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Keyboardist of Snarky Puppy shares his talents with Fredonia

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Reading Time: 3 minutesKORI BARKLEY Staff Writer The once Texas, now New York-based, collective of musicians known as Snarky Puppy play an infectious fusion of jazz, funk, soul and world music, or “music to move the brain and booty,” as the band describes it. Snarky Puppy features a collective of at least 40......
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Theater review: Spring Awakening

Reading Time: 3 minutesREBECCA HALE Reverb Editor Last weekend, President Virginia Horvath’s backyard was transformed into a traveling theater for the Performing Arts Company’s production of “Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy,” a play written in 1890 by Frank Wedekind. “Spring Awakening” is a play which aims to reveal a certain exercise of power......
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Poetry Festival highlights well-known and up-and-coming poets

Reading Time: 2 minutesRILEY STRAW Copy Editor Sometimes, snapping fingers at people while they speak can be considered rude, but at the Fredonia Poetry Festival, audience members did so out of admiration. Rachel McKibbens, Ashley Wylde and several diverse poets from the on-campus writing community performed last Wednesday, April 15. McKibbens, according to......
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Spring ‘awakens’ at the President House Final PAC production to feature ‘Spring Awakening’

Reading Time: 4 minutesMAGGIE GILROY Editor in Chief The spirit of self-discovery and youthful angst will inhabit President Virginia Horvath’s backyard as the Performing Arts Company presents Frank Wedekind’s classic tragedy, “Spring Awakening.” Directed by senior acting major Cody Jones, with assistance by junior acting major Joanna Shapiro, the classic German play marks......
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Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series comes to an end Ethan Rutherford, visiting fiction writer, talks about endings

Reading Time: 3 minutesRILEY STRAW Copy Editor The Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series has brought many poets and fiction writers to Fredonia, including Rachel McKibbens, Matthew Olzmann and most recently, Jericho Brown. However, after 14 years of various creative writers, Fredonia has ceased the program, and the final visiting writer visited Fredonia......
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Dance review: feel the ‘Synergy’ with Orchesis Student-Run Dance Company shines at annual spring show

Reading Time: 3 minutesNAOMI LYNCH Staff Writer Fredonia’s student-run dance company, Orchesis, presented “Synergy,” the company’s annual spring showcase on April 17, 2015. This year, the company held its showcase at Fredonia High School, a more spacious dwelling than Fredonia’s Multipurpose Room, where Orchesis has been held in past semesters. All the dance......

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