jessica Reed said.“It’s a different play every night — they will always be in a different order,” Reed said.Reed said the audience chooses the order the plays are performed in each night.She said the order is determined by whoever yells the loudest in the audience, and the unpredictable nature keeps the actors on their toes.Performances will take place at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27 and 28 and March 1 at Bloomington Playwrights Project.Tickets are $15 each and all proceeds will support the BPP.“Blizzard” playwright Hank Greene said the show is designed for maximum audience participation.“‘The Blizzard’ is very much a living and breathing piece,” Greene said. “So much is visual and about the audience experiencing it.”The plays are all organized into different categories centering on the game theme, Greene said.Some of the categories are “Game of Thrones,” “The Hunger Games” and video games.Chad Rabinovitz, the producing artistic director, said the idea for “The Blizzard’ was originally adapted from a different theater in Chicago.This year, the actors will not know what to expect on opening night because they will not complete a full run-through.“They started rehearsal a little late because everyone has been sick,” Reed said. She said “Blizzard” seeks to interact with the audience by combining interactive games with the plays. “Out of 30 options on the board, nine are games that require audience participation,” she said.The games are mixed in with the plays to keep the audience invested, Reed said. The developed the ideas for the games, one of which involves an audience member shooting a Nerf gun. Audience members can also win prizes, including the nightly grand prize of $100. “The prizes are all from local businesses,” Reed said. “We have a lot of community investment.”Reed said the BPP is very connected to the community because they try to nurture new talent and help new play ideas at the local level.“We are the only theater in the state of Indiana dedicated to new plays,” she said. “We help people get new works out there so there is always something new.”With “the Blizzard,” they are trying to capture the interest of people who wouldn’t necessarily watch plays, Reed said.They want the show to be easy to digest and leave a lasting impression on the audience.“I want every play to be a new experience for the audience,” Greene said.
