Violinist Ben McClelland releases new CD Friday
Ben McClelland drives up to a home recording studio in a beat-up, black Honda Accord missing its muffler. He jokes that “This is the life of a struggling artist.”
Ben McClelland drives up to a home recording studio in a beat-up, black Honda Accord missing its muffler. He jokes that “This is the life of a struggling artist.”
Early Friday evening, a small group gathered at the Runcible Spoon for June’s installment of the Runcible Spoon Poetry Series, a monthly poetry and music event at the restaurant.
The beehive is back ... again. With all the glitz, glamour and campy country fun of Dollywood, the musical “The Higher the Hair the Closer to Heaven II” opened Friday at the Coachlight Musical Theatre in Nashville, Ind.
The sky may have been a dreary gray on Saturday, but Bloomington’s downtown square was the exact opposite. Swirls of colors and shapes sheltered under neat white tents clearly distinguished the 27th Arts Fair on the Square from any hint of the lackluster conditions.
Aspiring young musicians and an audience of all ages packed Auer Hall on Monday night to hear the Biava Quartet play for the second performance of the Jacobs School of Music Summer Music Festival’s Chamber Series.
Stewed Muskrat, Mock Oysters and Cinderella Cake are a few recipes that can be found in the Lincoln Room of the IU Lilly Library. The current exhibit, “Liberty Recipes to Betty Crocker: American Cookbooks, 1918-1950” features a variety of cookbooks.
Indianapolis – The ninth annual Indianapolis Jazz Festival that took place June 15-17 drew nearly 30,000 attendees and several big-name artists.The first day of the festival, “Women in jazz” day, was kicked off by IU’s own Monika Herzig, a school of music professor and renowned pianist. She and her band started the festival with some traditional jazz standards as well as original compositions.
Laughter is the best medicine and Bear’s Place is hard at work prescribing the funnies. Bear’s Place has been on the Comedy Caravan circuit 21 years. Comedians on the circuit perform in nightclubs and bars all across the country. Comedians Russ Nagel and Mel Fine performed on June 11.
The Student Films Across America festival was held at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Friday. Fewer than 20 ticket sales later, the tour bus packed up and headed for its next stop. Sparse attendance is something the festival has been fighting all summer long.
On Sunday in Auer Hall, the IU Jacobs School of Music kicked off its annual Summer Music festival.
Last Thursday, I made a bold prediction that Tony Soprano would die in the series finale of “The Sopranos.”
Ed Vande Sande began his position Wednesday as interim executive director of the Bloomington Area Arts Council, following an May 5 announcement by the board of trustees.
Bloomington resident John Linnemeier had to decide whether he wanted to live or die.
The twang of a banjo, the pluck of the guitar and the experience of a lifetime is music to the ears of Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival attendees. Campsites extend for miles, vendors are plentiful and music is always playing, while people from all over the country reconnect and reminisce during the annual meeting.
The Indiana Arts Commission has announced a new position available in their organization. The position, Community Development Manager/Arts Education Coordinator, was created to better serve Indiana’s arts-education needs, according to a press release.
Behind the doors of a quaint, single-story tan bungalow in the heart of Broad Ripple lays a world of creativity and color.
I started reading William Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying” more than a week ago. I would consider myself a pretty fast reader, so a novel with fewer than 300 pages should have been a two- or three-day endeavor for me. However, since I had to keep reading and rereading chapters in an attempt to make sense of them, it took me more than a week to get to the middle of the book.
After more than eight months of searching and organizing, four undergraduates can now take pride in their findings for the exhibit of the late author Kurt Vonnegut’s work.
Jazz fans, blues fans, aspiring musicians and all-around music lovers will flock from every corner of Indiana this weekend in anticipation of the annual Indianapolis Jazz Festival.
Artists from around the world have convened on the grounds of the Bybee Stone Company in Ellettsville since June 3 to learn about the medium of limestone sculpture.